US Patent Issued to ADVANCED COMPOSITE on May 12 for "Method for producing metal matrix composite and method for preparing preform" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,976, issued on May 12, was assigned to ADVANCED COMPOSITE Corp. (Fuji, Japan).

"Method for producing metal matrix composite and method for preparing preform" was invented by Mutsuo Hayashi (Fuji, Japan), Zhipu Pei (Fuji, Japan) and Pailin Silipattanakitkul (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a technique of dramatically improving a method for causing a molten metal of an Al alloy or the like to infiltrate without pressurization into a preform obtained by molding and hardening a ceramic powder, and obtaining "a metal matrix composite formed from a ceramic powder and an Al alloy or the like" in a ...