US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 25 for "Joined structure, joining method, and joining material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,650, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Joined structure, joining method, and joining material" was invented by Takahiro Kumakawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joined structure includes: a first member; and a second member that faces the first member and that is joined to the first member via a joining layer. The joining layer includes a metal material and a solder material, apart of the metal material has at least one pore, and the solder material is located in a part of an internal area of the at least one pore. Also disclosed is a joining metho...