US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on March 24 for "Resin coated metal sheet, container, and method for improving retort whitening property" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,013, issued on March 24, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin coated metal sheet, container, and method for improving retort whitening property" was invented by Soichi Fujimoto (Tokyo), Tomonari Hiraguchi (Tokyo), Yasuhide Oshima (Tokyo), Yuya Kawai (Tokyo) and Katsumi Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin coated metal sheet includes: a metal sheet; and a resin layer configured to coat at least one face of the metal sheet. A pushing depth of the resin layer on a side adhered to the one face of the metal sheet is 100 nm to 250 nm, the pushing depth being determined by a nano indentation test, and a melting p...