US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Jan. 13 for "Roller unit for feeding tapes, fiber placement apparatus and method of molding composite material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,945, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Roller unit for feeding tapes, fiber placement apparatus and method of molding composite material" was invented by Daisuke Hirabayashi (Tokyo), Daichi Terayama (Tokyo), Shunya Nakanishi (Tokyo), Tomoyoshi Kuniya (Tokyo), Masami Komaniwa (Tokyo) and Shunsuke Ueno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller unit aligns tapes in a width direction and feeds the tapes in a length direction while pressing the tapes in a thickness direction. The tapes are made of fibers which have not been impregnated with resin or have been impregnated with the resin. The roller unit include...