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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2022
Applicant:
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/42 (2006.01); B29C 44/06 (2006.01); B29C 70/10 (2006.01); B29K 105/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/42 (2013.01); B29C 44/06 (2013.01); B29C 70/10 (2013.01); B29K 2105/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flat lightweight member includes fiber reinforced plastics and having excellent mechanical properties of an end portion and excellent adhesiveness between a core layer and a skin layer as well as good appearance quality and excellent producibility, the flat lightweight member includes a skin layer including a braiding material and a matrix resin, a separation layer having a bag shape and being present inside the braiding material, and a mixture of a matrix resin and a thermally expandable material, the mixture being present inside the separation layer.