US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on Oct. 20 for "Method for manufacturing dissimilar material joint structure, and dissimilar material joint structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,635, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing dissimilar material joint structure, and dissimilar material joint structure" was invented by Kyohei Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Reiichi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a joint structure of dissimilar materials, the method includes: forming a low-temperature thermal spray coating on at least a part of a surface of an aluminum or aluminum alloy material by low-temperature thermal spraying a metal powder of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of pure iron, carbon steel, sta...