Patent · US Expired

Strong flexible pre-impregnation of fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin free from a void in matrix

US5520995A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1994
Grant dateMay 28, 1996
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/30
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A pre-impregnation has a ribbon-shaped tow of reinforcing fibers and a ribbon of thermoplastic resin laminated on the ribbon-shaped tow and fixed thereto at intervals, and the thermoplastic resin is allowed to uniformly impregnate into the ribbon-shaped tow under heat application so that a void does not take place in the ribbon-shaped tow.

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