US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on July 1 for "Hot stamped body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,924, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hot stamped body" was invented by Shingo Fujinaka (Tokyo), Daisuke Maeda (Tokyo) and Yuri Toda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot stamped body with high strength and good bendability, comprising a chemical composition consisting of: in mass %, C: 0.06% or more to less than 0.20%, Si: 0.010 to 1.00%, Mn: 1.20 to 3.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.010 to 0.500%, N: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.0010 to 0.020%, Ti: 0 to 0.10%, V: 0 to 0.10%, Cr: 0 to 0.50%, Mo: 0 to 1.00%, B: 0 to 0.0100%, Ni: 0 to 0.50%, REM: 0 to 0.0100%, Mg: 0 to 0.010%, Ca: 0 to 0.01...