ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,169, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Foam molded article" was invented by Yoshie Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Masashi Hamabe (Osaka, Japan), Masayoshi Imanishi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshifumi Nagino (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foam molded article includes a main agent resin, a filler of greater than or equal to 15% by mass and less than or equal to 80% by mass, and a foaming agent of greater than or equal to 0.01% by mass and less than or equal to 10% by mass, and a foaming ratio caused by the foaming agent is greater than or equal to 1.1 times."
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