ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,789, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing joined body" was invented by Takashi Ike (Miyoshi, Japan), Tatsuya Kojima (Okazaki, Japan) and Natsuhiko Katahira (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a joined body according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing a joined body in which composite materials in which fibers are impregnated with resins are heated and joined to each other. The method includes: a step of aligning the composite material with each of a plurality of molding dies, heating the molding die...