US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on Feb. 4 for "Method for manufacturing pressed component, and shape correction die" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,399, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing pressed component, and shape correction die" was invented by Hiroto Miyake (Tokyo), Toyohisa Shinmiya (Tokyo) and Yuji Yamasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Warpage or torsion in a longitudinal direction is suppressed when an elongated curved component is manufactured by press forming. A method for manufacturing a pressed component includes a first step of press forming a metal sheet in a desired component shape using a first die, and a second step of press forming a formed product using a second die after the first step. In the second s...