Patents Assigned to Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
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Patent number: 11313006Abstract: A process of producing an austenitic stainless steel tube comprises the steps of: a) producing an ingot or a continuous casted billet of the austenitic stainless steel, b) hot extruding the ingot or the billet obtained from step a) into a tube, c) cold rolling the tube obtained from step b) to a final dimension thereof. The outer diameter D of the cold rolled tube is 70-250 mm and the thickness t thereof is 6-25 mm, and the cold rolling step is performed such that the following formula is satisfied: (2.5×Rc+1.85×Rh?17.7×Q)=(Rp0.2target+49.3?1073×C?21Cr?7.17×Mo?833.3×N)±Z??(1) wherein Rp0.2target is targeted yield strength and is 750?Rp0.2target?1000 MPa, 30?Rc?75%, 50%?Rh?90%, 1?Q?3.6, and Z is 65.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Erik Könberg, Daniel Svedberg
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Patent number: 11311948Abstract: A cutting insert for a rotary drill tool and a drill tool assembly in which an insert and a support body are coupled via cooperative contact surfaces and a mounting screw. The contact surfaces provide a dual function to axially and rotationally lock the insert at the support body in addition to providing a centring function of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventor: Patrik Johansson
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Patent number: 11311950Abstract: An internal milling cutter includes a carrier disk having a centre axis defining an axis of rotation of the milling cutter, a plurality of separated tool holder segments removably mounted at the inner circumference of the carrier disk, and at least one clamp for each tool holder segment mounted either on the carrier disk or on the tool holder segment. Each of the tool holder segments at its inner circumference includes at least one cutting insert seat with a mounting element for a cutting insert or at least one cutting edge. The clamp is located and arranged such that it generates a force in the axial direction pressing the axial contact surface of the tool holder segment onto the axial abutment surface of the carrier disk, and the clamp is mounted movably in a radial direction of the carrier disk between a locking position and a releasing position.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Stefan Knecht, Rudolf Lohr
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Patent number: 11306378Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a duplex stainless steel comprising in weight % (wt %): C less than 0.03; Si less than 0.60; Mn 0.40 to 2.00; P less than 0.04; S less than or equal to 0.01; Cr more than 30.00 to 33.00; Ni 6.00 to 10.00; Mo 1.30 to 2.90; N 0.15 to 0.28; Cu 0.60 to 2.20; Al less than 0.05; balance Fe and unavoidable impurities. The present disclosure also relates to a component or a construction material comprising the duplex stainless steel. Additionally, the present disclosure also relates to a process for manufacturing a component comprising said duplex stainless steel.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Tomas Antonsson, Lars Nylöf
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Publication number: 20220112585Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a corrosion resistant duplex stainless steel (ferritic austenitic alloy) which is suitable for use in a plant for the production of urea and uses thereof. The disclosure also relates to objects made of said duplex stainless steel. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a method for the production of urea and to a plant for the production of urea having one or more parts made from the duplex stainless steel, and to a method of modifying an existing plant for the production of urea.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Daniel GULLBERG, Christina HARALDSSON, Anders WILSON, Alexander SCHEERDER, Kirk OFEI
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Patent number: 11285544Abstract: A rock drill insert made of cemented carbide having hard constituents of tungsten carbide (WC) in a binder phase including Co, wherein the cemented carbide includes 4-18 mass % Co and a balance of WC and unavoidable impurities. The cemented carbide also includes Cr in such an amount that the mass ratio Cr/Co is within the range of 0.04-0.19, and the difference between the hardness at a 0.3 mm depth at any point of the surface of the rock drill insert and the hardness of the bulk of the rock drill insert is at least 40 HV3.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Malin Martensson, Ioannis Arvanitidis, Krystof Turba
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Patent number: 11285545Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate of cemented carbide and a coating. The cemented carbide is made of WC and a binder phase of one or more of Co, Fe and Ni. The carbon content in the cemented carbide is a substoichiometric carbon content SCC, wherein ?0.13 wt %?SCC<0 wt %, or ?0.30 wt %?SCC??0.16 wt %. The coating includes one or more layers being a metal carbide, metal nitride or metal carbonitride, the metal being at least one of Zr and Hf, and wherein Ti is present in an amount of at most 10 at-% of the amount metal. The one or more layers is situated between the substrate and the aluminum oxide layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Jose Luis Garcia, Jeanette Persson
