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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device consisting of a fixing belt, pressing member, and pressure roller, wherein the fixing belt is heated by resistance heating element stably supplied with power from a power supply member resistant to a large current, and to provide an image forming apparatus having the fixing device. SOLUTION: The fixing device consisting of the fixing belt, pressing member and pressure roller, is constituted so that the fixing belt is heated to a temperature required to melt toner, by the resistance heating elements arranged in a pattern on the inside face of the fixing belt, the pressing member is disposed inside the fixing belt, a nip is formed by pressing the pressing member and pressure member against each other via the fixing belt, and an electrode plate for supplying power to the resistance heating element is disposed between the nip forming portion of the pressing member and the fixing belt. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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