US Patent Issued to NAKATA MANUFACTURING on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for manufacturing metal pipe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,533, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NAKATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing metal pipe" was invented by Tomoyasu Nakano (Osaka, Japan), Takeyuki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Jilong Yin (Osaka, Japan), Feizhou Wang (Osaka, Japan) and Shunichi Haruyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for manufacturing a metal pipe from a metal plate using a forming tool, the position of the tool is optimized simply and correctly by incorporating individuality of the raw material plate into setting of the tool position.As a preparatory stage, a forming process is analyzed by simulation for...