Yarn arrangement device and method for yarn arrangement using the device, yarn arrangement tool, method of manufacturing yarn arranged body, and method of manufacturing living body-related substance immobilizing micro array

Abstract

A fiber array device for arraying fibers three-dimensionally, includes: a fiber winding device onto which a fiber is wound; and a fiber supply device that supplies the fiber to the fiber winding device, wherein the fiber supply device is provided with a movable guide that supplies fiber to the fiber winding device while undergoing relative displacement, and wherein the fiber winding device has a fiber winding bobbin that winds fiber onto its circumference as it rotates around a shaft, and fiber array flat plates a plurality of which are stacked respectively at a plurality of predetermined positions on the circumference of the fiber winding bobbin and on whose respective external surfaces the fibers are arrayed. In addition, there is provided a fiber array jig. It is thereby possible to array fibers three-dimensionally extremely efficiently at a high density and with a high degree of accuracy.

1 . A fiber array device for arraying fibers three-dimensionally, comprising: 
 a fiber winding device onto which a fiber is wound; and    a fiber supply device that supplies the fiber-to the fiber winding device, wherein    the fiber supply device is provided with a movable guide that supplies fiber to the fiber winding device while undergoing relative displacement, and wherein    the fiber winding device has a fiber winding bobbin that winds fiber onto its circumference as it rotates, and fiber array flat plates a plurality of which are stacked respectively at a plurality of predetermined positions on the circumference of the fiber winding bobbin and on whose respective external surfaces the fibers are arrayed.    
     
     
         2 . The fiber array device according to  claim 1 , wherein a plurality of concave rows in which fibers are individually arrayed are formed substantially parallel with each other in an external surface of the fiber array flat plates, and the fiber array flat plates are stacked on the circumference such that the concave rows are perpendicular to a rotation shaft of the fiber winding bobbin.  
     
     
         3 . The fiber array device according to claims  1 , wherein an array pitch of fibers that are arrayed on external surfaces of the fiber array flat plates making up at least one stacked object from among each of the stacked objects in the plurality of predetermined positions is different from an array pitch of fibers that are arrayed on external surfaces of the fiber array flat plates making up the other stacked objects.  
     
     
         4 . The fiber array device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least two positioning through holes are formed in the fiber array flat plates, and supporting colunms that are inserted through the positioning through holes are provided on the circumference of the fiber winding bobbin.  
     
     
         5 . A fiber array method for arraying fibers three-dimensionally using the fiber array device according  claim 1 , comprising: 
 a first step in which the individual fiber array flat plates are arranged in the plurality of predetermined positions;    a second step in which the fiber winding bobbin is rotated a predetermined number of times, and fiber is supplied while the movable guide is being moved so that the fibers are gradually arrayed on the arranged fiber array flat plates; and    a third step in which the other fiber array flat plates are each stacked on top of each fiber array flat plate on which fibers have been arrayed, wherein the second step and third step are repeated a plurality of times.    
     
     
         6 . A method of manufacturing a fiber array body comprising fixing the fibers that have been arrayed three-dimensionally using the fiber array method according to  claim 5 .  
     
     
         7 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 6 , wherein a curable resin is used to fill gaps between the fibers and is then cured so as to fix the fibers.  
     
     
         8 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 6 , wherein organism related substance is fixed in advance to the fibers.  
     
     
         9 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 6 , wherein organism related substance is fixed to fixed fibers.  
     
     
         10 . A method of manufacturing an organism related substance fixed microarray, comprising slicing the fiber array body manufactured using the method according to  claim 8  into thin pieces in a direction intersecting the fibers.  
     
     
         11 . A fiber wound object comprising: 
 a fiber winding device that has a fiber winding bobbin and stacked objects made up of two or more fiber array flat plates that have each been stacked at a plurality of predetermined positions on the circumference of the fiber winding bobbin; and    fibers that are arrayed and wound onto an external surface of each fiber array flat plate.    
     
