US Patent Issued to HINODE on Aug. 11 for "Iron alloy material for casting and iron casting" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,902, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HINODE LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Iron alloy material for casting and iron casting" was invented by Takuo Umetani (Fukuoka, Japan), Tomohiro Ikeda (Fukuoka, Japan), Koki Takeya (Fukuoka, Japan) and Kota Takahashi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An iron alloy material for casting includes 0.3 to 3.5 mass % of C, 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Si, 26.0 to 42.0 mass % of Ni, 0.02 to 0.50 mass % of Sb, and a balance that is Fe and an inevitable impurity/impurities."

The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2021, under Application No. 18/027,845.

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