Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Liquid crystal polyester fibers and method for producing the same
- Patent Title (中): 液晶聚酯纤维及其制造方法
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Application No.: US13255524Application Date: 2010-03-04
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Publication No.: US09011743B2Publication Date: 2015-04-21
- Inventor: Yoshitsugu Funatsu , Yuhei Maeda , Norio Suzuki , Hiroo Katsuta
- Applicant: Yoshitsugu Funatsu , Yuhei Maeda , Norio Suzuki , Hiroo Katsuta
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2009-058141 20090311; JP2009-070298 20090323
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/053506 WO 20100304
- International Announcement: WO2010/103986 WO 20100916
- Main IPC: D03D15/00
- IPC: D03D15/00 ; D06M15/643 ; C09K19/38 ; D01D10/02 ; D01F6/62 ; D01F6/84 ; D02J13/00

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. or higher, and the speeds of the fibers before and after heat treatment are regulated, respectively, by first and second rollers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110318982A1 LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER FIBERS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2011-12-29
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