US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on April 15 for "Method of producing high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,006, issued on April 15, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet" was invented by Shunsuke Yamamoto (Tokyo), Shotaro Terashima (Tokyo), Yuki Takeda (Tokyo), Michitaka Sakurai (Tokyo), Katsuya Hoshino (Tokyo) and Yoshiyasu Kawasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To obtain a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having excellent surface appearance even in the case where a steel strip containing Mn at a predetermined ratio or more to Si is subjected to hot-dip galvanizing treatment, a method of producing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet using a continuous ho...