US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on May 12 for "Manufacturing method and manufacturing equipment of cold-rolled steel sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,264, issued on May 12, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing method and manufacturing equipment of cold-rolled steel sheet" was invented by Daiki Hioka (Tokyo), Yukihiro Matsubara (Tokyo), Noriki Fujita (Tokyo), Masaki Hino (Tokyo), Tetsuya Arakawa (Tokyo) and Miwa Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a cold-rolled steel sheet in which the method uses a full-width heating device that heats a steel sheet over an entire area in a width direction of the steel sheet, an edge heating device that heats end portions in the width direction of the steel sheet, and a cold rolling mill that rol...