ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,611, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIZUNO TECHNICS Corp. (Gifu-ken, Japan).
"Fiber bundle winding device" was invented by Yoshinori Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan), Daisuke Tanaka (Nissin, Japan) and Akiyoshi Utsumi (Gifu-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber bundle winding device includes: a traverse guide configured to guide a fiber bundle to a bobbin; and a controller configured to control the traverse guide according to a rotation of the bobbin. The traverse guide is movable parallel to a center axis of the bobbin. The controller can perform: first movement control that moves the ...