ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,556, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).
"Method for manufacturing a composite material part having a cellular structure and corresponding part" was invented by Nicolas Pierre Lanfant (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Patrick Dunleavy (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a composite material part having a cellular structure that includes at least one cell delimited by walls. The method includes supplying at least a first core, providing a web of a first fibrous reinforcement comprising a plurality of long discontinuous fibers randomly distributed in a plane, and producing at le...