US Patent Issued to NIPPON LIGHT METAL, NIKKEI MC ALUMINIUM on June 3 for "Aluminum alloy and aluminum alloy die casting material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,986, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo) and NIKKEI MC ALUMINIUM Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Aluminum alloy and aluminum alloy die casting material" was invented by Izumi Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomohiro Isobe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroshi Horikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a non-heat-treated aluminum alloy which has excellent casting properties and is high in both strength and toughness, and an aluminum alloy die casting material which is high in both strength and toughness, and which, in addition to having minimal difference in characteristics between regions thereof, is not ...