US Patent Issued to POSCO on Feb. 3 for "Flash butt welding member and flash butt welding method for providing wheel rim weld part with excellent formability" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,554, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to POSCO Co. LTD (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Flash butt welding member and flash butt welding method for providing wheel rim weld part with excellent formability" was invented by Gyu-Yeol Bae (Incheon, South Korea) and Ho-Soo Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a flash butt welding member and a flash butt welding method for providing a wheel rim weld part with excellent formability. The flash butt welding member of the present invention satisfies that a weld part has a hardness of 220-270 Hv, and dgreater than0.25T, when d is the closest distance between fine-grained...