METHODS, PROCESSES, AND APPARATUSES FOR PRODUCING WELDED SUBSTRATES

• Main Authors: TANG XILING, MOLTER MICHAEL, HAVERHALS LUKE MICHAEL, CHOI JONGLAK, NULL SPENCER JACOB, AMSTUTZ AARON KENNETH
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 21.12.2018
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBONFILAMENTS; CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS,THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; LAUNDERING; NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING; TEXTILES; TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS BY LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS,FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS

A welding process may be configured to convert a substrate into a welded substrate by applying a process solvent to the substrate, wherein the process solvent interrupts one or more intermolecular force between one or more component in the substrate. The substrate may be configured as a natural fiber, such as cellulose, hemicelluloses, and silk. The process solvent may be configured as an ionic-liquid based solvent and the welded substrate may be a congealed network after the process solvent has been adequately swollen and/or mobilized the substrate. A welding process may be configured such that individual fibers of a substrate are not fully dissolved such that material in the fiber core may be left in the native state by controlling process variables. The welding process fibers may have atenacity 10% or 20% greater or a diameter 25% less than that of a cellulosic-based yam substrate. 种焊接工艺可以被配置成通过将工艺溶剂施加到基质而将该基质转换成焊接基质，其中工艺溶剂中断基质中的个或多个组分之间的个或多个分子间力。基质可以被配置为天然纤维，例如纤维素、半纤维素和丝。工艺溶剂可以被配置为离子液体基溶剂，并且在工艺溶剂已经充分溶胀和/或