ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,696, issued on May 26, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for manufacturing press formed article and press forming device" was invented by Hiroyuki Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press formed article is manufactured from a metal sheet, the press formed article including a top sheet portion, a vertical wall portion continuous to end portions in the width direction of the top sheet portion via a protruding ridge portion, and an outward flange portion continuous to longitudinal end portions of the top sheet portion, longitudinal end portions of the protruding ridge portion, and longitudinal end portions of t...