Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation

Akihiko Yoshiya

Iwao Yamamoto

Kazuo Shirosaki

Akira Nakagoshi

Hiroyuki Aikyo

Tadahiro Nishimoto

Toshihiro Fukagawa

Ryuichi Hara

Mika Muroi

Toshiyuki Tajiri

Pitch based carbon fibers

A short carbon fiber bundling mass is disclosed, which can provide a high-modulus fiber-reinforced resin composition and comprises short carbon fibers bundled by using a sizing agent and heated to a maximum temperature ranging from 1,600&deg; C. to 3,300&deg; C. in an inert gas atmosphere so as to be graphitized.

Carbon fiber-reinforced resin composition

A short carbon fiber bundling mass is disclosed, which can provide a high-modulus fiber-reinforced resin composition and comprises short carbon fibers bundled by using a sizing agent and heated to a maximum temperature ranging from 1,600.degree. C. to 3,300.degree. C. in an inert gas atmosphere so as to be graphitized.

Short carbon fiber bundling mass, process for producing the same and

A carbon fiber woven fabric constituted by carbon fibers having a thermal conductivity of at least 400 W/m.multidot.K in the fiber axial direction, which has a FAW (weight per unit area of fabric) of at lest 400 g/m.sup.2.

Carbon fiber woven fabric

Pitch based carbon fibers characterized in that their thermal conductivity is at least 1,000 W/m.multidot.K as measured at room temperature, their electrical resistivity is at most 1.2 .mu..OMEGA.m, their tensile modulus is at least 95 ton/mm.sup.2, their compression strength is at least 30 kg/mm.sup.2, and the ratio of crack-free fibers to cracked fibers is from 5/95 to 30/70, where the crack-free fibers are fibers having no cracks in their cross section, and the cracked fibers are fibers having cracks in their cross section.

Carbon fibers and process for their production

A pitch based carbon fiber, having a thermal conductivity in the direction of the fiber axis of from 500 to 1,500 W/m.multidot.K, a tensile modulus of at least 85 ton/mm.sup.2, a compression strength of at least 35 kg/mm.sup.2, a laminated layer thickness, Lc, of graphite crystallites of from 30 to 50 nm, and a ratio thereto of a spread, La, of graphite crystallites in the direction of the layer plane, of at least 1.5, has high thermal conductivity, excellent compression strength and an excellent tensile modulus of elasticity. When a cross section of said fiber in the direction of the fiber axis is observed by a polarization microscope with 1,000 X magnifications, the domain size as observed is at most 500 nm.

Pitch based carbon fiber and process for producing the same

A pitch-type carbon fiber made from a pitch having 1 a glass transition temperature width of at most 40.degree. C. as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, 2 a proportion of the optically anisotropic phase of at least 10% by volume, and 3 a quinoline-insoluble content of at most 5% by weight, as a spinning raw material pitch.

Pitch-type carbon fibers and process for their production

A pitch-type carbon fiber made from a pitch having 1 a glass transition temperature width of at most 40.degree.C. as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, 2 a proportion of the optically anisotropic phase of at least 10% by volume, and 3 a quinoline-insoluble content of at most 5% by weight, as a spinning raw material pitch.

Pitch type carbon fibers and process for their production

A process for producing carbon fibers having high strand strength, which comprises subjecting pitch fibers obtained by melt-spinning pitch, followed by gathering, to infusible treatment to obtain infusible fibers, followed by carbonization treatment, and if necessary, graphitization treatment, to obtain carbon fibers, wherein the infusible fibers or the carbon fibers are heat-treated in an atmosphere containing steam or carbon dioxide at a temperature of from 500.degree. to 1,800.degree. C.

Process for producing carbon fibers having high strand strength

Spinning pitch for carbon fibers, which (1) has a glass transition temperature width of at most 60.degree. C. as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, (2) contains at least 80% by volume an optically anisotropic phase, and (3) shows a shear viscosity of 200 poise at a temperature of from 270.degree. to 370.degree. C.

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Yokohama, Japan

Akihiko Yoshiya