Patents Examined by Keith Walker
  • Patent number: 12129527
    Abstract: The present invention provides a part having a composition including, with the contents being expressed in weight-percent, 0.10?C?0.30, 1.6?Mn?2.1, 0.5?Cr?1.7, 0.5?Si?1.0, 0.065?Nb?0.15, 0.0010?B?0.0050, 0.0010?N?0.0130, 0?Al?0.060, 0?Mo?1.00, 0?Ni?1.0, 0.01?Ti?0.07, 0?V?0.3, 0?P?0.050, 0.01?S?0.1, 0?Cu?0.5, 0?Sn?0.1. A balance of the composition includes iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the production method. The microstructure includes, in surface proportions, from 100% to 70% bainite, less than 30% residual austenite, and less than 5% ferrite. A manufacturing method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Marie-Thérèse Perrot-Simonetta, Bernard Resiak, Ulrich Voll
  • Patent number: 12109613
    Abstract: Additive manufacturing systems and methods are provided. An additive manufacturing system includes a build volume; a powder disposed in the build volume, the powder occupying at least a portion of the build volume and having an outer boundary; a beam generator configured to generate a beam to irradiate the powder; and a ram defining a passthrough configured to transmit the beam to an irradiation location disposed within the outer boundary of the powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC
    Inventor: Yuefeng Luo
  • Patent number: 12104216
    Abstract: Provided is an annealing separator with which a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a forsterite film with excellent appearance uniformity and adhesion can be obtained. The annealing separator for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises: magnesia that contains 0.05 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less of B and 0.01 mass % or more and 0.10 mass % or less of P, and titanium oxide in 1.0 part by mass or more and 10.0 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the magnesia where the titanium oxide contains one or more types of alkali metals in a total amount of 0.0050 mass % or more and 0.50 mass % or less, where an amount of P adsorbed on per 1 g of the titanium oxide is 1.5×10?4 g or more and 1.0×10?3 g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya, Karin Kokufu
  • Patent number: 12106878
    Abstract: Described is a magnetocaloric regenerator comprising one or more materials containing cobalt, manganese and boron and optionally carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary P. Tener, Mykola Abramchuk, Xiaoyan Tan, Michael Shatruk, Sumohan Misra, Daniel Barrera-Medrano
  • Patent number: 12091720
    Abstract: A method for producing a feedstock wire is produced from a first metal strip and at least one further metal strip by roll forming, wherein in particular the first metal strip and the at least one further metal strip are made of differing metals, preferably of differing meals having differing yield points, wherein a jacket, which in the final shape completely surrounds the at least one further metal strip in the circumferential direction, is formed from the first metal strip in a plurality of passes by roll forming using a plurality of roll stands, and wherein, first, exclusively only the first metal strip is formed to a preliminary shape in a plurality of passes using a first group of roll stands and, thereafter, the first metal strip and the at least one further metal strip are jointly formed to the final shape in a second group of roll stands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Theodor Stuth, Andreas Mols
  • Patent number: 12091737
    Abstract: When welding with a consumable wire electrode, current contacting occurs when the electrode wire passes by a readily electrically conductive contact element. In order to improve the current contacting and reduce the wear of the contact element in particular, the invention proposes subjecting contact elements to a cold treatment prior to using same. The cold treatment has a cooling phase during which the temperature of the contact element is reduced to a lower target temperature, a subsequent holding phase in which the contact element is substantially held at the target temperature, and a final heating phase, in which the contact element is brought to an upper target temperature. The use of contact elements treated using the method according to the invention leads to a substantial increase of the wear resistance compared to untreated contact elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Messer SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Thomas Böckler, Bernd Hildebrandt, Georg Selders, Mario Rockser, Dirk Kampffmeyer
  • Patent number: 12083595
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) metal object manufacturing apparatus is operated to compensate for surface deviations of overhanging features differently than for non-overhanging features. The compensation technique used for the overhanging features depends on whether an edge of the overhanging feature being formed in a next layer has curved or sharp corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Additive Technologies LLC
    Inventors: PriyaankaDevi Guggilapu, Benjamin Paulson, Dinesh Krishna Kumar Jayabal, Collin A. Ladd, Stuart A. Schweid
