US Patent Issued to NEXTEAM on May 20 for "Method for manufacturing by molding elongate and hollow workpieces made from composite material, molding device for implementing the method and workpieces obtained" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,704, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEXTEAM (Marmande, France).

"Method for manufacturing by molding elongate and hollow workpieces made from composite material, molding device for implementing the method and workpieces obtained" was invented by Guy Valembois (Lauzerville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes producing an initial preform on a mandrel by filament winding without generating shrinking, cutting the initial preform to the correct length, placing the assembly provided beforehand with internal drainage device and pressurization device into a female mold, and bringing the preform assembly to a softeni...