US Patent Issued to IHI AEROSPACE on April 14 for "Method for charging open pores in ceramic matrix composite, and ceramic matrix composite" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,678, issued on April 14, was assigned to IHI AEROSPACE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for charging open pores in ceramic matrix composite, and ceramic matrix composite" was invented by Yuki Kubota (Tokyo), Michimasa Uda (Tokyo), Haruhiko Soeda (Tokyo) and Takuya Aoki (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for charging, with ceramic, open pores formed in a matrix of a ceramic matrix composite that includes the matrix and reinforcing fibers provided in the matrix. The ceramic comes to constitute the matrix. The method includes repeating the following steps (A) and (B) in a state where the ceramic matrix composite...