US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 29 for "Method for manufacturing composite fiber preform for disc brakes" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,388, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method for manufacturing composite fiber preform for disc brakes" was invented by Long Gui Tang (Granger, Ind.), Stefan Glen (Walkerton, Ind.), Yanmei Piao (South Bend, Ind.), Neil Murdie (Granger, Ind.) and Mark C. James (Plymouth, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes forming an interlayer on a carbon fiber fabric to form a composite fiber fabric. The interlayer comprises a binder. The method further includes winding the composite fiber fabric around a core to form a composite fiber preform comprising a plurality of lay...