US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on June 3 for "Cold-rolled steel strip manufacturing facility and method for manufacturing cold-rolled steel strip" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,826, issued on June 3, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cold-rolled steel strip manufacturing facility and method for manufacturing cold-rolled steel strip" was invented by Yukihiro Matsubara (Tokyo), Daiki Hioka (Tokyo), Noriki Fujita (Tokyo), Tetsuya Arakawa (Tokyo) and Masaki Hirai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold-rolled steel strip manufacturing facility includes: a joining device configured to join a trailing end of a preceding steel strip and a leading end of a following steel strip to form a joined steel strip; a looper configured to store the joined steel strip; a heating device configured to heat a joint ...