ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,192, issued on March 31, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Fibre-reinforced resin, porous structure, and molded member" was invented by Takumi Honda (Iyo-gun, Japan), Hidetoshi Sakai (Iyo-gun, Japan) and Yuichiro Sento (Iyo-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a porous structure, made from fiber-reinforced resin, which is lightweight and has excellent mechanical properties. The fiber-reinforced resin comprises a reinforcing fiber base material and a thermoplastic resin, wherein the reinforcing fiber base material includes 50-100 weight % reinforcing fibers having a fiber length of 2-10 mm, the total am...