US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Aug. 12 for "Hot press line and method of manufacturing hot-press-formed product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,949, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hot press line and method of manufacturing hot-press-formed product" was invented by Kenta Uenishi (Tokyo) and Toshiya Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot press line (100) includes: a heating device (30); a first press device (10) having first die parts (1A, 1B); a second press device (20) having second die parts (2A, 2B); a first transportation device (41) that transports a metal sheet (B) to the first press device; and a second transportation device (42) that transports the metal sheet (B) to the second press device. One of the pair of first die par...