Patents by Inventor Brigitte Hammer

Brigitte Hammer 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).

  • Publication number: 20210087662
    Abstract: A metal sheet component including (in % by weight) C: up to 0.5%, Si: 0.05-1%, Mn: 4-12%, Cr: 0.1-4%, Al: up to 3.5%, N: up to 0.05%, P: up to 0.5%, S: up to 0.01%, Cu, Ni: in total up to 2%, Ti, Nb, V: in total up to 0.5%, rare earth metals: up to 0.1%, and as a remainder, Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the content % C of C and the content % Cr of Cr meet the following condition: (10×% C)+% Cr<5.5%. In order to manufacture a metal sheet component, a flat steel product is heated to a heating temperature, which is at least 200° C. and at most 800° C., and then formed into the component by hot forming the flat steel product heated to the heating temperature, with the structure of the hot-formed metal sheet component having 5-50% by volume austenite and, as the remainder, martensite, tempered martensite and/or ferrite, wherein the ferrite proportion can also be 0, and the average grain diameter of the structure is less than 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Harald Hofmann, Thomas Heller, Sebastian Stille, Georg Parma, Janko Banik, Jonas Schwabe
  • Patent number: 10435763
    Abstract: A method for producing a cold-rolled steel strip with a yield ratio Re/Rm of at least 0.7, the cold-rolled steel product including iron, unavoidable impurities and (in wt. %) C: 0.05-0.20%, Si: 0.25-1.00%, Mn: 1.0-3.0%, Al: 0.02-1.5%, Cr: 0.1-1.5%, N: <0.02%, P: <0.03%, S: <0.05% and optionally one or more of Ti, Mo, Nb, V, and B, Ti: up to 0.15%, Mo: <2%, Nb: <0.1%, V: <0.12%, and B: 0.0005-0.003%. The cold-rolled flat steel product undergoes heat treatment for 4.5-24 hours at a temperature of 150-400° C. Also, a cold rolled flat steel product discussed above having a structure including at least two phases, selected from (in vol. %) at least 10% tempered martensite, <10% bainite, <10% residual austenite and remainder ferrite, a yield ratio of at least 0.7, a tensile strength of ?750 MPa and a hole expansion of at least 18%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG, JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Frank Hisker, Thomas Heller, Almir Dzafic, Richard G. Thiessen, Shinjiro Kaneko, Fusae Shiimori
  • Patent number: 10301700
    Abstract: A complexly formed steel component may have a tensile strength Rm of greater than 1200 MPa and an elongation at break A50 of greater than 6%. Example methods for producing such components comprise providing a flat steel product, which in addition to iron and unavoidable impurities, contains in percent by weight 0.10-0.60% C, 0.4-2.5% Si, up to 3.0% Al, 0.4-3.0% Mn, up to 1% Ni, up to 2.0% Cu, up to 0.4% Mo, up to 2% Cr, up to 1.5% Co, up to 0.2% Ti, up to 0.2% Nb, and up to 0.5% V. At least 10% by volume of a microstructure of the flat steel product may consist of residual austenite comprising globular residual austenite islands with a grain size of at least 1 ?m. Before being cooled, the flat steel product may be heated to a forming temperature of 150-400° C. and formed into a component with a degree of forming that is at most equal to uniform elongation Ag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Frank Hisker, Rudolf Kawalla, Grzegorz Korpala
  • Publication number: 20170029917
    Abstract: A method for producing a cold-rolled steel strip with a yield ratio Re/Rm of at least 0.7, the cold-rolled steel product including iron, unavoidable impurities and (in wt. %) C: 0.05-0.20%, Si: 0.25-1.00%, Mn: 1.0-3.0%, Al: 0.02-1.5%, Cr: 0.1-1.5%, N: <0.Q2%, P: <0.03%, S: <0.05% and optionally one or more of Ti, Mo, Nb, V, and B, Ti: up to 0.15%, Mo: <2%, Nb: <0.1%, V: <0.12%, and B: 0.0005-0.003%. The cold-rolled flat steel product undergoes heat treatment for 4.5-24 hours at a temperature of 150-400° C. Also, a cold rolled flat steel product discussed above having a structure including at least two phases, selected from (in vol. %) at least 10% tempered martensite, <10% bainite, <10% residual austenite and remainder ferrite, a yield ratio of at least 0.7, a tensile strength of ?750 MPa and a hole expansion of at least 18%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Frank Hisker, Thomas Heller, Almir Dzafic, Richard G. Thiessen, Shinjiro Kaneko, Fusae Shiimori
  • Publication number: 20160201157
