Nitto-Denko Corporation

Kyoto Institute of Technology

National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology

Daisuke Kitagawa

Youzou Yano

Tomoyuki Kasagi

Yoshinari Takayama

Satoshi Nishiyama

Kenichi Tagawa

Takashi Oda

Hideyuki Usui

Kunio Nagasaki

Ichiro Suehiro

Yusuke Nakayama

Takashi Wano

Teppei Tezuka

Ryoichi Matsushima

Takafumi Hida

Hideki Yamane

Akira Miyagaki

Tiago Ogawa

Susumu Kiyohara

Yoshihito Takagi

Masahiko Takeuchi

Kimiaki Tauchi

Toshio Uota

A ventilation assembly of the present disclosure includes: an internal member being a tubular body having an opening at a first end portion and an opening at a second end portion; a gas-permeable membrane covering the opening at the first end portion of the internal member; and an external member being a tubular body having a bottom, the external member being joined to the internal member with the internal member inserted in the interior of the external member from the first end portion side, wherein the ventilation assembly is to be fixed to the projection of the housing with the projection inserted in the opening at the second end portion of the internal member to make an inner peripheral surface of the internal member and an outer peripheral surface of the projection abut each other, the ventilation assembly has a second space serving as a ventilation path connecting the gas-permeable membrane and the outside of the ventilation assembly in at least one selected from the inside of the internal member, the inside of the external member, and an interspace between the internal member and the external member joined together, and a total length of a height of the internal member and a shortest length in the second space from an outer periphery of the internal member at the first end portion to an end portion of the ventilation path on the outside side is 6.0 mm or more and 20 mm or less. The ventilation assembly of the present disclosure is excellent in moisture permeation performance.

Ventilation assembly and ventilation housing

A ventilation housing of the present disclosure includes: a housing; and a ventilation assembly. The housing includes a tubular projection extending to project from an outer surface and internally having a first space communicating the inside and the outside of the housing. The ventilation assembly includes: an internal member being a tubular body having an opening at a first end portion and an opening at a second end portion; a gas-permeable membrane covering the opening at the first end portion of the internal member; and an external member being a tubular body having a bottom, the external member being joined to the internal member with the internal member inserted in the interior of the external member from the first end portion side. The ventilation assembly is fixed to the projection with the projection inserted in the opening at the second end portion of the internal member to make an inner peripheral surface of the internal member and an outer peripheral surface of the projection abut each other. The ventilation assembly has a second space serving as a ventilation path connecting the gas-permeable membrane and the outside of the ventilation assembly in the inside of the internal member, the inside of the external member, and/or an interspace between the two members. A ratio between an area Sof a cross-section of the first space and a smallest total area Sdetermined by comparison of values of different total areas determined at different distances from the gas-permeable membrane, the total areas each being determined for a cross-section(s) of the second space, is 1.0 or more. A ratio between the area Sand a total area Sof a plane consisting of a cross-section(s) of the second space taken at a position(s) where the second space is the narrowest is more than 1.0. This ventilation housing exhibits excellent performance in terms of moisture permeation between the inside and the outside of the housing.

Ventilation housing

A ventilation assembly of the present disclosure includes: an internal member being a tubular body having an opening at a first end portion and an opening at a second end portion; an external member being a tubular body having a bottom; and a gas-permeable membrane covering the opening at the first end portion of the internal member, wherein the external member is joined to the internal member with the internal member inserted in the interior of the external member from the first end portion side, the ventilation assembly has a second space serving as a ventilation path connecting the gas-permeable membrane and the outside of the ventilation assembly in at least one selected from the inside of the internal member, the inside of the external member, and an interspace between the internal member and the external member joined together, and the internal member includes one first projecting portion or two or more first projecting portions projecting from the inner peripheral surface at a position on the second end portion side with respect to the gas-permeable membrane. The ventilation assembly of the present disclosure can prevent the gas-permeable membrane from being damaged at the time of fixation to the projection even when the ventilation assembly is reduced in height.

A method of manufacturing a support member, which includes a tubular-shaped tubular part and a coupling part coupling one portion and another portion of an inner circumferential surface of the tubular part to support a ventilation membrane, includes filling a fixed mold and a movable mold with a thermoplastic material or a thermosetting material, wherein the thermoplastic material or the thermosetting material is injected from a gate in the coupling part to be charged from the coupling part toward the cylindrical part.

