US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on June 23 for "Method for making a thin-walled acoustic component" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,843, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for making a thin-walled acoustic component" was invented by Pierre Nicolas Lanfant (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Hugues Laurent Alglave (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Patrick Dunleavy (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making an acoustic component includes a plurality of hollow complex acoustic elements, the method including heating a film of thermoplastic material to a first temperature above the glass transition temperature of the film; shaping the heated film of thermoplastic material in a tool including a mould which has a plurality of ...