Patents Examined by Daniel J Schleis
  • Patent number: 11969830
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet including a core material, a sacrificial material provided on one surface of the core material, a brazing filler material provided on the other surface side of the core material, and an intermediate layer provided between the core material and the brazing filler material. The core material contains Si: 0.30 to 1.00 mass %, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Cu: 0.60 to 1.20 mass %, Mg: 0.05 to 0.80 mass %, and Al. The sacrificial material contains Si: 0.10 to 1.20 mass %, Zn: 2.00 to 7.00 mass %, Mn: 0.40 mass % or less, and Al. The intermediate layer contains Si: 0.05 to 1.20 mass %, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Cu: 0.10 to 1.20 mass %, and Al.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Hashimoto, Kenichiro Yoshida, Yuji Shibuya, Akihiro Tsuruno, Yoshikazu Miyano, Hajime Sugito, Michiyasu Yamamoto, Masayuki Makita, Arisu Fujii, Shin Takewaka, Hayaki Teramoto, Koichi Yamamoto, Toshihide Ninagawa
  • Patent number: 11965252
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermally sprayed coating that is a thermally sprayed iron-based coating formed on an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder bore of an aluminum or aluminum alloy cylinder block. The thermally sprayed coating has a plastic deformation part on its surface. Thus, pores on the surface of the thermally sprayed coating are reduced, resulting in a reduction in the amount of oil consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Hirayama, Tsuyoshi Higuchi, Yoshito Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11965493
    Abstract: An adjustable deforming composite structure based on a hydrogen-induced expansion effect and a preparation method therefor are provided. The hydrogen-induced expansion effect means metals absorb hydrogen under a hydrogen-containing atmosphere and at a temperature to produce a volume expansion effect. Reactions between the metals and hydrogen are reversible reactions. When a hydrogen partial pressure is reduced or the temperature is increased, the hydrogen in the metals is removed, and the metals are restored to an original shape. Under a stimulation of external hydrogen and heat, a composite of a hydrogen-absorbing metal and other non-hydrogen-absorbing materials undergo an adjustable deformation according to a design, and a material undergoes reversible shape changes. The preparation method is applied to composite materials for a 4D printing and is used for an intelligent shape adjustment at a medium to high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chengshang Zhou, Yong Liu, Zhongyuan Duan
  • Patent number: 11959180
    Abstract: An anticorrosion coating and an article coated with an anticorrosion coating, especially for use in an aircraft, and a method of producing a coated article and a vehicle, especially an aircraft, including an anticorrosion coating or at least one such coated article. An anticorrosion coating includes an aluminum alloy having 0.03-0.5% by weight of tin. A coated article produced at least partly from a material and having at least partly been coated with the anticorrosion coating including an aluminum alloy having 0.03-0.5% by weight of tin. A method of producing the anticorrosion coating is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Blawert, Florian Gehrig, Tillmann Doerr, Bettina Kröger-Kallies, Oliver Rohr, Mikhail Zheludkevich, Maria del Rosario Silva Campos, Michael Störmer
  • Patent number: 11958266
    Abstract: Provided herein is a rolled composite aerospace product comprising a 2XXX-series core layer and an Al—Cu alloy clad layer coupled to at least one surface of the 2XXX-series core layer, wherein the Al—Cu alloy is an aluminium alloy comprising about 0.06% to 2.8% Cu, and preferably about 0.10% to 1.8% Cu. The rolled composite aerospace product is ideally suitable for structural aerospace parts. Also described herein is a method of manufacturing a rolled composite aerospace product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NOVELIS KOBLENZ GMBH
    Inventors: Achim Bürger, Sabine Maria Spangel, Philippe Meyer
  • Patent number: 11939654
    Abstract: A method for producing a corrosion resistant aluminum alloy extrusion. The method includes providing molten alloy with a composition comprising ?0.30, % by weight of silicon, ?0.40, % by weight of iron, 0.01-0.6% manganese, ?0.30, % magnesium, ?0.70, % zinc, 0.05-0.35% chromium, 0.02-0.20% zirconium, ?0.25% titanium, ?0.20% vanadium, ?0.10% copper, up to 0.15% by weight of other impurities, each not greater than 0.03% by weight, and the balance aluminum. The method includes casting the alloy into an extrusion billet, subjecting the billet to a homogenization treatment at a holding temperature of 550 to 620 deg.C for 6 to 10 hours, heating the billet to a temperature of 400 to 550 deg.C, and extruding the billet to a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HYDRO EXTRUDED SOLUTIONS AS
    Inventors: Arvid Espedal, Xiao-Jun Jiang, Minxia Li
  • Patent number: 11932924
    Abstract: Provided herein are new aluminum alloy products and methods of making these alloys. The aluminum alloy products are age-hardenable, display high strength and formability, and allow for the use of recycled scrap. The aluminum alloys can serve as the core in a clad aluminum alloy product. The alloy products can be used in a variety of applications, including automotive, transportation, and electronics applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NOVELIS, INC.
