Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

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Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha & Agency of Industrial Science and

Kunihiko Murayama

Toshiyuki Sugano

Kenji Fukuta

Yasushi Yamamoto

Noboru Hiroshima

Takahiko Watanabe

Hiroshi Hatta

Yasumasa Haruta

Toshihisa Honda

Shu Yamashita

Syozo Nakata

Akira Noshita

Syu Yamashita

Syohei Eto

A tread unit of a passenger conveyor includes: a tread, a tread reinforcing member and a riser which are made of fiber reinforced plastic made by knitting fibers together. The surfaces of the cleat portions of the tread and the riser are provided with surface treated layers in which the wear resistance and coefficient of friction are controlled. As a result of this construction, the aesthetic design of the tread unit and of the passenger conveyor system can be improved. In addition, the reduced weight of the tread unit contributes to labor-saving at the time of mounting, and a passenger conveyor system using these tread units can be reduced in size and weight as a whole.

Tread unit of passenger conveyer and passenger conveyer system

A triaxial textile fabric for use as a reinforcing textile fabric for a composite material wherein the modulus of elasticity is made isotropic and which can be readily deformed into a three-dimensional configuration without causing special changes in orientation angles and a process by which such a textile fabric can be easily produced. The fabric comprises a large number of oblique yarns extending in a radial direction from the center of the textile fabric, and a circumferential yarn woven spirally in a circumferential direction between the oblique yarns. Each adjacent ones of the oblique yarns are interlaced with each other and the circumferential yarn is woven between the thus interlaced oblique yarns such that such interlacing may appear between each adjacent coils of the spirally woven circumferential yarn. Such an interlacing step takes place after insertion of the circumferential yarn and before an upward and downward movement of the alternate oblique yarns.

Triaxial fabric of interlaced oblique yarns

A spherical cloth weaving machine in which radially stretched warp yarn and circumferentially running weft yarns are woven into a desired spherical shape, the machine being constructed with a mechanism for moving the warp yarns alternately by shuttle chucks which hold required numbers of the warp yarns at their outer peripheral part. A mechanism is provided for hooking the circumferential weft yarn and beating the same toward the center of the warp yarns for compact weaving. A weft yarn rotating mechanism causes the weft yarn to pass through the warp yarns which are being moved by the warp yarn moving mechanism. A mechanism is provided for maintaining the woven cloth in a spherical shape.

Spherical cloth weaving machine with shuttle chucks

In a method and apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tubes, a carbon fiber prepreg in tape form impregnated with a first thermosetting resin is laminated on and around a mandrel; the laminate provided on said mandrel is preheated; and the preheated laminate is pulled in and through a hot die together with the mandrel, during which it is gelled, cured, and shaped into a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tube, wherein a second thermosetting resin is uniformly supplied onto the outer circumference of the laminate in a resin squeezing zone in the hot die.

Method and apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced

A method and an apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tubes, wherein a carbon fiber prepreg in tape form impregnated with a thermosetting resin is laminated on and around a mandrel, then the laminated carbon fiber prepreg tape on the mandrel is preheated, and the thus preheated laminate is pulled in and through a hot die together with the mandrel so as to subject the carbon fiber prepreg to gelling, curing and shaping into a predetermined carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tube, the pulling operations being continuously carried out by alternate motion of first and second grasping mechanism in such a manner that the pulling force is generated in the second grasping mechanism, while the first grasping mechanism still retains its pulling force, and finally the gellation of the laminate is completed at the first half part of the hot die.

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Amagasaki, Japan

Kunihiko Murayama