US Patent Issued to Howa on Dec. 9 for "Sound-absorbing materials, vehicle exterior member using same, and method of manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,825, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Howa Co. Ltd. (Kasugai, Japan).

"Sound-absorbing materials, vehicle exterior member using same, and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Yuichiro Inagaki (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound-absorbing material attached to a vehicle exterior member which comprises an intermediate layer having a fiber web of entangled thermoplastic synthetic fibers, and a skin layer having a nonwoven fabric containing thermoplastic synthetic fibers, the layers being laminated with each other. A peripheral edge portion is heat-compressed in a state where the intermediate layer and the sk...