US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on March 17 for "Method of manufacturing press-formed product, apparatus for transporting heated workpiece, and hot-press manufacturing line" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,443, issued on March 17, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing press-formed product, apparatus for transporting heated workpiece, and hot-press manufacturing line" was invented by Toshiya Suzuki (Tokyo), Naruhiko Nomura (Tokyo), Koichi Hamada (Tokyo) and Yujiro Tatsumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes: a heating step; a transportation step; and a pressing step. The transportation step includes: using claws of a pair of first arms to support the lower surface, at both ends, of a first heated workpiece and lift the workpiece; using claws of a...