ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,692, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Filament winding method and filament winding apparatus" was invented by Koei Fujiki (Wako, Japan) and Kosuke Tatsushima (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filament winding apparatus includes a bobbin driving unit, a winding device, and a tension applying device. A filament winding method using the filament winding apparatus includes a temporary suspending step of temporarily suspending operation of the winding device in the middle of winding the fed-out fiber portion around the workpiece. In the temporary suspending step, the length of the feeding path ...