ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,019, issued on July 22, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Press forming method and press formed product" was invented by Yusuke Fujii (Tokyo) and Masaki Urabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press forming method includes: press forming a press formed product including a top portion, a side wall portion continuous from the top portion through a punch shoulder portion, and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion through a die shoulder portion, the press formed product including a curved portion that is concave and curved in a top view; and increasing a bending radius of the punch shoulder portion in the c...