Method for providing semi-worked product and mandrel covered with long body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11072107-B2
Application number	US-202016924832-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 9, 2020
Priority date	Apr 5, 2019
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing a semi-worked product and a mandrel covered with a long body which is the semi-worked product, in which the semi-worked product is a long body which is formed without a gap by spirally winding at least one sheet of film, at least one sheet of film of the at least one sheet of film is made of at least polytetrafluoroethylene, the long body has a thickness of 5 μm or more and 75 μm or less, and the long body is provided in a state of being in contact with a mandrel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for providing a semi-worked product, wherein
the semi-worked product is a long body which is formed without a gap by spirally winding at least one sheet of film,
at least one sheet of film of the at least one sheet of film is made of at least polytetrafluoroethylene,
the long body has an average thickness of 5 μm or more and 75 μm or less,
the long body is provided in a state that the at least one sheet of spirally wound film in the long body is in contact with a mandrel, and
in a stress-strain curve of the long body where a measured value obtained by a tensile test according to JIS K7127-1999 is used, and a strain% is taken as a horizontal axis and a stress N/mm 2 is taken as a vertical axis, when the stress-strain curve is regarded as a single peak, a full width at half maximum of the peak is in a range of 10% or more and 150% or less.

2. The method for providing a semi-worked product according to claim 1 , wherein a 20% strain tensile strength of the long body obtained by the tensile test according to JIS K7127-1999 is 100 N/mm 2 or more.

3. The method for providing a semi-worked product according to claim 1 , wherein in the long body, one or more sheets of the films are spirally wound in a right-handed manner, and one or more sheets of the films are spirally wound in a left-handed manner.

4. The method for providing a semi-worked product according to claim 1 , wherein the film has a thickness of 2 μm or more and 25 μm or less.

5. The method for providing a semi-worked product according to claim 1 , wherein one or more sheets of the films are formed by laminating at least a polytetrafluoroethylene film and a thermoplastic fluororesin film.

6. The method for providing a semi-worked product according to claim 1 , wherein the mandrel has an outer diameter of 0.05 mm or more and 10 mm or less.

7. A method for providing a semi-worked product, wherein the semi-worked product is a cylindrical long body made of at least polytetrafluoroethylene,
the long body has an average thickness of 5 μm or more and 75 μm or less,
in a stress-strain curve of the long body where a measured value obtained by a tensile test according to JIS K7127-1999 is used, and a strain% is taken as a horizontal axis and a stress N/mm 2 is taken as a vertical axis,
when the stress-strain curve is regarded as a single peak, a full width at half maximum of the peak is in a range of 10% or more and 150% or less, and
the long body is provided in a state of being in contact with a mandrel.

8. A method for providing a semi-worked product, wherein
the semi-worked product is a cylindrical long body made of at least polytetrafluoroethylene,
the long body has an average thickness of 5 μm or more and 75 μm or less,
in a stress-strain curve of the long body where a measured value obtained by a tensile test according to JIS K7127-1999 is used, and a strain% is taken as a horizontal axis and a stress N/mm 2 is taken as a vertical axis,
when the stress-strain curve is regarded as a single peak, a full width at half maximum of the peak is in a range of 10% or more and 200% or less, and
the long body is provided in a state of being in contact with a mandrel.

Assignees

• Junkosha Inc

Inventors

• Tanabe Suguru

Classifications

• B29L2031/7542

  Catheters · CPC title

• B29K2027/18

  PTFE, i.e. polytetrafluoroethylene {, e.g. ePTFE, i.e. expanded polytetrafluoroethylene} · CPC title

• B29C53/60 Primary

  using internal forming surfaces, e.g. mandrels · CPC title

• B29L2023/005

  Hoses, i.e. flexible · CPC title

• B29C53/583 Primary

  for making tubular articles with particular features · CPC title