US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 7 for "Preform shaping apparatus, preform shaping method and composite material molding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,733, issued on April 7, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Preform shaping apparatus, preform shaping method and composite material molding method" was invented by Naoyuki Sekine (Tokyo), Yuta Inoue (Tokyo) and Isao Nishimura (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one implementation, a preform shaping method for producing a preform having a web, a flange, and a chamfered portion includes: pressing a first portion of a laminated body of fiber sheets by sandwiching the first portion between a first mold and a second mold; and pressing a second portion of the laminated body of the fiber sheets after pressing th...