Patents Assigned to SMS
  • Patent number: 9764368
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rolling mill, in particular a rolling mill having more than one mill stand, comprising at least two rolls (30) which are mounted in a roll bearing in a mill stand to absorb rolling forces, further comprising means (40) for moving at least one roll relative to the mill stand as well as means (50) for determining the roll pass, the determining means having a pass reference (54) and a spatial reference (56) as well as means (58) for measuring the relative position between the pass reference and the spatial reference. In order to create a rolling mill that provides as accurate information as possible about the roll pass, the pass reference and/or the spatial reference is/are arranged peripherally in relation to the power flow occurring between the roll and the mill stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Haverkamp, Norbert Theelen
  • Patent number: 9753366
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining at least one unknown laser beam parameter of a laser beam used for correcting errors of a transparent material including inducing a first persistent modification in the material by an interaction with the laser beam having a first set of laser beam parameters, measuring the induced first persistent modification of the material, calculating a second persistent modification in the material using a model describing persistent modifications in the material with a second set of laser beam parameters, wherein the first set of laser beam parameters comprises the second set of laser beam parameters and the at least one unknown laser beam parameter, setting up a target functional including the first persistent modification and the second persistent modification, and determining the at least one unknown laser beam parameter by minimizing the target functional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
    Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev
  • Patent number: 9744577
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) in conveying equipment for moving metal strips wound to form coils (2), in particular produced from high-strength or ultra-high-strength steel grades, wherein for transport the coils (2) can be lifted and lowered from a resting position on a coil support (3) by means of a vertically adjustable coil lifting device (4), wherein the coil support (3) has two coil support elements (3a, 3b) which are laterally spaced apart from one another and the coil lifting device (4) has two support prongs (4a, 4b), characterized in that at least the coil support elements (3a, 3b) are disposed asymmetrically with respect to the vertical (5) through the center of rotation (2a) of the coil (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SMS LOGISTIKSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20170239905
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert NIES, Nikolaus HOPPENKAMPS, Walter SOLTY
  • Patent number: 9733016
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for extracting a metal from a slag containing said metal, wherein the liquefied metal-containing slag is heated in at least one electric arc furnace (1, 2). In order provide an improved method for recovering especially copper from slags, the invention provides that the metal-containing slag is heated in a first furnace (1) constructed as an AC electric furnace or a DC electric furnace, and the melt is introduced from the first furnace (1) into a second furnace (2) which is constructed as a DC electric furnace. Further, the invention is directed to an arrangement for extracting a metal from a slag containing said metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Kunze, Rolf Degel, Dieter Borgwardt, Andrzej Warczok, Gabriel Angel Riveros Urzua
  • Publication number: 20170225222
    Abstract: In a ring-rolling machine having a mandrel roll and a related radial roll, the mandrel roll can be handled in operationally reliable and structurally simple manner if an axial bearing of the mandrel roll is opened by way of an opening drive that does not rotate along with the mandrel roll and/or is closed by inserting the mandrel roll into the axial bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Felix RODERMUND-GEBHART, Dirk KALKHOFF
  • Patent number: 9724846
    Abstract: In order to shorten set-up times, a press for producing a molded part from pourable material, having an apparatus for driving a die comprising a cylinder unit having a cylinder housing and having a cylinder piston is proposed, wherein the cylinder housing is the actuator of the cylinder unit and the cylinder piston is the stator of the cylinder unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Nies, Nikolaus Hoppenkamps, Walter Solty
  • Publication number: 20170211162
    Abstract: A method for producing a metal product, wherein in a strand casting system, liquid metal is output as a slab from a mold vertically downward in a conveying direction, is guided along a strand guide, and is deflected into the horizontal, wherein the slab is heated in a furnace or inductively downstream of the stand casting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Tilmann BÖCHER, Marcel van Reimersdahl, Luc NEUMANN, Uwe PLOCIENNIK
  • Patent number: 9700938
    Abstract: A casting/rolling installation for producing hot-rolled strip. In order to save investment costs for the roll changing device in a corresponding installation with two parallel casting lines, without a roll change taking place in the process in a less operationally reliable and more complicated manner, the roll changing device is configured in the form of a rotary table and arranged in the intermediate space between the two casting lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Eberhard Witschas, Jürgen Heppelmann
  • Patent number: 9700924
    Abstract: A method for rolling rolling stock, wherein a water-based cooling lubricant is applied to the rolling stock and/or to at least one roller which forms a roll gap, at least one water-soluble and tribologically active additive being added to the water-based cooling lubricant prior to application to the rolling stock and/or to the at least one roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Arnt Kohlrausch, Hartmut Pawelski, Olaf Norman Jepsen
  • Publication number: 20170189950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drawing die arrangement having a drawing tool that acts on an elongated workpiece, and having a drawing tool support on which the drawing tool is mounted, counteracting the drawing tool, in which support a measurement device that measures the mass distribution of the workpiece material is disposed on the drawing tool, wherein a coupling medium circulated between the measurement device and the drawing tool is provided. Furthermore, the invention relates to a workpiece guide and to a drawing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick LUTTERBACH, Enver YURDUSEVER, Ali ZAFARI, Thomas CMIEL
  • Patent number: 9694405
    Abstract: The invention concerns a hot-rolling mill comprising a finishing train (1) for finishing rolling stock, in particular a strip, the finishing train (1) comprising a number of rolling stands (2, 3, 4) which follow one another in a conveying direction (F) of the rolling stock. According to the invention, in order to improve the rolling force level during finishing, there is disposed at least between two rolling stands (2, 3, 4), following one another in the conveying direction (F), at least one heat-insulating element (5) by means of which the rolling stock can be protected from heat losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Seidel, Volker Kunze, Matthias Kipping, Peter Sudau
  • Patent number: 9690191
    Abstract: A method for repairing a defect on a substrate surface includes placing on the defect a nanoparticle that includes a conductive material. A region of the substrate surface in which the nanoparticle is placed is irradiated, the region being larger than the nanoparticle. An energy density of the irradiation is below a modification threshold for the substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
    Inventors: Sergey Oshemkov, Vladimir Kruglyakov
  • Patent number: 9658527
    Abstract: A method for correcting a plurality of errors of a photolithographic mask is provided. First parameters of a imaging transformation of the photolithographic mask and second parameters of a laser beam locally directed onto the photolithographic mask are optimized, and the plurality of errors are corrected by applying an imaging transformation using optimized first parameters and locally directing the laser beam onto the photolithographic mask using optimized second parameters. The first and the second parameters are simultaneously optimized in a joint optimization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.
