US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on July 14 for "Reinforcement material and reinforcement structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,003, issued on July 14, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reinforcement material and reinforcement structure" was invented by Takahiro Fujii (Osaka, Japan), Masahaya Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Mase (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement material includes a resin layer and a restraining layer. The resin layer contains a resin component and a foaming agent, and serves as a reinforcement layer for reinforcing an object. The restraining layer is disposed on the resin layer. The reinforcement layer contains a matrix resin obtained by curing the resin component and a plurality of cells generat...