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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:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Henry Moody, Winchester, CA (US);
Assignee:
Albany International Techniweave, Inc., Rochester, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/06 ; B32B 5/26 ; B32B 2/704 ; B27B 9/00 ; D04H 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/06 ; B32B 5/26 ; B32B 2/704 ; B27B 9/00 ; D04H 1/300 ;
Abstract
A thermal protection system (TPM) for protecting a surface subject to high thermal load comprising a fiber substrate where the substrate is composed of woven or non-woven layers of fibers laminated together, or the substrate is formed by a process of three-dimensional weaving, wherein the fiber substrate has a variable density of fibers, with said density of fibers increasing across the thickness of the TPM, and further wherein the substrate is needled and coupled to an insulation backing.