A system is provided for producing components of composite material, and especially elongate or continuous components of fiber-reinforced polymer. The system comprises a winding mechanism for winding an elongate sheet of composite material about a winding axis that is at an angle to a perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the elongate sheet so as to form a helical coil of wound sheet a mechanism is provided for drawing or conveying the helical coil of wound sheet along a process path, wherein the process path is preferably substantially parallel to the winding axis. A shaping mechanism forms or shapes the coil of wound sheet as it is drawn or conveyed along the process path. A corresponding method of producing a composite component is provided.

A manufacturing method for manufacturing a tank includes: a step of forming a structural body constituted by a liner and a fiber reinforced resin layer placed on the outer periphery of the liner, the structural body including a cylindrical portion and dome portions provided in opposite ends of the cylindrical portion in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion; a step of winding a heat insulating sheet around the fiber reinforced resin layer after the step of forming the structural body, the heat insulating sheet having notches in dome forming portions provided to correspond to the dome portions; and a step of covering the dome portions with the dome forming portions.

A thin ribbon spirally wound polymer conduit and method of forming, wherein a helical reinforcing bead is interposed adjacent overlapping layers of ribbon. Further, a method of continuously forming spirally wound conduit wherein a sacrificial layer, preferably having a different base polymer to that of the conduit, is first applied to the former before the conduit is formed overtop.

A fiber-reinforced member includes: a base member having a tubular region with an outer circumferential surface extending along and substantially in parallel with an axial direction; and a fiber-reinforced resin layer constituted of a tow prepreg wound in an overlapping manner to cover the outer circumferential surface of the base member along a predetermined direction crossing the axial direction when viewed in a radial direction of the base member, the tow prepreg serving as a widened tape-like member. The tape-like member constituting the fiber-reinforced resin layer has a portion having a fiber line extending along a direction crossing the predetermined direction. A size of a width of the tape-like member constituting the fiber-reinforced resin layer is not less than 100 times and not more than 400 times as large as a size of a thickness of the tape-like member constituting the fiber-reinforced resin layer in the radial direction.

A composite material comprises of at least first and second layers, each comprising a polymeric matrix material and wound tows for reinforcement. The tows are wound in opposite directions in each of the first and second layers such that overlapping tows form crossover regions. The wound tows in the second layer are arranged such that the crossover regions are formed to be laterally offset from the crossover regions in the first layer.

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.

There is provided a high-pressure tank manufacturing method that ensures a shorten heating period compared with a conventional one and eliminates a need for taking out a material for heating after heating. A high-pressure tank manufacturing method includes: disposing a conductive heating material on an outer periphery of a resin liner; winding a conductive fiber with which thermosetting resin is impregnated around the outer periphery of the resin liner on which the heating material is disposed; and heating the heating material and the fiber on the outer periphery of the resin liner by induction heating to harden the thermosetting resin.

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 creating a winding data filament winding apparatus includes inputting an initial setting value including a length in a first direction of a core material in a first direction; setting a plurality of points to divide the length of the core material in the first direction; a winding angle setting step of setting a target winding angle that is an angle defined by an axial direction of the core material, and the fiber bundle wound around the core material between two of the plurality of points adjacent to each other in the first direction; and a winding rotational speed calculation step of calculating at least based on an initial setting value to be inputted and the target winding angle to be set, a target winding rotational speed of the winding drive motor between the two points adjacent to each other, respectively.

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.