US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on April 7 for "Steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction method, steel-sheet defect reduction method, hot-dip galvanized steel sheet manufacturing method, and steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction model generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,543, issued on April 7, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction method, steel-sheet defect reduction method, hot-dip galvanized steel sheet manufacturing method, and steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction model generation method" was invented by Maiko Hiyama (Tokyo), Hideyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Gentaro Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel-sheet non-plating defect prediction method in manufacturing equipment of a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet which equipment includes an annealing furnace, and a plating device arranged on a downstream side of the annealing furnace, the ...