Patents Assigned to SMS
  • Patent number: 10710131
    Abstract: A roll arrangement for rolling rolling material in a rolling system. The roll arrangement includes a roll that is rotatably mounted by its roll journal in a bearing bush of a chock. A ring gap for receiving a lubricant is formed between the bearing bush and the roll journal. The ring gap is sealed both on the ball side of the chock and on the side of the chock away from the balls, using sealing rings. In order to increase the load capacity or the rolling force of a roll arrangement while maintaining or reducing the construction size thereof and without the roll arrangement overheating, discharge channels are provided in a through-flow angular range of the bearing bush for discharging the lubricant out of the ring gap into an oil-receiving chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Alken, Ralf Seidel
  • Patent number: 10710134
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for increasing the temperature of elongate metallic rolled stock (2), having a heating unit (3) which comprises induction heating elements (4, 5, 6, 7; 104, 105, 106, 107) for heating the rolled stock (2) along a heating zone (8), and having a conveying device (15) which comprises driving and/or roller table roller elements (27, 28) as active or passive conveying elements (18) for moving the rolled stock (2) along the longitudinal extension (9) of the heating zone (8), wherein the induction heating elements (4, 5, 6, 7; 104, 105, 106, 107) are arranged spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal extension (9) of the heating zone (8) in each case by a free space (10, 11, 12), and wherein a sliding deflector element (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 73) and/or opposing lateral guide elements (60, 61) are arranged in each of the free spaces (10, 11, 12) in order to prevent the conveyed rolled stock (2) from coming into contact with the induction heating elements (4, 5, 6, 7; 104, 105, 106,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Seidel, Volker Kunze, Markus Langejuergen
  • Patent number: 10712753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control method for a secondary dust removal system in which a pipe network connects an induced draft fan to at least two suction points. The pipe network comprises a controllable exhaust air flap for each suction point, the position of said flap influencing the volumetric flow rate at the suction point. A mathematical model of the pipe network allows the method to energy-efficiently control the exhaust air flaps and the induced draft fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg Thomasberger, Volker Trappmann, Malte Braam, Felix Schuppert
  • Patent number: 10670052
    Abstract: A double-rod ram (1), preferably for an extruder, comprising an outer cylinder (10), an inner cylinder (20) installed therein and arranged concentrically therewith, a double-acting work piston (41) provided in the inner cylinder to be displaceable and a bypass device (50) with at least one bypass valve (52), wherein the work piston (41) divides the inner cylinder (20) into two compartments (42) and can be loaded with a hydraulic fluid from both compartments (42), wherein the bypass device (50) is so arranged that in a bypass position of the bypass valve (52) a fluid connection between the two compartments (42) is formed by a direct connection, preferably at least one bypass line, and in a work position of the bypass valve (52) no such fluid connection is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Hermann-Josef Klingen, Uwe Muschalik, Ekhard Siemer, Karl Herrmann Claasen, Valentin Gala Losada, Andreas Wershofen-Crombach
  • Patent number: 10654084
    Abstract: A rolling mill, in particular a rolling mill having more than one mill stand, includes at least two rolls which are mounted in a roll bearing in a mill stand to absorb rolling forces, movers for moving at least one roll relative to the mill stand as well as determining devices for determining the roll pass, the determining device having a pass reference and a spatial reference as well as a measuring device for measuring the relative position between the pass reference and the spatial reference. At least one of the pass reference and the spatial reference is arranged peripherally in relation to the power flow occurring between the roll and the mill stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Haverkamp, Norbert Theelen
  • Patent number: 10647027
    Abstract: A press for producing a molded part from pourable material has an apparatus for driving a die that includes a cylinder unit having a cylinder housing and having a cylinder piston. The cylinder housing is the actuator of the cylinder unit and the cylinder piston is the stator of the cylinder unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Nies, Nikolaus Hoppenkamps, Walter Solty
  • Patent number: 10639690
    Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a tube end for rod drawing with a floating mandrel has a releasable holder for the tube end centered on an axis, a frustoconical and spreadable floating mandrel, and a device for inserting the mandrel into the tube end and spreading the mandrel to flare the tube end. The apparatus further has a feed mechanism for inserting the floating mandrel into the tube end and/or a deforming device for making at least one indentation in the tube for holding the floating mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Hardy Jungen, Thomas Winterfeldt
