US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on July 1 for "Hot-rolled steel sheet and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,913, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hot-rolled steel sheet and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Eisaku Sakurada (Tokyo), Takashi Yasutomi (Tokyo) and Genki Abukawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adopted are a hot-rolled steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in which a region, where a rotation angle between a normal line of a surface and a (011) pole near the normal line becomes 5deg or less, is 0.150 or less from the surface in terms of a sheet thickness direction position standardized by a sheet thickness, and a region, where the rotation angle becomes 20deg or mo...