Toray Industries, Inc.

Seiko Epson Corporation

Kaneka Corporation

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Environmental Solutions, Ltd.

Akira Nishimura

Kiyoshi Homma

Ikuo Horibe

Hajime Kishi

Nobuyuki Odagiri

Hiroyasu Kato

Hideo Nagata

Takeshi Terashita

Tokuo Tazaki

Kazuo Kito

Hideo Suzuki

Hiroyuki Kurihara

Atsushi Minamino

Eisuke Wadahara

Gaku Kondo

Takahiro Yamauchi

Kentaro Ogura

Haruka Nishimoto

Kunio Maeda

Hitoshi Fukushima

Shigeo Furuyoshi

Masaru Nakatani

Tomitake Higuchi

Tohru Hiramatsu

Takehiko Hirabara

Kiyoshi Momma

Mitsuhiro Ban

Asahi Yamazaki

Takashi Kobayashi

Takuya Asai

Seishirou Ichikawa

Kyuichiro Nishimura

Kiyoshi Honma

A method includes detecting a nucleotide sequence in genomic DNA obtained from a sample; and evaluating a content of mesenchymal stem cells in the sample. The nucleotide sequence comprises at least one CpG site selected from the group consisting of: a CpG site consisting of C at position 157 and G at position 158 of SEQ ID NO: 1; and a CpG site complementary to the CpG site of SEQ ID NO: 1 in a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. The sample is an adipose tissue or a cell-containing fraction obtained from an adipose tissue.

Method for evaluating content of mesenchymal stem cells in cell-containing sample

An apparatus for treating a biomass feedstock at a high temperature, includes a cooling devicefor cooling a biomass treated liquid at a high temperature; an enzymatic saccharification tankfor saccharifying a cooled treated liquidB with an enzyme; a solid-liquid separation apparatusfor removing water-slightly soluble substances contained in a saccharide solutiontaken out from the enzymatic saccharification tankand a foreign substance removing unitprovided with a microfiltration (MF) membrane; a dilution tank, disposed downstream of the foreign substance removing unit, for diluting the saccharide solution from which the water-slightly soluble substances are removed by adding water thereto; a water separation unit, provided with a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane, for removing waterfrom the diluted saccharide solution so as to obtain concentrated saccharide solution

Fermentation apparatus that uses biomass as feedstock

Apparatus for producing saccharide solution that uses biomass as feedstock

A micro bio sensor which detects a microbe existing in a specimen is provided. The microbial sensor includes a base, a detector formed on the base, and a reaction layer formed on the detector, wherein the reaction layer is comprised of a self-assembled monolayer which is formed on the detector and an antibiotic which is immobilized through the self-assembled monolayer on the detector. By using the micro bio sensor, it is possible to detect species of the microbe concurrently and improve sensitivity for detecting the species of the microbe. Further, a method for manufacturing such a micro bio sensor is also provided.

Micro bio sensor and method for manufacturing the micro bio sensor

A method for producing a reinforcing fiber woven fabric of the invention is a method for producing a reinforcing fiberfor weaving the reinforcing fiber as at least a warp. The yarn width of at least the warpconstituting the woven fabric is widened in the direction of the weftby reciprocating cylindrical bodiesin the direction of the warpof the woven fabric while rolling the cylindrical bodiesin a pressurization state to the woven fabric A apparatus for producing a reinforcing fiber woven fabric of the invention comprising: a guide rollerwhich comes into contact with the surface of a reinforcing woven fabric continuously passing through at a predetermined winding angle and rotates; a plurality of cylindrical bodiesrotatably supported on the woven fabric which comes into contact with the surface of the guide roller; and driving partstofor reciprocating the cylindrical bodies in the direction of the warpof the woven fabric.

Method and equipment for manufacturing reinforced fiber textile

A carbon fiber-made reinforcing woven fabric comprising a carbon-fiber woven fabric formed from warps consisting of carbon fibers and wefts consisting of carbon fibers, and auxiliary yarns arranged along at least either warps or wefts, the auxiliary yarns being passed over and under other yarns differently from associated warps or wefts. When prepreg is produced by applying matrix resin to this woven fabric by a wet/prepreg processing method before drying, the presence of auxiliary yarns in gaps in the vicinities of warp-weft intersections on the woven fabric allows matrix resin to remain around auxiliary yarns to produce no apertures in the obtained prepreg, whereby the woven fabric is suitable for a prepreg production by wet/prepreg processing.

Carbon fiber-made reinforcing woven fabric and prepreg and prepreg production method

A wet process for manufacturing a cloth prepreg with a uniform fiber distribution and large cover factor comprises impregnating a woven fabric with a diluted resin and drying, which fabric has a number of crossing points of warp and weft in the range of 2,000 to 70,000/m, which process further comprises at least one of the steps (A) and (B), namely

Cloth prepreg and wet process for manufacturing the same

A carbon fiber reinforced substrate comprising a fabric composed of carbon fiber bundles and a first resin adhering to the fabric. Each of the carbon fiber bundles comprises numerous continuous carbon filaments, has the tensile modulus of 210 GPa or more, and has the fracture strain energy of 40 MJ/mor more. The amount of the first resin adhering to the fabric is in a range from 1 to 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said fabric. A preform comprising a laminate composed of plural layers of the carbon fiber reinforced substrate, wherein the layers are integrated by means of the first resin. A composite comprising the preform impregnated with a matrix resin.

