US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Oct. 27 for "Plated steel material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,510, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Plated steel material" was invented by Takuya Mitsunobu (Tokyo), Kotaro Ishii (Tokyo), Mamoru Saito (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Takebayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plated steel material including a plated layer arranged on a surface of a base steel material, wherein the plated layer includes, in terms of mass %, 5.0 to 40.0% of Al, 0.5 to 15.0% of Mg, and 5.0 to 40.0% of Fe, and further includes a balance including Zn and impurities, and the plated layer includes a first region where an Fe concentration is less than 5.0 mass %, and a second region where an F...