US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on April 7 for "Steel wire for machine structural parts and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,527, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Steel wire for machine structural parts and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Yosuke Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan), Kenshi Ikeda (Kobe, Japan), Takuya Kochi (Kobe, Japan), Masayuki Sakata (Kobe, Japan), Tatsunori Uchida (Kobe, Japan), Koji Yamashita (Kobe, Japan) and Yuta Inoue (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel wire for machine structural parts, may include Fe, inevitable impurities, and, by mass: 0.05 to 0.60% C; 0.005 to 0.50% Si; 0.30 to 1.20% Mn; more than 0 to 0.050% P; more than 0 to 0.050% S; 0.001 to 0.10% Al; more than 0 to 1...