US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on March 31 for "Prepreg laminate, composite structure, and method for manufacturing composite structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,561, issued on March 31, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Prepreg laminate, composite structure, and method for manufacturing composite structure" was invented by Kentaro Adachi (Iyo-gun, Japan), Masato Honma (Iyo-gun, Japan) and Hiroaki Matsutani (Iyo-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prepreg laminate is described that is a fiber-reinforced plastic material having high rigidity, lightweight properties and excellent moldability, where the prepreg laminate is obtained by a prepreg (A), in which non-continuous reinforcing fibers are impregnated with a thermosetting resin or thermoplastic resin, and a prepreg (...