US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Materials on April 7 for "Copper strip for edgewise bending, component for electric or electronic device, and bus bar" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,534, issued on April 7, was assigned to Mitsubishi Materials Corp. (Tokyo).

"Copper strip for edgewise bending, component for electric or electronic device, and bus bar" was invented by Kosei Fukuoka (Kitamoto, Japan), Yuki Ito (Kitamoto, Japan), Kenichiro Kawasaki (Kitamoto, Japan) and Kazunari Maki (Kitamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A copper strip for edgewise bending can be edgewise-bent under a condition that a ratio R/W of a bending radius R to a width W is 5.0 or less. In the copper strip, a thickness t is in a range of 1 mm or more and 10 mm or less, and area ratio B/(A+B) is in a range of more than 10% and 100% o...