US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on July 1 for "Hot stamped body and method for producing same and Al-plated steel sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,908, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hot stamped body and method for producing same and Al-plated steel sheet" was invented by Michiko Konno (Tokyo), Jun Maki (Tokyo), Shinichi Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Soshi Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hot stamped body comprising a steel base material, an Al-plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel base material, a coating formed on the Al-plating layer and containing ZnO particles and CeO2 particles having an average particle size smaller than an average particle size of the ZnO particles, and a Zn- and Al-containing complex ...