Thermoplastic composite
AssigneeBaker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
InventorsMajeed Al-Zubaidy, Neville Dodds, Vineet Jha, James Latto, David Finch
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method of making a flexible pipe layer, which method comprises: commingling polymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments to form an intimate mixture, forming yarns of the commingled filaments, forming the yarns into a tape, and applying the tape to a pipe body to form a flexible pipe layer.
Claims20
A thermoplastic composite comprising fluoropolymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments, wherein the fluoropolymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments are commingled to form an intimate mixture, and wherein the fluoropolymer has a melt flow index (230° C./2.16 kg) in the range of 50 to 80 g/10 min, wherein the carbon fibre filaments have a tow size of 3000 to 12000.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.