  • Patent number: 12084740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to steel sheet realizing both formability and weldability. The steel sheet of the present invention is characterized in that at a surface layer part of a region down to 30 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet in the sheet thickness direction, Al oxide grains are present in 3000 to 6000/mm2 in number density, the natural logarithms of the particle sizes of the Al oxide grains measured in ?m units are on the average ?5.0 to ?3.5, the standard error is 0.6 or less, and the number of Al oxide grains with deviations of the natural logarithms of the particle sizes from the average larger than 2 times the standard error is 5% or less of the total number of Al oxide grains and at a position of ½ of the thickness of the steel sheet, the number density of the Al oxide grains is 1000/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12043879
    Abstract: Provided are a steel cord and a single steel wire having excellent straightness quality for reinforcing tire and a method of manufacturing the steel cord and single steel wire. The steel cord and the single steel wire include a wire undergoing through a drawing process, a heating process performed in a state in which tension is applied to the wire, and a cooling process; and a winding portion on which the wire is wound, the winding portion having a diameter greater than a diameter of the wire, wherein, when an end of the wire that has been wound on the winding portion for six months to one year is fixed on a point and the wire is pulled down vertically to 400 mm, a distance between a first axis that is perpendicular to the point and an opposite end of the wire is 30 mm or less. The method of manufacturing the steel cord and single steel wire having excellent straightness quality for reinforcing tire includes: a wire preparing process, a heating process, a cooling process, and a winding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hongduk Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pyeong Yeol Park, Do Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 12031192
    Abstract: Provided is a continuous hot-dip galvanizing apparatus comprising: a vertical annealing furnace having heating, soaking zone, and cooling zones therein; and a hot-dip galvanizing line downstream of the cooling zone. The heating, soaking, and cooling zones each have, in its upper portion, at least one upper hearth roll and, in its lower portion, at least one lower hearth roll. The soaking zone has a first and second humidified gas supply ports to supply a humidified gas having a dew point of 10° C. to 30° C. to the soaking zone. The first and second humidified gas supply ports are 1.0 m to 5.0 m lower than the center of the lower and upper hearth rolls, respectively, and overlap the steel sheet. The first humidified gas supply port is provided only for an ascending pass and the second humidified gas supply port is provided only for a descending pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gentaro Takeda, Hideyuki Takahashi, Tetsuya Iwata, Koji Sawamura
  • Patent number: 12017308
    Abstract: Techniques and devices are disclosed for fabrication layout device. The device includes a table with a work surface. The work surface being a continuous surface and configured to support a plurality of railing pieces for fabrication of a railing assembly. The device further includes a beam located above the work surface. The beam is operatively coupled to the table, such that the beam moves relative to the work surface in a first direction. Attached to the beam is an ink dispenser. The ink dispenser is configured to move along the beam in a second direction different from the first direction. The ink dispenser is further configured to dispense ink onto the work surface of the table in the form of a pattern of the railing assembly. Railing pieces are positioned on the pattern so that they can be assembled to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Lawrence Chasse, John Michael Evans
  • Patent number: 12005502
    Abstract: A system for manufacturing a three-dimensional (3D) article includes a controller. The controller is configured to (A) receive a solid model defining the 3D article having an unsupported (downward facing) surface and (B) define a support structure for the unsupported surface. The support structure includes (1) a lower support beam, (2) a node body, and (3) at least three branches. The node body is defined at an upper end of the lower support beam. The node body has an upper surface that is generally in facing relation with the unsupported surface. The at least three branches extend with a diverging geometry away from the upper surface of the node body and to the unsupported surface. The branches are individually defined by a vertical sequence of contour scan patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: 3D SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Kirill Volchek, Vladimir Budovsky
  • Patent number: 11926880
