ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,612, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Apparatus and method for manufacturing metal-resin composite" was invented by Kenichi Watanabe (Kobe, Japan) and Shu Sekiguchi (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is configured to manufacture a metal-resin composite by press-molding a metal plate and a resin material. The apparatus includes an upper mold and a lower mold for sandwiching the metal plate and the resin material, and an elastic member attached to a molding surface of the lower mold. A cavity for disposing the resin material is provided by the upper mold and the lower mold. The ela...