US Patent Issued to KYB on July 1 for "Resin molded member and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,913, issued on July 1, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin molded member and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Youji Tanaka (Nagano, Japan) and Kenta Kurihara (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a resin molded member includes: an insert member molding step of building an insert member by stacking layers of a base resin containing continuous fibers by using a 3D printer; an aligning step of aligning the insert member in a cavity of an injection molding mold; and a resin portion molding step of molding a resin portion integrated with the insert member by filling an injection molding r...