Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujio Okada

Toshihiko Ohta

Masahiro Hayashi

Hideaki Ishihara

Kazuo Kurita

Susumu Tate

Akira Chiba

Wataru Yoshikawa

Kiyokazu Okumoto

Polyester fibers having both a high strength and a high modulus prepared from ethylene terephthalate polyester, and having an intrinsic viscosity of not less than 1.0 and an initial tensile modulus is not less than 130 g/d, said intrinsic viscosity being determined in a mixed solvent of p-chlorophenol and tetrachloro ethane (3:1) at 30.degree. C. Processes for producing the fibers are also disclosed.

Polyester fibers having high strength and high modulus and process for

A process for producing polyethylene drawn filaments and drawn films which comprises molding under pressure a mixture of 51 to 90 parts by weight of polyethylene powder having a weight average molecular weight of at least 4.times.10.sup.5 and having no history of being molten or dissolved after polymerization, and 49 to 10 parts by weight of a solvent at a temperature lower than the melting point of the mixture, and then hot-stretching the molded product.

Process of producing polyethylene drawn filaments and drawn films

An optical fiber cord or cable comprising at least one optical fiber and at least one tensile member for reinforcing said optical fiber, said tensile member comprising at least one polyethylene filament having a viscosity average molecular weight of not less than 200,000, a tenacity of not less than 20 g/d and a tensile modulus of not less than 600 g/d.

Drawn polyethylene filament tensile member

Optical fiber cord or cable containing a polyethylene filament tensile

Crosslinked polyethylene filaments made of polyethylene having an average molecular weight of not less than 4.times.10.sup.5, which are stretched and crosslinked by irradiation of radioactive rays and have a strength of not less than 20 g/d and an initial modulus of not less than 400 g/d.

Polyethylene filaments and their production

A process for producing a drawn product of a crystalline polymer having tenacity and high modulus, which comprises compressing a gel-like material prepared from a solution of a crystalline polymer in a solvent (i.e. a gel-like sheet material (A) consisting of gel-like particles of a crystalline polymer and a solvent which is prepared by cooling a solution of a crystalline polymer in a solvent, or a gel-like film material (B) which is prepared by casting a solution of a crystalline polymer in a solvent) at a temperature lower than the temperature at which the gel-like material is dissolved, whereby removing a part of the solvent contained in the gel-like material, and drawing the compressed material, preferably using a drawing die. The drawn product is particularly useful as a tension member for optical fiber cable.

Process for the production of a drawn product of crystalline polymer

Stretched filaments of high strength and high modulus being made of polyethylene of a weight average molecular weight of not less than 3.times.10.sup.6 and having a strength of not less than 50 g/d and an initial modulus of not less than 1,500 g/d, the long period structure being substantially not observed, which are prepared by spinning a dilute solution of said polyethylene and stretching the resultant gel-like filaments in multi-stages until the long period structure becomes substantially not observed.

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Fujio Okada