To provide a low friction sheet, a film tubular body and an image fixing device using the same which can realize the stable sliding performance and can maintain the quality and the fixing characteristic of an fixing image well by making lack of oil hard to cause by improving wettability over a lubricant.
In the image fixing device, the film tubular body 2 is pressed on a heat driving roll 1 by a pressing member A disposed within the film tubular body 2 to form a nip part which passes recording material 4, at the outer surface of the film tubular body 2 and the lubricant is interposed between the inside surfaces of the film tubular body 2 and the sliding contact surface of the pressing member A, while disposing fluorinated resin to the sliding contact surface of the pressing member A so that the traveling of the film tubular body 2 is possible, the fluorinated resin subjected to the lipophilicitization is used or a lipophilicitization agent is used together with the fluorinated resin to the sliding contact surface of the pressing member A.
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