Method for manufacturing supporting body

A ventilation housing of the present disclosure includes: a housing; and a ventilation assembly. The housing includes a tubular projection extending to project from an outer surface and internally having a first space communicating the inside and the outside of the housing. The ventilation assembly includes: an internal member being a tubular body having an opening at a first end portion and an opening at a second end portion; a gas-permeable membrane covering the opening at the first end portion of the internal member; and an external member being a tubular body having a bottom, the external member being joined to the internal member with the internal member inserted in the interior of the external member from the first end portion side. The ventilation assembly is fixed to the projection with the projection inserted in the opening at the second end portion of the internal member to make an inner peripheral surface of the internal member and an outer peripheral surface of the projection abut each other. The ventilation assembly has a second space serving as a ventilation path connecting the gas-permeable membrane and the outside of the ventilation assembly in the inside of the internal member, the inside of the external member, and/or an interspace between the internal member and the external member joined together. A height Hof the internal member is 6 to 10 mm. A ratio of the height Hof the internal member to a height Hof the projection is 1.00 to 1.70. The ventilation housing of the present disclosure exhibits excellent performance in terms of moisture permeation between the inside and the outside of the housing and is capable of reducing dropping of the ventilation assembly from the projection of the housing.

A ventilation housing includes a housing and ventilation component. A housing tubular projecting part has a communicating hole between housing inner and outer spaces. The ventilation component has: an attachment member over the projecting part with a contacting inner surface; an attachment member supported ventilation body covering a hole end portion between the inner and outer spaces; and a covering member including peripheral and top parts over the attachment member. At least one ventilation path connects the ventilation body and the outer space. A first contact part between an attachment member outer surface outermost protruding portion and covering member peripheral part inner surface is closer to the inner space than an end portion on the outer space side in a second contact part being a contact portion between the housing projecting part outer surface and the attachment member inner surface.

A disclosed method for producing an elongated filler-containing fluororesin sheet includes: a step (I) of forming a strip member from a strip sheet containing a fluororesin, a filler, and a forming aid; and a step (II) of forming an elongated sheet strip by rolling the strip member in a longitudinal direction of the strip member. In the step (I), the strip member is formed by bending the strip sheet in such a manner that quadrilaterals formed on a surface of the strip member, each defined by two strip member side edges extending in the longitudinal direction of the strip member and two strip sheet side edges of the strip sheet that crosses a region between the two strip member side edges are parallelograms each having an acute angle &#x3b1; as an interior angle and that the parallelograms are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the strip member.

Method for producing filler-containing fluororesin sheet

The present invention provides a thermally-conductive sheet excellent in heat dissipation properties. The thermally-conductive sheet includes a polymer matrix and a thermally-conductive filler dispersed in the polymer matrix. The present invention is a thermally-conductive sheet including a polymer matrix and non-spherical particles of a thermally-conductive filler that are dispersed in the polymer matrix. At least a part of the thermally-conductive filler particles are oriented in a thickness direction of the sheet. When a portion of the sheet where the thermally-conductive filler particles have the highest degree of orientation in the thickness direction of the sheet is defined as a center of orientation, and an axis passing through the center of orientation and perpendicular to sheet surfaces is defined as a central axis of orientation, the thermally-conductive sheet has a region where the thermally-conductive filler particles are oriented toward one point on the central axis of orientation and where the degree of orientation of the thermally-conductive filler particles in the thickness direction of the sheet decreases from the center of orientation toward a periphery of the sheet.

Thermally-conductive sheet, LED mounting substrate, and LED module

The LED mounting substrate of the present invention includes a thermally conductive layer (thermally conductive sheet ()) made of a composition containing boron nitride powder and a fluororesin, and the fluororesin contains polytetrafluoroethylene. The thermally conductive layer has a thermal conductivity of 2 W/(m&#xb7;K) or more. The thermally conductive layer has a reflectance of 0.80 or more at wavelengths of 380 nm, 470 nm, and 650 nm.

LED mounting substrate

The present invention provides a method for producing a PTFE fiber that makes it possible, unlike the emulsion spinning process, to obtain a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fiber, particularly a long PTFE fiber, without using a matrix material, is more productive than conventional production methods such as a slit yarn process, and is capable of enhancing mechanical properties and the degree of freedom in diameter of the obtained fiber. The method for producing the PTFE fiber of the present invention includes the step of reducing a diameter of a string-shape PTFE-containing solid material (a first solid material) by drawing the first solid material at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of PTFE. The first solid material can be obtained from a PTFE-containing solid material (a second solid material) containing water and a surfactant, by reducing an amount of the water contained in the second solid material.

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Daisuke Kitagawa