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US 10,378,125 B2Granted
Method and device for processing carbon fiber strands
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsEberhard Kohl, Franz Maidl, Hanno Pfitzer, Falco Hollmann
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Abstract
A method and a device are disclosed for heating carbon fiber strands. The method heats a carbon fiber strand by supplying an electric current to the carbon fiber strand. The device is designed to carry out the method.
Claims10
A method of heating a carbon fiber strand, the method comprising the acts of:
- continuously conveying the carbon fiber strand;
- spreading open the carbon fiber strand until the fiber strand is unraveled;
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- heating the continuously conveyed carbon fiber strand by feeding electric current into the carbon fiber strand.
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A device used to process a carbon fiber strand, comprising:
- a heating device configured to feed electric current into a continuously conveyed carbon fiber strand in order to heat the carbon fiber strand, and wherein the carbon fiber strand is spread open and unraveled before feeding the electrical current into the carbon fiber strand.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.