ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,795, issued on April 29, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Method for joining members and joined body" was invented by Toru Hashimura (Kobe, Japan), Artur Rekets (Kobe, Japan), Yasuhiro Maeda (Kobe, Japan) and Taiki Yamakawa (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper system includes a rear wall of a bumper beam provided with hole portions, and a bumper stay including tubular portions extending in the longitudinal direction, the tubular portions being inserted into the hole portions and joined to the hole portions by pipe expansion joining. The bumper stay includes a pulling-out obstructing portion protruding fr...