US Patent Issued to Taiyuan University of Technology on April 22 for "Device and method for continuously applying transverse tension in annealing process of ultra-thin strip" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,367, issued on April 22, was assigned to Taiyuan University of Technology (Taiyuan, China).

"Device and method for continuously applying transverse tension in annealing process of ultra-thin strip" was invented by Zhongkai Ren (Taiyuan, China), Jingbi Yang (Taiyuan, China), Xiao Liu (Taiyuan, China), Tao Wang (Taiyuan, China), Peng Chen (Taiyuan, China), Xiaobao Ma (Taiyuan, China) and Liping Bian (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for continuously applying a transverse tension in an annealing process of an ultra-thin strip, including an unfolding and receiving mechanism for unwinding and winding the strip and an ...