US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Spatter detection method and method for manufacturing welded member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,408, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Spatter detection method and method for manufacturing welded member" was invented by Yosuke Tamada (Toyota, Japan), Tomoko Ogasahara (Nagoya, Japan) and Tomohiko Sekiguchi (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatter detection method in which the accuracy of detection of an occurrence of sputter is high, and a method for manufacturing a welded member are provided. A spatter detection method according to the present disclosure is a spatter detection method for detecting an occurrence of sputter in resistance spot welding, the resistance spot wel...