ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,005, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Solid wire for arc welding use" was invented by Kazuya Ikai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuma Kumagai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuyuki Yokota (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arc welding solid wire includes: a steel material; and a copper plating layer formed on a surface of the steel material, in which an amount of Cu in the steel material and the copper plating layer is 0.05 mass % to 0.30 mass % with respect to a total mass of the wire, a surface of the wire is coated with 0.05 g to 0.20 g of oil with respect to 1 kg of the wire, and on a surface of th...