    Abstract: Methods for forming a dual-phase magnetic component from an initial component comprising a non-magnetic austenite composition are provided. The method may include: forming a coating on a portion of the surface of the initial component to form a masked area while leaving an unmasked area thereon. Thereafter the initial component may be heated to a treatment temperature such that nitrogen diffuses out of the unmasked area of the initial component to transform the non-magnetic austenite composition to a magnetic phase in the unmasked area. Thereafter, the initial component may be cooled from the treatment temperature to form a dual-phase magnetic component having a magnetic region corresponding to the unmasked area and a non-magnetic region corresponding to the masked area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shenyan Huang, Min Zou, Steve John Buresh, Wanming Zhang, Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11901103
    Abstract: A magnetic body is constituted by grains of a soft magnetic alloy bonded together via an oxide layer, wherein: the soft magnetic alloy is an alloy containing Si by 1 to 5.5 percent by mass, and Cr or Al by 0.2 to 4 percent by mass in total, as constituent elements, with Fe and unavoidable impurities accounting for the remainder; and the oxide layer contains Si, as well as at least one of Cr and Al, where, among Fe, Si, Cr, and Al, Si is contained in the largest quantity based on mass. The magnetic body can have high magnetic permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Orimo, Shinsuke Takeoka
  • Patent number: 11885025
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ?t to ?t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Eisaku Sakurada, Kohichi Sano, Takafumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11883877
    Abstract: A method to determine the crater end location of a cast metal product during its casting, the crater end location being the location at which the cast metal product becomes fully solidified. A continuous casting method and a continuous casting machine are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Thomas Brullot, Thomas Lavalard, Jean-Marc Hemmen, Jean-Noël Fouligny
  • Patent number: 11878348
    Abstract: A three-dimensional powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus includes a powder application device that includes a squeegee and applies a powder material to a build plate to form a powder layer, a camera that photographs a manufactured surface of the powder layer, and a determination unit that determines whether powder application failure of the powder material has occurred using an image photographed by the camera while or immediately after the squeegee passes through the manufactured surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Hisaki, Shinichi Kitamura, Takashi Sato, Ayumu Miyakita, Kozo Koiwa, Yohei Daino, Masahiko Kawakami, Nari Tsutagawa
  • Patent number: 11872616
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cold-forged, extruded aluminum alloy tube includes the steps of: providing a primary material having a hollow columnar shape and made of an aluminum alloy material, and a first cold extrusion apparatus; processing the primary material to form a preform; subjecting the preform to a homogeneous annealing by heating to a temperature of about 410° C. to 510° C. and then cooling to a temperature of about 160° C. to 200° C.; testing the hardness of the preform; immersing the preform in a tank containing lubricant having a total acidity concentration of 40 to 50 mg/L at a working temperature of 80° C. to 100° C.; and subjecting the preform to cold extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Jin Yuncheng Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun-Tzu Lin, Yi-Siang Lin
  • Patent number: 11873545
    Abstract: A casting of a hypereutectic white iron that, in an as-cast form of the casting, has a microstructure that includes a ferrous matrix that contains 12-20 wt. % chromium in solution in the matrix, eutectic chromium carbides dispersed in the matrix, primary chromium carbides dispersed in the matrix, and optionally secondary carbides dispersed in the matrix. The eutectic carbides are 15-25 vol. % of the casting and the primary carbides are 25-35 vol. % of the casting. When present, the secondary carbides are up to 6 vol. % of the casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Francis Dolman, Timothy Justin Lucey
  • Patent number: 11866798
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a magnetostrictive torque sensor shaft mounting a sensor portion of a magnetostrictive torque sensor. The method includes conducting heat treatment on a shaft material including chrome steel or chrome-molybdenum steel by carburizing, quenching and tempering, and conducting shot peening on the shaft material after the heat treatment at least on a position where the sensor portion is to be mounted. The shot peening is conducted by firing shot with a particle size of not less than 0.6 mm and a Rockwell hardness of not less than 60 at a jet pressure of not less than 0.4 MPa for a jet exposure time of not less than 2 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Teruyuki Nakamura