US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on Sept. 9 for "Fiber-reinforced plastic and production method for fiber-reinforced plastic" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,614, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Fiber-reinforced plastic and production method for fiber-reinforced plastic" was invented by Terumasa Tsuda (Ehime, Japan), Tomohiro Takehara (Ehime, Japan) and Masato Honma (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a fiber-reinforced plastic that has, as at least one of the surface layers in the thickness direction thereof, a layer containing reinforced fibers and a matrix in which a thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic resin are integrated. The reinforced fibers form discontinuous reinforced fiber bundles randomly stacke...