US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Chemical on Sept. 1 for "Sheet molding compound production method, carbon fiber mat deposition apparatus, and sheet molding compound production apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,328, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sheet molding compound production method, carbon fiber mat deposition apparatus, and sheet molding compound production apparatus" was invented by Kentaro Oda (Tokyo), Yasushi Watanabe (Tokyo), Tadao Samejima (Tokyo), Yukihiro Mizutori (Tokyo) and Junji Kanehagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a carbon fiber mat deposition apparatus and a method of manufacturing a sheet molding compound (SMC)."

The patent was filed on Aug. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/231,701.

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