Murata Machinery, Ltd.

Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.

Shuichi Fukuhara

Hiroki Takashima

Tetsuji Masai

Fumiaki Yano

Tatsuya Kosui

Kazuhiko Nakade

Tetsuya Namikawa

Takafumi Kamei

Yoshifuto Sone

Kenichi Murayama

Kenji Kawamoto

Katsuhisa Hirai

Shigeru Hayashi

Yuji Imamura

A contact pressure sensor detects a pressing force applied to a pressed body by a pressing body through a sensor portion disposed between the pressing body and the pressed body, wherein the sensor portion is formed of a knitting yarn including a carbon nanotube yarn, and the sensor portion includes a pressing body contact surface with which the pressing body comes into contact; a pressed body contact surface with which the pressed body comes into contact; knitting yarn intersecting portions formed between the pressing body contact surface and the pressed body contact surface; and void portions formed between the pressing body contact surface and the pressed body contact surface, the void portions being spaces in which the knitting yarn is not disposed.

Contact pressure sensor, knit product having same, and method of manufacturing contact pressure sensor

A yarn producing apparatus for producing carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn by aggregating CNT fibers. A front roller continuously draws the CNT fibers from at least one CNT forming substrate, a yarn producing unit aggregates the CNT fibers drawn by the front roller, and a status monitors a state of the CNT fibers drawn from the CNT forming substrate, or the CNT yarn.

Yarn manufacturing device

A yarn producing apparatus produces carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn by aggregating CNT fibers, A substrate support supports a CNT forming substrate, a winding unit continuously draws the CNT fibers, a yarn producing unit aggregates the CNT fibers, a status monitor monitors a state of the CNT yarn, and a supply state changing mechanism changes a supply state of the CNT fibers, based on a result of monitoring by the status monitor.

A yarn producing apparatus produces carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn by aggregating CNT fibers. A substrate support supports a CNT forming substrate, a winding unitcontinuously draws the CNT fibers, a yarn producing unit aggregates the CNT fibers, and a substrate replacing mechanism replaces the carbon nanotube forming substrate supported on the substrate support with another carbon nanotube forming substrate.

A yarn producing apparatus includes front rollers movable while carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers are running and aggregates the CNT fibers. Each of the front rollers includes a groove provided on an outer circumference thereof to aggregate the CNT fibers.

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Kyoto, Japan

Shuichi Fukuhara