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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device which efficiently transmits the heat of a heat source, and can improve the mold-release characteristic of the recording medium and implement high sharpness image formation at a high speed and to provide an image forming apparatus provided with the fixing device. SOLUTION: The fixing device for fixing a toner image to a recording medium by inserting the recording medium transferred with the unfixed image from an inlet side to an outlet side of a nip area formed by abutting of a pair of roller members is provided with the first roller member formed of a base substance of a hollow cylindrical shape, a second roller member abutting on the first roller member, and the internal roller member pressing the inside surface of the base substance facing the outlet side of the formed nip area when the nip area is formed by abutting of the first roller member and the second roller member within the base substance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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