US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on Sept. 9 for "Resistance spot weld, resistance spot welding method, resistance spot welded joint, and method for manufacturing resistance spot welded joint" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,492, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resistance spot weld, resistance spot welding method, resistance spot welded joint, and method for manufacturing resistance spot welded joint" was invented by Reiko Endo (Tokyo), Muneo Matsushita (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resistance spot weld, a resistance spot welding method, a resistance spot welded joint, and a method for manufacturing the resistance spot welded joint. In the resistance spot weld, at least one of steel sheets is a high-strength steel sheet having a prescribed chemical composition. In at least one of a nugge...