US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Nov. 4 for "Method for manufacturing riveted joint, riveted joint, and vehicle component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,034, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing riveted joint, riveted joint, and vehicle component" was invented by Hiroki Fujimoto (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Manabe (Tokyo), Atsushi Ono (Tokyo), Koji Akioka (Tokyo) and Takashi Imamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a riveted joint includes: causing a shaft portion of a steel rivet having the shaft portion and a head portion to pass through through-holes of a plurality of overlaid sheet members; sandwiching the rivet between a pair of electrodes in axial direction of the rivet; applying a force to the rivet and en...