US Patent Issued to KYORAKU on June 30 for "Expansion molded body and method for producing molded body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,016, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYORAKU Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Expansion molded body and method for producing molded body" was invented by Kengo Shimada (Yamato, Japan), Yoshihiro Yamasaki (Yamato, Japan), Yoshinori Ono (Yamato, Japan) and Tadatoshi Tanji (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foam the molded body with excellent flame retardancy. A foam molded body formed of a foam-molded resin composition containing a base resin and a flame retardant. An expansion ratio of the foam molded body is 1.1 to 9.0 times, the base resin contains polyolefin, and a blending amount of the flame retardant in the resin compos...