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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device by which a stable fixability can be secured, a warm-up time is shortened, the convenience of a user is improved and electric power consumption is saved. SOLUTION: In the fixing device 1 provided with an endless, belt-like thin heating member 72; each radiation heating source 77 arranged in the heating member 72; a pressurizing member 73 press-welded with the heating member 72 so as to form a nip part N for passing a sheet and heating/pressurizing the same, and rotatively drives; a pressure-receiving member 74 provided at the inside of the heating member 72 so as to contact with the heating member 72 for receiving the pressure from the pressurizing member 73 in the nip part N; and a reinforcing member 76 planted in the pressure receiving member 74, a part of each radiation heating source 77 is provided with a reflecting film 81 or a reflecting member 83, in such a manner that radiation light does not directly strike the heating member 72 from each radiation heating source 77, and the reinforcing member 76 is provided with a reflecting film 80 or a reflecting member 82 for reflecting the radiation light from each radiation heating source 77. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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