Patents Assigned to Speira GmbH
  • Patent number: 11953424
    Abstract: A method for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys. The method includes pickling the flat product, in particular for degreasing the flat product. The method includes carrying out a colour measurement on the surface of the flat product to determine at least one measured colour value after pickling the flat product. The method includes generating output information on the basis of the at least one measured colour value. The output information is indicative of compliance with at least one rule for the measured colour value and outputting or triggering the output of the output information. The invention further relates to a device for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys and to a use of a colorimeter which is configured to determine at least one measured colour value in a surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SPEIRA GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Zentzis, Gernot Nitzsche, Kathrin Eckhard
  • Patent number: 11807027
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aluminium alloy strip for lithographic printing plate supports, which has a rolled-in surface topography on one strip surface. Further, a method is disclosed for manufacturing the aluminium alloy strip and a printing plate for lithographic printing, with a printing plate support made of aluminium alloy. The object of proposing an aluminium alloy strip for lithographic printing plate supports is that it provides a long service life in the printing process and is roughened with less charge support entry. This is achieved in that the surface of the aluminium alloy strip has a mean peak number measured perpendicular to the rolling direction of the aluminium alloy strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Bauer, Gernot Nitzsche, Volkan Barisik, Vera Bartosinski, Jasmin Dahmen, Klaus Weichbrodt, Jan Hendrik Holtz
  • Publication number: 20230339014
    Abstract: A casting roller or belt for a revolving chill mould of a strip casting system for the manufacture of an aluminium alloy strip and a strip casting system for manufacturing an aluminium alloy strip comprising at least one revolving chill mould with a casting gap. A method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy strip by means of a strip casting system. The object of providing a casting roller or belt or a strip casting system, by means of which, adhesion to the casting roller or belt is avoided during strip casting and a low-segregation and crack-free aluminium alloy strip can be produced, in particular under industrial conditions, is achieved by a specific surface structure, in that the surface of the casting roller or belt has a roughness value Sa of more than 5 ?m and an average peak count RPc(0.5 ?m) of less than 42 cm?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Kai-Friedrich Karhausen, Mark Badowski, Wolfgang Müller, Dirk Gade
  • Publication number: 20230323514
    Abstract: An aluminium alloy foil with a thickness of maximum 12 ?m, maximum 9 ?m or less than 8 ?m. The aluminium alloy foil is an AA1xxx or A8xxx aluminium alloy in the annealed state. In addition, a method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy foil and its use. The object of proposing an aluminium alloy foil with improved barrier properties, a method for its manufacture and a use of the aluminium alloy foil is achieved in that the aluminium alloy foil has a maximum number of pores with a pore size of 1 ?m to 200 ?m of maximum 12 per dm2, maximum 8 per dm2 or maximum 6 per dm2. In addition, a method is specified for how this aluminium alloy foil can be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Galyna Laptyeva, Michael Eberhard, Jan Simmer, Michael Wimmer, Günter Schubert, Dirk Calmer, Stefan Holz
  • Publication number: 20230203395
    Abstract: Described is a cooling lubricant for cold rolling aluminum, which includes a mineral oil-based or synthetic base oil and a polyalkylene glycol or a compound with a polyalkylene oxide structure. Further, the cooling lubricant is not water-soluble or miscible with water, and the cooling lubricant is substantially free of fatty acids and fatty alcohols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Draese, Thomas Graf, Oliver Seiferth, Volker Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20230197969
    Abstract: An aluminum foil is formed from an alloy of type AA1xxx, AA3xxx, and/or AA8xxx, which has a cold-solidified state and contains on its surface a rolling oil layer with a polyalkylene glycol or a compound containing a polyalkylene oxide structure. The aluminum foil has a thickness of 4 ?m to 100 ?m and can be easily coated with an electrode suspension for producing a battery film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Draese, Thomas Graf, Oliver Seiferth, Volker Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11673184
    Abstract: A strip casting system for aluminium and/or aluminium alloys comprising a casting furnace and a revolving chill mould having a casting gap. The revolving chill mould is designed as a roll pair, roller pair, caterpillar pair or belt pair. The strip casting system has an active means for transporting metal melt from the casting furnace to the casting gap and a casting region arranged in front of the casting gap. The casting region is delimited on one side by the revolving chill mould. A melt pool is formed in the casting region, from which metal melt flows or is drawn into the casting gap. The casting furnace is connected to the casting region by a pipe system with means for feeding the metal melt into the casting region, which can feed the metal melt to the casting region below the surface of the melt pool formed in the casting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Kai-Friedrich Karhausen, Ralph Bock, Manfred Langen, Wolfgang Müller, Mark Badowski
