US Patent Issued to Kurashiki Boseki on June 3 for "Fiber reinforced resin molded body and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,047, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kurashiki Boseki K.K. (Okayama, Japan).

"Fiber reinforced resin molded body and method for producing the same" was invented by Tadaharu Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Yoichi Hiraishi (Osaka, Japan), Yuta Nakame (Osaka, Japan) and Yuki Komai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin-integrated fiber sheet 1 for vacuum forming for producing a fiber reinforced resin molded body through vacuum forming includes: unidirectional continuous fibers 2 that are spread fibers of a continuous fiber group and arrayed in parallel in one direction; bridging fibers 3 lying in d...