Patents Assigned to SMS
  • VOLUME FLOW REGULATING VALVE
    Publication number: 20180345340
    Abstract: A volume flow regulating valve for controlling the volume flow of a fluid medium in two outflow ducts. The volume flow regulating valve is composed of a cylinder with a dual piston mounted axially displaceably in the cylinder, with a central pressure chamber being formed in the region of the barbell-shaped central piece of the dual piston. Aside from an inlet for the fluid medium, it is also the case that the two outlet ducts are provided at the central pressure chamber. The outlet ducts are arranged on the cylinder with such an axial spacing that—when the dual piston is situated in a central position in relation to the two outlet ducts—the first outlet duct—preferably partially covered by the first piston—and the second outlet duct—preferably partially covered by the second piston—each open up an equal opening cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel KNIE, Johannes ALKEN
  • PATH-CONTROLLED PRESS HAVING A SLIDING BLOCK
    Publication number: 20180345614
    Abstract: A path-controlled press, with at least one drive shaft having a driver that is eccentric relative to a shaft axis, and a sliding block, wherein the sliding block is driven by the driver to perform a forcibly actuated movement During the execution of a pressure stroke, the sliding block is guided on at least one sliding surface on the pressure side in relation to a pressure-side surface of a slide guide. The sliding block has a sliding surface on the pulling side opposite the sliding surface on the pressure side, which is guided on a surface of the slide guide on the pulling side. The sliding surface on the pressure side of the sliding block has a concave or convex curvature. The sliding surface on the pulling side of the sliding block has another respective concave or convex curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm KRIEGER, Dieter FUCHSHOFEN, Norbert GOBER
  • CATERPILLAR-TRACTION DRAWING MACHINE AND DRAWING METHOD
    Publication number: 20180339328
    Abstract: A caterpillar-traction drawing machine and a method for drawing of elongated workpieces can be provided with at least one drawing tool fastened pivotally on a tool holder and/or with at least two identical drawing recesses, which can be brought selectively into a drawing position, so that the influence of any fatigue phenomena at may exist is minimized. For the same reason, a caterpillar-traction drawing machine is advantageous in which the two chains of the caterpillar-traction unit are block chains and are respectively braced via an idler roller chain including idler rollers on respectively one pressing beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH Sitz Duesseldorf
    Inventors: Thomas CMIEL, Joerg LINDBUECHL, Dirk HESSBERGER
  • Method and device for descaling a metallic surface and installation for producing semifinished metallic products
    Patent number: 10130981
    Abstract: A method for descaling a metal surface of a semifinished metal product, including the steps of: guiding the semifinished metal product in a transporting direction past nozzle head parts that rotate about rotation axes and are arranged alongside one another transversely to the transporting direction; and directing high-pressure fluid jets produced by nozzle elements arranged on the rotating nozzle head parts at the metal surface. The fluid jets also being blasted as far as the metal surface at a narrow point between two immediately adjacent nozzle head parts. The nozzle head parts rotate synchronously with one another at a preset angular position with respect to a rotation angle of a particular rotation axis of the nozzle head parts. The fluid jets produced by the nozzle elements are always blasted onto the metal surface past one another without coming into contact with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Cramer
  • MECHANICAL PRESS WITH SLIDING BLOCK
    Publication number: 20180326683
    Abstract: A mechanical press, with at least one drive shaft having a driver that is eccentric with respect to a shaft axis, and a sliding block. The sliding block is driven by the driver to perform a forcibly guided movement. During an execution of a pressure stroke, the sliding block is guided on at least one sliding surface on the pressure-input side opposite to a pressure-input-side surface of a slide guide. The sliding block has a sliding surface on the pressure-output side lying opposite to the pressure-input side surface, this surface being guided on a pressure-output-side surface of the slide guide, wherein the sliding surface on the pressure-input side of the sliding block has a concave or convex curvature. The sliding surface on the pressure-output side of the sliding block has the opposite concave or convex curvature, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm KRIEGER
  • Device for adjusting a roll in a roll stand
    Patent number: 10124380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting a roll in a roll housing 210 of a roll stand. The device comprises a motor for providing an adjusting force for the roll; a drive shaft 120 that can be actuated in a rotatory manner by the motor; and a pressure spindle for transmitting the adjusting force of the motor to the roll. In order to do away with the upstream worm gear used in the prior art, according to the invention, the motor is designed in the form of a hydro- or torque-motor, the pressure spindle 130 is provided with an axially oriented cylindrical receiving space on the motor-side end face 132, the drive shaft 120 can project into the receiving area of the pressure spindle, and the pressure spindle 130 and the drive shaft 120 are coupled to one another in a rotatory manner inside the receiving area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Bender
