Patents by Inventor Makoto Kibayashi
Makoto Kibayashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20140343218Abstract: A method of making a carbon fiber structure including a carbon fiber is coated with a sizing at an amount X between 0.05 and 0.30 weight %. The sizing is formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer. The amount X of the sizing is expressed with a following formula: X = w 0 - w 1 w 0 × 100 where W0 is a weight of the carbon fiber with the sizing, and W1 is a weight of the carbon fiber without the sizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: TORAY CARBON FIBERS AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Makoto Kibayashi, Satoshi Seike, Lawrence A. Pranger
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Publication number: 20130309925Abstract: A carbon fiber fabric is made of a carbon fiber, which is coated with a sizing being formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Satoshi SEIKE, Makoto Kibayashi, Anand Valliyur Rau
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Publication number: 20130309491Abstract: A milled carbon fiber is made of a carbon fiber, which is coated with a sizing at an amount X between 0.05 and 0.30 weight %. The sizing is formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer. The amount X of the sizing is expressed with a following formula: X = w o - w 1 w o × 100 where W0 is the weight of the carbon fiber with the sizing, and W1 is the weight of the carbon fiber without the sizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Satoshi SEIKE, Makoto Kibayashi, Anand Valliyur Rau
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Publication number: 20130309492Abstract: A chopped carbon fiber is made of a carbon fiber, which is coated with a sizing being formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Satoshi SEIKE, Makoto Kibayashi, Anand Valliyur Rau
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Publication number: 20130309490Abstract: A carbon fiber braid is made of a carbon fiber, which is coated with a sizing being formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Satoshi SEIKE, Makoto Kibayashi, Anand Valliyur Rau
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Publication number: 20130260131Abstract: A thermoplastic molding preform is made of a carbon fiber, which is coated with a sizing at an amount X between 0.05 and 0.30 weight %. The sizing is formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer. The amount X of the sizing is expressed with a following formula: X = W 0 - W 1 W 0 × 100 where W0 is the weight of the carbon fiber with the sizing, and W1 is the weight of the carbon fiber without the sizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Satoshi SEIKE, Makoto Kibayashi, Kishio Miwa, Anand Valliyur Rau, Leigh A. Hudson
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Publication number: 20130253096Abstract: A carbon fiber is coated with a sizing at an amount X between 0.05 and 0.30 weight %. The sizing is formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer. The amount X of the sizing is expressed with a following formula: X = w 0 - w 2 w 0 × 100 where W0 is a weight of the carbon fiber with the sizing, and W1 is a weight of the carbon fiber without the sizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: TORAY CARBON FIBERS AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Makoto KIBAYASHI, Satoshi SEIKE, Lawrence A PRANGER
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Publication number: 20130143025Abstract: A thermoplastic resin impregnated tape is made of a carbon fiber, which is coated with a sizing at an amount X between 0.05 and 0.30 weight %. The sizing is formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer. The amount X of the sizing is expressed with a following formula: X = W 0 - W 1 W 0 × 100 where W0 is the weight of the carbon fiber with the sizing, and W1 is the weight of the carbon fiber without the sizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Makoto KIBAYASHI, Satoshi Seike, Lawrence A. Pranger, Anand Valliyur Rau
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Publication number: 20120123053Abstract: A carbon fiber is coated with a sizing at an amount X between 0.1 and 0.3 wt %. The sizing is formed of a heat resistant polymer or a precursor of the heat resistant polymer. The amount X of the sizing is expressed with a following formula: X = w 0 - w 1 w 0 × 100 where W0 is a weight of the carbon fiber with the sizing, and W1 is a weight of the carbon fiber without the sizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Makoto Kibayashi, Satoshi Seike, Lawrence A. Pranger, Anand Valliyur Rau
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Patent number: 7887728Abstract: A spinning pack for dry-wet spinning is provided with a spinneret having not less than 6,000 spinning holes and having an aspect ratio Ra of not less than 2.5 for a spinning hole array of the spinning holes. In a device and method for producing a fiber bundle, a drawing angle of single fibers formed by the single fibers and a spinneret surface of a spinneret is in a range from 87° to 92°, the single fibers being fibers discharged from the outermost spinning holes located in the long side direction of the spinneret and running to a fiber bundle diverting guide provided in a coagulation bath.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kohei Takatani, Makoto Kibayashi, Koji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Narusawa
