Patents Assigned to ArcelorMittal
  • Patent number: 11312212
    Abstract: The present invention provides a panel for a vehicle including a coated steel sheet locally reinforced. A method for preparing the panel and the use of the panel are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Laurence Dosdat, Matthieu Amblard
  • Patent number: 11313023
    Abstract: Equipment for manufacturing a metal strip coated by a process that includes vacuum-depositing a layer of an oxidizable metal or an oxidizable metal alloy on a metal strip precoated with zinc or with a zinc alloy, then coiling the coated metal strip, then oxidizing a surface of the metal strip coated with the oxidizable metal or oxidizable metal alloy and treating the oxidized wound coil with a static diffusion treatment to obtain a strip having a coating that includes, in an upper portion, a layer of an alloy formed by diffusion of the oxidizable metal or the oxidizable metal alloy in all or part of the zinc or zinc alloy layer. The equipment includes a device for galvanizing the metal strip, a vacuum deposition coating device, and a static heat treatment device operating in a controlled atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Luc Vanhee, Maxime Monnoyer, Bruno Schmitz, Benoit Deweer, Eric Silberberg
  • Patent number: 11279984
    Abstract: A cold rolled steel sheet, the steel containing, in weight percentage, 0.19%?carbon?0.24%, 1.9%?manganese?2.2%, 1.4%?silicon?1.6%, 0.01%?aluminum?0.06%, 0.2%?chromium?0.5%, phosphorus?0.02%, sulfur?0.003%, the balance including iron and unavoidable impurities, the steel sheet having a microstructure containing 5% to 15% of tempered martensite, 10% to 15% of residual austenite, the balance containing bainite, bainite content being at least 70%, is described. Also described is a manufacturing method and with use of such grade for making vehicle parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Pipard, Marc Olivier Thenot, Pierre Targy
  • Patent number: 11268766
    Abstract: A process for measuring wear of a refractory lining of a receptacle intended to contain molten metal, containing the following steps: scanning a first surface of the refractory lining using a first laser scanner in order to obtain a first initial set of data representative of the first surface, scanning a second surface of the refractory lining using a second laser scanner, distinct from the first laser scanner, in order to obtain a second initial set of data representative of the second surface, wherein the second surface includes a grey zone for the first laser scanner, the receptacle defining an obstacle located between the first laser scanner and the grey zone during scanning by the first laser scanner, and calculating a final set of data using the first initial set of data and the second initial set of data, the final set of data being representative of a surface of the refractory lining including the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Marco Picco, David Glijer, Daniel Gualtieri
  • Patent number: 11235364
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing parts is provided. The method includes cold rolling a substrate with work cylinders whose work surface has a roughness Ra2.5 of less than or equal to 3.6 ?m, depositing the metal coating on at least one face of the annealed substrate by electrodeposition to form the metal sheet and deforming the cut metal sheet to form the parts. The outer surface of the metal coating has a waviness Wa0.8 of less than or equal to 0.5 ?m after the deformation step. A part and vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventor: Hervé Derule
  • Patent number: 11236413
    Abstract: A coated metal sheet is provided. The coated metal sheet includes a steel substrate, a metal coating on at least one face of the steel substrate, the metal coating comprising at least 40% by weight of zinc; and a layer coating an outer surface of the metal coating, the layer including an amino acid in a neutral or salt form, the amino acid being selected from among alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamine, lysine, methionine, proline, serine, threonine, or of a mixture thereof, the amount of said amino acid or of said mixture being from 0.1 to 200 mg/m2, and optionally a base or a mixture of bases, or an acid or a mixture of acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Lydia Rachiele, Herve Derule, Delphine Thai
  • Patent number: 11220723
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a cold-rolled steel sheet of thickness ef between 0.5 mm and 3 mm is provided. At least two hot-rolled sheets of thickness ei are supplied and butt welded, so as to create a welded joint (S1) with a direction perpendicular to the direction of hot rolling. The at least two hot-rolled sheets are pickled by continuous passage through a bath, then the assembly is cold rolled, in a step (L1), to an intermediate thickness eint, the direction of cold rolling (DL1) coinciding with the direction of hot rolling. The cold rolling is carried out with a reduction ratio ? 1 = Ln ? ( e i e int ) such that: 0 . 3 ? 5 ? Ln ? ? ( ei e ? ? int ) Ln ? ? ( e ? i e ? f ) ? 0 . 6 ? 5 , then the welded joint (S1) is removed so as to obtain at least two intermediate cold-rolled sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Emmanuel Dechassey, Christophe Silvy-Leligois, Francisco Chicharro Herranz, Vicente Polo Mestre, Marie-Christine Theyssier, Thierry Celotto, Christine Kaczynski, Thomas Dupuy, Quang-Tien Ngo
