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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2008
Naoyuki Tashiro, Takasago, JP;
Takayasu Fujiura, Kobe, JP;
Kaduya Takamura, Kobe, JP;
Seiji Zenke, Takasago, JP;
Naoyuki Tashiro, Takasago, JP;
Takayasu Fujiura, Kobe, JP;
Kaduya Takamura, Kobe, JP;
Seiji Zenke, Takasago, JP;
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe-shi, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for manufacturing a continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellet are provided which can smoothly carry out a continuous drawing-out operation for a reinforcing fiber bundle (continuous fiber-reinforced resin strand). With respect to a terminal end of a reinforcing fiber bundle A of a roving package being exhausted and a front end of a reinforcing fiber bundle B of a new roving package, fiber quantity-halved end portions Aand Beach about half of the original fiber quantity are formed respectively, then reinforcing filaments in those fiber quantity-halved end portions are entangled by an air splicer to form an entangled portion C, and reinforcing filaments in a portion downstream of the fiber quantity-halved end portion in the reinforcing fiber bundle B of the new roving package are entangled by an air splicer to form an entangled portion C