     
         12 . The fiber wound object according to  claim 11 , wherein an array pitch of fibers that are arrayed on external surfaces of the fiber array flat plates making up at least one stacked object from among each of the stacked objects in the plurality of predetermined positions is different from an array pitch of fibers that are arrayed on external surfaces of the fiber array flat plates making up the other stacked objects.  
     
     
         13 . A fiber array jig for arraying a plurality of fibers three-dimensionally, comprising: 
 a plurality of fiber array flat plates on one surface of each of which a plurality of concave rows in which fibers are individually arrayed are formed substantially parallel with each other;    and a positioning member that is used to place these fiber array flat plates in predetermined positions, wherein    at least two of the fiber array flat plates are placed apart from each other by the positioning member such that the concave rows formed on these fiber array flat plates are in alignment with each other, and one or more of the other fiber array flat plates is stacked on top of these fiber array flat plates.    
     
     
         14 . The fiber array jig according to  claim 13 , wherein at least two positioning through holes are formed in each of the fiber array flat plates, and the positioning member is provided with supporting columns that place each fiber array flat plate in a predetermined position by being inserted through each of the positioning through holes.  
     
     
         15 . A method for manufacturing a fiber arrayed body comprising: 
 a fiber array step in which a plurality of fibers are arrayed three-dimensionally using the fiber arrayjig according to  claim 13;  and    a fiber fixing step in which the three-dimensionally arrayed fibers are fixed.    
     
     
         16 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 15 , wherein the fiber array step comprises: a first step in which at least two of the fiber array flat plates are placed apart from each other by the positioning member such that the concave rows formed on these fiber array flat plates are in alignment with each other; a second step in which fibers are individually arrayed so as to span across the concave rows that are positioned in alignment with each other; a third step in which other fiber array flat plates are stacked respectively on top of the at least two fiber array flat plates; and a fourth step in which tension is imparted to the arrayed fibers, wherein each of the second step through fourth step is repeated a plurality of times.  
     
     
         17 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 15 , wherein the fiber array step comprises: a first step in which at least one of the fiber array flat plates is placed in a predetermined position by the positioning member; a second step in which a fiber array flat plate that has completed fiber bonding is manufactured by arraying and bonding one by one ends on one side of fibers that have been cut to a predetermined length in the concave rows in the other one of the fiber array flat plates; a third step in which ends on the other side of the arrayed and bonded fibers are arrayed one by one in the concave rows of the fiber plate that was placed in the predetermined position; a fourth step in which another fiber array flat plate is stacked by the positioning member on top of the fiber array flat plate that was placed in the predetermined position; a fifth step in which the fiber array flat plate that has completed fiber bonding is placed apart by the positioning member from the fiber array flat plate that was placed in the predetermined position such that the concave rows formed on the fiber array flat plate that has completed fiber bonding are in alignment with the concave rows formed on the fiber array flat plate that was placed in the predetermined position; and a sixth step in which tension is imparted to the arrayed fibers, wherein each of the second step through sixth step is repeated a plurality of times.  
     
     
         18 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 17 , wherein, the second step comprises a step in which the fiber array flat plates are mounted on drum faces of a fiber winding drum that rotates around a shaft and are rotated, and fiber is continuously supplied to the fiber winding drum so that the fibers are arrayed in sequence in the plurality of concave rows that are formed in the fiber array flat plates, and thereafter the arrayed fibers are cut off outside the fiber array flat plates.  
     
     
         19 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 15 , wherein, in the fiber fixing step, a curable resin is used to fill gaps between the three-dimensionally arrayed fibers and is then cured.  
     
     
         20 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 15 , wherein organism related substance is fixed in advance to the fibers.  
     
     
         21 . The method of manufacturing a fiber array body according to  claim 15 , wherein, after the fiber fixing step, organism related substance is fixed to the fibers.  
     
     
         22 . A method of manufacturing an organism related substance fixed microarray, comprising slicing the fiber array body manufactured using the method according to  claim 20  into thin pieces in a direction intersecting the fibers.