US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on May 6 for "Alloyed steel powder for powder metallurgy, iron-based mixed powder for powder metallurgy, and sintered body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,765, issued on May 6, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Alloyed steel powder for powder metallurgy, iron-based mixed powder for powder metallurgy, and sintered body" was invented by Kohsuke Ashizuka (Tokyo), Nao Nasu (Tokyo), Takuya Takashita (Tokyo) and Shigeru Unami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an alloyed steel powder for powder metallurgy that has excellent compressibility and enables obtaining a sintered body having improved strength as sintered. An alloyed steel powder for powder metallurgy comprises: Cu: 2.0 mass % or more and 8.0 mass % or less; Mo: more than 0.50 mass % and 2.00 mass % or less; on...