ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,998, issued on June 30, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Method and device for recycling carbon fiber-reinforced resin" was invented by Masato Noguchi (Saitama, Japan) and Mitsuharu Kan (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling a carbon fiber-reinforced resin including a carbon fiber and a matrix resin is provided, and the method includes: a first heating step of heating the carbon fiber-reinforced resin to decompose the matrix resin so as to obtain an intermediate in which the decomposition residue of the matrix resin is adhered to the carbon fiber; an unwinding step of unwinding an intermedi...