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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2021
Applicant:
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08J 5/24 (2006.01); B29B 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08J 5/243 (2021.05); B29B 11/16 (2013.01); C08J 2333/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A reinforcing-fiber composite material includes not less than 20 wt % but less than 70 wt % of discontinuous reinforcing fibers, and a matrix resin, wherein at least a portion of the discontinuous reinforcing fibers forms a fiber aggregation, and at least one bundle of the fiber aggregation has a surface that, when projected onto a two-dimensional plane, has at least one region where the number of monofilaments constituting the aggregation is reduced, at opposite ends in a longitudinal direction of a minimum circumscribed rectangle of the projected surface, and at portions other than the opposite ends.