US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus and method for manufacturing hydrogen tank" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,796, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for manufacturing hydrogen tank" was invented by Kyuyoung Lee (Ulsan, South Korea) and JunSik Choi (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an apparatus, and corresponding method, for manufacturing a hydrogen tank, the apparatus may include a molding device configured to form a hollow cylindrical initial resin material body by solidifying a liquid resin material, a winding device provided at a downstream side of the molding device and configured to form an intermediate material by winding...