    Abstract: A complexly formed steel component may have a tensile strength Rm of greater than 1200 MPa and an elongation at break A50 of greater than 6%. Example methods for producing such components comprise providing a flat steel product, which in addition to iron and unavoidable impurities, contains in percent by weight 0.10-0.60% C, 0.4-2.5% Si, up to 3.0% Al, 0.4-3.0% Mn, up to 1% Ni, up to 2.0% Cu, up to 0.4% Mo, up to 2% Cr, up to 1.5% Co, up to 0.2% Ti, up to 0.2% Nb, and up to 0.5% V. At least 10% by volume of a microstructure of the flat steel product may consist of residual austenite comprising globular residual austenite islands with a grain size of at least 1 ?m. Before being cooled, the flat steel product may be heated to a forming temperature of 150-400° C. and formed into a component with a degree of forming that is at most equal to uniform elongation Ag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Brigitte HAMMER, Thomas HELLER, Frank HISKER, Rudolf KAWALLA, Grzegorz KORPALA
  • Publication number: 20150218684
    Abstract: A cold-rolled flat steel product where Rm?1400 MPa and A80?5% and also a method for producing such product. The product includes, in addition to Fe and unavoidable impurities (in wt. %), 0.10-0.60% C, 0.4-2.5% Si, ?3.0% Al, 0.4-3.0% Mn, ?1.0% Ni, ?2.0% Cu, ?0.4% Mo, ?% Cr, ?1.5% Co, ?0.2% Ti, ?0.2% Nb, ?0.5% V. The microstructure includes (in vol. %) ?20% bainite, 10-35% residual austenite and martensite as the remainder. A slab, thin slab or a cast strip having said composition, is hot-rolled to form hot strip with a hot-rolling end temperature ?830° C., coiled at a coiling temperature ?560° C., cold-rolled at ?30% reduction and heat-treated by firstly being heated to an annealing temperature ?800° C., then being cooled at a cooling rate of ?8° C./s to a holding temperature of 470° C. to greater than the martensite start temperature and then being held at the holding temperature until at least 20 vol. % bainite is present in the microstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Frank Hisker, Rudolf Kawalla, Grzegorz Korpala
  • Publication number: 20150203946
    Abstract: A hot-rolled flat steel product having a product of Rm and A80 of ?18,000 MPa*%, a composition including (in wt.) C:0.10-0.60%, Si:0.4-2.0%, Al:?2.0%, Mn:0.4-2.5%, Ni:?1%, Cu:?2.0%, Mo:?0.4%, Cr?2%, Ii:?0.2%, Nb:?0.2%, V:?0.5%, remainder Fe and unavoidable impurities, and a microstructure of bainite and residual austenite, wherein the microstructure includes ?60 vol.% bainite, and wherein at least some of the residual austenite is in block form and ?98% of the residual austenite blocks have a size of ?5 ?m. Also, a method where a slab, thin slab or a cast strip having the aforementioned composition is hot-rolled at a hot-rolling end temperature of ?880° C., cooled with a cooling rate of ?5° C./s to a coiling temperature between the martensite start temperature and 600° C., coiled, and cooled in the coil while being held between the bainite start temperature and the martensite start temperature until ?60 vol.% of the hot strip microstructure is bainite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Frank Hisker, Rudolf Kawalla, Grzegorz Korpala
  • Patent number: 8815025
    Abstract: A high strength steel, including about 0.05 to about 0.25% of C, less than about 0.5% of Si, about 0.5 to about 3.0% of Mn, not more than about 0.06% of P, not more than about 0.01% of S, about 0.50 to about 3.0% of Sol. Al, not more than about 0.02% of N, about 0.1 to about 0.8% of Mo, about 0.02 to about 0.40% of Ti, and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein the steel has a structure formed of at least three phases including a bainite phase, and a retained austenite phase in addition to a ferrite phase having a composite carbide containing Ti and Mo dispersed and precipitated therein, wherein the total volume of the ferrite phase and the bainite phase is not smaller than 80%, the volume of the bainite phase is about 5% to about 60%, and the volume of the retained austenite phase is about 3 to about 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Günter Stich
  • Publication number: 20140041767
    Abstract: A hot-rolled flat steel product having a tensile strength of at least 1100 MPa, good elongation properties, and good deformation properties. The flat steel product is produced from a complex phase steel, which contains, in addition to iron and inevitable impurities (in % by weight), C: 0.13-0.2%, Mn: 1.8-2.5%, Si: 0.70-1.3%, Al: 0.01 to 0.1%, P: up to 0.1%, S: up to 0.01%, Cr: 0.25-0.70%, optionally Mo, the total of the Cr and Mo contents being 0.25-0.7%, Ti: 0.08-0.2%, B: 0.0005-0.005%, and a structure which consists of at the most 10% by volume of residual austenite, 10-60% by volume of martensite, at the most 30% by volume of ferrite and at least 10% by volume of bainite. Also, a method for producing such a flat steel product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Jörg Mertens, Günter Stich
  • Publication number: 20110220252
