US Patent Issued to Institut fur Verbundwerkstoffe on April 15 for "Method for producing a spider from continuous fiber plastic composite" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,196, issued on April 15, was assigned to Institut fur Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

"Method for producing a spider from continuous fiber plastic composite" was invented by Marcel Buecker (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Production method for a spoke star (5) with one or more continuous fibre bundles (111), during which a production device (100) is used for winding a fibre coil (3) and for deforming the fibre coil (3) into a spoke star (5), wherein the production device (100) comprises a plurality of deflection devices (2) at the rim side and a plurality of deflection devices (4) at the hub si...