US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on July 28 for "Springback-amount-discrepancy-causing-portion specifying method and device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,175, issued on July 28, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Springback-amount-discrepancy-causing-portion specifying method and device" was invented by Takeshi Ogawa (Tokyo), Masaki Urabe (Tokyo) and Eiji Iizuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for specifying a portion causing a discrepancy in springback amount between CAE analysis and an actual formed product. The method includes a formed-product-driving-stress-distribution acquisition step of acquiring a driving stress distribution of a press-formed product, an analysis-driving-stress-distribution acquisition step of acquiring a driving stress distrib...