Patent ID: 11904502
Assignee: TEIJIN AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  D | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. A process for debundling fiber tow into chopped fibers as a mass on a moving belt for delivery to a treatment chamber comprising:
supplying one or more reels of fiber tow to a cutting system to form chopped fiber;
dropping the chopper fiber into a rotating tube with an introduced gas flow to debundle the chopped fiber with formation of a vortex;
collecting the chopped fiber exiting the rotating tube on to the moving belt with gravity;
chemically treating the chopped fiber with a siliane or a silisequioxane from a dispenser above the moving belt; and
providing the chemically treated chopped fiber to the treatment chamber.