Abstract:
A stabilizer link and a manufacturing method therefor which can ensure strength required in wing plates and a center supporting plate and in a support bar, and which can ensure strength required in ribs. The support bar has a top wing plate, a bottom wing plate, a center supporting plate, and a plurality of ribs. In the wing plates and the center supporting plate, reinforcing fiber is orientated to a longitudinal direction of the support bar. In the rib, the reinforcing fiber is orientated to a perpendicular direction of the support bar. A longitudinal orientation ratio D1 at a longitudinal center portion of the top wing plate and the bottom wing plate, a perpendicular orientation ratio D2 at a perpendicular center portion of the ribs, and a perpendicular orientation ratio D3 at a perpendicular end portion of the ribs satisfy Equation 1. D 1 > D 2 > D 3
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a composite article comprising cellulose pulp fibers and a thermoplastic matrix, wherein said process comprises the steps of: a) mixing a refined aqueous pulp suspension with a water suspension of thermoplastic fibers into a composition, b) forming the composition into a fiber web, c) dewatering the fiber web, d) drying the fiber web, and e) heating and pressing the dried fiber web from step d) to melt said thermoplastic fibers into a thermoplastic matrix and form a composite article.
Abstract:
There is provided a shaped product made of a fiber-reinforced composite material including reinforcing fibers having an average length of 5 mm or more and 100 mm or less and a thermoplastic resin, in which a volume fraction of reinforcing fibers (Vf = 100 x volume of reinforcing fibers/(volume of reinforcing fibers + volume of thermoplastic resin)) is 5 to 80%, grains are formed on a surface of the shaped product, and a ratio of a reinforcing fiber bundle (A) including the reinforcing fibers of a critical number of single fiber or more, the critical number defined by Formula (1), to the total amount of the reinforcing fibers is 20 Vol% or more and 99 Vol% or less: Critical number of single fiber = 600 / D (wherein D is an average fiber diameter (µm) of single reinforcing fiber).
Abstract:
There is provided a shaped product made of a fiber-reinforced composite material including reinforcing fibers having an average fiber length of 5 mm or more and 100 mm or less and a thermoplastic resin. In the shaped product, a volume fraction of reinforcing fibers is 5 to 80%, a reference plane (S) and a plane (B) (hereinafter, referred to as "standing plane") inclined at an angle of 45 degrees or more and 90 degrees or less with respect to the reference plane are included, a ratio of an area of the standing plane (B) to an area of the reference plane (S) is 0.5 to 100, and in the fiber-reinforced composite material constituting the shaped product, a ratio of a reinforcing fiber bundle (A) including the reinforcing fibers of a critical number of single fiber or more, the critical number being defined by the following Formula (1), to the total amount of the reinforcing fibers is 20 Vol% or more and 99 Vol% or less: Critical number of single fiber = 600 / D (wherein D is an average fiber diameter (µm) of single reinforcing fiber).
Abstract:
Provided is a random mat suitable as a preform for a shaped product having an upright portion such as a rib. The random mat includes reinforcing fibers wherein the content of reinforcing fibers having a fiber length of 3 mm or more and less than 15 mm is 50 to 100% by mass based on all the reinforcing fibers contained in the random mat and the content of reinforcing fibers having a fiber length of 15 mm or more and 50 mm or less is 0 to 50% by mass based on all the reinforcing fibers contained in the random mat, and satisfies specific values of fiber areal weight and the degree of opening.
Abstract:
Provided is a technique of producing a high-quality and high-functionality glass chopped strand mat which is applicable to recent automotive molded ceiling materials which have excellent design and reduced weights. A method for producing a glass chopped strand mat (M) by forming glass chopped strands (S) into a sheet, includes a first conveying step of continuously conveying the glass chopped strands (S) in a distributed form while spraying resin powder (A) serving as a binder onto the glass chopped strands (S), and a second conveying step of continuously conveying the glass chopped strands (S) with the adhering resin powder (A) while performing a heating treatment on the glass chopped strands (S) at a temperature higher than the melting point of the resin powder (A). A conveying speed in the second conveying step is higher than a conveying speed in the first conveying step, and the difference therebetween is 3 to 8 m/min.
Abstract:
There is provided a shaped product made of a fiber-reinforced composite material including reinforcing fibers having an average length of 5 mm or more and 100 mm or less and a thermoplastic resin, in which a volume fraction of reinforcing fibers (Vf = 100 x volume of reinforcing fibers/(volume of reinforcing fibers + volume of thermoplastic resin)) is 5 to 80%, grains are formed on a surface of the shaped product, and a ratio of a reinforcing fiber bundle (A) including the reinforcing fibers of a critical number of single fiber or more, the critical number defined by Formula (1), to the total amount of the reinforcing fibers is 20 Vol% or more and 99 Vol% or less: Critical number of single fiber = 600 / D (wherein D is an average fiber diameter (µm) of single reinforcing fiber).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a flame-resistant composition, a fiber-reinforced polyurethane composite comprising the flame-resistant composition and the use thereof. In particular, the invention describes a flame-resistant polyurethane- composite forming composition and a combustion-modified, fiber-reinforced polyurethane composite comprising the flame-resistant polyurethane-composite forming composition, for applications in vehicles and for building products. The invention also describes a long-fiber injection molding process for the preparation of the combustion-modified, fiber-reinforced polyurethane composite. The fiber- reinforced polyurethane composite of the invention show improved fire-reaction behaviour, measured as Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI), and a reduced smoke production.
Abstract:
A catalyst material is deposited over a deposition area, the catalyst material being patterned within the deposition area to form an array of catalyst regions (12) which are spaced apart by gaps substantially free of catalyst material (13). A proportion of the deposition area occupied by the catalyst regions (12) is greater than a proportion of the deposition area which is substantially free of catalyst material (13). A first array of bundles of filaments is grown on the catalyst regions (12). Each filament has a base attached (14) to the catalyst region (12) and a free tip (15). The free tips (15) of the filaments are drawn together within each bundle, so that the inter- filament gaps become smaller at the tip (15) of each bundle than at the base (14) of each bundle where the filaments remain attached to the catalyst region (12). These steps are repeated to provide a second array of bundles of filaments positioned or grown at least partly in the inter-bundle gaps of the first array. Gaps of both arrays are impregnated with a matrix material (33) to form an improved composite material.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a carbon composite is provided. The method includes providing a carbon-containing resin material to which an appropriate concentration of catalyst particles may be added. Thereafter, the catalyzed resin may be subject to a high temperature range, at which point carbon in the resin to begins to couple to the catalyst particles. Continual exposure to high temperature leads to additional attachment of carbon to existing carbon on the particles. Subsequently growth, within the resin material, of an array of carbon nanotubes occurs, as well as the formation of the composite material.