ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,651, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Device and method for manufacturing metal-resin composite" was invented by Kenichi Watanabe (Kobe, Japan), Hiroko Kashima (Kobe, Japan) and Shu Sekiguchi (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a metal-resin composite includes preparing a mold including a first mold forming a housing portion and a second mold movable with respect to the first mold, housing an extruded material in the housing portion, arranging resin material on the first mold, moving the second mold to form a cavity defined by the extruded material and the mold, and ...