US Patent Issued to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS on June 24 for "Integrated braiding and needle punching preform forming method and preform forming device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,561, issued on June 24, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Jiangsu, China).

"Integrated braiding and needle punching preform forming method and preform forming device" was invented by Zhongde Shan (Jiangsu, China), Zheng Sun (Jiangsu, China), Zhengxi Zhou (Jiangsu, China), Yaoyao Wang (Jiangsu, China), Weihao Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Jiale Liu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an integrated braiding and needle punching preform forming method, comprising the following steps: arranging gripping devices at both ends of a braiding machine, allowing a mandrel t...