Fixing device and image forming apparatus

摘要

A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a pressing member, a guiding member, a cap member, an elastic member and a detecting mechanism. The pressing member includes a pressing face pressing the fixing belt to a side of the pressuring member. The fixing belt includes a bulging part arranged at the downstream side from a fixing nip in a conveying direction. The cap member includes a facing part facing to the bulging part. Before the pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt, a gap is arranged between the bulging part and facing part. When the pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt, the bulging part bulges toward an external diameter side of the fixing belt to fill up the gap and the cap member is held by an end part of the fixing belt via the elastic member.

主权项

1. A fixing device comprising:
a fixing belt arranged rotatably around a rotation axis; a pressuring member arranged rotatably to come into pressure contact with the fixing belt so as to form a fixing nip; a pressing member facing to the pressuring member across the fixing belt; a guiding member coming into contact with an inner circumference face of the fixing belt; a cap member attached to an end part of the fixing belt; an elastic member provided between the end part of the fixing belt and the cap member; and a detecting mechanism detecting rotation of the cap member, wherein the pressing member includes a pressing face pressing the fixing belt to a side of the pressuring member, the pressing face being inclined to the side of the pressuring member toward a downstream side in a conveying direction of a recording medium, the fixing belt includes a bulging part arranged at the downstream side from the fixing nip in the conveying direction of the recording medium, the cap member includes a facing part facing to the bulging part, in a situation before the pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt, the bulging part is separated from the facing part so that a gap is arranged in an area arranged between the bulging part and the facing part, when the pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt, the bulging part bulges toward an external diameter side of the fixing belt to fill up the gap and the cap member is held by the end part of the fixing belt via the elastic member.