ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,240, issued on July 15, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Tape laying device" was invented by Teng-Yen Wang (Yunlin County, Taiwan), Shun-Sheng Ko (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Miao-Chang Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Tung-Ying Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chao-Hong Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape laying device includes a tape transmission mechanism, a compaction head mechanism, a cutter mechanism, a heating mechanism and a motion mechanism. The tape transmission mechanism is configured to transmit the pre-impregnated tape. The compaction head mechanism, connected with the tape transm...