US Patent Issued to MITSUI CHEMICALS on June 23 for "Production apparatus for producing a fiber-reinforced resin and a production method for producing a fiber-reinforced resin" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,830, issued on June 23, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Production apparatus for producing a fiber-reinforced resin and a production method for producing a fiber-reinforced resin" was invented by Masahiro Yano (Nagoya, Japan) and Atsushi Miyata (Urayasu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin having an array of reinforcing fibers oriented in one direction, the device making it possible, with a comparatively simple configuration, to connect earlier and later reinforcing fibers to each other when switching the reinforcing fibers, is provided. The device having an array o...