US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Feb. 11 for "Hot-rolled steel sheet, hot-dip coated steel sheet, and method for producing hot-rolled steel sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,669, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hot-rolled steel sheet, hot-dip coated steel sheet, and method for producing hot-rolled steel sheet" was invented by Kentarou Hirata (Tokyo), Masaharu Oka (Tokyo), Masahito Sakaki (Tokyo) and Mamoru Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-rolled steel sheet which has excellent rigidity along with high strength, excellent workability, and excellent LME resistance is provided. A hot-rolled steel sheet of the present embodiment consists of, in mass %, C: 0.040 to 0.120%, Si: 0.01 to 0.60%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.50%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.010 to ...