US Patent Issued to KURARAY on Nov. 4 for "Reinforcing fibers and production method therefor, and molded article using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,111, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Reinforcing fibers and production method therefor, and molded article using same" was invented by Toru Asada (Okayama, Japan), Daisuke Koda (Kamisu, Japan), Shinichi Takemoto (Okayama, Japan), Hiroyuki Kawai (Okayama, Japan) and Shuhei Yorimitsu (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reinforcing fibers containing hydrophilic fibers and an adhesive component, wherein at least a part of the surfaces of the hydrophilic fibers have the adhesive component, the adhesive component contains a modified conjugated diene rubber having a hydrogen-bonding function...