Resin member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020108535-A1
Application number	US-201816617585-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 14, 2018
Priority date	Jun 2, 2017
Publication date	Apr 9, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

A resin member including an annular portion that defines a through hole with a circular cross section, and made of a resin containing reinforcing fibers, where the resin member has at least one gate trace; a weld portion is formed in the annular portion; and in a case where a polished surface along a perpendicular-to-axial direction perpendicular to a central axis of the through hole is formed in the annular portion, a sum of valley widths at half-value Txxh in a fiber orientation tensor waveform is 1.20 mm or more.

First claim

1 . A resin member comprising an annular portion that defines a through hole with a circular cross section, and made of a resin containing reinforcing fibers, wherein
the resin member has at least one gate trace, a weld portion is formed in the annular portion, and for the annular portion, in a case where a polished surface along a perpendicular-to-axial direction perpendicular to a central axis of the through hole is formed in the annular portion, a region extending from an angular position around the central axis of a gate trace adjacent to the weld portion on one side in a circumferential direction to an angular position of a gate trace adjacent to the weld portion on the other side in the circumferential direction across the weld portion is called a between-gate region, a radial direction at a between-gate position, which is a central angular position of the between-gate region, is defined as a Y-axis direction, a direction parallel to the polished surface and perpendicular to the Y-axis direction is defined as an X-axis direction, for each reinforcing fiber whose cross section appears on the polished surface, when an azimuth angle θ of the reinforcing fiber is defined by an inclination angle of a major axis of an elliptical shape formed by the cross section of the reinforcing fiber with respect to the X-axis direction, and the major axis and minor axis of the elliptical shape are represented by a and b respectively, an elevation angle φ of the reinforcing fiber is defined by the following Equation (1):
φ=Arcsin( b/a )  Equation (1),

a virtual arc around the central axis with a length of 3.5 mm is called an intermediate arc, where the virtual arc passes through a radial center point between an inner circumferential end and an outer circumferential end of the polished surface of the annular portion at the between-gate position and a center of the virtual arc is the between-gate position, seven circumferential regions respectively corresponding to seven virtual arc portions formed by dividing the intermediate arc every 0.5 mm in length are called unit regions respectively, for each unit region, when the number of reinforcing fibers whose cross section appears on the polished surface in the unit region is FN, and when an angular position of the between-gate position is defined as 0□ and an angular position of an angular center of the unit region is represented by Θ, a fiber orientation tensor Txx in the unit region is defined by the following Equation (2):
Txx =Σ{(cos 2 (θ−Θ)cos 2 φ)}/ FN   Equation (2),

a circumferential position (mm) on the intermediate arc of the unit region is taken as a horizontal axis, the fiber orientation tensor Txx is taken as a vertical axis, and a waveform obtained by linearly interpolating calculated values of the fiber orientation tensor Txx of each unit region is defined as a fiber orientation tensor waveform, when a minimum value of the fiber orientation tensor waveform is represented by Txxmin, a half-value Txxh of the fiber orientation tensor waveform is defined by the following Equation (3):
Txxh =(0.333+ Txx min)/2  Equation (3), and

a sum of valley widths at the half-value Txxh in the fiber orientation tensor waveform is 1.20 mm or more.

2 . The resin member according to claim 1 , wherein the fiber orientation tensor waveform has only one downward peak.

3 . The resin member according to claim 1 , wherein
the fiber orientation tensor waveform has at least two downward peaks, and in the fiber orientation tensor waveform, a waveform width between a pair of downward peaks closest to the between-gate position among the at least two downward peaks is 3 mm or less.

4 . The resin member according to claim 1 , wherein the annular portion has a female screw in an inner circumferential surface thereof or has a male screw in an outer circumferential surface thereof, or the annular portion has a female screw in an inner circumferential surface thereof and has a male screw in an outer circumferential surface thereof.

5 . The resin member according to claim 4 , wherein the annular portion has a female screw in the inner circumferential surface thereof.

6 . The resin member according to claim 1 , wherein
the resin member is a cylindrical member for a resin joint, and the annular portion constitutes the entire resin member.

7 . The resin member according to claim 2 , wherein the annular portion has a female screw in an inner circumferential surface thereof or has a male screw in an outer circumferential surface thereof, or the annular portion has a female screw in an inner circumferential surface thereof and has a male screw in an outer circumferential surface thereof.

8 . The resin member according to claim 3 , wherein the annular portion has a female screw in an inner circumferential surface thereof or has a male screw in an outer circumferential surface thereof, or the annular portion has a female screw in an inner circumferential surface thereof and has a male screw in an outer circumferential surface thereof.

9 . The resin member according to claim 2 , wherein
the resin member is a cylindrical member for a resin joint, and the annular portion constitutes the entire resin member.

10 . The resin member according to claim 3 , wherein
the resin member is a cylindrical member for a resin joint, and the annular portion constitutes the entire resin member.

11 . The resin member according to claim 4 , wherein
the resin member is a cylindrical member for a resin joint, and the annular portion constitutes the entire resin member.

12 . The resin member according to claim 5 , wherein
the resin member is a cylindrical member for a resin joint, and the annular portion constitutes the entire resin member.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Tanaka Kanji
• Kaga Norihiko
• Nishimuro Yoichi

Classifications

• B29K2309/08

  Glass · CPC title

• B29C45/2616 Primary

  having annular mould cavities · CPC title

• B29C45/0005

  using fibre reinforcements · CPC title

• B29C45/2708 Primary

  Gates (B29C45/2703 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29C2045/0027

  Gate or gate mark locations · CPC title