US Patent Issued to Teijin on Aug. 5 for "Composite material and production method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,373, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Teijin Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Composite material and production method therefor" was invented by Shuhei Onoue (Osaka, Japan), Takumi Kato (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Toyozumi (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Ootsubo (Osaka, Japan), Takeru Ohki (Osaka, Japan), Guofei Hua (Osaka, Japan) and Akihisa Nomura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material includes a thermoplastic matrix resin and carbon fibers A including carbon fiber bundles A1 in which Li/(NixDi2) is 6.7x101 to 3.3x103, and a thermoplastic matrix resin. The carbon fibers A have a fiber length of 5-100 mm and the carbon fiber bund...