ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,109, issued on April 14, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Carbon fiber-reinforced composite material" was invented by Takuya Yamane (Iyo-gun, Japan) and Takashi Ochi (Iyo-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] A problem to be addressed by the present invention is to provide a CFRP with a low risk of edge glow by virtue of controlling the structure of the CFRP and without relying on expensive electroconductive particles. In other words, provided is a CFRP such that the risk of edge glow is greatly decreased, even in a case where electroconductive particles are used in an amount equal to or smaller than in ...