US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Adhesion prediction method, adhesion prediction program, and adhesion prediction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,138, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Adhesion prediction method, adhesion prediction program, and adhesion prediction device" was invented by Kunihito Ona (Toyota, Japan) and Kazuhiro Suzuki (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesion prediction method of predicting adhesion of metal particles in a workpiece to a die in a forging process using an aluminum-based material as the workpiece includes: a cumulative friction work amount calculation step of calculating a cumulative friction work amount generated between the workpiece and the die; a metal diffusion analysis step of analy...