US Patent Issued to ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS on July 14 for "Flexible heating mat for preforming or consolidating composite parts" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,657, issued on July 14, was assigned to ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS (Paris).

"Flexible heating mat for preforming or consolidating composite parts" was invented by Marc Legrand (Saint Amand les Eaux, France), Olivier Duthoit (Faches-Thumesnil, France), Martin Gautherot (Buxieres sur Arce, France) and Bernard Paluch (Noeux les Mines, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a flexible multilayer heating device, of the heating mat type, for implementing preforming or consolidation of fibrous preforms of composite parts. The device includes at least one first support layer, at least one first heati...