MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547058795 A) filed by Nichireki Group Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on June 19, for 'construction method for renewing pavement layer and renewed pavement layer obtained thereby.'
Inventor(s) include Takebayashi Hiroki; Iitaka Hiroyuki; Banba Koki; Hiraoka Tomio; Yamamoto Takahiro; and Takauchi Dai.
The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing a construction method for renewing a pavement layer whereby it is possible to ensure sufficient compaction and traversability by heavy machinery and build a renewed pavement layer even when the existing pavement to be worked on is considered to be in an excessively moist state. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a renewed pavement layer. The present invention solves the abovementioned problems by providing: a construction method for renewing a pavement layer including a step in which when the moisture content of a renewal material to be used is higher than a target moisture content, a moisture-absorbing material is added thereto and the apparent moisture content of the renewal material as determined by subtracting the mass of moisture absorbed by the moisture-absorbing material is made to match the target moisture content; and a renewed pavement layer obtained by the construction method."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 28, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/042561.
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