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Lightweight composite material with a thermoset matrix

US5262230A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 1, 1990
Grant dateNov 16, 1993
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Expiry dateJun 1, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T442/40
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Lightweight composite material which contains reinforcing fibres in a thermoset matrix and has been obtained by providing voluminous three-dimensional structures of reinforcing fibres more than 50 mm long, which are in the form of a knitted fabric or loop fabric with a hollow space content of at least 50 vol. %, with a thermosetting resin such that the lightweight composite material contains hollow spaces.

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