Carbon fiber reinforced base material, preform and composite material comprising the same

A method of producing a reinforcing fiber woven fabric, for producing on a weaving machine a reinforcing fiber woven fabric from wefts of reinforcing fiber yarns and warps of reinforcing fiber yarns, the method comprising providing, on a weft supply passage for supplying a weft from a weft bobbin to the weaving machine, a weft unwinding means for laterally unwinding weft from the weft bobbin, and a weft storing cylinder body for sucking along with air, part of weft thus unwound and directed toward the weaving machine and temporarily storing it therein, contactingly supporting weft, minimized in generation of twist by means of lateral unwinding, by a weft contacting means provided in the weft storing cylinder body while being stored in the weft storing cylinder, and preventing the generation of twist of weft being stored by the supporting; a production device therefore, and a reinforcing fiber woven fabric produced therefrom.

Method of producing reinforcing fiber woven fabric and production device therefor and reinforcing fiber woven fabric

The present invention is aimed at providing FRP formed by integrating a fiber reinforcing material and a non-woven fabric, and having excellent shaping ability, impact resistance after molding, and excellent reliability and low cost. The aim of the present invention is achieved by a complex fiber reinforcing material including a sheet-shaped fiber reinforcing material composed of reinforcing fibers, and a non-woven fabric laminated on at least one side of the fiber reinforcing material, wherein the fibers constituting the non-woven fabric pass through the fiber reinforcing material to integrate the non-woven fabric with the fiber reinforcing material.

Composite reinforcing fiber base material, preform and production method for fiber reinforced plastic

A stitched laminate, in which plural sheets respectively having plural tow-like carbon fibers arranged in parallel to each other are laminated, with the orienting directions of the carbon fiber yarns of the respective sheets kept at different angles against a reference direction, and are stitched integrally using stitching threads. The fineness of each of the carbon fiber yarns is in a range of 1,200 to 17,000 Tex, and the pitch of the arranged carbon fibers yarns is in the range of 8 to 60 mm. In the sheets, the arranged carbon fiber yarns are widened in yarn width to ensure that no gap substantially exists between the respectively adjacent carbon fiber yarns. The plural carbon fiber yarns supplied to form sheets are respectively brought into contact with plural rollers, to be bent and widened in yarn width.

Multiaxially stitched base material for reinforcing and fiber reinforced plastic, and method for preparing them

A sheet-shaped carbon fiber base material is made up from reinforcing carbon fiber and metal wire integrally formed into a carbon fiber base material which may be a a woven fabric, a tow sheet and a prepreg. The volume fraction of metal in the sheet-shaped reinforcing carbon fiber base material is no more than 4% of the carbon fiber. A laminate may also be formed from the sheet-shaped carbon fiber material, where the reinforcing carbon fiber and the metal wire are laid-up in such a way that the metal wire insertion positions are mutually different. Also disclosed is a method of detecting the number of plies in a laminate that includes non-destructively sensing with a detector the presence of metal wire in a laminate of plies of a sheet-shaped carbon fiber base material made up of reinforcing carbon fiber and metal wire integrally formed to make the sheet-shaped carbon fiber laminate material and determining the number of the plies in the laminate based on the metal wires detected.

Reinforcing carbon fiber material, laminate and detecting method

Reinforcing woven fabric and method and apparatus for manufacturing the

A method and apparatus for supplying twist free flat warp containing a plurality of carbon fibers to a plurality of wefts in a weaving loom, wherein the warp is transversely removed from a plurality of bobbins and twisted along a longitudinal travelling direction of the warps so that flat surfaces of individual flat warps are oriented at a right angle to an arranged direction. The plurality of flat warps are reeded to a desired density in relation to the arranged direction. The warps are then twisted along the longitudinal travelling direction so that the flat surfaces of the individual flat warps are oriented to the arranged direction.

Warp feeding apparatus and method for multifiber flat carbon yarns

Disclosed is a process of producing a prepreg which is suited for preparing honeycomb sandwich panels, by which the formation of pores in the interlayer zones in the cured composite can be reduced. The prepreg comprises a resin composition including an epoxy resin, a curing agent and a solid rubber, and a woven fabric made of reinforcing fibers, the meshes of the woven fabric being crushed such that said prepreg has a cover factor K.sub.p of 97-99.9%. Also disclosed is a reinforcing fabric comprising warps and woofs which are multifilament yarns made of carbon fibers, the widths W (mm) and finenesses D (d:denier) of the warp and woof satisfying the equation of:

Cloth prepreg, process for producing the same and reinforcing fabric

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Kyoto, Japan

Akira Nishimura