US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Oct. 27 for "Zn-Al-Mg-based hot-dip plated steel member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,511, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zn-Al-Mg-based hot-dip plated steel member" was invented by Tetsuya Toba (Tokyo), Yasuaki Kawamura (Tokyo) and Tomohito Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Zn-Al-Mg-based hot-dip plated steel member includes: a steel member; and a hot-dip plating layer arranged on a surface of the steel member, wherein the hot-dip plating layer includes, as an average composition, in terms of mass %, 4 to 22% of Al, 1.0 to 10.0% of Mg, 0.0001 to 2% of Fe, and a balance including Zn and impurities; in binarized image data of image data obtained by imaging a surface of th...