ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,897, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Composite structure and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Kensuke Yoshimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of manufacturing a composite structure of an aircraft. The composite structure includes a skin and a reinforcing material. The method includes, by stacking unhardened composite sheets on a region of a jig adjacent to a holding portion to hold the reinforcing material, forming a skin inner layer including a retainer to retain two end portions of a flange of the reinforcing material in a width direction of the flange. The m...