US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL on Aug. 18 for "Ferritic stainless steel sheet and production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,782, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ferritic stainless steel sheet and production method" was invented by Ryo Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Masaharu Hatano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a ferritic stainless steel sheet including a magnetized area fraction of 50% or more wherein the ferritic stainless steel sheet chemical composition includes, in mass %: C: 0.015% or less, Si: 3.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or less, S: 0.0040% or less, P: 0.08% or less, Al: 0.80% or less, N: 0.030% or less, Cr: 15.0 to 25.0%, Mo: 0.5 to 3.0%, Ti: 0 to 0.50%, Nb: 0 to 0.50%, Ni: 0 to 0.50%, Cu:...