ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,901, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Composite material structure body production method, layered body production method, layered body, and layered form" was invented by Masahiko Shimizu (Tokyo), Toshiki Kitazawa (Tokyo) and Shoya Mano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material structure body production method includes a layering step of layering a plurality of fiber sheets to form a layered body having a deforming portion extending in one direction, and a forming step of performing bend-forming along a deforming line contained in the deforming portion and extending in the...