Across Co., Ltd.

Fuji Standard Research, Inc.

Masaharu Tachibana

Takao Nakagawa

Mihoko Yamashita

Takuya Ueda

Yasuo Nozaki

Toshihiro Sato

Shimpei Gomi

Shoko Namba

A spring member made of a carbon fibers/carbon composite material in which carbon fibers are dispersed in a matrix of graphite, The spring member has a spring constant in a range of 0.1 to 25 kg/mm and a density of about 1.5 to 3.0 g/cm.sup.3. For use in high temperature severe conditions a ceramic material is incorporated into the surface of the spring member.

Spring members

A three-layer heat-resistant material is disclosed which includes a substrate of a carbon fiber-reinforced carbon composite, an outer metal layer and a ceramic layer interposed between the substrate and the metal layer. A conveyer belt using the heat-resistant material is also disclosed.

Heat-resisting material and conveyer belt using same

A spring member made of a carbon fibers/carbon composite material in which carbon fibers are dispersed in a matrix of graphite, and a process for producing such a spring member. The process includes the steps of: (a) forming raw preformed yarns; (b) shaping the raw preformed yarns in a form of a yarn member, a taper member or a sheet member; (c) coiling the thus shaped member around a core rod together with a coiling spacer; (d) molding the coiled member by hot pressing at about 300.degree. C.-2000.degree. C. under a given pressurized pressure; and graphitizing the coiled member at 1500.degree. C.-3000.degree. C., after carbonizing at 700.degree.-1200.degree.C. if necessary.

Process of making a spring member

A preformed yarn useful for forming composite articles is disclosed which includes a core of a multiplicity of fibers, fine powder provided in the interstices between the fibers, and a flexible sleeve formed of a thermoplastic resin and surrounding the core. The fine powder is formed of a material which neither melts nor reacts with the thermoplastic resin at a temperature up to 450.degree. C. and at a temperature up to the melting point of the thermoplastic resin. The incorporation of the fine powder between the fibers is effected by injecting fine powder-containing air from a jet nozzle and blowing the air against a bundle of the fibers.

Preformed yarn useful for forming composite articles and process for

A continuous process for the production of carbonaceous pitch, including heat-treating an aromatic heavy oil in a first thermal cracking zone for obtaining a first cracked product, and introducing the first cracked product into a second thermal cracking zone where it is thermally cracked by direct contact with a gaseous heat transfer medium to form distillable cracked components and a mesophase-containing pitch. The liquid phase in the second thermal cracking zone, including the mesophase-containing pitch, is discharged therefrom and separated into a mesophase-rich pitch and a matrix pitch having a low concentration of mesophase. The mesophase-rich pitch is recovered while at least a portion of the matrix pitch is recycled to the second thermal cracking zone. The distillable cracked components are stripped from the liquid phase in the second thermal cracking zone with the heat transfer medium, and the resulting gas phase is withdrawn overhead therefrom and then separated into a light fraction and a heavy fraction. The heavy fraction is fed to the first thermal cracking zone.

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Funabashi, Japan

Masaharu Tachibana