ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,101, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan) and Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Tube body intermediate" was invented by Takahiro Nakayama (Ibaraki, Japan), Kenichi Mori (Ibaraki, Japan), Kazuki Ohta (Ibaraki, Japan), Motohiro Tanigawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Tadashi Uozumi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tube body intermediate includes: a carbon fiber disposed with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a mandrel such that the carbon fiber extends in an axial direction of the mandrel in a manner of being wound by less than one turn; and a first fixing member wound with respe...