MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517046370 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on May 14, for 'structure around through-holes in metal sheet, and blank and automotive part.'

Inventor(s) include Urushibata, Ryo.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In the present invention, a metal sheet 200 has a flat sheet part 102 and a processed part 204 in which a through-hole 104a is formed in the center part thereof. The processed part 204 includes a flat surface 406 formed on one side with respect to the thickness direction A relative to the flat surface 102a of the ...