US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Method for drying an impregnated blank and associated manufacturing method, system and assembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,561, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Method for drying an impregnated blank and associated manufacturing method, system and assembly" was invented by Patrice Brender (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Olivier Petitjean (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Amelie Rethore (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Olivier Maurige (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for drying a blank of a part made of a carbon/carbon composite material impregnated with a sol-gel solution, the solution including a solvent and one or more compounds, in a system forming an oven includes gelling the sol...