US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 31 for "Automated fiber placement assembly with pressure roller" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,559, issued on March 31, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Automated fiber placement assembly with pressure roller" was invented by Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio) and Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein relates to an automated fiber placement assembly for forming a component by the successive layering of strips of fiber tows with a pressure roller. The pressure roller has a rotational axis about which the pressure roller rotates to apply the strip of fiber tows to the component. The pressure roller can b...