| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low power consumption fixing device which has a high fixing quality and can exhibit high efficiency characteristic to an IH heater, and to provide an image forming device including the fixing device. <P>SOLUTION: The fixing device includes a heater for heating a recording material; an IH heater for making the heater to generate heat by electromagnetic induction; a pressing unit that faces the heater and presses the recording material toward the heater; an auxiliary heating member which comes into contact with the heater, is arranged downstream of the IH heater and upstream of a nip area formed by the heater and the pressing unit, and heats the heater with a built-in auxiliary heater; a temperature sensor for the auxiliary heating section that measures a temperature of the auxiliary heating member; and a heater temperature sensor that is arranged downstream of the IH heater and upstream of the auxiliary heating member, and measures a temperature of the heater. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
