US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on March 31 for "Meandering amount detection method and meandering control method for metal strip" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,422, issued on March 31, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Meandering amount detection method and meandering control method for metal strip" was invented by Masanori Hoshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meandering amount detection method for a metal strip that detects a meandering amount of a metal strip traveling in a state of being overlapped in a plurality of stages at intervals, the meandering amount detection method includes: measuring a distance from a mounting position of a distance meter in a direction intersecting a width direction of a metal strip, using a plurality of distance meters provided side by si...