US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on Sept. 2 for "Steel-sheet meandering amount measurement device, steel-sheet meandering amount measurement method, hot-rolling equipment for hot-rolled steel strip, and hot-rolling method of hot-rolled steel strip" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,514, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steel-sheet meandering amount measurement device, steel-sheet meandering amount measurement method, hot-rolling equipment for hot-rolled steel strip, and hot-rolling method of hot-rolled steel strip" was invented by Tomoyoshi Ogasahara (Tokyo), Hiroto Goto (Tokyo), Hideto Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Yukihiro Matsubara (Tokyo) and Mitsutoshi Kemmochi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meandering amount arithmetically operating device of a meandering amount measurement device calculates the meandering amount of a steel sheet using a drive side edge site zds(N) and a work sid...