ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,199, issued on June 17, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).
"Meandering amount detection method and meandering control method for metal strip" was invented by Masanori Hoshino (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meandering amount detection method for a metal strip traveling in a state of being overlapped in a plurality of stages, includes: calculating an end portion position in a width direction of a metal strip in each stage using an angle formed by a reference direction, which is any direction determined from a reference point, and a direction connecting the reference point and an end portion position in a width direction ...