US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on July 14 for "Lifting magnet and steel plate lifting apparatus, and steel plate conveying method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,701, issued on July 14, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lifting magnet and steel plate lifting apparatus, and steel plate conveying method" was invented by Yuki Takaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Yoshinari (Tokyo), Kyohei Ishida (Tokyo), Masami Tate (Tokyo) and Takeshi Taki (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifting magnet including a plurality of electromagnetic coils that are disposed in a nesting arrangement and capable of being independently ON/OFF-controlled and voltage-controlled. By using the plurality of electromagnetic coils in a selective or appropriately combined manner, the lifting magnet secures a sufficient m...