Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Toshio Yoshihara

Seigi Suzuki

Masayoshi Fujizaki, Deceased

Jun Kamo

Keisuke Yoshihara

Atushi Nakashima

Akira Oshima

Tuneo Ikeda

Eiichi Hamada

Naoyuki Fukabori

Yasuyuki Yamasaki

The present invention provides a heat exchanger using hollow fibers formed of an organic polymer as the heat transfer tubes; a blood oxygenating device comprising a blood oxygenator combined with the aforesaid heat exchanger; and a small-sized and lightweight blood oxygenator which comprises a blood oxygenator of the hollow-fiber membrane type having the aforesaid heat exchanger incorporated thereinto to form an integral unit, and hence has excellent gas exchange and heat exchange performance.

Heat exchanger and blood oxygenating device furnished therewith

A nonwoven fabric having no pattern and composed of 100% synthetic fibers, wherein individual fibers are held together by three-dimensional entanglement into a stabilized sheet form without being subjected to any bonding treatment, which nonwoven fabric has a structure characterized by a specific volume of the nonwoven fabric of 3.5 cm.sup.3 /g or less, a bending index (in terms of R) of individual fibers of 4.0 or more, and a strength efficiency (in terms of S) of the nonwoven fabric of 90% or more. Such a nonwoven fabric has excellent properties which are comparable to conventional woven fabrics in not only hand but also practical performance characteristics. This nonwoven fabric is manufactured by a method which comprises placing on a substantially smooth supporting member a web, 35 to 170 gm/m.sup.2 in basis weight, composed of highly shrinkable synthetic fibers having a potential heat shrinkage of 50% or more, exposing said web to the impact of fine jet streams of water discharged under a pressure of 10 to 35 kg/cm.sup.2, whereby allowing individual fibers to entangle one another, thereafter subjecting the web to wet heat treatment at free length conditions to allow the web to shrink by 50% or more in area, drying the shrunk web at a temperature at which no change takes place in the shape and internal structure of individual fibers, and then subjecting the dried web to heat setting under an applied pressure of 200 g/cm.sup.2 or more.

Nonwoven fabric and manufacturing method thereof

A nonwoven fabric having no pattern and composed of 100% synthetic fibers, wherein individual fibers are held together by three-dimensional entanglement into a stabilized sheet form without being subjected to any bonding treatment, which nonwoven fabric has a structure characterized by a specific volume of the nonwoven fabric of 3.5 cm.sup.3 /g or less, a bending index (in terms of R) of individual fibers of 4.0 or more, and a strength efficiency (in terms of S) of the nonwoven fabric of 90% or more. Such a nonwoven fabric has excellent properties which are comparable to conventional woven fabrics in not only hand but also practical performance characteristics. This nonwoven fabric is manufactured by a method which comprises placing on a substantially smooth supporting member a web, 35 to 170 g/m.sup.2 in basis weight, composed of highly shrinkable synthetic fibers having a potential heat shrinkage of 50% or more, exposing said web to the impact of fine jet streams of water discharged under a pressure of 10 to 35 kg/cm.sup.2, whereby allowing individual fibers to entangle one another, thereafter subjecting the web to wet heat treatment at free length conditions to allow the web to shrink by 50% or more in area, drying the shrunk web at a temperature at which no change takes place in the shape and internal structure of individual fibers, and then subjecting the dried web to heat setting under an applied pressure of 200 g/cm.sup.2 or more.

Nonwoven fabric of three dimensional entanglement

A plastic article having improved surface characteristics comprises a plastic body having adhered thereon a cross-linked film of a composition comprising (A) 10 to 90 parts by weight of a cross-linking unsaturated compound having a molecular weight of M and containing in the molecule N polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated radicals (N being an integer of 2 or more), the ratio of said molecular weight, M, to said number, N, of ethylenically unsaturated radicals (M/N) being about 49 to about 600, (B) 90 to 10 parts by weight of an unsaturated monomer containing in the molecule at least one radical copolymerizable with said component (A) and at least one acid radical, and (C) up to 20 parts by weight of other copolymerizable unsaturated compounds, the total of (A), (B) and (C) being 100 parts by weight, at least a part of the acid radicals contained in the film having been converted into alkali salts thereof, said cross-linked film having a thickness of 5 to 500 .mu.. The above plastic article is produced by forming on the surface of a plastic body a cross-linked film of the composition comprising the components (A), (B) and (C) and then treating the cross-linked film with a base to convert the acid radical into its alkali salt.

Plastic articles having improved surface characteristics

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Ohtake, Japan

Toshio Yoshihara