Abstract: A chenille yarn includes a twisted yarn formed of a core yarn and a pressing yarn, in which a decorative yarn is fused and fixed between the core yarn and the pressing yarn, and the decorative yarn has a crimp having a radius of curvature of 0.5 mm or more to 5.0 mm or less.

Abstract: In order to provide a copolymerized polyphenylene sulfide fiber that is thin, has a low heat shrinkage rate, and is suitable for a use as a paper-making binder having excellent weldability, a copolymerized polyphenylene sulfide fiber is characterized by containing a copolymerized polyphenylene sulfide that has a p-phenylene sulfide unit as a main component and contains 3 mol % or more and 40 mol % or less of a m-phenylene sulfide unit in a repeating unit, and having a degree of crystallization of 10.0% or more and 30.0% or less, an average fiber diameter of 5 ?m or more and 25 ?m or less, and further a shrinkage rate in 98° C. hot water of 25.0% or less.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite electrolyte membrane which has excellent chemical resistance and can maintain sufficient mechanical strength even under conditions of high humidity and high pressure, which are the operating conditions for electrochemical hydrogen pumps and water electrolyzers. This composite electrolyte membrane, which is for achieving said purpose, has a composite layer obtained by combining a polyelectrolyte with a mesh woven material that satisfies (1) and (2) and comprises liquid crystal polyester fibers or polyphenylene sulfide fibers. (1): Mesh thickness (?m)/fiber diameter (?m)<2.0. (2): Opening (?m)/fiber diameter (?m)>1.0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a spun-bonded nonwoven fabric including a monocomponent fiber including a copolymerized polyester based resin in which 5 weight % or higher and 40 weight % or lower of a polyethylene glycol is copolymerized with a polyester based resin, in which the spun-bonded nonwoven fabric has a ?MR of 0.5% or higher and 15% or lower.

Abstract: Provided is a spunbond nonwoven fabric which is made of a polypropylene fiber and satisfies all of the following conditions A to E: A. the average single fiber diameter of the fiber is 6-17 ?m; B. the degree of crystal orientation of the fiber as obtained by wide-angle X-ray diffraction is at least 0.91; C. the crystallite size of the (110) plane of the fiber as obtained by wide angle X-ray diffraction is at least 12 nm; D. the average orientation parameter of the fiber as obtained by Raman spectroscopy is at least 8.0; and E. the complex viscosity of the spunbond nonwoven fabric at a temperature of 230° C. is 20-100 Pa·sec at an angular frequency of 6.3 rad/sec.

Abstract: A method of producing a liquid crystalline polyester fiber includes subjecting a yarn prepared by melt spinning a liquid crystalline polyester to a solid-phase polymerization after applying inorganic particles (A) and a phosphate-based compound (B) to the yarn. The method can optionally include cleaning the liquid crystalline polyester fiber after the solid-phase polymerization.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal polyester fiber having high strength, high elastic modulus, high abrasion resistance, excellent processability, and little thermal deformation at high temperature, and also provided is a production method thereof. A liquid crystal polyester fiber, characterized in that the peak half-value width of the endothermic peak (Tm1) observed when measuring by differential calorimetry under rising temperature conditions starting at 50° C. and increasing 20° C./min is 15° C. or higher, the polystyrene-converted weight-average molecular weight is between 250,000 and 2,000,000 inclusive, the peak temperature of the loss tangent (tan ?) is between 100° C. and 200° C. inclusive, and the peak value of the loss tangent (tan ?) is between 0.060 and 0.090 inclusive. A mesh fabric comprising the liquid crystal polyester fiber.

Abstract: A poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber contains 1-10% by weight of a poly(phenylene sulfide) oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 or less, has a difference between a cold crystallization heat quantity (?Hc) and a crystal melting heat quantity (?Hm) during temperature rising in DSC, ?Hm??Hc, of 25 J/g or larger, and has an elongation of less than 40% and a strength of 3.0 cN/dtex or higher. The poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber has high heat resistance and chemical resistance and high strength and, despite this, has excellent suitability for high-order processing, e.g., thermal shapability, because the amorphous parts thereof have high molecular movability.

Abstract: A method of producing a liquid crystalline polyester fiber includes subjecting a yarn prepared by melt spinning a liquid crystalline polyester to a solid-phase polymerization after applying inorganic particles (A) and a phosphate-based compound (B) to the yarn. The method can optionally include cleaning the liquid crystalline polyester fiber after the solid-phase polymerization.

Abstract: A poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber changes little in fiber structure and has excellent long-term heat resistance. Namely, the poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber has a degree of crystallization of 45.0% or higher, a content of movable amorphous components of 15.0% or less, and a weight-average molecular weight of 300,000 or less.

Abstract: A sea-island composite fiber includes island component fibers having a circumscribed circle diameter of 10 to 1000 nm, a circumscribed circle diameter variation of 1 to 20%, a non-circularity of 1.2 to 5.0, and a non-circularity variation of 1 to 10%.

