Patents by Inventor Andreas Frehn
Andreas Frehn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230357904Abstract: A reinforced alloy comprising reinforcement particles (fine and/or coarse) for a bracket that provides enhanced theft deterrence and lightweight. The bracket may be used for a lock for a personal transportation vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: MATERION CORPORATIONInventors: Andreas Frehn, Andrew Tarrant
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Patent number: 11761069Abstract: An automotive component is produced by hot forming and press hardening a hardenable steel alloy having a tensile strength of at least 1700 MPa. The hardenable steel alloy, in addition to a balance made up of iron and melting-related impurities, has the following alloy elements carbon, niobium, and titanium. The automotive component is coated by a thermal coating process.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Georg Frost, Andreas Frehn, Karsten Bake, Martin Holzweissig, Rainer Lapsien
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Publication number: 20210140021Abstract: An automotive component is produced by hot forming and press hardening a hardenable steel alloy having a tensile strength of at least 1700 MPa. The hardenable steel alloy, in addition to a balance made up of iron and melting-related impurities, has the following alloy elements carbon, niobium, and titanium. The automotive component is coated by a thermal coating process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Georg FROST, Andreas FREHN, Karsten BAKE, Martin HOLZWEISSIG, Rainer LAPSIEN
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Patent number: 10898942Abstract: A method for the production of a closed hollow profile for a vehicle axle including the following steps: a) provision of a board made out of a sheet of metal, wherein the board has at least a length in a longitudinal direction and at least a width in a transverse direction, b) forming of the board, creating an open profile with a channel running in a longitudinal direction of the board, c) forming the lateral surfaces of the board, creating a hollow profile with a circumference and a longitudinal gap and d) joining together the longitudinal gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Michael Brüggenbrock, Thomas Flehmig, Thomas Flöth, Thomas Grosserüschkamp, Norbert Niggemeyer, Andreas Frehn
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Publication number: 20190366407Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a motor vehicle component and to a motor vehicle component. Said motor vehicle component is produced by means of hot forming and press hardening. A blank is heated in a continuous furnace with supply of nitrogen. This produces a skin-decarburized layer on the blank that achieves ductility in a motor vehicle component produced with ultrahigh strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Martin HOLZWEISSIG, Markus KETTLER, Karsten BAKE, Georg FROST, Andreas FREHN
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Publication number: 20180370578Abstract: The disclosure is related to a body component or chassis component for a motor vehicle having at least one surface segment composed of a three-layer sheet-metal composite having a central layer and two outer layers, which bound the central layer on the outside and which are integrally joined to the central layer face to face. The outer layers are composed of a stainless steel alloy having a microstructure selected from the group of ferritic, austenitic, or martensitic microstructure and the central layer is composed of a heat-treatable steel alloy, and the body component or chassis component has a bending angle of greater than 80°, determined in the plate bending test according to VDA 238-100, having an Rp0.2 yield strength of greater than 900 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Andreas FREHN, Georg FROST
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Publication number: 20180222536Abstract: A motor vehicle component is disclosed. The component is manufactured by hot forming die quenching a sheet metal blank made of a hardenable steel alloy, and the motor vehicle component is made of a triple-layer laminated steel and including a central layer of hardenable steel ally, and the outer layers of a stainless steel alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Andreas FREHN, Georg FROST, Christian HANDING, Christoph NITSCHKE, Martin POHL
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Publication number: 20170331086Abstract: A battery holder is disclosed having a base plate and a frame that is at least partially encircling in a lateral direction, the base plate and the frame are configured as sheet-metal components, and a lid. The base plate is configured in a trough-shaped manner and is manufactured as a formed sheet-metal component from a multilayered laminated composite steel, wherein an internal exterior layer is configured from an acid-resistant steel alloy and an outboard external layer of the laminated composite steel is configured from a stainless-steel alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Andreas FREHN, Georg FROST, Christian HANDING
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Publication number: 20170066036Abstract: A method for the production of a closed hollow profile for a vehicle axle including the following steps: a) provision of a board made out of a sheet of metal, wherein the board has at least a length in a longitudinal direction and at least a width in a transverse direction, b) forming of the board, creating an open profile with a channel running in a longitudinal direction of the board, c) forming the lateral surfaces of the board, creating a hollow profile with a circumference and a longitudinal gap and d) joining together the longitudinal gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Michael Brüggenbrock, Thomas Flehmig, Thomas Flöth, Thomas Grosserüschkamp, Norbert Niggemeyer, Andreas Frehn
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Patent number: 9475107Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle axle component includes the method steps of providing a metal strip made of a hardenable steel material, hot rolling the metal strip and subsequent cold rolling with more than 4% rolling reduction degree, annealing at 600 to 800° C., in particular at 650 to 750° C. for a time period between 10 and 20 hours, in particular 13 to 17 hours, cutting the heat treated metal strip to cut sheet metals, forming the metal cut into a motor vehicle axle component, austenizing and quenching the motor vehicle axle component, wherein the motor vehicle axle component has at least in a surface region a grain size characteristic value according to ASTM-E 112 of greater than 9.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Andreas Frehn, Ralf Ilskens, Dominik Howekenmeier, Jeffrey M. Hatt