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Patent number: 11286559Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating. The coating has an ?-Al2O3-multilayer of alternating sublayers of ?-Al2O3 and sublayers of TiCO, TiCNO, AlTiCO or AlTiCNO. The ?-Al2O3-multilayer includes at least 5 sublayers of ?-Al2O3, wherein the total thickness of the ?-Al2O3-multilayer is 1-15 ?m and wherein a period in the ?-Al2O3-multilayer is 50-900 nm. The ?-Al2O3-multilayer exhibits an XRD diffraction over a ?-2? scan of 20°-140°, wherein the relation of the intensity of the 0 0 12 diffraction peak (peak area), I(0 0 12), to the intensities of the 1 1 3 diffraction peak (peak area), I(1 1 3), the 1 1 6 diffraction peak (peak area), I(1 1 6), and the 0 2 4 diffraction peak (peak area), I(0 2 4), is I(0 0 12)/I(1 1 3)>1, I(0 0 12)/I(1 1 6)>1 and I(0 0 12)/I(0 2 4)>1.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Erik Lindahl, Jan Engqvist
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Patent number: 11285543Abstract: A cutting tool, a turning machine including the cutting tool, and an associated method are provided. The cutting tool includes a tool, a cutting head, a strain gauge, and an accelerometer. The cutting head is located at the tool bar and has a cutting edge. The strain gauge measures strain at the tool bar. The accelerometer measures acceleration at the tool bar or the cutting head. Deflection of the cutting edge is estimated based on output from the strain gauge and the accelerometer. In some embodiments, the accelerometer is arranged close to the cutting edge, while the strain gauge is arranged where the tool bar is susceptible to the largest strain. In some embodiments, low frequency vibrations of the cutting edge are estimated based on measured strain, high frequency vibrations are estimated based on measured acceleration, and medium frequency vibrations are estimated based on output from both sensor types.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Dan Ostling, Tormod Jensen, Mathias Tjomsland, Oddvar Standal, Ole Henrik Johansen, Arnt Erik Reinsbakk
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Patent number: 11280067Abstract: A system for monitoring a status of attachment of a ground engaging tool (GET) at a mining, earth moving or rock processing machine. The system includes providing GET with at least one proximity sensor configured to sense a proximity of the GET relative to a mount region of heavy machinery to which the GET is mountable. The proximity sensor is configured to generate proximity data that is transmitted from the GET via a wireless communication pathway to a receiver located remote from the GET with the receiver configured to output in real-time the attachment status of the GET. The present system is advantageous to identify partial detachment or loosening of a GET so as to prevent undesirable GET loss and contamination of extracted or processed raw material.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Bradley Darlington, Bruce Knowles, Paul Schild, Bradley Dallard
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Patent number: 11275351Abstract: A control system includes a programmable logic control section controlling operation of a machine and a numerical control section controlling relative motion between a tool of the machine and a work piece. A method, performed in the control system, includes: evaluating an input signal, received by the programmable logic control section, in relation to a first condition, wherein the input signal includes information about a state of the tool or of a subtractive process performed via interaction of the tool and the work piece; and in response to the input signal satisfying the first condition, providing the information to the numerical control section. The state may for example be tool breakage, tool wear or wrong cutting data. An operator of the machine may for example specify via programs in the numerical control section how the machine is to respond to such states.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventor: Tennerth Holmstrom
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Patent number: 11273499Abstract: A turning insert includes a top surface, an opposite bottom surface, a reference plane located parallel to and between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a center axis extending perpendicular to the reference plane and intersecting the reference plane (RP), the top surface and the bottom surface. Side surfaces connect the top surface and the bottom surface. Three nose portions are formed symmetrically relative to the center axis. Each nose portion includes a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge and a convex nose cutting edge connecting the first) and second cutting edges. In a top view the first and second cutting edges on the same nose portion form a nose angle of 25-50° relative to each other. The distance from the first cutting edge to the reference plane varies in such a way that that this distance is decreasing at increasing distance from the nose cutting edge.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Ronnie Lof, Adam Johansson
