Fumihiko Nobayashi

US Patent:

20050199760, Sep 15, 2005

Filed:

Mar 10, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/796064

Inventors:

Gordon Shearer - Sacramento CA, US
Fumihiko Nobayashi - Sacramento CA, US
Osamu Tsutsumi - Hiroshima, JP
Atsushi Kawamura - Hiroshima, JP

Assignee:

Mitsubishi Rayon co., Ltd. - Tokyo

International Classification:

B65H059/38
B65H054/28

US Classification:

242413300, 242476700

Abstract:

Disclosed are guide apparatus for guiding an advancing continuous fiber bundle, a winding machine having the guide apparatus installed therein, a method for making a bobbin of a continuous fiber bundle, particularly that of carbon fibers, and a carbon fiber bobbin made by using the winding machine; and the guide apparatus comprises: a pair of a first and a second guides disposed on the passage of the fiber bundle, axis lines of which guides are in a relation twisted away from each other in a space, and a parallel guide disposed at the downstream side of the pair of the guides, axis line of which parallel guide is parallel to that of the bobbin, the first guide being a flat or a conical guide, and the second guide being a conical guide.