ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,540, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Manufacturing method for molded article" was invented by Atsushi Sugihara (Toyota, Japan), Shun Kishimoto (Toyota, Japan), Taichi Ito (Toyota, Japan), Shinya Asai (Kariya, Japan) and Tatsuya Yamashita (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a molded article is provided, including: a preparing step of preparing an insert member having, on a surface, a first resin part containing a first thermoplastic resin; a filling step of inserting and fixing the first resin part of the insert member into a mold and filling a space betwe...