    Inventors: Aurèle Mariaux, Aude Celine Despois, Milan Felberbaum, Guillaume Florey
  • Patent number: 11931821
    Abstract: A magnesium clad material 100 includes, when a cross-section thereof cut in a thickness direction thereof is observed, a Mg layer (11), a first Al layer (12) made of pure Al or an Al alloy, and a first joint (13) made of pure Cu or a Cu alloy and arranged between the Mg layer and the first Al layer, and the magnesium clad material has a 0.2% proof stress of 150 MPa or more as measured in a tensile test under a room temperature atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Okura, Ryoji Inoue
  • Patent number: 11932925
    Abstract: Provided herein are new aluminum alloys comprising Ca, Mg and/or Zn and new coated aluminum alloys comprising surface layers (e.g., coatings) comprising Ca, Mn, Zn, and/or Ni that can be used in aluminum alloy products, such as clad layers. Also provided are methods of making these aluminum alloys, coated aluminum alloys, and clad layers, as well as clad products. These alloys, coated alloys, clad layers, and products possess a combination of strength and other key attributes, such as corrosion resistance, formability, and applicability of paint line pretreatments. The materials can be used in a variety of applications, including automotive, transportation, and electronics applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NOVELIS INC.
    Inventors: Aurèle Mariaux, Juergen Timm, Guillaume Florey, Emanuel Beck, Lasitha Cumaranatunge, Peter Lloyd Redmond, Duane E. Bendzinski, Aude Celine Despois, Theresa Elizabeth MacFarlane, Rajeev G. Kamat
  • Patent number: 11932922
    Abstract: A strip intended for the manufacture of brazed heat exchangers, having a core made of an aluminium alloy with the composition (weight %): Si: 0.10-0.30%, preferably 0.15-0.25% Fe<0.20% Cu: 0.75-1.05%, preferably 0.75-1.02%, more preferably 0.75-1.0% Mn: 1.2-1.7%, preferably 1.2-1.55%, more preferably 1.25-1.4% Mg<0.03% preferably <0.025%, more preferably <0.015% Zn<0.1% Ti<0.15% other elements <0.05% each and <0.15% in total, remainder aluminium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH
    Inventors: Lionel Peguet, Bechir Chehab
  • Patent number: 11920243
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sheet metal component including: annealing a flat steel product comprising 0.05-0.5% C, 0.5-3% Mn, 0.06-1.7% Si, ?0.06% P, ?0.01% S, ?1.0% Al, ?0.15% Ti, ?0.6% Nb, ?0.01% B, ?1.0% Cr, ?1.0% Mo, ?1.0% Cr+Mo, ?0.2% Ca, ?0.1% V, remainder iron and impurities in a continuous furnace under an atmosphere consisting of 0.1-15% hydrogen and remainder nitrogen with a specific dew point and temperature profile; applying a coating consisting of ?15% Si, ?5% Fe, in total 0.1-5% of at least one alkaline earth or transition metal and a remainder Al and unavoidable impurities; heating the flat steel product to >Ac3 and ?1000° C. for a time sufficient to introduce a heat energy quantity >100,000-800,000 kJs; hot-forming the flat steel product to form the component; and cooling at least one section of the component at a cooling rate sufficient to generate hardening structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
    Inventors: Maria Köyer, Manuela Ruthenberg, Janko Banik, Ulrich Etzold
  • Patent number: 11913117
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-stamping component, which includes a base steel plate; and a plated layer on the base steel plate and including a first layer, a second layer, and an intermetallic compound portion having an island shape in the second layer, wherein the first layer and the second layer are sequentially stacked, and an area fraction of the intermetallic compound portion with respect to the second layer is an amount of 20% to 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Steel Company
    Inventors: Hye Jin Kim, Kyu Yeon Hwang, Hyun Yeong Jung, Jin Ho Lee, Seung Pill Jung
  • Patent number: 11904572
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum-based plated steel that is provided for vehicles by hot forming, an aluminum-based alloy plated steel manufactured using the same, and method of manufacturing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jin-Keun Oh, Il-Ryoung Sohn, Seong-Woo Kim, Jeom-Soo Shin
  • Patent number: 11905600
