Patents Assigned to Seco / Warwick S.A.
  • Patent number: 10858755
    Abstract: A nanocomposite for the reverse storage of hydrogen based on monolayer sheets of polycrystalline or monocrystalline grapheme having a form of a cylindrical spiral roll of polycrystalline or monocrystalline graphene with a preferably constant spacing in the range from 0.2 to 2 nm, whereby the said spiral roll of polycrystalline graphene has grains with a minimum diameter of 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: SECO/WARWICK S.A., POLITECHNIKA LÓDZKA
    Inventors: Piotr Kula, Antoni Rzepkowski, Robert Pietrasik, Radomir Atraszkiewicz, Konrad Dybowski, Lukasz Kaczmarek, Wojciech Modrzyk
  • Patent number: 10752984
    Abstract: A method of low pressure carburizing (LPC) of elements made of iron alloys and of other metals in a device for continuous, in-line thermochemical surface treatment, with a constant time-step, with saturation at a temperature from 820° C. to 1200° C. in gaseous atmosphere, wherein into the vacuum chamber of the device a gaseous carbon carrier is introduced using impulses in a constant flow-time sequence, synchronized with the working time-step of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej Korecki, Agnieszka Brewka
  • Publication number: 20190055638
    Abstract: A method of low pressure carburizing (LPC) of elements made of iron alloys and of other metals in a device for continuous, in-line thermochemical surface treatment, with a constant time-step, with saturation at a temperature from 820° C. to 1200° C. in gaseous atmosphere, wherein into the vacuum chamber of the device a gaseous carbon carrier is introduced using impulses in a constant flow-time sequence, synchronized with the working time-step of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej KORECKI, Agnieszka BREWKA
  • Patent number: 10072315
    Abstract: Device for individual quenching of gears, pinions, bearing rings and other similar components of technical devices, operating in a vacuum furnace installation, whereby the quenching chamber of the installation is fitted with tightly-sealed doors for workpiece loading and unloading. The following elements are fitted inside the quenching chamber: removable table on which an individual workpiece is placed, along with a surrounding set of removable nozzles; the inlet of the quenching chamber features an attached tank supplying the cooling medium to the nozzles—preferably air or nitrogen, or argon or helium, or hydrogen or carbon dioxide, or mixtures thereof—while the outlet of the quenching chamber is connected to the inlet of a tank receiving expanded cooling medium from the chamber; moreover, there is a compressor connected in between the two tanks, ensuring closed-loop flow of the cooling medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej Korecki, Wieslaw Fujak, Józef Olejnik, Marek Stankiewicz, Emilia Wołowiec-Korecka
  • Patent number: 9989311
    Abstract: Multi-chamber furnace for vacuum carburizing and quenching of gears, shafts, rings and similar components has at least two process chambers connected in parallel, with a continuous feeding mechanism for individual workpieces. Those chambers—the first one being a heating chamber, the second being a carburizing chamber and the third one diffusion chamber—are configured in a vertical arrangement, placed in a shared vacuum space with gas-tight division, whereas at the ends of each chamber there are incorporated heating chambers with thermal insulation, with a graphite heating system and stepping feeding mechanism incorporated in the core for the purpose of continuous feeding of individual workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej Korecki, Wieslaw Fujak, Józef Olejnik, Marek Stankiewicz, Emilia Wolowiec-Korecka
  • Publication number: 20160223259
    Abstract: Multi-chamber furnace for vacuum carburizing and quenching of gears, shafts, rings and similar components has at least two process chambers connected in parallel, with a continuous feeding mechanism for individual workpieces. Those chambers—the first one being a heating chamber, the second being a carburizing chamber and the third one diffusion chamber—are configured in a vertical arrangement, placed in a shared vacuum space with gas-tight division, whereas at the ends of each chamber there are incorporated heating chambers with thermal insulation, with a graphite heating system and stepping feeding mechanism incorporated in the core for the purpose of continuous feeding of individual workpieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej KORECKI, Wieslaw FUJAK, Józef OLEJNIK, Marek STANKIEWICZ, Emilia WOLOWIEC-KORECKA
  • Patent number: 9314757
    Abstract: A method to generate a ternary carburizing gas mixture, using a reaction of selective hydrogenation of acetylene in a stream of hydrocarbons to the form of ethylene, comprising the following steps: heating of the inside of the reactor with an inert gas to an operating temperature for a period of 20 minutes at a temperature of 300° K, passing a mixture of hydrogen and acetylene by the regiospecific catalyst, and moving out the reaction products on the outside after passing the mixture through the regiospecific catalyst, but generation is effected in a continuous mode in the operating temperature range of the regiospecific catalyst between 293° K and 398° K, preferably at a temperature of 350° K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: SECO/WARWICK S.A., POLITECHNIKA LODZKA
    Inventors: Piotr Kula, Robert Pietrasik, Ɫukasz Kaczmarek, Agnieszka Gładka, Maciej Korecki
  • Publication number: 20160102377
    Abstract: Device for individual quenching of gears, pinions, bearing rings and other similar components of technical devices, operating in a vacuum furnace installation, whereby the quenching chamber of the installation is fitted with tightly-sealed doors for workpiece loading and unloading. The following elements are fitted inside the quenching chamber: removable table on which an individual workpiece is placed, along with a surrounding set of removable nozzles; the inlet of the quenching chamber features an attached tank supplying the cooling medium to the nozzles—preferably air or nitrogen, or argon or helium, or hydrogen or carbon dioxide, or mixtures thereof—while the outlet of the quenching chamber is connected to the inlet of a tank receiving expanded cooling medium from the chamber; moreover, there is a compressor connected in between the two tanks, ensuring closed-loop flow of the cooling medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Wieslaw FUJAK, Maciej KORECKI, Józef OLEJNIK, Marek STANKIEWICZ, Emilia WOLOWIEC-KORECKA
  • Patent number: 9115414
