Fixing device and image forming apparatus

A fixing device comprising:

• a heating roll that includes an outer peripheral surface having an elastic layer formed thereon and is heated by a heating unit and is rotated;
• an endless belt to be rotated in contact with an outer peripheral surface part in a rotating axis direction of the heating roll;
• and
• a pressurizing member that forms a pressure contact portion for pushing the endless belt against the outer peripheral surface part of the heating roll from an inner peripheral surface side of the pressurizing member so that a recording medium holding an unfixed image passes between the pressure contact portion and the heating roll, wherein
• the pressurizing member includes:
• a hard pressurizing member disposed in a position on a downstream side in a passing direction of the recording medium in the pressure contact portion and having a higher hardness than that of the elastic layer of the heating roll;
• and
• a soft pressurizing member disposed in a position on an upstream side in the passing direction from the hard pressurizing member and having a lower hardness than that of the elastic layer of the heating roll to carry out an elastic deformation, and
• the hard pressurizing member and the soft pressurizing member are disposed in a state in which a clearance is present between the hard pressurizing member and the soft pressurizing member in a specific region part so that at least a specific recording medium passes in a fixing region of the pressure contact portion in the rotating axis direction of the heating roll.