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EP 0 343 496 A3 |
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EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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31.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/44 |
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Date of publication A2: |
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29.11.1989 Bulletin 1989/48 |
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Date of filing: 17.05.1989 |
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Designated Contracting States: |
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DE GB |
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Priority: |
27.05.1988 JP 130745/88
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Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD. |
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Kurashiki-City
Okayama Prefecture 710 (JP) |
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Inventors: |
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- Tanaka, Kazuhiko
Okayama Prefecture (JP)
- Matsuo, Yoshiteru
Okayama Prefecture (JP)
- Nakamura, Eiichirou
Osaka Prefecture (JP)
- Asano, Shoji
Okayama Prefecture (JP)
- Kawamoto, Masao
Okayama Prefecture (JP)
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Representative: Strehl Schübel-Hopf Groening & Partner |
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Maximilianstrasse 54 80538 München 80538 München (DE) |
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Conductive composite filament and process for producing the same |
(57) Provided by the invention is a highly oriented, undrawn, conductive, composite filament
which is white or colorless and has antistatic properties durable over a long period
when wears utilizing the fiber are actually put on and washed. The filament is a sheath-core
composite filament comprising a sheath of a fiber-forming thermoplastic polymer (A)
and a core of a composition (B) comprising a conductive material which comprises a
conductive metal oxide(s) and a thermoplastic polyamide, having a core resistance
of not more than 9 x 10¹⁰Ω/cm·filament, and maintaining a critical elongation ---
an elongation reached in the course of extending a composite filament at which the
core resistance exceeds 1 x 10¹¹Ω/cm·filament at a D.C. voltage of 1 kV --- of at
least 5% and a shrinkage in hot water at 100°C of not higher than 20%. Such fiber
can be obtained by conducting high orientation melt spinning at at least 2,500 m/min
while selecting a polyamide as the core component to contain the white or colorless
conductive material and having the composition previously dried to a moisture content
of 100 to 1,200 ppm.