Abstract: A poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber changes little in fiber structure and has excellent long-term heat resistance. Namely, the poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber has a degree of crystallization of 45.0% or higher, a content of movable amorphous components of 15.0% or less, and a weight-average molecular weight of 300,000 or less.

Abstract: A poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber contains 1-10% by weight of a poly(phenylene sulfide) oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 or less, has a difference between a cold crystallization heat quantity (?Hc) and a crystal melting heat quantity (?Hm) during temperature rising in DSC, ?Hm??Hc, of 25 J/g or larger, and has an elongation of less than 40% and a strength of 3.0 cN/dtex or higher. The poly(phenylene sulfide) fiber has high heat resistance and chemical resistance and high strength and, despite this, has excellent suitability for high-order processing, e.g., thermal shapability, because the amorphous parts thereof have high molecular movability.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal polyester fiber having high strength, high elastic modulus, high abrasion resistance, excellent processability, and little thermal deformation at high temperature, and also provided is a production method thereof. A liquid crystal polyester fiber, characterized in that the peak half-value width of the endothermic peak (Tm1) observed when measuring by differential calorimetry under rising temperature conditions starting at 50° C. and increasing 20° C./min is 15° C. or higher, the polystyrene-converted weight-average molecular weight is between 250,000 and 2,000,000 inclusive, the peak temperature of the loss tangent (tan ?) is between 100° C. and 200° C. inclusive, and the peak value of the loss tangent (tan ?) is between 0.060 and 0.090 inclusive. A mesh fabric comprising the liquid crystal polyester fiber.

Abstract: A liquid crystalline polyester fiber which exhibits a half width of endothermic peak (Tm1) of 15° C. or above as observed in differential calorimetry under heating from 50° C. at a temperature elevation rate of 20° C./min and a strength of 12.0 cN/dtex or more; and a process for production of the same. A liquid crystalline polyester fiber which is excellent in abrasion resistance and lengthwise uniformity and is improved in weavability and quality of fabric and which is characterized by a small single-fiber fineness can be efficiently produced without impairing the characteristics inherent in fabric made of liquid crystalline polyester fiber produced by solid phase polymerization, namely, high strength, high elastic modulus and excellent thermal resistance.

Abstract: A sea-island composite fiber includes island component fibers having a circumscribed circle diameter of 10 to 1000 nm, a circumscribed circle diameter variation of 1 to 20%, a non-circularity of 1.2 to 5.0, and a non-circularity variation of 1 to 10%.

Abstract: A composite spinneret for discharging a composite polymer stream consisting of at least two or more component polymers, which includes a metering plate having multiple metering holes for metering respective component polymers, a distribution plate with multiple distribution holes formed in the distribution grooves for joining the polymer streams discharged from the metering holes, and a discharge plate.

Abstract: Disclosed are liquid crystal polyester fibers, which have a peak half-width of 15° C. or greater at an endothermic peak (Tm1) observed by differential calorimetry under a temperature elevation of 20° C./minute from 50° C., polystyrene equivalent weight average molecular weight of 250,000 or more and 2,000,000 or less, and a variable waveform of less than 10% in terms of the half inert diagram mass waveform determined by a Uster yarn irregularity tester. Also disclosed is a method for producing liquid crystal polyester fibers, wherein liquid crystal polyester fibers are formed into a package, the fibers are then subjected to solid-phase polymerization, and the solid-phase polymerized liquid crystal polyester fibers are unrolled from the package and successively heat treated without being once taken up. The heat treatment temperature is controlled at a temperature of the endothermic peak temperature (Tm1) of the solid-phase polymerized liquid crystal polyester fibers+60° C.

Abstract: A sea-island composite fiber has an island component which is ultrafine fibers having a noncircular cross-section, the ultrafine fibers being uniform in the degree of non-circularity and in the diameter of the circumscribed circle. The sea-island composite fiber includes an easily soluble polymer as the sea component and a sparingly soluble polymer as the island component, and the island component has a circumscribed-circle diameter of 10-1,000 nm, a dispersion in circumscribed-circle diameter of 1-20%, a degree of non-circularity of 1.2-5.0, and a dispersion in the degree of non-circularity of 1-10%.

Abstract: A liquid crystalline polyester fiber which exhibits a half width of endothermic peak (Tm1) of 15° C. or above as observed in differential calorimetry under heating from 50° C. at a temperature elevation rate of 20° C./min and a strength of 12.0 cN/dtex or more; and a process for production of the same. A liquid crystalline polyester fiber which is excellent in abrasion resistance and lengthwise uniformity and is improved in weavability and quality of fabric and which is characterized by a small single-fiber fineness can be efficiently produced without impairing the characteristics inherent in fabric made of liquid crystalline polyester fiber produced by solid phase polymerization, namely, high strength, high elastic modulus and excellent thermal resistance.