  • Publication number: 20230086926
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aluminium alloy strip for lithographic printing plate supports, which has a rolled-in surface topography on one strip surface. Further, a method is disclosed for manufacturing the aluminium alloy strip and a printing plate for lithographic printing, with a printing plate support made of aluminium alloy. The object of proposing an aluminium alloy strip for lithographic printing plate supports is that it provides a long service life in the printing process and is roughened with less charge support entry. This is achieved in that the surface of the aluminium alloy strip has a mean peak number measured perpendicular to the rolling direction of the aluminium alloy strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Bauer, Gernot Nitzsche, Volkan Barisik, Vera Bartosinski, Jasmin Dahmen, Klaus Weichbrodt, Jan Hendrik Holtz
  • Publication number: 20230078028
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aluminium material for the manufacture of high-strength, soldered components, including an aluminium alloy. After soldering, the aluminium material is in materially-bonded contact with at least one solder layer. The object of providing an aluminium material is to provide not only good soldering properties and formability, but also high strength. This is achieved because the aluminium alloy of the aluminium material has a solidus temperature, and the aluminium material has an increase in yield strength compared to the state after soldering and cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Christoph Lentz, Nico Eigen, Volker Sass
  • Patent number: 11495801
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery electrode foil comprising an aluminium alloy, wherein the aluminium alloy has the following composition in weight percent: Si: 0.07-0.12% by weight, Fe: 0.18-0.24% by weight, Cu: 0.03-0.08% by weight, Mn: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Zn: ?0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Zn: ?0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Mn: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Zn: ?0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.015-0.025% by weight, wherein the aluminium alloy can contain impurities up to a maximum of 0.01% in each case, up to a maximum of 0.03% in total, but the proportion of aluminium must be at least 99.5% by weight; wherein the battery electrode foil has intermetallic phases of a diameter length of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m with a density of ?9500 particles/mm2. The invention further relates to a process for the production of a battery electrode foil, its use for the production of accumulators, and accumulators containing the battery electrode foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Speira GMBH
    Inventors: Galyna Laptyeva, Ulrich Hampel, Volker Denkmann
  • Publication number: 20220118507
    Abstract: A strip casting system for aluminium and/or aluminium alloys comprising a casting furnace and a revolving chill mould having a casting gap. The revolving chill mould is designed as a roll pair, roller pair, caterpillar pair or belt pair. The strip casting system has an active means for transporting metal melt from the casting furnace to the casting gap and a casting region arranged in front of the casting gap. The casting region is delimited on one side by the revolving chill mould. A melt pool is formed in the casting region, from which metal melt flows or is drawn into the casting gap. The casting furnace is connected to the casting region by a pipe system with means for feeding the metal melt into the casting region, which can feed the metal melt to the casting region below the surface of the melt pool formed in the casting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Kai-Friedrich Karhausen, Ralph Bock, Manfred Langen, Wolfgang Müller, Mark Badowski
  • Publication number: 20220042904
    Abstract: A method for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys. The method includes pickling the flat product, in particular for degreasing the flat product. The method includes carrying out a colour measurement on the surface of the flat product to determine at least one measured colour value after pickling the flat product. The method includes generating output information on the basis of the at least one measured colour value. The output information is indicative of compliance with at least one rule for the measured colour value and outputting or triggering the output of the output information. The invention further relates to a device for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys and to a use of a colorimeter which is configured to determine at least one measured colour value in a surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Speira GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Zentzis, Gernot Nitzsche, Kathrin Eckhard