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Patent number: 9200358Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing process of a structural component for a motor vehicle, wherein a plate bar is heated, is fed to a die in the heated state and is shaped in the die. The process is characterized in that the plate bar is subjected to a nitriding process before the shaping. Furthermore, a plate bar for hot-forming for manufacturing a structural component for a motor vehicle is described, wherein the surface of the plate bar has a nitrided layer. Finally, the present invention relates to a structural component of a motor vehicle, which is manufactured by hot forming from a plate bar having a nitrided layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Armin Zuber, Andreas Frehn
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Publication number: 20140223743Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle stabilizer, configured as a hollow tubular component, includes the steps of method steps of providing a steel strip made of a high-manganese-content steel alloy having TWIP and/or TRIP properties, forming a tubular profile from the steel strip, longitudinal seam welding of the tubular profile to form a tube, and bending the tube into the stabilizer rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Andreas Frehn, ULLRICH HAMMELMAIER
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Publication number: 20140216124Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle axle component includes the method steps of providing a metal strip made of a hardenable steel material, hot rolling the metal strip and subsequent cold rolling with more than 4% rolling reduction degree, annealing at 600 to 800° C., in particular at 650 to 750° C. for a time period between 10 and 20 hours, in particular 13 to 17 hours, cutting the heat treated metal strip to cut sheet metals, forming the metal cut into a motor vehicle axle component, austenizing and quenching the motor vehicle axle component, wherein the motor vehicle axle component has at least in a surface region a grain size characteristic value according to ASTM-E 112 of greater than 9.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: ANDREAS FREHN, RALF ILSKENS, DOMINIK HOWEKENMEIER, JEFFREY M. HATT
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Publication number: 20140158257Abstract: In a method for producing a motor vehicle component and a motor vehicle component produced according to the invention a steel sheet with a stacking fault energy between 10 and 40 mJ/m2 and a manganese content between 10 and 30% is provided, which is prone to twin formation at room temperature and has at least regions with a predominantly austenitic microstructure. Regions of this steel sheet are first temperature treated to a temperature between +30° C. and ?250° C. and subsequently cold formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Andreas Frehn, Thomas Niendorf, Christian Rüsing, Hans Jürgen Maier
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Patent number: 8252125Abstract: The present invention, among other things, relates to a method for producing a workpiece by press hardening a semi-finished product, which is distinguished by the fact that the semi-finished product consists of a steel which has a high content of silicon of at least 0.9 wt. %, with a simultaneously small content of manganese of less than 0.9 wt. %, a small carbon content of less than 0.25 wt. %, and a high chromium content of more than 1.20 wt. %, and which by heating is brought to a state in which the structure of the steel that is used is at least partially transformed to austenite, also optionally fully transformed to austenite, and the thus-heated semi-finished product is hot shaped so that after the hot deformation shaping, a structure is present in the workpiece that has a complex phase structure with predominantly martensite and ferrite fractions. In addition, a workpiece is described, which is produced according to this method, as well as uses of such a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Hubertus Giefers, Karsten Bake, Andreas Frehn, Alexander Redenius, Uwe Diekmann
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Publication number: 20110182765Abstract: A steel grade for use in a hot forming and press hardening process has the following composition, in weight percent: C 0.15%=C<0.35%, Mn 0.8-2.5%, Si 1.5-2.5%, Cr max. 0.4%, Al max. 0.1%, Ni max. 0.3%, B 0.0008-0.005%, Ti 0.005-0.1%, Nb max. 0.1%, remainder iron and unavoidable impurities as well as a hot formed and press hardened structural part made of this steel grade.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: HUBERTUS GIEFERS, KARSTEN BAKE, ANDREAS FREHN
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Publication number: 20110120596Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing process of a structural component for a motor vehicle, wherein a plate bar is heated, is fed to a die in the heated state and is shaped in the die. The process is characterized in that the plate bar is subjected to a nitriding process before the shaping. Furthermore, a plate bar for hot-forming for manufacturing a structural component for a motor vehicle is described, wherein the surface of the plate bar has a nitrided layer. Finally, the present invention relates to a structural component of a motor vehicle, which is manufactured by hot forming from a plate bar having a nitrided layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Armin Zuber, Andreas Frehn
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Publication number: 20100139821Abstract: The present invention, among other things, relates to a method for producing a workpiece by press hardening a semi-finished product, which is distinguished by the fact that the semi-finished product consists of a steel which has a high content of silicon of at least 0.9 wt. %, with a simultaneously small content of manganese of less than 0.9 wt. %, a small carbon content of less than 0.25 wt. %, and a high chromium content of more than 1.20 wt. %, and which by heating is brought to a state in which the structure of the steel that is used is at least partially transformed to austenite, also optionally fully transformed to austenite, and the thus-heated semi-finished product is hot shaped so that after the hot deformation shaping, a structure is present in the workpiece that has a complex phase structure with predominantly martensite and ferrite fractions. In addition, a workpiece is described, which is produced according to this method, as well as uses of such a workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Hubertus Giefers, Karsten Bake, Andreas Frehn, Alexander Redenius, Uwe Diekmann