    Abstract: A dual-phase steel, a flat product and processes for the production thereof. The dual-phase steel having a strength of at least 950 MPa, good deformability, and good surface finish. It is possible, when a simple production process is used, for the flat product produced from this steel to be formed into a complexly formed component, such as part of a car body, either uncoated or provided with an anti-corrosion coating. The steel according to the invention has a structure comprising 20-70% martensite, up to 8% retained austenite and the remainder ferrite and/or bainite and has the following composition (in % by weight): C: 0.050-0.105%, Si: 0.20-0.60%, Mn: 2.10-2.80%, Cr: 0.20-0.80%, Ti: 0.02-0.10%, B: <0.0020%, Mo: <0.25%, Al: <0.10%, Cu: up to 0.20%, Ni: up to 0.10%, Ca: up to 0.005%, P: up to 0.2%, S: up to 0.01%, N: up to 0.012%, remainder iron and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: TYHSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Ekaterina Bocharova, Dorothea Mattissen, Günter Stich, Silke Strauss
  • Patent number: 7919194
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Taro Kizu, Shusaku Takagi, Kohei Hasegawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Akio Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasushi Tanaka, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Jian Bian, Günter Stich, Rolf Bode, Brigitte Bode, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20100096047
    Abstract: A method, which allows extremely high-tensile flat steel products to be manufactured with less effort includes a steel that forms a martensitic microstructure and contains (in wt. %) C: 0.15-0.19%, Mn: 0.80-1.20%, P: <0.030%, S: <0.004%, Si: 0.60-1.00%, Al: <0.05%, N: <0.0060%, Cr: 0.30-0.60%, Nb: 0.040-0.070%, remainder iron and unavoidable impurities, being cast into a cast strip having a thickness of 1-4 mm. The cast strip is hot-rolled in-line into a hot-rolled strip having a thickness of 0.5-3.2 mm in a continuous process at a final hot-rolling temperature ranging from 900 to 1050 ° C., the deformation degree being greater than 20%. The hot-rolled strip is coiled at a coiling temperature of at most 350° C., so as to obtain a hot-rolled strip, which has a minimum tensile strength Rm of 1400 MPa at a minimum breaking elongation A80 of 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
  • Publication number: 20100065161
    Abstract: A method, which allows high-tensile flat steel products to be manufactured with less effort includes a steel that forms a multi-phase microstructure and contains (in wt. %) 0.10-0.15% C, 0.80-1.20 % Mn, up to 0.030% P, up to 0.004 % S, 1.10-1.30 % Si, 0.0-0.05% Al, up to 0.0060% N, 0.30-0.60% Cr, 0.080-0.120% Ti, 0.040-0.060% Nb, 0.150-0.250% Mo remainder iron and unavoidable impurities, being cast into a cast strip having a thickness of 1-4 mm. The cast strip is hot-rolled in-line into a hot-rolled strip having a thickness of 0.5-3.2 mm in a continuous process at a final hot-rolling temperature ranging from 850 to 1000° C., the deformation degree being greater than 20%. The hot-rolled strip is coiled at a coiling temperature ranging from 450 to 700° C., so as to obtain a hot-rolled strip, which has a minimum tensile strength Rm of 880 MPa at a minimum breaking elongation A80 of 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
  • Publication number: 20100065162
    Abstract: A method, which allows high-tensile flat steel products to be manufactured with less effort includes a steel that forms a multi-phase microstructure and contains (in wt. %) 0.10-0.14% C, 1.30-1.70% Mn, up to 0.030% P, up to 0.004% S, 0.10-0.30% Si, 0.90-1.2% Al, up to 0.0070% N, 0.070-0.130% Ti, 0.040-0.060% Nb, 0.140-0.260% Mo, remainder iron and unavoidable impurities, being cast into a cast strip having a thickness of 1-4 mm. The cast strip is hot-rolled in-line into a hot-rolled strip having a thickness of 0.5-3.2 mm in a continuous process at a final hot-rolling temperature ranging from 850 to 1000° C., the deformation degree being greater than 20%. The hot-rolled strip is coiled at a coiling temperature ranging from 350 to 480° C., so as to obtain a hot-rolled strip, which has a minimum tensile strength Rm of 800 MPa at a minimum breaking elongation A80 of 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
  • Publication number: 20100043513
    Abstract: A method, which allows high-tensile flat steel products to be manufactured with less effort includes a steel that forms a multi-phase microstructure and contains (in wt. %) 0.08-0.12% C, 1.70-2.00% Mn, up to 0.030% P, up to 0.004% S, up to 0.20% Si, 0.01-0.06% Al, up to 0.0060% N, 0.20-0.50% Cr, 0.010-0.050% Ti, 0.0010-0.0045% B, remainder iron and unavoidable impurities, being cast into a cast strip having a thickness of 1-4 mm. The cast strip is hot-rolled in-line into a hot-rolled strip having a thickness of 0.5-3.2 mm in a continuous process at a final hot-rolling temperature ranging from 800 to 1100° .C, the deformation degree being greater than 20%. The hot-rolled strip is coiled at a coiling temperature ranging from 250 to 570° C., so as to obtain a hot-rolled strip, which has a minimum tensile strength Rm of 800 MPa at a minimum breaking elongation A80 of 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
