Patents by Inventor Bernd Linzer

Bernd Linzer 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).

  • Patent number: 9138789
    Abstract: Drive loads for a plurality of drives of a mill train for rolling rolling stock with a plurality of rolling stands each being assigned at least one drive, are adjusted essentially to a first set point value on the basis of operation of the mill train in accordance with a first pass sequence. Redistribution of drive loads is improved, by adjusting the drive loads during the rolling to a second set point value different from the first set point value based on operating the mill train in accordance with a second pass sequence different from the first pass sequence, wherein at least during the adjustment of the second set point values a feed rate of the rolling stock into the mill train is adjusted as a function of a discharge rate of the rolling stock which is arranged upstream of the mill train in the direction of mass flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ansgar Grüss, Bernd Linzer, Alois Seilinger
  • Patent number: 9108234
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus for preparing steel stock before hot rolling. The steps of preheating the stock (5, 16, 22) in a first induction furnace (6) so that the preheated stock enters a subsequent descaling apparatus (7) with a surface temperature of T1?1000° C.; descaling the preheated stock by a plurality of water jets in a descaling apparatus (7); direct subsequent heating of the descaled stock in a second induction furnace (8), where the descaled stock enters the second induction furnace (8) at a temperature T2 which is ?Tcurie of the stock and heating in the second induction furnace 8 is either in a largely inert or largely reducing protective gas atmosphere; passing the heated stock in a rolling mill (9), where the heated stock enters the rolling mill (9) at a temperature 1220° C.?T3 1050° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Gerald Eckerstorfer, Gerald Hohenbichler, Bernd Linzer
  • Publication number: 20140096578
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus for preparing steel stock before hot rolling. The steps of preheating the stock (5, 16, 22) in a first induction furnace (6) so that the preheated stock enters a subsequent descaling apparatus (7) with a surface temperature of T1?1000° C.; descaling the preheated stock by a plurality of water jets in a descaling apparatus (7); direct subsequent heating of the descaled stock in a second induction furnace (8), where the descaled stock enters the second induction furnace (8) at a temperature T2 which is ?Tcurie of the stock and heating in the second induction furnace 8 is either in a largely inert or largely reducing protective gas atmosphere; passing the heated stock in a rolling mill (9), where the heated stock enters the rolling mill (9) at a temperature 1220° C.?T3 1050° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Gerald Eckerstorfer, Gerald Hohenbichler, Bernd Linzer
  • Publication number: 20140072824
    Abstract: A method allows microalloyed tubular steel to be produced economically, with operational reliability and with high quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd LINZER, Axel RIMNAC
  • Publication number: 20120305212
    Abstract: A method and a combined casting/rolling installation for production/processing of high-quality hot-rolled strip into grain-oriented electrical steel strip at low cost, provides for: a) melting a steel having a chemical composition in wt % of Si 2 to 7%, C 0.01 to 0.1%, Mn<0.3%, Cu 0.1 to 0.7%, Sn<0.2%, S<0.05%, Al<0.09%, Cr<0.3%, N<0.02%, P<0.1%, remainder Fe and impurities; b) casting a strand having a thickness of 25 to 150 mm on a continuous casting installation; c) rolling into a strip in up to 4 rolling passes directly after casting the strand, wherein at least in one rolling pass a true strain is >30% or the total true strain of all passes is >50%; d) heating the strip to a final temperature of 1050 to 1250° C., preferably 1100 to 1180° C.; e) finish rolling the strip in a second rolling train, then f) cooling and winding the strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Gerald Eckerstorfer, Gerald Hohenbichler, Bernd Linzer
  • Publication number: 20110289993
    Abstract: In a rolling mill, an open-loop and/or closed-loop control device and a method for adjusting a discharge thickness of rolling stock which passes through a multi-stand mill train, wherein a first section of the rolling stock is rolled to a first discharge thickness, a second section of the rolling stock is rolled to a second discharge thickness which is different from the first discharge thickness. Because a transition from the first discharge thickness to the second discharge thickness takes place at a feed rate of the rolling stock into the mill train which is adjusted as a function of a discharge rate of the rolling stock of a unit which is arranged upstream of the mill train in the direction of mass flow, a method can be made available which runs essentially without reactions for units which are arranged upstream of the mill train in the direction of mass flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ansgar Grüss, Bernd Linzer, Alois Seilinger
  • Publication number: 20110239722
    Abstract: Drive loads for a plurality of drives of a mill train for rolling rolling stock with a plurality of rolling stands each being assigned at least one drive, are adjusted essentially to a first set point value on the basis of operation of the mill train in accordance with a first pass sequence. Redistribution of drive loads is improved, by adjusting the drive loads during the rolling to a second set point value different from the first setpoint value based on operating the mill train in accordance with a second pass sequence different from the first pass sequence, wherein at least during the adjustment of the second set point values a feed rate of the rolling stock into the mill train is adjusted as a function of a discharge rate of the rolling stock which is arranged upstream of the mill train in the direction of mass flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Ansgar Grüss, Bernd Linzer, Alois Seilinger
  • Publication number: 20100018665
    Abstract: A process for producing a strip-cast, low-carbon, partly Mn/Si killed steel strip which is largely free of cracks and surface defects from a steel melt having a sulfur content of between 20 and 300 ppm and an Mn/Si ratio ?3.5, using a roll separating force of between 2 and 50 kN/m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Christian Bernhard, Gerald Eckerstorfer, Gerald Hohenbichler, Bernd Linzer