Proposed is a CFRP surface coating method and a hydraulic cylinder including a component coated by the method. The CFRP surface coating method can prevent damage to a CFRP surface due to thermal spray coating and increase the bonding strength between a CFRP surface and a metal coating layer formed by the thermal spray coating. To this end, the method includes: forming a mesh layer on a CFRP surface; fixing the mesh layer on the CFRP surface by impregnating a heat-resistant resin therein; and forming a metal coating layer by thermal spray coating on the fixed mesh layer in which the heat-resistant resin is impregnated.

Disclosed herein are abrasion resistant flexible hoses and methods for manufacturing such hose. The abrasion resistant elastomeric hose comprises an inner surface and an outer surface, and a abrasion resistant material embedded in the hose at a depth that imparts a three-dimensional pattern at the outer surface of the hose.

A method of producing a wind turbine rotor blade. The wind turbine rotor blade has at least an inner blade portion and an outer blade portion, as well as a connecting element. The inner blade portion is wound on a winding form having a first and a second winding portion. The first and second winding portions are releasably fixed to each other by way of a screw connection. The second winding portion is of a conical configuration so that after winding of the inner blade portion a sleeve is produced at an end of the inner blade portion.

The present invention relates to a drives haft comprising an elongated monolithic composite tube (20) with a front joint (10) having a tube yoke (12) and a rear joint (40) at a distance from the front joint (10) both are provided at corresponding opposite ends thereof characterized in that an inner layer (24) is comprising carbon or glass fibers which are coaxially wound on top of each other and an outer layer (22) wound directly on the inner layer (24) and the ratio (h1/h2) between the thickness of carbon fiber winding (hi) and glass fiber winding (h2) is bigger than 0.1.

The present invention relates to a drives haft comprising an elongated monolithic composite tube (20) with a front joint (10) having a tube yoke (12) and a rear joint (40) at a distance from the front joint (10) both are provided at corresponding opposite ends thereof characterized in that an inner layer (24) is comprising carbon or glass fibers which are coaxially wound on top of each other and an outer layer (22) wound directly on the inner layer (24) and the ratio (h1/h2) between the thickness of carbon fiber winding (hi) and glass fiber winding (h2) is bigger than 0.1.

A tubular membrane comprises a support tube made out of one or more flexible tapes of porous support material which have been helically wound into a tube shape with overlapping tape edges which have been sealed to each other, and a semi-permeable membrane layer made of membrane forming material on an inner wall of the support tube. At least one inwardly projecting helical ridge is provided on said inner wall of the support tube, which helical ridge is covered with or forms part of the membrane layer.

The present invention relates to a tube comprising polytetrafluoroethylene, and an object of the present invention is to provide a tube having an appropriate tensile strength and flexibility and being excellent internal insertion property. The object can he achieved by a tube comprising polytetralluoroethylene according to the present invention, in which, in a case where a surface shape of an inner surface of the tube is measured, when a direction of the measurement is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the tube and the measurement is performed in a forward direction and a reverse direction, a variation rate between a size of a periodic step measured in the forward direction and a size of the periodic step measured in the reverse direction is 5% or more.

The present invention relates to a tube comprising polytetrafluoroethylene, and an object of the present invention is to provide a tube having an appropriate tensile strength and flexibility and being excellent internal insertion property. The object can he achieved by a tube comprising polytetralluoroethylene according to the present invention, in which, in a case where a surface shape of an inner surface of the tube is measured, when a direction of the measurement is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the tube and the measurement is performed in a forward direction and a reverse direction, a variation rate between a size of a periodic step measured in the forward direction and a size of the periodic step measured in the reverse direction is 5% or more.

A limb for a breathing circuit manufactured from very thin walled polymer materials has an elongate axial reinforcing spine lying freely inside the conduit and fixed to each end connector. The spine is laterally compliant but axially stiff. The spine provides resistance to tensile and compressive loads on the conduit, including that induced by prevailing internal pressures.

A method of making a composite pipe has the steps of (a) providing one or more sources of composite tape, the composite tape being formed of reinforcing fibres embedded in a thermoplastic matrix; (b) helically winding the composite tape(s) around a cylinder under the application of heat to form a pipe comprising fused, concentric layers of adjacently positioned, helically-wound composite tape; (c) scanning a region where edges of wound composite tape are expected to be, to generate scanning information; (d) controlling the gap between further adjacent windings by (1) using the scanning information to determine wound composite tape edge position(s), and (2) using the determined wound composite tape edge position(s) to adjust the winding process during winding; (e) repeating steps (c) and (d). The invention also relates to a corresponding apparatus for making a composite pipe.