Carbon Vol. 26, No. 6. pp. I-IV, Printed in Great Britain.
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coated fibers, so produced are readily wettable without degradation when immersed in a molten bath of metal matrix material containing an active alloying element.
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CARBON FIBER Hajime Asai, Fujio signed to Mitsubishi
Nakao, Rayon
Ohtake, Co Ltd
Japan
as-
4737540 for detecting the surface characteristic of a carbon fiber, which comprises making the carbon fiber travel through an electrolyte solution, applying an electric potential in said sohttion between the carbon fiber serving as a working electrode and a counter electrode provided in the solution, said potential being varied continuously within a range of potential not higher than the standard electrode potential, and detecting continuously the resulting charnge of intensity of electric current, and a process for producing a carbon fiber giving a high interfacial bond strength between the fiber and matrix resin, which comprises making the carbon fiber have a constant surface characteristic by apphcation of the above-mentioned detection method. A method
CARBON FIBER REINFORCED POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION Tomohiko Yoshida, Naoyuki Suzuki, Kamakura, Japan assigned to Mitsubishi Rayon Co Ltd Disclosed is a carbon fiber reinforced polyester resin composition comprising (A) 30 to 98.985% by weight of a thermoplastic polyester resin, (B) I to 60% by weight of a carbon fiber, (C) 0.01 to 50/oby weight of at least one compound selected from the following compounds (I), (II) and (III): (I) at least one sulphur compound represented by the following formula (X): See Parenrfor Chemical Sfructure (X) wherein Rl and R2 stand for CmHZm+ 1 radical. and m stands for a recurring number of 1 to 30. (II) at least one salt of an organic carboxylic acid with a metal of the group la or IIa of the Periodic Table, (III) a phosphorus compound, and (D) 0.005 to So,; by weight of at least one polycarbonate resin represented by the following formula (IV), See Pntettt ,for Chemical Swucture (IV) wherein R3 through RIO stand for independently a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, R 11 and R I2 stand for independently an alkyl radical. and n stands for an average recurring number of not less than 3. This carbon fiber reinforced polyester resin composition can be adapted to be molded into formed products with minimized sink mark and thus superior appearance.
4737382 CARBIDE COATINGS FOR FABRICATION OF CARBONFIBER-REINFORCED METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES Howard
A Katzman
assigned
to The Aerospace
Corporation A carbon fiber reinforced metal matrix composite is produced by carbide coating the surface of the fibers by passing the fibers through an organometalhc solution followed by pyrolysis of the
organometallic
compounds.
The
carbide I