US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Feb. 4 for "Composite structure manufacturing method and composite structure manufacturing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,577, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Composite structure manufacturing method and composite structure manufacturing device" was invented by Homare Yamato (Tokyo), Masahiko Shimizu (Tokyo), Toshiki Kitazawa (Tokyo), Shoya Mano (Tokyo) and Akihiro Terasaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite structure manufacturing method comprising: a lamination step in which a plurality of fiber-reinforced resin sheets are laminated to form a plate-shaped laminate; a pressing deformation step in which a third roller or similar, which rolls along a plate surface of the laminate, is used to pres...