US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on May 20 for "Electrical steel sheet and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,253, issued on May 20, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical steel sheet and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Miho Tomita (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Natori (Tokyo), Hiroyoshi Yashiki (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Fujimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This electrical steel sheet contains, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.0035% or less, Si: 2.00% to 3.50%, Mn: 2.00% to 5.00%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0070% or less, Al: 0.15% or less, N: 0.0030% or less, Ni: 0% to 1.00%, Cu: 0% to 0.10%, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, in which an X-ray random intensity ratio in a {100} greater than011less than crystal...