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Publication number: 20080290551Abstract: A spinning pack for dry-wet spinning is provided with a spinneret having not less than 6,000 spinning holes and having an aspect ratio Ra of not less than 2.5 for a spinning hole array of the spinning holes. In a device and method for producing a fiber bundle, a drawing angle of single fibers formed by the single fibers and a spinneret surface of a spinneret is in a range from 87° to 92°, the single fibers being fibers discharged from the outermost spinning holes located in the long side direction of the spinneret and running to a fiber bundle diverting guide provided in a coagulation bath. Further, a drawing angle of single fibers formed by the single fibers and the spinneret surface of the spinneret is in a range from 83° to 87°, the single fibers being fibers discharged from the outermost spinning holes located in the short side direction of the spinneret and running to the fiber bundle diverting guide provided in the coagulation bath.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2005Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Kohei Takatani, Makoto Kibayashi, Koji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Narusawa
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Patent number: 6428892Abstract: Disclosed are carbon fibers consisting of a plurality of single filaments, wherein the carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand are characterized by satisfying the following relations: &sgr;≧11.1−0.75 d where &sgr; is the tensile strength of said carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand in GPa, and d is the average diameter of said single filaments in &mgr;m, and RD≦0.05 where RD is the difference in crystallinity between the inner and outer layers of each of the single filaments evaluated with RAMAN, and an acrylic fibers for producing the carbon fibers and a process for producing the acrylic fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoji Matsuhisa, Makoto Kibayashi, Katsumi Yamasaki, Akira Okuda
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Patent number: 6368711Abstract: Disclosed are carbon fibers consisting of a plurality of single filaments, wherein the carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand are characterized by satisfying the following relations: &sgr;≧11.1-0.75d where &sgr; is the tensile strength of said carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand in GPa, and d is the average diameter of said single filaments in &mgr;m, and RD≧0.05 where RD is the difference in crystallinity between the inner and outer layers of each of the single filaments evaluated with RAMAN, and an acrylic fibers for producing the carbon fibers and a process for producing the acrylic fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoji Matsuhisa, Makoto Kibayashi, Katsumi Yamasaki, Akira Okuda
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Publication number: 20020009588Abstract: Disclosed are carbon fibers consisting of a plurality of single filaments, wherein the carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand are characterized by satisfying the following relations: &sgr;≧11.1−0.75d where &sgr; is the tensile strength of said carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand in GPa, and d is the average diameter of said single filaments in &mgr;m, and RD≦0.05 where RD is the difference in crystallinity between the inner and outer layers of each of the single filaments evaluated with RAMAN, and an acrylic fibers for producing the carbon fibers and a process for producing the acrylic fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoji Matsuhisa, Makoto Kibayashi, Katsumi Yamasaki, Akira Okuda
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Publication number: 20010024722Abstract: Disclosed are carbon fibers consisting of a plurality of single filaments, wherein the carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand are characterized by satisfying the following relations: &sgr;≧11.1−0.75 d where a is the tensile strength of said carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand in GPa, and d is the average diameter of said single filaments in &mgr;m, and RD≦0.05 where RD is the difference in crystallinity between the inner and outer layers of each of the single filaments evaluated with RAMAN, and an acrylic fibers for producing the carbon fibers and a process for producing the acrylic fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoji Matsuhisa, Makoto Kibayashi, Katsumi Yamasaki, Akira Okuda
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Patent number: 6221490Abstract: Disclosed are carbon fibers consisting of a plurality of single filaments, wherein the carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand are characterized by satisfying the following relations: &sgr;≧11.1−0.75 d where &sgr; is the tensile strength of said carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand in GPa, and d is the average diameter of said single filaments in &mgr;m, and RD≦0.05 where RD is the difference in crystallinity between the inner and outer layers of each of the single filaments evaluated with RAMAN, and an acrylic fibers for producing the carbon fibers and a process for producing the acrylic fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoji Matsuhisa, Makoto Kibayashi, Katsumi Yamasaki, Akira Okuda
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Patent number: 6103211Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide carbon fibers with high tensile strength as a resin impregnated strand even if the single filaments constituting the carbon fibers are thick. The carbon fibers of the present invention consisting of a plurality of single filaments are characterized by satisfying the following relation:.sigma..gtoreq.11.1-0.75dwhere .sigma. is the tensile strength of the carbon fibers as a resin impregnated strand (in GPa) and d is the average diameter of the single filaments (in .mu.m). The carbon fibers can be preferably used as a material for forming energy-related apparatuses such as CNG tanks, fly wheels, wind mills and turbine blades, a material for reinforcing structural members of roads, bridge piers, etc., and also a material for forming or reinforcing architectural members such as timber and curtain walls.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoji Matsuhisa, Makoto Kibayashi, Katsumi Yamasaki, Akira Okuda