Patent ID: 8845941
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: B29C,B29K,B82Y,C01B,D01F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for producing a continuous nanotube film, the apparatus comprising: a nanotube-grower unit that grows a first nanotube forest on a first substrate and a second nanotube forest on a second substrate; a puller mechanism configured to simultaneously pull a first length of a first nanotube film and a first length of a second nanotube film from the first substrate; and a splicer mechanism, wherein the apparatus pulls the first length of the first nanotube film and the first length of the second nanotube film from the first nanotube forest on the first substrate, the splicer mechanism splices the first nanotube film and the second nanotube film to nanotubes of the second substrate, and continues to pull the first nanotube film and the second nanotube film such that, spliced to and continuous with the first nanotube film, a continued first film of nanotubes is pulled from the second substrate and spliced to and continuous with the second nanotube film, a continued second film of nanotubes is pulled from the second substrate.