ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,333, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Flux-cored wire for use with Ar-CO2 mixed gas" was invented by Satoshi Kon (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoya Sawaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flux-cored wire may be used with an Ar-CO2 mixed gas, the wire having a steel sheath filled with a flux. Such flux-cored wires may include, as a total of the steel sheath and the flux, relative to a total wire mass: Fe in 92 mass % or more, total Si in a 0.50 mass % or more and 1.50 mass % 15 or less, Mn in 1.00 mass % or more and 3.00 mass % or less, total Li in 0.010 mass % or more and 0.10 mass % or le...