US Patent Issued to VUTEQ on March 25 for "Method for manufacturing composite molded article and composite molded article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,748, issued on March 25, was assigned to VUTEQ Corp. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing composite molded article and composite molded article" was invented by Takashi Bando (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Kito (Toyota, Japan), Kazuto Sawada (Toyota, Japan) and Batbaatar Liijiijamba (Toyota-shl, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite molded article is manufactured in such a manner that a molding mold that forms a molding space by mold closing and has a weir portion projecting into the molding space is opened, a flat plate-like first member that is softened under heating is arranged in a part of a portion where the molding ...