US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 21 for "Powder metal material for additive manufacturing and method for producing non-magnetic steel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,049, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Powder metal material for additive manufacturing and method for producing non-magnetic steel" was invented by Masaki Shinkawa (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuo Kikawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder metal material for additive manufacturing contains: (A) a non-magnetic steel powder which is free of nitrogen; and (B) a ferromanganese nitride powder, a particle size of the component (B) is 15.0 micro metreless than equal toD50less than equal to25.0 micro metre in terms of volume average particle size, and a content of the component (B) is 0.4 mass %...