Presented are automated manufacturing systems for fabricating engineered textiles, footwear and apparel formed with such engineered textiles, methods for making such engineered textiles, and memory-stored, processor-executable instructions for operating such manufacturing systems. An automated manufacturing system constructs engineered textiles from workpieces composed of superposed, unwoven wires. The system includes a movable end effector bearing a stitching head and an image capture device. The stitching head has a thread feeder and sewing needle to generate stitches. The image capture device captures images of the workpiece and outputs data indicative thereof. A system controller receives this image capture device data and locates, from the captured image of the workpiece, gaps defined between quadrangles of the superposed wires. The controller commands the end effector to sequentially move the stitching head and thereby align the sewing needle with the gaps, and commands the stitching head to insert a succession of stitches within these gaps.

---A non-woven fabric and a preparation method therefore, a lithium battery diaphragm and a lithium battery diaphragm base membrane, relating to the field of materials. Raw materials of the non-woven fabric include main fibers and bonding fibers, wherein the bonding fibers include first bonding fibers and second bonding fibers; the melting point or softening point of the first bonding fibers is 120-220° C., and the melting point or softening point of the second bonding fibers is 100-170° C., the melting point or softening point of the second bonding fibers is at least 15° C. lower than that of the first bonding fibers; and the melting point or softening point of the main fibers is at least 20° C. higher than that of the first bonding fibers.---

A multiaxial fabric resin base material includes a multiaxial fabric base material laminate impregnated with a thermosetting resin (B), the multiaxial fabric base material laminate including fiber bundle sheets layered at different angles, the fiber bundle sheets including unidirectionally aligned fiber bundles stitched with stitching yarns composed of a thermoplastic resin (A), the multiaxial fabric base material laminate being penetrated in the thickness direction by other bodies of the stitching yarns, and being stitched with the other bodies of the stitching yarns such that the yarns reciprocate at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction, the thermoplastic resin (A) constituting the stitching yarns having a softening point, the softening point being higher than the resin impregnation temperature of the thermosetting resin (B).

A stitched multi-axial reinforcement and a method of producing a stitched multi-axial reinforcement. The stitched multi-axial reinforcement may be used in all such applications that reinforcements are generally needed and especially in such applications where either Vacuum Infusion technology or Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) technology for distributing the resin in the mold is used. The stitched multi-axial reinforcement is especially applicable in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, boats, sporting equipment, storage tanks, bus, trailer, train and truck panels, etc., and generally in all such structures that are subjected to stress in more than one direction

An object of the present invention is to provide a stitched fiber-reinforced substrate material capable of suppressing the formation of microcracks in a fiber reinforced composite material. The stitched fiber-reinforced substrate material of the present invention is a stitched fiber-reinforced substrate material formed by stitching reinforcement fiber sheets made of reinforcement fibers using stitching yarns that exhibit an in-plane shear strength transition rate of 5% or more. The stitching yarn is preferably adhered by an organic compound having a polar group.

Presented are automated manufacturing systems for fabricating engineered textiles, footwear and apparel formed with such engineered textiles, methods for making such engineered textiles, and memory-stored, processor-executable instructions for operating such manufacturing systems. An automated manufacturing system constructs engineered textiles from workpieces composed of superposed, unwoven wires. The system includes a movable end effector bearing a stitching head and an image capture device. The stitching head has a thread feeder and sewing needle to generate stitches. The image capture device captures images of the workpiece and outputs data indicative thereof. A system controller receives this image capture device data and locates, from the captured image of the workpiece, gaps defined between quadrangles of the superposed wires. The controller commands the end effector to sequentially move the stitching head and thereby align the sewing needle with the gaps, and commands the stitching head to insert a succession of stitches within these gaps.

An object of the present invention is to provide a stitched fiber-reinforced substrate material capable of suppressing the formation of microcracks in a fiber reinforced composite material. The stitched fiber-reinforced substrate material of the present invention is a fiber-reinforced substrate material formed by stitching reinforcement fiber sheets made of reinforcement fibers using stitching yarns, and the stitching yarn has a linear expansion coefficient in the fiber axial direction of −1×10.sup.−6 to 70×10.sup.−6/K after being heated at 180° C. for 2 hours and then cooled. The stitching yarn is preferably a stitching yarn to which an organic compound having a polar group is adhered.

The present invention relates to a non-woven fabric comprising one or more fibre layers each comprising a plurality of fibres arranged along a fibre direction, wherein the non-woven fabric comprises a plurality of stitching rows, each stitching row comprising one or more threads arranged along a stitch direction, for maintaining arrangement of the plurality of fibres in the one or more fibre layers relative to each other, wherein at least one thread comprises a binding agent. The present invention further relates to preforms comprising the non-woven fabric according to the present invention and methods for producing the non-woven fabric, preforms and wind turbine blades.

The present invention relates to a non-woven fabric comprising one or more fibre layers each comprising a plurality of fibres arranged along a fibre direction, wherein the non-woven fabric comprises a plurality of stitching rows, each stitching row comprising one or more threads arranged along a stitch direction, for maintaining arrangement of the plurality of fibres in the one or more fibre layers relative to each other, wherein at least one thread comprises a binding agent. The present invention further relates to preforms comprising the non-woven fabric according to the present invention and methods for producing the non-woven fabric, preforms and wind turbine blades.

The invention discloses a fiber filament non-woven fabric with a small pore size and a large porosity, which adopts an island type ultra-fine fiber single filament, which is juxtaposed into an unidirectional silk layer several times, and a thin strip-shaped liquid is applied laterally on the unidirectional silk layer. The resin adhesive liquid bonds and fixes all the silk layers into a unidirectional non-woven fabric fixed in a grid segment. The unidirectional non-woven fabric is covered with meltblown non-woven fabric on one or both sides to make a filter material that can 100% filter viruses, bacteria, and micro-particles smaller than PM2.5. It can also be used for a wider range of filter materials, thermal insulation materials, oil absorption materials, battery separator materials, medical and health materials, environmental protection materials, clothing materials, wiping materials.