ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,587, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Mandrel and test piece collecting method for filament winding" was invented by Yusuke Tsuchiyama (Wako, Japan), Yuta Urushiyama (Wako, Japan), Takeshi Watanabe (Wako, Japan), Kosuke Tatsushima (Wako, Japan), Hiroyuki Takahashi (Wako, Japan), Koji Nozoe (Tokyo) and Michael Bruyneel (Alleur, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mandrel around which fiber-reinforced resin is wound, the mandrel including a cylinder portion having a plurality of first flat surface portions, and a pair of dome portions that are formed at respective ends of the cylinder portion and e...