ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,789, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ICOMAT Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Tape laying head" was invented by Evangelos Zympeloudis (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape laying head configured to lay a tow material on a mould in the construction of a composite structure, the tape laying head including: a shearing mechanism configured to receive tow material from a tow supply and to steer the tow material by applying shear deformation to the tow material between a pair of shear boundaries defined by the shearing mechanism, the shearing mechanism being further configured to apply a driving force to the tow mate...