US Patent Issued to DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT on Feb. 25 for "Method and apparatus for impregnating a fibre bundle and method and facility for producing a three-dimensional structure" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,576, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. (Cologne, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for impregnating a fibre bundle and method and facility for producing a three-dimensional structure" was invented by Maik Titze (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for impregnating at least one fibre bundle (11) with a high-viscosity plastics material (13), said method comprising the following steps: *-providing at least one fibre bundle (11) for impregnation, formed of a multiplicity of continuous fibres, and providing a plastics material (13), melted at a ma...