US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Sept. 22 for "Manufacturing method of press formed product, press forming apparatus, and press forming line" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,308, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing method of press formed product, press forming apparatus, and press forming line" was invented by Soma Sonobe (Tokyo), Satoshi Shirakami (Tokyo) and Takashi Ariga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a press forming product, includes: constraining a first face of an intermediate formed product, the intermediate formed product including the first face, a raised face, and a first ridgeline located between the first face and the raised face, and performing flange forming of press forming the raised face into a second face, a fl...