FIXING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily peel a recording sheet from the surface of a heating rotating member, such as a heating roll by sucking the recording sheet passing through a fixing area to the side of a pressure member, such as a pressure roll. SOLUTION: This fixing device is equipped with a heating member Fh and a pressure member Fp which are arranged in the carrying path of the recording sheet S, which rotate while press-contacting with each other and form a fixing nip Q5 by a press-contact area, either of which is the heating member Fh thermally fixing an image, while coming in contact with a surface where an unfixed toner image adhering to the sheet S passing through the nip Q5 is formed, and the other of which is the pressure member Fp on the surface of which plural suction cup shaped recessed parts 7 for sucking the sheet S, when it press-contacts with the member Fh are formed.