US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Method for producing composite material joint body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,239, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for producing composite material joint body" was invented by Natsuhiko Katahira (Toyota, Japan), Tatsuya Kojima (Okazaki, Japan) and Takashi Ike (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a composite material joint body includes steps of: bonding a plurality of composite materials, forming a hollow body including at least a first cell and a second cell adjacent to the first cell, and adjusting a pressure so that a first pressure in the first cell is greater than a second pressure in the second cell. In the step of forming t...