US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Fiber placement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,150, issued on July 22, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Fiber placement device" was invented by Ryota Nakao (Otsu, Japan), Tamotsu Suzuki (Ostu, Japan) and Yasuhiro Sato (Ostu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber placement device that includes a placement surface on which a reinforcing fiber tow is placed and stacked; a tow arranging mechanism which presses and places the reinforcing fiber tow against and on the placement surface; and a heating mechanism which is configured to heat the placement surface. In one placement cycle, the tow arranging mechanism presses a group of the reinforcing fiber tows against ...