US Patent Issued to IHI AEROSPACE on Sept. 30 for "Prepreg continuous production device and method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,732, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IHI AEROSPACE Co. LTD. (Tomioka, Japan).

"Prepreg continuous production device and method therefor" was invented by Hiroyuki Sato (Tokyo), Yu Shigenari (Tokyo), Tatsuya Kado (Tokyo) and Kazuyuki Orihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Produce prepreg with a matrix resin adhering to the cloth. Arranging a release sheet on each surface of the cloth; passing the cloth and a pair of the release sheets through a gap portion positioned in a clearance of a pair of heating rollers to be overlaid on each other and supplying the matrix resin to be accumulated above the gap portion of the heating ...