PURPOSE: To obtain pipe-like three-dimensional woven fabric having a branched part suitable for utilizing as an artificial blood vessel, a joint, etc.
CONSTITUTION: This branched pipe-like three-dimensional woven fabric 1 having a branched part 13A branched into plural branches is constituted of a branched and jointed part 12 mutually connected and integrated in longitudinal direction and a completely branched part 13. The branched and jointed part 12 is internally branched, but mutually joined by small pipe-like woven fabrics and the completely branched part 13 is completely branched into plural small pipe-like woven fabrics. Each part has a thickness corresponding to planer woven fabric having several layers and the branched and joined part has the same cross section as the completely branched part, except for connecting each branched part in completely branched part.
KANEHARA MASAHIKO