Fixing device
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May 21, 2019
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Feb 1, 2018
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Jul 25, 2017
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Jul 28, 2016
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A fixing device includes a cylindrical film, a sliding plate contacting an inner surface of the film, the sliding plate, and a roller forming a nip portion with the sliding plate via the film, the roller including an elastic layer, and extending in a longitudinal direction of the film. The film and the sliding plate have respective longitudinal end portions positioned on an outer side of a longitudinal end portion of the elastic layer. The sliding plate includes a curvature portion curved along a circumferential direction of an inner surface of the film on an upstream side of the nip portion in a recording medium conveyance direction, and the curvature portion includes a recessed region in which a longitudinal end portion of the curvature portion is recessed from the inner surface of the film relative to a longitudinal middle portion of the curvature portion.
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