US Patent Issued to KURARAY on May 6 for "Method of producing melt-anisotropic aromatic polyester multifilament" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,800, issued on May 6, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Method of producing melt-anisotropic aromatic polyester multifilament" was invented by Yuji Ogino (Saijo, Japan), Takuji Nakamura (Osaka, Japan) and Kota Togii (Saijo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a melt-anisotropic aromatic polyester multifilament having excellent abrasion resistance. The melt-anisotropic aromatic polyester multifilament has a single fiber fineness from 10 to 80 dtex and comprises 3 to 10 wt % of a dimethylsilicone-series finishing agent applied on a fiber surface of the multifilament, based on the multifilament, the fini...