  • Patent number: 10632514
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing a pipe (1) from a hollow block (2) which has an opening (3). The device has a rolling mill (30) for rolling the hollow block (2) via a rolling rod (21) introduced into the opening (3) of the hollow block (2), whereby the pipe (1) is produced. A retaining device (70) for retaining the pipe (1) is provided behind the rolling mill (30), and the device is further designed such that the rolling rod (21) can be drawn out of the pipe (1) after the rolling process while the pipe (1) is retained by the retaining device (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert Strank, Peter Thieven, Helge Daehndel
  • Publication number: 20200122209
    Abstract: A device and a method for cooling metal strips or sheets conveyed on a conveyor line, in particular hot-rolled strips in the outlet of a rolling train. For these purposes, the device includes at least one cooling beam extending across the width of the conveyor line, and the cooling beam features a connection point to which a supply tube for cooling liquid can be connected, and a number of discharge openings arranged along a longitudinal axis of the cooling beam, such that cooling liquid can be discharged through the discharge openings in the direction of the metal strip or sheet that is to be cooled. Associated with each of the individual discharge openings is a respectively adjusted flow area, such that the flow areas of the respective discharge openings decrease in a direction leading away from the connecting point along the longitudinal axis of the cooling beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph HASSEL, Thomas HEIMANN, Heinz-Jürgen OUDEHINKEN, Henning BERG, Johannes ALKEN
  • Patent number: 10625317
    Abstract: A method for producing metal strip in a rolling mill, so that as a result of a more accurate manufacturing of metal strips in the future, a more precise forecasting of the profile contour of the metal strip can be obtained over the width of the metal strip, as well as a more precise setting of the profile actuator of the rolling mill. A forecast value is calculated for the profile contour within the context of the simulation of the rolling process before the rolling of the metal strip. In contrast to that, the calculation in the simulation is not conducted prior to the rolling, but instead it is obtained by a post-calculation after the rolling of the metal strip has been carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Seidel, Uwe Baumgärtel, Ralf Wachsmann
  • Patent number: 10610927
    Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous casting of thin slabs, having a strand guide, which is arranged downstream of a permanent mold in the casting direction and which guides the strand output from the permanent mold along a first direction, having an adjoining bending/straightening region, which a mechanism for driving and bending the strand in a second direction, which differs from the first direction, having a cutting device, which cuts the strand into thin slabs, and having a first furnace, which is provided for temperature compensation in the strand, wherein the first furnace extends in an arched manner at least partially over the bending/straightening region and in part along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Heimann, Markus Reifferscheid, Uwe Plociennik
  • Patent number: 10610916
    Abstract: A device for discharging exhaust air from the surroundings of a metal strip. The device has air quantity boosters with an opposing suction device on the other side of the conveying path in the blowing direction in order to suction and discharge the airflow generated by the air quantity boosters together with the exhaust air. In order to reduce costs for the operation of the device, a sensor device is provided in order to detect whether the metal strip is present or not and at which speed the metal strip is being moved. Additionally, a controller is provided in order to adjust the delivery rate of the air quantity boosters and the suction device depending on the measured speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wiegard, Judith Ahrens
  • Patent number: 10603704
    Abstract: The invention relates to a straightening machine (1) for straightening an elongated semifinished product with straightening roller elements (6), with a roller table line (3) designed as a conveying section (4), with a stand device (7), which holds the straightening roller elements (6) with respect to the conveying section (4) and comprises a drive-side stand half (17) and an operator-side stand half (18), which is displaceable with respect to the drive-side stand half (17), with a changing device (25) for changing the straightening roller elements (6) and with a changing path (35), along which the straightening roller elements (6) can be moved for changing, in which machine the straightening roller elements (6) are movable on the one hand by means of the operator-side stand half (18) along a first segment (36) of the changing path (35), which extends in a horizontal displacement plane (20), and on the other hand by means of the changing device (25) along a further segment (37) of the changing path (35), which
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Willems, Sebastian Hausmann
  • Publication number: 20200078850
