US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Dec. 2 for "Lightweight and high-impact-resistant electric vehicle battery enclosure with fiber metal laminate composites" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,158, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Lightweight and high-impact-resistant electric vehicle battery enclosure with fiber metal laminate composites" was invented by Jinglei Yang (Hong Kong), Logesh Shanmugam (Hong Kong), Cheng Qiu (Hong Kong) and MohammadErfan Kazemi (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for fabricating thermoplastic fiber-reinforced polymer material (FRP) and fiber metal laminate (FML) composites by a resin-infusion process with a liquid thermoplastic poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) resin, which has a mixed viscosity of 200 cP ...