ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,328, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TEIJIN Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Thermoplastic resin prepreg and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Akimichi Oda (Osaka, Japan), Takaya Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Takuro Kobayashi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a thermoplastic resin prepreg comprising a fiber-reinforced substrate and a thermoplastic resin composition partially or completely impregnated in the fiber-reinforced substrate, the thermoplastic resin prepreg being characterized in that the thermoplastic resin composition contains at least 50 [mass %] of polyether ether ketone among all the thermoplas...