ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,276, issued on July 15, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for manufacturing steel sheet for cold press and method for manufacturing press component" was invented by Kinya Nakagawa (Tokyo), Yuichi Matsuki (Tokyo) and Toyohisa Shinmiya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that improves stretch flange formability of a steel sheet by individual treatment matching a material of the steel sheet without performing heat treatment in a die. This method is a method for manufacturing a steel sheet for cold press, and the steel sheet is manufactured by heating an edge of the steel sheet to a temperature within a heating ...