Patents by Inventor Bruno SCHEPERS, SR.

Bruno SCHEPERS, SR. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Structural Automotive Part Made From an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy Product and Method of its Manufacture
    Publication number: 20140069557
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a formed aluminium alloy body-in-white (“BIW”) part of a motor vehicle, the BIW part having a yield strength of more than 500 MPa after being subjected to a paint-bake cycle. The method includes providing a rolled aluminium sheet product of an AlZnMgCu alloy and having a gauge in a range of 0.5 to 4 mm and subjected to a solution heat treatment (SHT) and quenched following SHT, and wherein the SHT and quenched aluminium sheet product has a substantially recrystallized microstructure, forming the aluminium alloy sheet to obtain a formed BIW part, assembling the formed BIW part with one or more other metal parts to form an assembly forming a motor vehicle component, subjecting the motor vehicle component to a paint bake cycle, wherein the aluminium alloy sheet in the formed BIW part has a yield strength of more than 500 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicants: Aleris Aluminum Koblenz GmbH, Aleris Aluminum Duffel BVBA
    Inventors: Axel Alexander Maria SMEYERS, SR., Bruno SCHEPERS, SR., Sabine Maria SPANGEL, Alastair WISE, Ingo Günther Kröpfl, Sunil KHOSLA