US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on June 23 for "Welded joint and automobile member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,032, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Welded joint and automobile member" was invented by Takuya Mitsunobu (Tokyo), Hiroshi Takebayashi (Tokyo) and Takehiro Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welded joint comprising a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet. A first plating layer is provided on a surface of the first steel sheet facing the second steel sheet, no plating layer is present on or a second plating layer is provided on a surface of the second steel sheet facing the first steel sheet, and a boundary plating layer is provided between the first steel sheet and the second steel ...