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Title: Carbon fiber reinforcements for sheet molding composites

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1409021

A method of processing a carbon fiber tow includes the steps of providing a carbon fiber tow made of a plurality of carbon filaments, depositing a sizing composition at spaced-apart sizing sites along a length of the tow, leaving unsized interstitial regions of the tow, and cross-cutting the tow into a plurality of segments. Each segment includes at least a portion of one of the sizing sites and at least a portion of at least one of the unsized regions of the tow, the unsized region including and end portion of the segment.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
Patent Number(s):
9,815,224
Application Number:
14/672,703
OSTI ID:
1409021
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2015 Mar 30
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (5)

Method for producing chopped fiber strands patent June 1996
Flexible low bulk pre-impregnated tow patent May 1998
Method and apparatus for preparing resin-impregnated structures reinforced by continuous fibers patent September 1999
Fiber Tow Treatment Apparatus And System patent-application August 2012
Chopped Carbon Fiber patent-application November 2013