A metal-carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite comprising a metal member of a ferrous material or ferrous alloy, a resin layer provided on at least one surface of the metal member and including a thermosetting resin, and carbon fiber reinforced plastic provided on a surface of the resin layer and including a carbon fiber material and a matrix resin having thermoplasticity, an indentation elastic modulus at 160 to 180° C. of the resin layer being higher than an indentation elastic modulus at 160 to 180° C. of the matrix resin.

The present invention provides a method. for making a sole structure with a knitted fabric and a sole structure. The method comprises steps of: placing a thermoplastic filling material in a knitted fabric, sealing an opening of the knitted fabric, placing the knitted fabric with the opening sealed in a mold, applying a heating temperature to melt the thermoplastic filling material of the knitted fabric, and restricting a shape of the knitted fabric via the mold to make a sole structure. The sole structure includes a compressible elastomer and a knitting texture wrapped around the compressible elastomer and fused with a surface of the compressible elastomer. The compressible elastomer is formed from the thermoplastic filling material after being melted and cooled. The knitting texture is formed from the knitted fabric and is capable of being directly observed from an appearance of the sole structure,

A prepreg having a high processability and laminating performance in an automated lay-up device and serving to produce a cured product having good physical properties is described, and also a method for the production thereof, the prepreg comprising at least the components [A] to [E] listed blow and having a structure incorporating a first layer composed mainly of the component [A] and a first epoxy resin composition that contains the components [B] to [D] but is substantially free of the component [E] and a second layer composed mainly of a second epoxy resin composition that contains the components [B] to [E] and disposed adjacent to each surface of the first layer: [A] carbon fiber, [B] epoxy resin, [C] curing agent, [D] thermoplastic resin, and [E] particles containing a thermoplastic resin as primary component and having a volume-average particle diameter of 5 to 50 μm.

To provide a resin composition, wherein the resin composition is excellent in impregnation into a reinforcing fiber sheet as it contains a polyamide having a low viscosity number; wherein the resin composition can be molded into a film, a fiber, etc., even though it contains a polyamide having a low viscosity number; and wherein the resin composition can produce a fiber-reinforced molded product having excellent impact resistance; a molded product and a method for its production; and a fiber-reinforced molded product having excellent impact resistance and a method for its production. A resin composition comprising: a polyamide having a viscosity number of from 100 to 170 determined by a method specified in ISO 307: 2007; and a melt-processable fluororesin having at least one type of a functional group selected from the group consisting of a carbonyl group-containing group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group and an isocyanate group, and having a melting point of from 100 to 325° C.

A prepreg sheet includes a plurality of prepreg tapes each of which overlaps with a corresponding adjacent prepreg tape for a suitable overlapping length. The plurality of prepreg tapes each contain a reinforcing fiber bundle that is impregnated with a thermosetting resin composition. According to a method for manufacturing a preform, for example, a primary premolded article is manufactured by preforming an intermediate base material containing a reinforcing fiber base material and a matrix resin composition, and a secondary premolded article is manufactured by preforming the primary premolded article on which the intermediate base material is further placed.

The invention relates to a method for producing a fiber-reinforced, polymeric continuous profiled element (1), wherein the continuous profiled element (1), having preferably at least one hollow chamber (2, 2), comprises a core profile (10) which can be produced by means of a pultrusion process, and wherein during the pultrusion process at least one continuous strand having reinforcement fibers (5) is integrated into the polymer matrix (4) of the core profile (10). According to the invention, the curing of the core profile (10) is carried out by means of a dual-cure method.

An epoxy resin composition is provided that is resistant to decomposition at high temperatures and a fiber-reinforced resin molding is provided that hardly suffers significant damage while being welded to another member even in the case where it is combined with a thermoplastic resin layer having a high melting point that works as an adhesive layer, as well as a prepreg that serves as a precursor therefor, where the epoxy resin composition includes an epoxy resin (A) that has a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton or a biphenyl skeleton and that has an epoxy equivalent weight of 220 g/eq or more and 290 g/eq or less and a polyamine compound having an average active hydrogen equivalent weight of 55 g/eq or more and 100 g/eq or less wherein the average epoxy equivalent weight over all epoxy resins contained is 160 g/eq or more and 255 g/eq or less.

The present disclosure provides a light-weight flexible high-thermal-conductivity nano-carbon composite film and a method for preparing same. The nano-carbon composite film includes a plurality of composite units laminated sequentially. The, composite unit includes flexible adhesive layers and a graphene film layer, and the flexible adhesive layers are disposed on both sides of the graphene film layer. The preparation method includes sequentially laminating the composite units and hot pressing to obtain the nano-carbon composite film. The nano-carbon composite film has the characteristics of high thermal conductivity, light weight and flexibility, and has an in-plane thermal conductivity of up to 500 W/m.Math.K or higher, a density of 2.0 g/cm.sup.3 or less, and still a thermal conductivity of 500 W/m.Math.K or higher after the nano-carbon composite film is repeatedly bent by 180 for 50 times while there is no peeling of graphene from the surface.

A method of forming a coating layer on a fibrous mat to make a coated article includes depositing a coating composition on a carrier material and at least partially embedding a first major surface of a fibrous mat in the coating composition, the fibrous mat including a plurality of mat fibers. The coating composition is at least partially hardened to form a coating layer at the first major surface of the fibrous mat. A second major surface of the fibrous mat opposite the first major surface includes an uncoated portion of the plurality of mat fibers.

The present invention provides a prepreg that has high impact resistance despite being an all-carbon-fiber FRP (CFRP), the prepreg moreover enabling a molding time to be set to five minutes or less and making it possible to reduce molding costs. This prepreg is obtained by impregnating carbon fiber with a matrix resin comprising a mixture of a thermoplastic resin, a thermosetting resin, and a curing agent, wherein: the thermoplastic resin is a phenoxy resin; the thermosetting resin is a urethane acrylate resin; the thermoplastic resin and the thermosetting resin are compounded in a mass ratio of 15:85-35:65 (thermoplastic resin/thermosetting resin); and the curing agent causes cross-linking to occur due to a radical polymerization reaction, and is formed so as to include first and second peroxides having mutually different initiation temperatures, initiation of the second peroxide starting at a temperature at which termination of the first peroxide occurs.