Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Akio Ohmory

Tomoyuki Sano

Syunpei Naramura

Masahiro Satoh

Hayami Yoshimochi

Satoru Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Akasu

Akitsugu Akiyama

Hirofumi Sano

Toshiaki Sato

Masahiro Kouno

Akira Kubotsu

Shinya Inada

Masanori Osawa

Kohei Shizuka

Masakazu Nishiyama

Yoshiharu Fukunishi

Takehiko Okamoto

Shoji Asano

Toshiaki Ikimine

Atsuhisa Ogawa

Isao Tokunaga

Ichiro Kawata

Toshiaki Takagi

Akinori Sueoka

Hisashi Suemori

Mitsuo Mayahara

Yosuke Sekiya

Jun-ichi Hikasa

Yoshihiko Yamada

Tadashi Saito

Hidehiko Shimamura

A fiber of sea-islands phase separation wherein the sea component comprises a vinyl alcohol based polymer with high orientation and great crystallinity and the islands component comprises a water-insoluble cellulose based polymer with excellent absorptivity of alkaline solutions, thermal resistance and heat fusion resistance, and wherein the size of the islands is 0.03 to 10 .mu.m and the strength is 3 g/d or more, is readily disintegrated into a fibril of a diameter of 0.05 to 8 .mu.m when a mechanical stress is imposed onto the fiber wet in water. From the fibril with good hydrophilicity, high strength, great particle captivity and excellent reinforcing performance, and additionally with good absorptivity of alkaline solutions and great thermal resistance and heat fusion resistance, none of the fiber components therein is solubilized during fibrillation. Neither a beating process nor a beating solution causes foaming or environmental pollution. The fibril is extremely useful for use in separator sheets for alkaline batteries, reinforcing fibers of cement slate plates, reinforcing fibers of frictional materials and the like.

Separator for a battery comprising a fibrillatable fiber

A reinforcing material for incorporation into a kneaded and shaped hydraulic material, comprising a fiber having a fineness of 5 d or more, an aspect ratio of from 10-500, a breaking tenacity of 5 g/d or more, an elongation (A) of from 6-20%, a flexing tenacity utilization factor (B) of 35% or more, and (B).ltoreq.4 (A).

Reinforcing material for kneaded and formed hydraulic material, and

Flame-retardant polyvinyl alcohol base fiber

Readily fibrillatable fiber

Easily fibrillatable fiber

By dissolving a vinyl alcohol polymer (A) and an incompatible vinyl polymer (B), preferably an acrylonitrile polymer in a common solvent to prepare a spinning stock solution of a phase separation structure wherein the polymer (B) is present at particle sizes of 2 to 50 .mu.m, and wet spinning or dry-wet spinning the resulting spinning stock solution in a solidifying bath containing a mixture of an organic solvent capable of solidifying both the polymers (A) and (B) and the solvent of the spinning stock solution at a weight ratio of 25/75 to 85/15, thereby drawing the resulting yarn by 8-fold or more, a fiber is provided; and from the fiber can be produced a fibril with good hydrophilicity, a higher strength, and excellent heat fusion resistance, along with excellent wiping performance, filtering performance, micro-particle capturing properties and reinforcing performance, readily, stably and inexpensively.

Fibrillatable fiber of a sea-islands structure

By mixing a high-melting polyvinyl alcohol type polymer (A) and a low-melting water-soluble polymer (B) in a solvent for the polymer (A) to prepare a spinning solution and then subjecting the solution to low-temperature spinning so that the resulting filaments are solidified uniformly in the cross-sectional direction, there is formed a fiber of sea-islands structure comprising said high-melting polyvinyl alcohol type polymer (A) as the sea component and said low-melting water-soluble polymer (B) as the islands component. In this fiber, at least part of the islands component is present in a fiber zone ranging from the fiber surface to 2 .mu.m inside and the fiber surface contains substantially no islands component. This fiber ordinarily shows the performance of the matrix phase, i.e. the performance of a high-melting polyvinyl alcohol fiber; however, when the fiber is pressurized at high temperatures, the low-melting polymer (the islands component) is pushed out onto the fiber surface and there occurs heat bonding between fibers. Owing to this property of the fiber, a nonwoven fabric can be produced advantageously from the fiber.

Water-soluble heat-press-bonding polyvinyl alcohol binder fiber of a

The process of the present invention comprises wet spinning or dry-jet-wet spinning a PVA-based polymer soluble in water at not more than 100.degree. C. while using a dope solvent and a solidifying solvent each comprising an organic solvent, wet drawing the solidified filaments, subjecting the drawn filaments to extraction treatment and then drying, and further subjecting the filaments to heat shrinking treatment under multi-stage temperature elevation condition. The water soluble fibers of the present invention obtained by this process, while having a low water dissolution temperature of not more than 100.degree. C., have a markedly small maximum shrinkage in water and has high tensile strength and small ash content. The water soluble fibers of the present invention are suitably used for chemical lace base fabrics and blended yarns with wool or jute.

Water soluble polyvinyl alcohol-based fiber

Provided are high-performance polyvinyl alcohol fibers having excellent resistances to hot water and dry heat as well as excellent strength and elastic modulus. The fibers are produced from a highly syndiotactic polyvinyl alcohol containing units from vinyl pivalate in an appropriate amount, which renders it possible to draw the highly crystalline fiber in a high drawing ratio of at least 16.

Polyvinyl alcohol fiber

High-strength polyvinyl alcohol fiber is provided by extruding a polyvinyl alcohol dope solution through a spinneret into a coagulating bath, the spinneret being located such that substantially only its dope-extruding surface contacts the coagulating bath. This process can produce stably and at a low cost polyvinyl alcohol fibers with excellent strength.

Process of making high-strength polyvinyl alcohol fiber

The polysulfone hollow fiber membrane provided by the present invention can prohibit bacteria, bacilli, viruses and the like, and is therefore useful, besides as an industrial filter for water purification, as a membrane for body fluid filtration or condensation. In particular, the polysulfone hollow fiber membrane is, being excellent in removing .beta..sub.2 -MG, markedly useful as a membrane for treating body fluid such as hemodialysis and hemofiltration.

Polysulfone hollow fiber membrane and process for making the same

Heat resistant organic fibers comprising a wholly aromatic polymer having amide group and/or imide group, said fibers having properties satisfying the following formulas

Heat resistant organic synthetic fibers and process for producing the

A reinforced therapeutic tube which is excellent in kink resistance, pressure resistance and flexibility. The tube is made of an elastomeric material with a reinforcing material spirally embedded into the tube wall, and at least one of the tubular parts where no spiral reinforcing material exists. The tip end of the reinforcing material which is wound in spiral shape is bent parallel to the inside surface of the tube and inward of the tube for at least one or more pitches of the spiral, and at least the tip of the reinforcing material bent is buried into the inside wall of the tube.

Reinforced therapeutic tube

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Akio Ohmory