    Abstract: A retort furnace for heat and/or thermochemical treatment designed for technological process in protective gas atmosphere, process gas atmosphere or in vacuum, and used inter alia for annealing pipes made of austenitic alloys, having among other things: a cylindrical outer body with a lid equipped with an active thermal barrier, a cylindrical retort, thermal insulation, a heating system located in the thermal insulation, a cooling system of the furnace. The active thermal barrier constitutes the radiation screens, in the form of at least two metal boards, installed on brackets located at the lid inside the retort. Additionally, radiation caulking rings are located in the extreme areas of the brackets and, circumferential sealing rings are permanently fixed in the casing of the retort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej Korecki, Robert Luźeńczyk, Józef Olejnik
  • Publication number: 20150125694
    Abstract: A nanocomposite for the reverse storage of hydrogen based on monolayer sheets of polycrystalline or monocrystalline grapheme having a form of a cylindrical spiral roll of polycrystalline or monocrystalline graphene with a preferably constant spacing in the range from 0.2 to 2 nm, whereby the said spiral roll of polycrystalline graphene has grains with a minimum diameter of 50 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicants: POLITECHNIKA LODZKA, SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Piotr KULA, Antoni RZEPKOWSKI, Robert PIETRASIK, Radomir ATRASZKIEWICZ, Konrad DYBOWSKI, Lukasz KACZMAREK, Wojciech MODRZYK
  • Publication number: 20120283495
    Abstract: A method to generate a ternary carburizing gas mixture, using a reaction of selective hydrogenation of acetylene in a stream of hydrocarbons to the form of ethylene, comprising the following steps: heating of the inside of the reactor with an inert gas to an operating temperature for a period of 20 minutes at a temperature of 300° K, passing a mixture of hydrogen and acetylene by the regiospecific catalyst, and moving out the reaction products on the outside after passing the mixture through the regiospecific catalyst, but generation is effected in a continuous mode in the operating temperature range of the regiospecific catalyst between 293° K and 398° K, preferably at a temperature of 350° K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: Politechnika Lodzka, SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Piotr KULA, Robert PIETRASIK, Lukasz KACZMAREK, Agnieszka GLADKA, Maciej KORECKI
  • Publication number: 20110243728
    Abstract: The blower designed particularly for fitting in a chamber furnace has the hub of the rotor wheel in the shape of a solid of revolution with its slant height described by n degree polynomial and its Dp2 outlet diameter greater than Dp1 inlet diameter and the outward diameter of the axial and radial rotor wheel with spatially shaped blades monotonically increasing towards the flow from D1z inlet diameter to D2z outlet diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Radomir Magiera, Wladyslaw Krllowicz, Krzysztof Jozwik, Jozef Olejnik
  • Patent number: 7967920
    Abstract: A method and measurement system for the control of an active charge surface in a low pressure carburizing process can avoid formation of by-products and achieve regular carburized layers. This can be achieved through sampling of outlet gas at a specified time and comparison with experimentally set model characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignees: Seco/Warwick S.A., Politechnika Lodzka
    Inventors: Piotr Kula, Józef Olejnik
  • Publication number: 20100272422
    Abstract: A retort furnace designed for heat and heat and chemical treatment in protective gas atmosphere, process gas atmosphere or in vacuum, equipped with a retort with a lid, made of steel or heat-resisting or creep-resisting alloys, separating the process atmosphere from the ambient atmosphere, with heating elements and thermal insulation outside the retort and with a cooling system. The radiation screens, in the form of at least two metal boards, are installed at supports located at the lid inside the retort; the heating elements are located behind the radiation screens, on the retort side and are separated with the metal screen. A few radiation sealing rings are placed in the extreme area of the brackets. The radiation screens and sealing rings, as well as the circumferential sealing rings permanently fixed in the casing of retort make up the system of reducing heat losses through radiation at the wall of the retort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Maciej KORECKI, Robert LUZENCZYK, Józef OLEJNIK
  • Patent number: 7550049
    Abstract: The subject of this invention relates to method carburizing of steel products, mainly parts of machines, vehicles and every mechanical apparatus, in vacuum furnaces under reduced pressure and elevated temperature. The method of under-pressure carburizing of steel workpieces according to present invention relates to introduction of active nitrogen carrier during heating up of the load. Introduction of the active nitrogen carrier is terminated when the load reaches temperature required to start carburizing process; from this temperature the carbon carrier is added. Pressure in the furnace chamber during continuous or pulse introduction of the active nitrogen carrier should be maintained within the ranges from 1 to 500 mbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignees: Seco/Warwick S.A., Politechnika Lodzka
    Inventors: Piotr Kula, Jozef Olejnik, Paul Heilman
  • Patent number: 7513958
    Abstract: The subject of present invention relates to mixture for carburizing of steel products, mainly parts of machines, vehicles and every mechanical apparatus, used in vacuum furnaces. Present invention relates to mixture for under-pressure carburizing containing the carbon carrier comprising two unsaturated hydrocarbons, likely ethylene and acetylene, in volume ratio from 0.1 to 2.00. The carbon carrier can be further mixed with hydrogen or ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Seco / Warwick S.A., Politechnika Lodzka
    Inventors: Piotr Kula, Jozef Olejnik, Paul Heilman
  • Publication number: 20080277029
    Abstract: A method and measurement system for the control of an active charge surface in a low pressure carburizing process can avoid formation of by-products and achieve regular carburized layers. This can be achieved through sampling of outlet gas at a specified time and comparison with experimentally set model characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: SECO/WARWICK S.A.
    Inventors: Piotr Kula, Jozef Olejnik