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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:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toray Industries, Inc., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 7/12 (2006.01); B60R 19/18 (2006.01); B32B 5/26 (2006.01); B60R 19/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 7/124 (2013.01); B32B 5/26 (2013.01); B60R 19/03 (2013.01); B60R 19/18 (2013.01); B32B 2260/021 (2013.01); B32B 2260/046 (2013.01); B32B 2262/106 (2013.01); B60R 2019/186 (2013.01); B60R 2019/1853 (2013.01); Y10T 156/10 (2015.01); Y10T 428/24124 (2015.01); Y10T 442/30 (2015.04);
Abstract
An energy-absorbing member has a structure in which a plurality of fiber reinforced resin layers are layered in a thickness direction of said member and includes as the plurality of fiber reinforced resin layers, at least a plurality of unidirectional materials each including unidirectionally aligned reinforcing fibers and a resin and a plurality of cross materials each including a reinforcing fiber woven fabric and a resin, wherein lengths of the plurality of unidirectional materials in an external-loading direction are sequentially changed.