ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,331, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for manufacturing hot-dip metal-coated steel strip" was invented by Kenji Yamashiro (Tokyo), Hideyuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Yu Terasaki (Tokyo), Yoshihiko Kaku (Tokyo) and Takumi Koyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for manufacturing a hot-dip metal-coated steel strip. The method includes continuously dipping a steel strip in a molten metal bath, injecting a gas from gas injection ports of paired gas wiping nozzles arranged on both front and back surface sides of the steel strip onto the steel strip pulled-up from the molten metal bath to...