  • Apparatus and method for imparting direction-selective light attenuation
    Patent number: 10114294
    Abstract: Method, apparatus for imparting direction-selective light attenuation. A method for imparting direction-selective light attenuation to a photomask may include assigning different attenuation levels to light rays of different directions of incidence. The method may also include computing an array of shading elements to attenuate the light rays with the assigned different attenuation levels, depending on the direction of incidence of the light rays. The method may further include inscribing the array of shading elements within a substrate of the photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
    Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev
  • METHOD FOR ROLLING A ROLLING MATERIAL AND ROLLING MILL
    Publication number: 20180297094
    Abstract: A method for rolling a rolling material in a rolling mill comprising at least one roll stand. A gap height of a rolling gap arranged between working rolls of the roll stand is set to be smaller than an in-feed thickness of the rolling material before contact of the rolling material with the working rolls. At least one driven working roll of the roll stand is driven at a desired rotational speed once the rolling material has reached the rolling gap, and the driven working roll is operated at a feed-forward rotational speed deviating from the desired rotational speed, until the rolling material reaches the rolling gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Christian MENGEL
  • Uncooled furnace roll and method for producing an uncooled furnace roll
    Patent number: 10088237
    Abstract: The invention relates to an uncooled furnace roll (1) for transporting continuously cast material from a continuous casting facility, and to a method for the production of such a furnace roll. The furnace roll (1) comprises a cylindrical roll body (2), conical end pieces (6) being attached to the end faces (8) of the roll body. Inside the furnace roll (1) a hollow space (4) is provided in the region of the roll body (2) and/or in the region of at least one conical end piece, said hollow space being sealed off from the atmosphere (A) and being placed under vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: SMS GROUP GMBH, SCHMIDT+CLEMENS GMBH + CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Bilgen, Alexander Meyer, Wolfgang Schroemges, Stefan Mohr
  • Device and method for controlling and/or regulating an annealing or heat treatment furnace of a production line processing metal material
    Patent number: 10077942
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling and/or regulating an annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) of a production line (1) processing metal material, which comprises the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) and at least one measuring instrument (7, 8, 17), which detects at least one material property of a strip material (6) located in the production line (1), wherein the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) and the at least one measuring instrument (7, 8) interact in a regulating and/or control circuit of an automated process control, which regulates and/or controls the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) in connection with a furnace control, wherein according to the invention, a solution is created wherein an improvement of the process control over the previously known prior art can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Hartung, Ulrich Sommers, Matthias Baerwald, Alexandre Lhoest
  • Forming machine and method for control of a forming machine
    Patent number: 10065234
    Abstract: A forming machine, particularly a ring-rolling machine, which includes a light section sensor, which is directed at a workpiece disposed in a work region of the forming machine, can work precisely while having a simple mechanical-engineering structure. The light section sensor may be directed at a forming region in which the working tool acts in forming manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Bolik
  • Method and apparatus for correcting errors on a wafer processed by a photolithographic mask
    Patent number: 10061192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for correcting at least one error on wafers processed by at least one photolithographic mask, the method comprises: (a) measuring the at least one error on a wafer at a wafer processing site, and (b) modifying the at least one photolithographic mask by introducing at least one arrangement of local persistent modifications in the at least one photolithographic mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
    Inventors: Dirk Beyer, Vladimir Dmitriev, Ofir Sharoni, Nadav Wertsman
  • SPRAY HEAD FOR SUPPLYING AT LEAST ONE DIE OF A FORMING MACHINE WITH LUBRICATING COOLANT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A SPRAY HEAD
    Publication number: 20180200740
    Abstract: A spray head for suppling at least one die of a forming machine with lubricating coolant, said forming machine comprising a lower die and an upper die, is preferably produced by rapid manufacturing and is designed as a single piece to a large extent. The use of rapid manufacturing allows the production of the most varied configurations, such as stabilizing honey-comb structures or drip points, which allow a more advantageous design of the spray head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Axel ROSSBACH, Markus SCHAPRIAN, Norbert GOBERT, Thomas KOCH, Olga PLOTNIKOV, Christoph HEINZEL
  • Apparatus and method for discharge and comminution of a chip
