A power transmission belt includes a belt body made of an elastomer, and a cord made of carbon fibers and provided to be embedded in the belt body and to form a helical pattern having a pitch in the belt width direction. When the cord is viewed from a side orthogonal to its length direction, an angle θ of an outermost filament in the filament bundle of the carbon fibers forming the cord with respect to the length direction of the cord is 8° or more to 20° or less.

A power transmission belt includes a belt body made of an elastomer, and a cord made of carbon fibers and provided to be embedded in the belt body and to form a helical pattern having a pitch in the belt width direction. When the cord is viewed from a side orthogonal to its length direction, an angle θ of an outermost filament in the filament bundle of the carbon fibers forming the cord with respect to the length direction of the cord is 8° or more to 20° or less.

The invention relates to a drive belt (1) having a main body into which one or more tension strands (3) composed of para-aramid in cord construction are embedded, wherein each tension strand (3) has twisted plies each formed from at least one twisted yarn, and wherein the turning direction of the respective ply (first twist) is the opposite of the turning direction of the cord (final twist).

It is a feature of the invention that the tension strands (3) each have at least four plies, wherein the twist factor TM.sub.1 of the plies (first twist) is between 4.5 and 5.4, and the twist factor TM.sub.2 of the cord (final twist) is between 2.7 and 3.8, and the ratio of the twist factor of the plies to the twist factor of the cord (TM.sub.1/TM.sub.2) is between 1.3 and 1.5.

A production method of a carbon nanotube yarn includes the steps of: (1) obtaining a web 40 including a large number of carbon nanotubes 36; (2) bringing a slider 24a into contact with the carbon nanotubes 36; and (3) moving the slider 24a in a direction to bundle the carbon nanotubes 36, the direction being inclined with respect to a direction in which the web 40 extends.

A production method of a carbon nanotube yarn includes the steps of: (1) obtaining a web 40 including a large number of carbon nanotubes 36; (2) bringing a slider 24a into contact with the carbon nanotubes 36; and (3) moving the slider 24a in a direction to bundle the carbon nanotubes 36, the direction being inclined with respect to a direction in which the web 40 extends.

A resin structure that includes a plurality of piezoelectric fibers that generate a charge by application of external energy; and an insulating resin coating at least one of the plurality of piezoelectric fibers.

A resin structure that includes a plurality of piezoelectric fibers that generate a charge by application of external energy; and an insulating resin coating at least one of the plurality of piezoelectric fibers.

A yarn making method includes a raw-material yarn; first rollers pulling the raw-material yarn; an entangling point generator subjecting the yarn to jet-forming of entangling points; a cleansing chamber cleansing the yarn that has generated the entangling points; a material chamber provided with a graphene-containing attachment material to be attached to the yarn that has generated the entangling points and has been cleansed; second rollers pulling the yarn that has past the entangling point generator, the cleansing chamber, and the material chamber; a heating chamber having the attachment material secured to the yarn by means of heat-setting; third rollers controlling a heating time of the yarn in the heating chamber; and fourth rollers winding and shaping the processing-completed yarn so as to have the graphene-containing attachment material long preserved in clothing.

A yarn making method includes a raw-material yarn; first rollers pulling the raw-material yarn; an entangling point generator subjecting the yarn to jet-forming of entangling points; a cleansing chamber cleansing the yarn that has generated the entangling points; a material chamber provided with a graphene-containing attachment material to be attached to the yarn that has generated the entangling points and has been cleansed; second rollers pulling the yarn that has past the entangling point generator, the cleansing chamber, and the material chamber; a heating chamber having the attachment material secured to the yarn by means of heat-setting; third rollers controlling a heating time of the yarn in the heating chamber; and fourth rollers winding and shaping the processing-completed yarn so as to have the graphene-containing attachment material long preserved in clothing.

Provided is a tire in which low rolling resistance is improved by using reinforcing cords containing polyamide multifilaments as reinforcing cords of a reinforcing member of the tire. In a tire (10) that includes at least one belt reinforcing layer (3) covering the full width of a belt (2), the belt reinforcing layer (3) includes, as a constituent, a rubber-cord composite that is formed of a rubber and reinforcing cords containing multifilaments of a semi-aromatic polyamide composed of a polycondensate of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid-containing dicarboxylic acid and a non-aromatic diamine, or a polycondensate of a non-aromatic dicarboxylic acid and an aromatic diamine-containing diamine acid; and, when the width of a maximum-width belt layer constituting the belt (2) is defined as W, a region of at least more than 0.35 W from a tire equatorial plane is a sparse region in terms of the end count of the reinforcing cords in the belt reinforcing layer (3), while regions on the tire width-direction outer side of the sparse region are dense regions.