US Patent Issued to Nitto Boseki on Sept. 23 for "Glass composition for glass fibers, glass fiber, glass fiber woven fabric, and glass-fiber-reinforced resin composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,162, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nitto Boseki Co. Ltd. (Fukushima, Japan).

"Glass composition for glass fibers, glass fiber, glass fiber woven fabric, and glass-fiber-reinforced resin composition" was invented by Takanobu Hosokawa (Koriyama, Japan), Ryo Nishikubo (Koriyama, Japan), Yoichi Hiraishi (Koriyama, Japan) and Tadashi Kurita (Koriyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a glass composition for glass fiber that enables molten glass with a low 1000 poise temperature, a wide working temperature range, and suppressed phase separation to be obtained, and that enables, when glass fiber is produced using the ...