ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,625, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hot-dip plated steel sheet" was invented by Kohei Tokuda (Tokyo), Mamoru Saito (Tokyo) and Yuto Fukuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-dip plated steel sheet has a plating layer, in which the plating layer contains Al: more than 30.0% and 50.0% or less, Mg: more than 5.0% and 15.0% or less, Si: more than 0.5% and 1.0% or less when Al is more than 30.0% and less than 35.0%, and 0.03% or more and 1.0% or less when Al is 35.0% or more and 50.0% or less, Fe: 0% or more and 5.0% or less, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and, in an X-ray diffra...