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(11) EP 0 343 496 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
31.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/44

(43) Date of publication A2:
29.11.1989 Bulletin 1989/48

(21) Application number: 89108861.9

(22) Date of filing: 17.05.1989
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4D01F 8/12, D01F 1/09
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE GB

(30) Priority: 27.05.1988 JP 130745/88

(71) Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
Kurashiki-City Okayama Prefecture 710 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • 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)

(74) Representative: Strehl Schübel-Hopf Groening & Partner 
Maximilianstrasse 54
80538 München
80538 München (DE)


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    (54) 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.





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