    Abstract: A binary nozzle for atomizing a mixture of agent to be sprayed and spray air is connected to at least one supply duct via which the mixture or the agent to be sprayed can be supplied to the binary nozzle, wherein a valve is arranged between this supply duct and a nozzle outlet of the binary nozzle. A corresponding spray head and also a method for atomizing a mixture of agent to be sprayed and spray air uses a binary nozzle. The binary nozzle includes a nozzle body formed in a single piece and including the nozzle outlet, wherein a movable assembly of the valve is fastened to the nozzle body by a fastening element and/or held tight against the nozzle body by a spring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Axel ROSSBACH, Thomas KOCH, Norbert GOBER, Erdem KARAKAS
  • Publication number: 20200070234
    Abstract: In order to widen the field of application of a stretcher-leveler having a minimum nominal width, at least one gripping head of the stretcher-leveler is connected to an adapter having clamping elements for clamping a plate to be stretched, the adapter having a nominal width that is smaller than the minimum nominal width of the stretcher-leveler, and a plate being stretched is connected to the gripping head via the adapter clamping elements and the adapter, before starting the stretching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolaus HOPPENKAMPS, Gerd JUNG, Guenter PANZER, Karsten BUSCH, Guenter HALLECK
  • Publication number: 20200070225
    Abstract: A furnace for heating metal strips, and to a device and a method for producing metal strips by continuous casting and rolling. The device includes a casting machine, a furnace through which a metal strip can be transported in a conveying direction, a first external cutting apparatus and a second external cutting apparatus, the first external cutting apparatus being upstream of the furnace and the second external cutting apparatus being downstream of the furnace, in the conveying direction of the metal strip, and at least one rolling mill. A first internal cutting apparatus and a second internal cutting apparatus are provided inside the furnace. A segment of the metal strip between said internal cutting apparatuses can be separated by actuating the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Cosimo Andreas CECERE, Matthias PETERS, Thomas RUNKEL
  • Patent number: 10578975
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for correcting the critical dimension uniformity of a photomask for semiconductor lithography, comprising the following steps: determining a transfer coefficient as a calibration parameter, correcting the photomask by writing pixel fields, verifying the photomask corrected thus, wherein a transfer coefficient is used for verifying the corrected photomask, said transfer coefficient being obtained from a measured scattering function of pixel fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Thaler, Joachim Welte, Kujan Gorhad, Vladimir Dmitriev, Ute Buttgereit, Thomas Scheruebl, Yuval Perets
  • Patent number: 10560563
    Abstract: The present haptic device is adapted for sending at least one message. The haptic device comprises a housing, a communication module located inside the housing, a touchpad and a processor. The touchpad is affixed to the housing. The touchpad captures a movement of a user and generates a signal corresponding to the captured movement. The processor is also located inside the housing. The processor receives the signal and instructs the communication module to transmit one of a plurality of stored messages corresponding to the captured movement. The transmitted message includes at least one predetermined recipient address and a message for the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: BOUTON SMS INC.
    Inventor: Claude Zalac
  • Publication number: 20200023426
    Abstract: A stretch rolling method and a stretch rolling unit can roll out any gripping ends and uses the narrowest possible installation space. In the stretch rolling method, a workpiece is successively fed to at least two passes of a stretch rolling unit of a gripping device, wherein the vvorkpiece is rotated by 180° about an axis of rotation lying perpendicular to the main direction of extent of the workpiece between the first pass of the two passes and the second pass of the two passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan ACKERMANN, Markus SCHAPRIAN, Frederik KNAUF
  • Patent number: 10532292
    Abstract: A thin-film treatment apparatus for treating viscous material, including a housing, having a heatable and/or coolable housing casing, which encloses a rotationally symmetric treatment chamber extending in the axial direction, an inlet port, arranged in an inlet region of the housing, for feeding the material to be treated into the treatment chamber, an outlet port, arranged in an outlet region of the housings, for discharging the material from the treatment chamber, and a coaxially extending, drivable rotor shaft, arranged in the treatment chamber, for producing a material film on the inner face of the housing casing and for conveying the material in the direction from the inlet region toward the outlet region, the rotor shaft including a central rotor shaft body and rotor blades arranged on the circumference thereof, the radially outermost end of which rotor blades is distanced from the inner face of the housing casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: BUSS-SMS-CANZLER GMBH
    Inventor: Hans Peters