US Patent Issued to SAFRAN NACELLES on July 1 for "Automatic layup and compacting machine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,946, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAFRAN NACELLES (Gonfreville-l'Orcher, France).

"Automatic layup and compacting machine" was invented by Clement Rolland (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Benjamin Provost (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Maxime Lebegue (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Renaud Venture (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for automatically draping and compacting including a draping head that grasps, deposits and compacts fiber plies on a draping support, the draping head including first and second rigid supports and a gripper including a piece of elastically deformable material having a face to grasp a...