Patents by Inventor Nicole Weiher
Nicole Weiher 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).
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Patent number: 10480080Abstract: A method of activating a metal surface, such as a galvanized steel sheet, before a phosphating process, may involve bringing the metal surface into contact with an activating bath containing activating particles, which may be based on phosphate and/or titanium, dispersed in water. To alleviate or even eliminate the problems of poor adhesion of surface coatings to preferably electrolytically galvanized, phosphated metal strip, an additive that suppresses or at least slows agglomeration of the activating particles may be added to the activating bath. In some examples, polyethylene glycol (PEG) and/or sodium stearate may be added. Further, the particle size distribution of the activating particles present in the activating bath may be determined and the activating bath may be replaced or taken out of operation as a function of the particle size distribution of the activating particles.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, ThyssenKrupp AGInventors: Fabian Junge, Gregor Müller, Nicole Weiher, Heinrich Meyring, Frank Panter
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Publication number: 20170029954Abstract: A method of activating a metal surface, such as a galvanized steel sheet, before a phosphating process, may involve bringing the metal surface into contact with an activating bath containing activating particles, which may be based on phosphate and/or titanium, dispersed in water. To alleviate or even eliminate the problems of poor adhesion of surface coatings to preferably electrolytically galvanized, phosphated metal strip, an additive that suppresses or at least slows agglomeration of the activating particles may be added to the activating bath. In some examples, polyethylene glycol (PEG) and/or sodium stearate may be added. Further, the particle size distribution of the activating particles present in the activating bath may be determined and the activating bath may be replaced or taken out of operation as a function of the particle size distribution of the activating particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicants: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, ThyssenKrupp AGInventors: Fabian Junge, Gregor Müller, Nicole Weiher, Heinrich Meyring, Frank Panter
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Patent number: 9088011Abstract: A bipolar plate which can be produced particularly economically for a fuel cell, with which a high degree of efficiency is guaranteed over a long service life. The bipolar plate has a core layer consisting of a steel material, the surfaces of said core layer, which are associated with the respective electrolyte carriers of the fuel cell, having a corrosion protection layer, protecting the core layer against corrosion. The corrosion protection layers consist of a metal material and extend on both sides over the whole surface of the core layer. At the same time the corrosion protection layers are in turn coated over the whole surface with an electrically conductive functional coating, which is essentially entirely impermeable for the metal ions emerging from the core layer and/or the corrosion protection layers. The invention likewise relates to at least one fuel cell comprising a bipolar plate according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Stefan Wischmann, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich, Michael Steinhorst, Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher
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Patent number: 9040167Abstract: A flat steel product having a base layer of a steel material and a multilayer coating applied thereto, and a method for producing the flat steel product. The method having the following steps: providing a steel base layer; applying a zinc layer to the base layer by electrolytic coating; applying an aluminum layer to the surface of the zinc layer, wherein no treatment is made to the surface of the zinc layer in regard to the oxides and sulfides present thereon at the end of the electrolytic zinc coating step or occurring during the course of the aluminum coating step; applying a magnesium layer to the aluminum layer; and subsequently heat treating the flat steel product in such a way that an MgZn2 layer forms in the coating above the Al layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Bernd Schuhmacher, Christian Schwerdt, Nicole Weiher, Richard Weinhold
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Publication number: 20120129001Abstract: A flat steel product, comprising a base layer consisting of a steel material, and a multilayer coating applied thereto, and a method for producing the flat steel product.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Bernd Schuhmacher, Christian Schwerdt, Nicole Weiher, Richard Weinhold
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Publication number: 20120121927Abstract: A flat steel product provided with a coating system, which in the coated state possesses an optimized combination of corrosion resistance and welding capacity, includes a base layer formed from a steel and a corrosion protection system applied onto the base layer. The corrosion protection system comprises a metallic coating less than 3.5 ?m thick, formed from a first metallic layer applied onto the base layer and a second metallic layer applied onto the first metallic layer, wherein the second metallic layer has formed a metallic alloy with the first metallic layer. The corrosion protection system also comprises a plasma polymer layer applied onto the metallic coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Bernd Schuhmacher
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Publication number: 20100178579Abstract: A bipolar plate which can be produced particularly economically for a fuel cell, with which a high degree of efficiency is guaranteed over a long service life. The bipolar plate has a core layer consisting of a steel material, the surfaces of said core layer, which are associated with the respective electrolyte carriers of the fuel cell, having a corrosion protection layer, protecting the core layer against corrosion. The corrosion protection layers consist of a metal material and extend on both sides over the whole surface of the core layer. At the same time the corrosion protection layers are in turn coated over the whole surface with an electrically conductive functional coating, which is essentially entirely impermeable for the metal ions emerging from the core layer and/or the corrosion protection layers. The invention likewise relates to at least one fuel cell comprising a bipolar plate according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Stefan Wischmann, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich, Michael Steinhorst, Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher
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Publication number: 20100003538Abstract: A flat steel product provided with a coating system, which in the coated state possesses an optimized combination of corrosion resistance and welding capacity, includes a base layer formed from a steel and a corrosion protection system applied onto the base layer. The corrosion protection system comprises a metallic coating less than 3.5 ?m thick, formed from a first metallic layer applied onto the base layer and a second metallic layer applied onto the first metallic layer, wherein the second metallic layer has formed a metallic alloy with the first metallic layer. The corrosion protection system also comprises a plasma polymer layer applied onto the metallic coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Bernd Schuhmacher
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Publication number: 20090139872Abstract: A cost-favorable process for production of corrosion-resistant sheet steel products, having good characteristics of use for certain application purposes includes applying a zinc-containing coating by electro-galvanizing a flat steel product, finally cleaning mechanically and/or chemically the flat steel product, applying a magnesium-based coating to the finally cleaned zinc-containing coating by means of vapour deposition, and heat treating the coated flat steel product to form a diffusion or convention layer between the zinc-containing coating and the magnesium-based coating at a temperature of 320 ° C. to 335 ° C. under normal atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Nicole Weiher, Bernd Schuhmacher, Michael Steinhorst, Andreas Klare, Tamara Appel, Ralf Bause, Stefan Kohler, Krasimir Nikolov, Monika Riemer, Slavcho Topalski, Frank Friedel, Wilfried Prange, Reinhard Schulski, Christian Schwerdt, Rolf Bode, Brigitte Bode