ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,966, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transverse flux induction heating device" was invented by Kenji Umetsu (Tokyo) and Tsutomu Ueki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coils (230, 330) are respectively arranged on a front side and a rear side of a planned conveyance plane (CP). Main cores (211, 311), edge cores (212, 213, 312, 313), and bridge cores (220a, 220b, 320a, 330b) are arranged with respect to the coils (230, 330). The bridge cores (220a, 220b, 320a, 330b) are arranged on a back side of the main cores (211, 311) and the edge cores (212, 213, 312, 313). The main cores (211, 311) and the edge...