  • Publication number: 20090277546
    Abstract: A method, which allows high-tensile flat steel products to be manufactured with less effort, includes a steel that forms a complex phase microstructure and contains (in wt. %) C: 0.08-0.11%, Mn: 1.00-1.30%, P: ?0.030%, S: ?0.004%, Si: 0.60-0.80%, Al: ?0.05%, N: ?0.0060%, Cr: 0.30-0.80%, Ti: 0.060-0.120%, remainder iron and unavoidable impurities, being cast into a cast strip having a thickness of 1-4 mm. The cast strip is hot-rolled in-line into a hot-rolled strip having a thickness of 0.5-3.2 mm in a continuous process at a final hot-rolling temperature ranging from 900 to 1100° C., the deformation degree being greater than 20%. The hot-rolled strip is coiled at a coiling temperature ranging from 550 to 620° C., so as to obtain a hot-rolled strip, which has a minimum tensile strength Rm of 800 MPa at a minimum breaking elongation A80 of 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans, Andreas Nuss
  • Publication number: 20090214892
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of Germany
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Taro Kizu, Shusaku Takagi, Kohei Hasegawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Akio Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasuhi Tanaka, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Jian Bian, Gunter Stich, Rolf Bode
  • Patent number: 7501028
    Abstract: The invention relates to non-grain oriented magnetic steel sheets which can be produced as final annealed and as a non-final annealed types in such a way that they have improved magnetic polarisation and reduced magnetic reversal losses compared with the previously achieved values. This is achieved in that a suitably composed steel, during its cooling starting from a maximum initial temperature of 1,300° C., passes through a temperature range with substantially complete exclusion of a purely austenitic structure (? phase), in which range it comprises an austenite/ferrite dual phase multi-structure (?, ? multi-phases), so the magnetic steel sheet, after hot rolling, etching, cold rolling and annealing of the hot strip obtained after hot rolling, has a magnetic polarisation J2500?1.74 T, measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip or sheet and at a magnetic field strength of 2,500 A/m and a value P1.5(50) of the magnetic losses of <4.5 W/kg, measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip at J=1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Karl Ernst Friedrich, Olaf Fischer, Jürgen Schneider, Carl-Dieter Wuppermann
  • Publication number: 20070119521
    Abstract: A high strength steel, including about 0.05 to about 0.25% of C, less than about 0.5% of Si, about 0.5 to about 3.0% of Mn, not more than about 0.06% of P, not more than about 0.01% of S, about 0.50 to about 3.0% of Sol. Al, not more than about 0.02% of N, about 0.1 to about 0.8% of Mo, about 0.02 to about 0.40% of Ti, and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein the steel has a structure formed of at least three phases including a bainite phase, and a retained austenite phase in addition to a ferrite phase having a composite carbide containing Ti and Mo dispersed and precipitated therein, wherein the total volume of the ferrite phase and the bainite phase is not smaller than 80%, the volume of the bainite phase is about 5% to about 60%, and the volume of the retained austenite phase is about 3 to about 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of Germany
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Gunter Stich
  • Publication number: 20050247373
    Abstract: The invention relates to non-grain oriented magnetic steel sheets which can be produced as final annealed and as a non-final annealed types in such a way that they have improved magnetic polarisation and reduced magnetic reversal losses compared with the previously achieved values. This is achieved in that a suitably composed steel, during its cooling starting from a maximum initial temperature of 1,300° C., passes through a temperature range with substantially complete exclusion of a purely austenitic structure (? phase), in which range it comprises an austenite/ferrite dual phase multi-structure (?, ? multi-phases), so the magnetic steel sheet, after hot rolling, etching, cold rolling and annealing of the hot strip obtained after hot rolling, has a magnetic polarisation J2500?1.74 T, measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip or sheet and at a magnetic field strength of 2,500 A/m and a value P1.5(50) of the magnetic losses of <4.5 W/kg, measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip at J=1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Karl Friedrich, