US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on July 21 for "Automotive body joining position optimization analysis method, device, and program, and automotive body manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,455, issued on July 21, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automotive body joining position optimization analysis method, device, and program, and automotive body manufacturing method" was invented by Yuichi Tokita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive body joining position optimization analysis method includes: setting all or a part of an automotive body model as an analysis object model; generating an optimization analysis model by setting a candidate for weld line to the analysis object model; setting a variable amplitude load condition; setting the reciprocal of a predetermined target fatigue life as a target...