US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Jan. 20 for "Wing structure and wing structure manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,352, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Wing structure and wing structure manufacturing method" was invented by Hiroaki Takeuchi (Tokyo), Yasushi Okano (Tokyo) and Masaaki Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a wing structure comprising a wing body formed from fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP), and an erosion suppression layer provided so as to cover at least a portion of a front edge of the wing structure. The erosion suppression layer contains a thermal spraying layer configured so as to maintain, by having a prescribed surface roughness, a liquid film formed on the erosi...