ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,110, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Steel component and production method for the same" was invented by Yasuhiro Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production method for a steel component includes preparing a patchwork material including steel sheets that are laid one on another, at least one of overlap surfaces of the steel sheets including a zinc-based plating layer, heating the patchwork material, and performing hot stamping on the patchwork material heated to form the steel component in which a joint part between the steel sheets is disposed in a bent area. When tout denotes a sheet thick...