US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Steel sheet member and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,488, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Steel sheet member and method for producing the same" was invented by Motoyuki Shibata (Nisshin, Japan), Tomoaki Ihara (Toyota, Japan) and Shinichiro Aoki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a steel sheet member according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a step of forming a flange portion by burring a peripheral edge portion after induction heating of a peripheral edge portion of a through-hole formed in a first steel sheet to remove strain; and a step of press-fitting a bush into the flange portion with t...