摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for producing a highly functional carbon fiber and characterized by the following: a carbon fiber can be continuously made to be highly functional by doping a functionalizing treatment agent while being heated at a temperature higher than 2,000°C; the apparatus is hardly damaged; and energy loss is small. SOLUTION: The apparatus comprises a hollow resonance vessel 10 having a resonance space 9 in which a microwave can resonate and consisting of a material slightly absorbing a microwave 2, a microwave supplying device 12 for supplying a microwave with a specified frequency into the hollow resonance vessel to form a resonance state of a microwave 1 in the resonance space 9, a continuous hollow pipe 20 continuously stretched from the outside of the hollow resonance vessel through the resonance space 9 to its outside, a carbon fiber supplying device 22 continuously supplying a carbon fiber 1 from the one end of the continuous hollow pipe to its other end, and a gas circulation device 24 for circulating a high functionalizing treatment gas containing a high functionalizing treatment matter. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |