US Patent Issued to NIPPON LIGHT METAL on May 12 for "Method for manufacturing joined body, and joining device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,300, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing joined body, and joining device" was invented by Nobushiro Seo (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shingo Koizumi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for manufacturing a joined body using a rotary tool with a stirring pin to perform friction stirring on a composite body having a first surface and a second surface that is different from the first surface. In the composite body, metal members are combined together in a joined arrangement. The method includes the steps of: forming the composite body by combin...