US Patent Issued to BYD on March 4 for "Aluminum alloy and preparation method and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,145, issued on March 4, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Aluminum alloy and preparation method and application thereof" was invented by Qiang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Yongliang Xie (Shenzhen, China), Yunchun Li (Shenzhen, China) and Mengjue Liao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A die-cast aluminum alloy and a preparation method and application thereof are disclosed. Based on the total weight of the aluminum alloy, the aluminum alloy includes: 8-11 wt % of Si, 2.5-5 wt % of Cu, 0.5-1.5 wt % of Mg, 0.1-0.3 wt % of Ni, 0.6-1.2 wt % of Fe, 0.1-0.3 wt % of Cr, 0.03-0.05 wt % of Sr, 0-0.3 wt % of Er, 80.25-88.1...