ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,200, issued on March 4, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Metal-fiber reinforced resin material composite" was invented by Masako Nakai (Tokyo), Masaharu Ibaragi (Tokyo), Noriyuki Negi (Tokyo) and Masafumi Usui (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a metal-fiber reinforced resin material (FRP) composite having a good appearance even when used as an automobile outer panel and not deformed even after a coating and baking process. The metal-FRP composite of the invention has a laminated structure of three or more layers, having at least a metal layer, a fiber-reinforced resin material layer holding a reinforced fib...