US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel, SHIMADZU on June 3 for "Joined body testing method, joined body testing device, and joined body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,781, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan) and SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Joined body testing method, joined body testing device, and joined body" was invented by Ryusuke Hioki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihaya Imamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Chieko Imai (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahide Hatahori (Kyoto, Japan) and Koki Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing method for a joined body, in which a second pipe member having an outer diameter smaller than that of a first pipe member having at least one through hole is inserted into the first pipe member and the second pipe member is expanded to form a...