    Patent number: 10022829
    Abstract: In order to minimize the maintenance effort that accompanies discharge and comminution of a chip, an apparatus for discharge and comminution of a chip has a chip guide and a comminution apparatus, to which the chip guide guides the chip along a chip path. The chip guide has a guide channel that circumferentially surrounds the chip path having a channel inlet and a channel outlet, wherein the guide channel has a maintenance opening in addition to the channel inlet and the channel outlet. Furthermore, a method for discharge and comminution of a chip for this purpose services the guide channel by way of the maintenance opening after discharge and comminution of a chip having a predetermined chip length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Lunin, Bernhard Heimann
  • HYDRAULIC MACHINE UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A MACHINE UNIT
    Publication number: 20180187702
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine unit that can be operated with various working forces, in which working medium is selectively delivered, via a pump-piston accumulator system, to a main cylinder and at least one driving cylinder, wherein at least for one working stroke a pump system of the pump-piston accumulator system is used to provide working medium to a piston accumulator of the pump-piston accumulator system, and then at least for the working stroke at least the main cylinder is charged with a working pressure from the piston accumulator, and wherein at least for a return stroke the at least one driving cylinder is charged with a return stroke pressure from the pump-piston accumulator system, can be of structurally simple configuration if, at reduced working forces, the working pressure is reduced with respect to the piston accumulator pressure prevailing in the piston accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Frank ZENSEN
  • Method for producing a metal strip by casting and rolling
    Patent number: 10010915
    Abstract: A method for producing a metal strip (1) by casting and rolling, wherein first a slab (3) is cast in a caster (2) by dispensing metal from a mold (4), wherein the slab (3) is deflected from the vertical direction to the horizontal direction in the region of a strand guide (5), wherein the slab (3) is then tempered in a furnace (6), wherein the slab (3) is rolled in a rolling train (7) after the furnace (6) and wherein the slab (3) is processed either in discontinuous batch operation or in continuous or semi-continuous operation in dependence on a specified manner of operation. According to the invention, in order to create optimal process conditions for all desired operating modes, the slab (3) to be rolled or the metal strip (1) being rolled is subjected to heating in the region of the rolling train (7) at least between two roll stands (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) by means of an inductor (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Klein, Christian Bilgen, Christian Klinkenberg, Michael Pander, Luc Neumann, Dieter Rosenthal, Cosimo Andreas Cecere
  • Method and Device for Controlling a Parameter of a Rolled Stock
    Publication number: 20180169724
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a parameter, for example the profile or the flatness, of a rolled stock in strip form. A cooling jacket that can be brought up to the roll and is designed to be variable in its effective length b in the circumferential direction of the roll is used as a final controlling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias KIPPING, Ralf SEIDEL, Johannes ALKEN, Torsten MÜLLER, Magnus TREUDE
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPEN-SEAM PIPES FROM SHEET METAL PANELS
    Publication number: 20180169727
    Abstract: A method for producing open-seam pipes from sheet metal panels, in particular thick sheet metal panels. A sheet metal panel, having bending edges on the long sides thereof, is fed to a pipe forming press, in which the sheet metal panel is formed, lying on a lower tool having of two supporting elements which are horizontally spaced apart from each other, by an upper tool, which can be raised and lowered, by application of a bending force, progressively into an open-seam pipe having bending edges on opposite long sides with a gap for later longitudinal seam welding. In order that the sheet metal panel can be easily, progressively formed or shaped from the start, at least the bending sections immediately adjacent on the bending edges of the sheet metal panel are each formed from the outside to the inside, deviating from a numerically ascending bending step sequence in the pilgering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Mario THOME, Manfred KOLBE, Uwe FELDMANN, Jochen VOCHSEN
  • DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A TORQUE FROM A DRIVE DEVICE ONTO A ROLLER IN A ROLL STAND
    Publication number: 20180161838
    Abstract: A device for transmitting a torque from a drive device (200) onto a roller in a roll stand. In order to make the device independent from the continuous external supply of lubricant, the lubricant spaces in the two pivot bearings are connected to one another in a fluidically conductive manner by way of a feed channel and a return channel for the lubricant in the region of the spindle such that a closed circuit for the lubricant is formed, and that the least one pump device is integrated in the circuit in order to maintain the circulation of the lubricant in the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen MERZ, Kurt SCHEFFE
  • Stand for screen
    Patent number: D830369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SMS-Smart Media Solutions AB
    Inventors: Joel Grundström, Diana Plahn