ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,906, issued on April 21, was assigned to FABHEADS AUTOMATION PRIVATE Ltd. (Chennai, India).
"Tow placement process" was invented by Dhinesh Kanagaraj (Chennai, India), Akshay Ballal (Chennai, India) and Srinath Ramesh (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a tow placement process with an extrusion mode switching. The method includes heating a roving of the desired continuous fiber material pre-impregnated with a desired matrix material; depositing said continuous fibers on a deposition surface to be steered in desired directions using a fiber placement head controlled by a computer; and said ...