US Patent Issued to SAFRAN CERAMICS on Jan. 13 for "Method for manufacturing a hollow part made of metal matrix or ceramic matrix composite reinforced with short fibers" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,542, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAFRAN CERAMICS (Le Haillan, France).

"Method for manufacturing a hollow part made of metal matrix or ceramic matrix composite reinforced with short fibers" was invented by Arnaud Delehouze (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Eric Bouillon (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, includes preparing a raw material including short fibers and a ceramic matrix precursor charge, positioning a sacrificial core in a molding cavity of injection-molding equipment, shaping the raw material by injection mol...