Patents by Inventor Oliver Picht

Oliver Picht 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).

  • Patent number: 6436556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for the production of a strip-like metallic composite material by the high-temperature dip coating of a metallic carrier strip, consisting of a metallurgic vessel for receiving the liquid depositing material, through which the carrier strip is capable of being led in a preferably vertical run-through direction by means of pairs of rollers arranged on the entry and the exit side, and of a preheating device for the carrier strip, said preheating device being located upstream of the metallurgic vessel. At the same time, the preheating device (41) is arranged in a housing (61) which is arranged in the entry region upstream of the metallurgic vessel (11) and surrounds the carrier strip (21) and into which the medium coming from a media supply (52) is capable of being introduced via at least one feed (51) led into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignees: SMS Demag AG, Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bleck, Rolf Bünten, Frank Friedel, Oliver Picht, Wolfgang Reichelt, Wilhelm Schmitz, Dieter Senk, Paul Splinter, Ulrich Urlau