    Inventor: Vladimir Dmitriev
  • Patent number: 9656312
    Abstract: The invention concerns a 4-high/6-high/18 HS cassette-type roll stand in which bending force is transmitted to bending journals (6) of roll inserts (7) by piston-cylinder units that are connected with Mae West blocks (3). Here, the piston at the piston rod (1) is fixedly connected with the Mae West block (3) and the cylinders (4) fit around the bending journals (6) at the inserts (7) of the rolls, so that thereby bending force can be transmitted directly to the bending journals (6) of the roll inserts (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Konrad Schunn, Lothar Zwingmann, Holger Pulst, Arnulf Wurm, Ruediger Holz
  • Patent number: 9649680
    Abstract: The invention relates to extrusion and pipe presses (1), comprising a press frame consisting of a cylindrical spar (2) and a counter spar (4) connected thereto, in which a mobile billet container holder (7) supporting a billet container (8), which puts a billet (18) to be pressed, which was introduced by a loading device, into a press position in front of the counter spar (4) with the associated tool (38), and a mobile punch crosshead (6) are provided. In the cylindrical spar (2), a main cylinder, or press cylinder, is arranged, which in the cylinder housing (9) thereof receives a press piston (11), which at the front end thereof that is supported by the punch crosshead (6) is connected to a press punch (19). A compensation tank (15), which delivers hydraulic oil to the press piston (11) by way of a slider plate (28), is assigned to a main cylinder housing (9) connected to a tank line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SMS MEER GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Frehe, Andreas Wershofen-Crombach, Uwe Muschalik, Cornelio Lioni
  • Patent number: 9643224
    Abstract: A device for cooling rolled stock, preferably for cooling during cold rolling, including a nozzle for applying a cooling medium to the rolled stock, wherein a cooling chamber that is in fluid communication with the nozzle and extends substantially parallel to the strip running plane is provided for applying the cooling medium to the rolled stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Breuer, Andreas Gramer, Johannes Alken, Dietrich Mathweis, Heiko Zetzsche
  • Patent number: 9636725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pipe rolling plant 10 comprising a rotary piercer 20, a treatment station 30 and a main rolling mill 40. The rotary piercer and the treatment station are arranged so that the pierced blank 51 leaving them is arranged with the irregular tail 511 facing the main rolling mill 40 and with the regular head 510 facing the mandrel 41. The invention also relates to a rolling mill 40 comprising a plurality of rolling stations 43, each station comprising a plurality of rolling rolls 42, the radial position h of which is adjustable. The rolling mill also comprises a control circuit for calculating and/or measuring the distance d between the axes of rotation r of the rolls and the trailing edge 520 of the pipe 52. The control circuit is also designed to displace the rolling rolls radially towards the outside of the pipe in each rolling station 43n when the distance d assumes a predetermined value d0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SMS INNSE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Guido Emilio Zanella, Vincenzo Palma, Marco Ghisolfi
  • Patent number: 9636729
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drawing die arrangement having a drawing tool that acts on an elongated workpiece, and having a drawing tool support on which the drawing tool is mounted, counteracting the drawing tool, in which support a measurement device that measures the mass distribution of the workpiece material is disposed on the drawing tool, wherein a coupling medium circulated between the measurement device and the drawing tool is provided. Furthermore, the invention relates to a workpiece guide and to a drawing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Lutterbach, Enver Yurdusever, Ali Zafari, Thomas Cmiel
  • Patent number: 9630243
    Abstract: A continuously operating casting and rolling system with a strip tension control includes a casting unit having a melt-containing feed vessel with a horizontal casting channel and a discharge region in the form of a casting nozzle, and a primary cooling zone with two guide rolls and a circulating cooled casting strip and at least one downstream rolling unit having at least two drivable rollers. In order to minimize the tension on the cast strip, the casting unit and the subsequent rolling unit are mechanically decoupled, wherein for the decoupling at least one driver unit having at least two drivable rollers for driving the strip is arranged between the casting belt and the rolling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Hellfried Eichholz, Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Sven Klawiter, Rune Schmidt-Jürgensen