US Patent Issued to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN on Oct. 7 for "Hot rolling mills and hot rolling methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,283, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Hot rolling mills and hot rolling methods" was invented by Tatsunori Sugimoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Kenji Horii (Hiroshima, Japan), Akio Kuroda (Hiroshima, Japan), Akira Sako (Hiroshima, Japan) and Shinya Kanemori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot rolling mill 1 includes a control apparatus 20 that adjusts an angle formed between an upper-side pair of an upper backup roll 120A and an upper work roll 110A and a lower-side pair of a lower backup roll 120B and a lower work roll 110B in a state where the upper-side pair is kept parallel a...