  • Patent number: 11214873
    Abstract: An apparatus for the implementation of a process for the continuous manufacturing of steel strips for packaging coated with a passivation layer is provided. An apparatus contains a transfer roller; a coating roller contacting the transfer roller, a surface of the coating roller having a plurality of hexagonally shaped cells with a line count being from 50 to 200 lines per centimeter and a volume being from 5·10?6 to 10·10?6 m3 per square meter of the coating roller surface; and a tank containing an aqueous passivation solution, the tank providing the aqueous passivation solution to the coating roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Mathias Stouff, David Glijer, Guillaume Lequippe, Thibault Leclerc, Marc Friedrich, Thierry Marquais
  • Patent number: 11198981
    Abstract: A protection device (5a) for motorcyclists, adapted to be secured to a road safety barrier (1) with a plurality of poles (3) regularly spaced out, the protection device (5a) including a longitudinal beam (6a) and a spacer (7a) extending longitudinally alongside the rear side of at least one part of the beam (6a) and adapted to be secured to the poles, wherein the beam (6a) and the spacer (7a) are assembled together so as to define, in the part of the beam, a longitudinal damping volume (V) with a closed cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Claudia Cofano, Michael Gremling
  • Patent number: 11198928
    Abstract: A method for producing a dual phase steel sheet is provided. The method includes providing a dual phase hot rolled steel sheet having a microstructure including ferrite and martensite and a composition including 0.1 to 0.3 wt. % C, 1.5 to 2.5 wt. % Si and 1.75 to 2.5 wt. % Mn. The steel sheet is annealed at a temperature from 750 to 875° C., water quenched to a temperature from 400 to 420° C. and subject to overaging at the temperature from 400 to 420° C. to convert the martensite in the hot rolled steel sheet to tempered martensite. The overaging is sufficient to provide the hot rolled steel sheet with a hole expansion ratio of at least 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Hyun Jo Jun, Narayan S. Pottore, Nina Michailovna Fonstein
  • Patent number: 11193210
    Abstract: A coated metallic substrate is provided, including, at least; one layer of oxides, such layer being directly topped by an intermediate coating layer comprising Fe, Ni, Cr and Ti wherein the amount of Ti is above or equal to 5 wt. % and wherein the following equation is satisfied: 8 wt. %<Cr+Ti<40 wt. %, the balance being Fe and Ni, such intermediate coating layer being directly topped by a coating layer being an anticorrosion metallic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Jacek Goniakowski, Thi Ha Linh Le, Claudine Noguera, Jacques Jupille, Remi Lazzari, Jean-Michel Mataigne, Alexey Koltsov, Remi Cavallotti, Daniel Chaleix, Lucie Gaouyat
  • Patent number: 11162153
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the manufacture of a hardened part. The method includes the provision of a steel sheet pre-coated with a metallic coating including from 2.0 to 24.0% by weight of zinc, from 1.1 to 7.0% by weight of silicon, optionally from 1.1 to 8.0% by weight of magnesium when the amount of silicon is between 1.1 and 4.0%, and optionally additional elements chosen from Pb, Ni, Zr, or Hf, the content by weight of each additional element being less than 0.3% by weight, the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities and residuals elements, wherein the ratio Al/Zn is above 2.9. The method further includes the cutting of the coated steel sheet to obtain a blank, the thermal treatment of the blank at a temperature between 840 and 950° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Tiago Machado Amorim, Christian Allely, Raisa Grigorieva, David Dussaussois
  • Patent number: 11155926
    Abstract: A method for the production of metal sheet including a substrate having two faces, at least one of which is coated with a metal coating including between 0.1 and 10% by weight of Mg and optionally between 0.1 and 20% by weight of Al, the remainder of the metal coating being Zn. The method includes at least the steps of providing a steel substrate having two faces, depositing a metal coating on at least one face hot dipping of the substrate, solidifying the metal coating, applying onto the outer surfaces of the metal coating an aqueous solution having a pH of 7 to 13 and including a magnesium ion complexing agent, for which the dissociation constant pKd of the complexing reaction of the agent with the magnesium is greater than or equal to 2, and to the metal sheet obtainable with this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Christian Allely, Tiago Machado Amorim, Astrid Coffigny
  • Patent number: 11154950
