US Patent Issued to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK on Sept. 8 for "Method for producing a motor vehicle component by hot-forming with integrated cut" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,453, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Method for producing a motor vehicle component by hot-forming with integrated cut" was invented by Oliver Luetkemeyer (Paderborn, Germany) and Josef Koester (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a motor vehicle component by hot-forming, hot-cutting, and press-hardening a plate made of a hardenable steel sheet alloy, heating to a temperature greater than Ac1, inserting in a combined forming and cutting tool, fixing the inserted plate in the forming and cutting tool using a stamp which is arranged in the inner r...