US Patent Issued to SHIBAURA MACHINE, National University Corporation Kanazawa University on June 24 for "Method for producing fiber-reinforced composite material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,505, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHIBAURA MACHINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and National University Corporation Kanazawa University (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Method for producing fiber-reinforced composite material" was invented by Yuya Sasai (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshio Iizuka (Shizuoka, Japan), Kaho Osada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kentaro Taki (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method for producing a fiber-reinforced composite material includes: a fiber dispersion process of providing a fiber-dispersed resin by kneading a resin 10a with fibers 10b to disperse the fibers 10b in the resin 10a; and a molecular weight reduction proc...