US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on Aug. 18 for "Galvanized steel sheet and member, and method of producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,783, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Galvanized steel sheet and member, and method of producing same" was invented by Sho Higuchi (Tokyo), Yoshiyasu Kawasaki (Tokyo), Tatsuya Nakagaito (Tokyo) and Takako Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having high strength, excellent ductility, excellent strain hardenability in a low strain range, and excellent strain hardenability in a high strain range. A base steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a steel microstructure as follows: area fraction of ferrite: 20.0% or more and 90.0% or less, area fraction o...