US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on May 13 for "Manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus for joint body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,406, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus for joint body" was invented by Kenichi Watanabe (Kobe, Japan), Takayuki Kimura (Kobe, Japan), Liang Chen (Fujisawa, Japan), Masao Hadano (Fujisawa, Japan) and Reiichi Suzuki (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a manufacturing method for a joint body having a blank material plated with a metal material and a hoop material plated with a metal material joined together by placing the hoop material on the blank material and causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the hoop ma...