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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2019
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, JP;
Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Taiyo Yoshioka, Tsukuba, JP;
Tsunenori Kameda, Tsukuba, JP;
Takahiro Kitamura, Tsukuba, JP;
Akimune Asanuma, Tsukuba, JP;
NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, Tsukuba, JP;
KOWA COMPANY, LTD., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to develop: a method of efficiently producing a long bagworm silk thread containing no contaminant while preventing a change in the spinning direction and the runaway of the bagworm from a rail, and alleviating a burden on the bagworm; and an apparatus for implementing the thread-producing method. Provided is an apparatus for producing a bagworm silk thread, having a movable rail having a width smaller than the maximum width between the right and left legs of a bagworm and configured to move in the longitudinal direction and to be able to hold with the legs of the bagworm; and a fixator configured to fix a bagworm, wherein the fixator is placed at a position such that the fixed bagworm can hold the movable rail.