US Patent Issued to CORIOLIS GROUP on July 28 for "Fiber application head with retractable flap" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,646, issued on July 28, was assigned to CORIOLIS GROUP (Queven, France).

"Fiber application head with retractable flap" was invented by Julien Coudurier (Lorient, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber application head for the production of composite material parts. The fiber application head includes a compaction roller, guiding means, a retractable flap which can be displaced between an active position in which the said flap is able to come by its distal end against the fiber in order to bring the fiber in abutment against the roller, and a retracted position in which the flap is spaced apart from the roller, and a heating s...