Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Akio Ootani

Nobuhiko Matsumoto

Asami Nakai

Masataka Kaji

Mitsuro Takagi

Jun Mitadera

Provided is a commingled yarn having a dispersing property and having a smaller amount of voids, a method for manufacturing the commingled yarn, and a weave fabric using the commingled yarn. The commingled yarn comprises a continuous thermoplastic resin fiber, a continuous reinforcing fiber, and a surface treatment agent and/or sizing agent, comprises the surface treatment agent and/or sizing agent in a content of 2.0% by weight or more, relative to a total amount of the continuous thermoplastic resin fiber and the continuous reinforcing fiber, and has a dispersibility of the continuous thermoplastic resin fiber and the continuous reinforcing fiber of 70% or larger.

Commingled yarn, method for manufacturing the commingled yarn, and, weave fabric

Provided is a method for manufacturing a commingled yarn that is capable of keeping a high level of dispersion of the continuous reinforcing fiber and the continuous resin fiber, moderately flexible, and less likely to cause fiber separation, and a commingled yarn a wind-up article and a woven fabric. The method for manufacturing a commingled yarn includes commingling a thermoplastic resin fiber having a treatment agent for the thermoplastic resin fiber on a surface thereof, and a continuous reinforcing fiber having a treatment agent for the continuous reinforcing fiber on a surface thereof, and heating the commingled fibers at a temperature in a range from a melting point of the thermoplastic resin composing the thermoplastic resin fiber, up to 30K higher than the melting point.

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Gifu, Japan

Akio Ootani