US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL on Sept. 22 for "Method for manufacturing continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,399, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY INC (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet" was invented by Kohei Yoshiya (Tokyo) and Kensuke Inoue (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method can be carried out using simple equipment and makes it possible to efficiently manufacture many continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheets in a short period of time. The above problem is overcome by a method for manufacturing a continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet including: an impregnation step for impregnating cont...