US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 6 for "Metal composite structure and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,514, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Metal composite structure and method for producing same" was invented by Katsuyuki Awano (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal composite structure includes: a thin steel sheet; a low-specific-gravity sheet material having a lower specific gravity than the thin steel sheet and a lower strength than the thin steel sheet; and an adhesive layer which bonds the thin steel sheet and the low-specific-gravity sheet material and has a lower strength than the thin steel sheet and the low-specific-gravity sheet material, wherein a sheet thickness of the thin stee...