US Patent Issued to UACJ on May 27 for "Brazed aluminum member and method for producing brazed product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,473, issued on May 27, was assigned to UACJ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Brazed aluminum member and method for producing brazed product" was invented by Shinichi Nakamura (Tokyo), Tomoki Yamayoshi (Tokyo), Taichi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Hirokazu Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a brazed aluminum member brazed with a member formed of a brazing sheet, in which two or more grooves are provided on a surface of the brazed aluminum member in a fillet forming area, a groove depth (D1) of the grooves is 0.005 mm to 0.50 mm, a groove width (W1) of the grooves is 0.005 mm to 0.50 mm, a ratio (W1/D1) of the groove width (W1) to the groove...