US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on July 8 for "Shearing method, shearing device, and shearing facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,728, issued on July 8, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Shearing method, shearing device, and shearing facility" was invented by Takashi Yasutomi (Tokyo), Shigeru Yonemura (Tokyo) and Tohru Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shearing method of a plate-shaped workpiece for applying a shear force in a thickness direction of the plate-shaped workpiece includes: a step for starting applying the shear force on the workpiece with a clearance between action points in a surface direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the workpiece; a step for applying the shear force after the start of applying the shear fo...