Method for manufacturing carbon fibers and fiber joining method

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PATENT NO 10988862
APP PUB NO 20190040551A1
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16074685

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A carbon fiber manufacturing method includes joining first and second target fiber bundles with a joining fiber bundle, and carbonizing the joined bundles by feeding them through one or more carbonization furnaces. The joining includes forming an overlap between a first end of the joining fiber bundle and a second end of the first target fiber bundle and jetting a fluid to the overlap to form a first entangled portion, and forming an overlap between a second end of the joining fiber bundle and a first end of the second target fiber bundle and jetting a fluid to the overlap to form a second entangled portion. When the first and second entangled portions each have two or more entangling points with a tensile strength not less than 400 N, the relationship defined by the inequality is satisfied: 40>{L2/(L2−A)}×(S+13), where L2 is a length (mm) of an elongation section inside a first carbonization furnace upstream in a feeding direction of the fiber bundles, A is a maximum distance (mm) between an entangling point in the first entangled portion and an entangling point in the second entangled portion, and S is an elongation (%) of the joined fiber bundles fed through the carbonization furnace.

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TOHO TENAX CO LTDTOKYO TOKYO METROPOLIS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Akiyama, Fumio Tokyo, JP 2 1
Aoyama, Tadayuki Tokyo, JP 4 156
Kitano, Ichiro Tokyo, JP 3 2

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