US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on Feb. 24 for "Galvanized steel sheet for hot stamping, hot stamped part, and method for producing hot-stamped part" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,828, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Galvanized steel sheet for hot stamping, hot stamped part, and method for producing hot-stamped part" was invented by Sae Hamamoto (Kakogawa, Japan), Keisuke Nakata (Kakogawa, Japan), Tatsuya Asai (Kakogawa, Japan) and Kenji Saito (Kakogawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zinc-plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to an aspect of the present invention includes a base steel sheet satisfying a predetermined composition of chemical components, wherein an amount of solid-soluted B is 10 ppm or more and the base steel sheet has a hot-dip galvannealed l...