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Publication number: 20220074026Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of a component manufactured of an aluminium alloyed nickel-based material in a molten salt environment, especially a carbonate salt environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Christine GEERS, Thomas HELANDER, Mats LUNDBERG
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Patent number: 11261510Abstract: A cutting tool made of a cemented carbide substrate of WC, a metallic binder phase and gamma phase is provided. The cemented carbide has a well distributed gamma phase and a reduced amount of abnormal WC grains. The cutting tool has a more predicted tool life and an increased resistance against plastic deformation.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Leif Akesson, Anders Stenberg, Carl-Johan Maderud, Susanne Norgren, Elias Forssbeck Nyrot
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Patent number: 11260395Abstract: A distributor plate assembly for a vertical shaft impact (VSI) crusher is optimized for abrasion wear resistance. The distributor plate includes a plurality of plate segments, each segment being formed from a main body of ductile iron alloy having cemented carbide granules embedded within the iron alloy.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Hodin Esbelani, Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg, Mats Malmberg, Oskar Larsson
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Patent number: 11248285Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a new duplex stainless steel. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a product comprising the duplex stainless steel, which method comprises the step of performing a heat treatment on an object comprising the duplex stainless steel at a predetermined temperature and during a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Eleonora Bettini, Raghuveer Gaddam, Karin Antonsson, Guocai Chai, Christina Haraldsson, Siriki Raveendra
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Patent number: 11247280Abstract: A rotatable tool for producing a circular groove through metal cutting in a metal work piece and a method of forming the circular groove with the rotatable tool is disclosed. The rotatable tool includes a front end and a second end. The front end includes a first radially outer cutting edge and a second radially inner cutting edge, where the first radially outer cutting edge is located at a larger radial distance from the tool center axis than any other cutting edge of the rotatable tool, and where the second radially inner cutting edge is located at a smaller radial distance from the tool center axis than any other cutting edge of the rotatable tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Michael Embretsen, Stefan Persson
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Patent number: 11247360Abstract: A blade portion for a grooving tool includes opposite first and second surfaces, a blade width thereof being defined as a shortest distance between the first and second surfaces, opposite third and fourth surfaces, and a fifth surface and an opposite blade portion end. The blade width is constant or substantially constant from the fifth surface up to the blade portion end. An insert seat separating the third surface and the fifth surface is arranged to receive an insert having a main cutting edge, an associated rake face, and an associated main clearance surface. The main cutting edge defines an insert width being greater than the blade width. A shortest distance from the fifth surface to the opposite blade portion end is greater than a shortest distance from the third surface to the fourth surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Staffan Lundstrom, Johan Anderstedt
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Patent number: 11242584Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a corrosion resistant duplex stainless steel (ferritic austenitic alloy), which is suitable for use in a plant for the production of urea and uses thereof. The disclosure also relates to objects made of the duplex stainless steel. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a method for the production of urea and to a plant for the production of urea having one or more parts made from the duplex stainless steel, and to a method of modifying an existing plant for the production of urea.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property ABInventors: Daniel Gullberg, Christina Haraldsson, Anders Wilson, Alexander Scheerder, Kirk Ofei
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Patent number: 11229961Abstract: A cutting insert and a shoulder milling tool are disclosed. The cutting insert includes a surface-wiping secondary cutting edge inclined in relation to a median plane of the cutting insert such that a distance to the median plane decreases in a direction toward a corner cutting edge. The corner cutting edge, as seen in a side view along the median plane and towards a main cutting edge, has a concave curve.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Thomas Eriksson, Jorgen Jansson Udd