US Patent Issued to TSUDAKOMA KOGYO, KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Curve shaping apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,052, issued on July 14, was assigned to TSUDAKOMA KOGYO K.K. (Ishikawa-ken, Japan) and KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Curve shaping apparatus" was invented by Isao Nishimura (Ishikawa-ken, Japan), Koji Yamamura (Ishikawa-ken, Japan), Nobuya Kawamoto (Ishikawa-ken, Japan) and Kiyoshi Uzawa (Ishikawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curve shaping apparatus includes: a heating device provided in a path and heats a reinforcing fiber material; a clamping mechanism switches between a clamping state and a non-clamping state; a swing mechanism including a gripping unit that switches between a gripping state a...