Patents by Inventor Torsten Herles

Torsten Herles 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).

  • Flat product composed of a metal material, in particular a steel material, use of such flat product and roller and process for producing such flat products
    Patent number: 8920938
    Abstract: With the invention a metallic flat product can be systematically made available with such a fine, stochastic or quasi-stochastic surface texture that after a typical automotive paint application it is only minimally perceptible, if at all, by the human eye. At the same time, in the case of a surface topography constituted according to the invention, the transition between the peak plateaus and the valleys takes place via steep flanks. In this way, it is achieved that the morphology of the sheet metal surface is practically independent of the actual depth of the valleys. As a result therefore, the morphology of the sheet metal surface of a metallic flat product according to the invention is also independent of the skin-pass rate, which is obtained when the fine metal texture is produced by skin-pass rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Walzen-Service-Center GmbH
    Inventors: Bodo Hesse, Karl-Heinz Kopplin, Folkert Schulze-Kraasch, Udo Schulokat, Hans-Gerd Weyen, Ingo Rogner, Torsten Herles, Roland Meier
  • Flat product composed of a metal material, in particular a steel material, use of such a flat product and roller and process for producing such flat products
    Publication number: 20110165430
    Abstract: With the invention a metallic flat product can be systematically made available with such a fine, stochastic or quasi-stochastic surface texture that after a typical automotive paint application it is only minimally perceptible, if at all, by the human eye. At the same time, in the case of a surface topography constituted according to the invention, the transition between the peak plateaus and the valleys takes place via steep flanks. In this way, it is achieved that the morphology of the sheet metal surface is practically independent of the actual depth of the valleys. As a result therefore, the morphology of the sheet metal surface of a metallic flat product according to the invention is also independent of the skin-pass rate, which is obtained when the fine metal texture is produced by skin-pass rolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicants: ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, Walzen-Service-Center GmbH
    Inventors: Bodo Hesse, Karl-Heinz Kopplin, Folkert Schulze-Kraasch, Udo Schulokat, Hans-Gerd Weyen, Ingo Rogner, Torsten Herles, Roland Meier