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US 10,815,587 B2Granted
Sheet of microfiber assembly
AssigneeKoken Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasuhiko Fukasawa, Kazushi Kimura
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Abstract
The present invention aims to provide a sheet of microfiber assembly having a high filtering performance suitable as an oil-mist filter. A sheet of microfiber assembly 2 comprises microfibers 1 each having a fiber diameter of 3,000 nm or less and is formed of a mixture of water-insoluble but alcohol-soluble acetalized polyvinyl alcohol resin and water-insoluble but alcohol-soluble fluorine resin.
Claims4
An air-permeable sheet of microfiber assembly comprising:
- microfibers, said microfibers being a mixture of water-insoluble but ethanol-soluble acetalized polyvinyl alcohol resin and water-insoluble but ethanol-soluble fluorine resin,
- wherein
- the microfibers comprise a matrix of the polyvinyl alcohol resin and the fluorine resin is blended into the matrix,
- said air-permeable sheet of microfiber assembly is an air-permeable filter having a filtering property for oil mist,
- each microfiber is obtained by electro-spinning an alcohol solution of said acetalized polyvinyl alcohol resin and said fluorine resin, wherein each microfiber has a fiber diameter in a range of 30 nm to 800 nm,
- said air-permeable sheet of microfiber assembly is laminated on an air-permeable nonwoven fabric having air permeability higher than that of said air-permeable sheet of microfiber assembly,
- said air-permeable nonwoven fabric contains thermoplastic synthetic fibers and has a basis weight of 20 to 50 g/m2, and
- individual fibers or a fiber bundle of the thermoplastic synthetic fibers has a flat radial cross-sectional shape to define a smooth surface of the air-permeable nonwoven fabric, the individual fibers being aligned in one direction.
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