US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 23 for "Fiber placement apparatus and method of molding composite material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,848, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fiber placement apparatus and method of molding composite material" was invented by Daichi Terayama (Tokyo), Tomoyoshi Kuniya (Tokyo) and Shunya Nakanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber placement apparatus for arraying prepreg tapes in a width direction, and laminating the arrayed prepreg tapes includes first rollers and a second roller. Each of the prepreg tapes is a material of a fiber reinforced plastic. The first rollers feed out the prepreg tapes one by one. The first rollers rotate around first rotation axes. The second roller arrays the prepreg tapes...