    Abstract: A method for creating a welded steel part includes providing a first steel plate having a first base, a first intermetallic alloy layer on the first base and a first metal alloy layer on the first intermetallic alloy layer; providing a second steel plate having a second base, a second intermetallic alloy layer on the second base and a second metal alloy layer on the second intermetallic alloy layer; butt welding the first and second steel plates at a weld so as to melt material from at least the first base, the first intermetallic alloy layer, the second base and the second intermetallic layer to form a molten weld material; austenizing the welded steel plates at a temperature between Ac1 and Ac3+100 degrees C. for a time greater than or equal to 20 seconds; and cooling the welded steel plates so as to render a uniform microstructure to the weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Canourgues, Aurelien Pic, Pascal Verrier, Rene Vierstraete, Wolfram Ehling, Bernd Thommes
  • Patent number: 11149336
    Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous hot dip coating of a metal strip is provided. The apparatus includes a vessel intended to contain a liquid metal bath, a bottom roller and a displacement casing for the metal strip. The casing includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion includes a pouring box delimiting at least two liquid metal pouring compartments. Each pouring compartment is inwardly delimited by an inner wall including an upper rim. The casing is provided with the pouring box, is rotatable relative to the metal strip around a first rotation axis and the pouring box is rotatable relative to the upper portion of the casing around a second rotation axis. A method for coating the metal sheet is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: José Veg, Didier Dauchelle, Hubert Saint-Raymond
  • Patent number: 11150020
    Abstract: A cooling plate for use in a blast furnace is described. The cooling plate contains a copper body having an inner face containing ribs parallel therebetween, having first extremities opposite therebetween and separated by grooves having second extremities opposite therebetween. At least one of these ribs contains at least one housing located between its first extremities and containing at least one insert made of a wear resistant material that increases locally the wear resistance of this rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventor: Ignacio Herrero Blanco
  • Patent number: 11149325
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a steel sheet having a yield strength YS of more than 1000 MPa, a tensile strength TS of more than 1150 MPa and a total elongation E of more than 8%, comprising the steps of: —preparing a steel sheet through rolling from a steel containing in percent by weight 0.19% to 0.22% C, 2% to 2.6% Mn, 1.45% to 1.55% Si, 0.15% to 0.4% Cr, less than 0.020% P, less than 0.05% S, less than 0.08% N, 0.015% to 0.070% Al, the reminder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, —soaking the sheet at an annealing temperature TA between 860° C. and 890° C. for a time between 100 s and 210 s, cooling the sheet to a quenching temperature QT between 220° C. and 330° C., from a temperature TC not less than 500° C. at a cooling speed not less than 15° C./s, heating the steel sheet during a time between 115 s and 240 s up to a first overaging temperature TOA1 higher than 380° C., then heating the sheet during a time between 300 s and 610 s up to a second overaging temperature TOA2 between 420° and 450° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Gunhild Cécilia Föjer, Jan Mahieu
  • Patent number: 11148622
    Abstract: A bumper beam is made of at least one rolled formed steel sheet containing an upper beam and a lower beam extending in a transversal direction, the upper beam and the lower beam each having a closed cross-section defined by a front wall, a rear wall, an upper wall and a lower wall, the upper wall and the lower wall joining the front wall to the rear wall, each of the front walls of the upper beam and of the lower beam containing a front rib extending transversally and towards the interior of the bumper beam. At least one of the upper wall of the upper beam, the lower wall of the lower beam, the rear wall of the upper beam and the rear wall of the lower beam further containing a rib extending transversally and towards the interior of the bumper beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Gilles Brun, Damien Herisson, Jimmy Lam, Dan Hasenpouth, Elie Gibeau, Ivan Viaux
  • Patent number: 11131003
    Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.5%, 0%<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
  • Patent number: 11131011
    Abstract: A hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel plate having a composition including, in weight percent: 0.6%?C?0.9%; 17%?Mn?22%; 0.2%?Al?0.9%; 0.2%?Si?1.1%; with 0.85%?Al+Si?1.6%; 1.2%?Cu?1.7%; S?0.030%; P?0.080%; N?0.1%; 0<Nb?0.25%; 0<V?0.5%; 0<Ti?0.5%; 0<Ni?2%; trace amounts ?Cr?2% and B?0.010% is provided. A remainder of the composition includes iron and impurities resulting from production of the steel plate. A method for manufacturing a steel plate and use of the steel plate in the automotive industry is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Colin Scott, Philippe Cugy