    Abstract: Provided is an Al-plated hot stamped steel material comprising a steel base material, an Al-plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel base material, and a chemical conversion coating formed on the Al-plating layer and containing zinc phosphate-based crystals and Ce-based compounds deposited on the surfaces of the zinc phosphate-based crystals, wherein an amount of deposition of the zinc phosphate-based crystals in the chemical conversion coating is, converted to metal Zn, 0.3 to 4.0 g/m2 and an area ratio of the Ce-based compounds in the chemical conversion coating is 0.5 to 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamaguchi, Soshi Fujita
  • Patent number: 11905586
    Abstract: A low friction wear film includes a chromium layer provided on a surface of a metal substrate, a tungsten carbide layer provided on a surface of the chromium layer, and a diamond-like carbon layer as a top layer provided on a surface of the tungsten carbide layer. The tungsten carbide layer includes a chromium-tungsten carbide gradient layer and a tungsten carbide uniform layer. In the tungsten carbide layer, a tungsten-concentrated layer in which a tungsten simple substance is present is not provided at a boundary between the chromium-tungsten carbide gradient layer and the tungsten carbide uniform layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOHKEN THERMO TECH CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chengji Jin, Hodo Suzuki, Masaki Kajino, Kazuya Kitamura, Naoyuki Omori
  • Patent number: 11904571
    Abstract: A composite material structure includes a first metal member and a second metal member bonding to the first metal member. A bonding surface is formed therebetween. A first hole is through the first metal member. A circular bonding line is formed at a junction of a wall of the first hole and the bonding surface. A sleeve protrudes from the second metal member into the first hole, and covers the bonding line. A groove indents from the first metal member. The groove has a bottom surface located in the same plane with a top surface of the sleeve. A processing method of the composite material structure is also provided. The sleeve covers the bonding line between the first metal member and the second metal member, which allows the composite material structure to provide an improved sealing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fulian Yuzhan Precision Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Yan, Jiang-Bo Kong, Jie Wang, Shao-Wen Liu, Lei Zhu
  • Patent number: 11898252
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet preventing microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Hyeon-Seok Hwang, Myung-Soo Kim, Kwang-Tai Min, Dae-Young Kang
  • Patent number: 11897014
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hot-press formed part comprising a plated steel sheet and an aluminum alloy plated layer formed on the plated steel sheet, wherein the aluminum alloy plated layer comprises: an alloying layer (I) formed on the plated steel sheet and containing, by weight %, 5-30% of Al; an alloying layer (II) formed on the alloying layer (I) and containing, by weight %, 30 to 60% of Al; an alloying layer (III) formed on the alloying layer (II) and containing, by weight %, 20-50% of Al and 5-20% of Si; and an alloying layer (IV) formed continuously or discontinuously on at least a part of the surface of the alloying layer (III), and containing 30-60% of Al, wherein the rate of the alloying layer (III) exposed on the outermost surface of the aluminum alloy plated layer is 10% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Seong-Woo Kim, Jin-Keun Oh, Sang-Heon Kim, Hyo-Sik Chun
  • Patent number: 11898651
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for a valve including a surface movably engaged with another surface. A coating is on the surface and is characterized by: a CoF of less than 0.1; a hardness in excess of 1,200 HVN; impermeability to liquids at pressures ranging from 15 and 20,000 psi; a surface finish of 63 or less; and a thickness ranging from 0.5 to 20 mils. The disclosure provides for material constructions including a continuous phase, including a transition metal, and a discontinuous phase, including a solid dry lubricant. The disclosure also provides for a method of depositing a coating that includes depositing a first layer of a coating onto a surface using electroplating, electroless plating, thermal spraying, or cladding, and then depositing a second layer of the coating onto a surface of the first layer using sputtering, ion beam, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, cathodic arc, or chemical vapor deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manuel Marya, Ronald Manson, Christian Meade
  • Patent number: 11897229
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet preventing microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Hyeon-Seok Hwang, Myung-Soo Kim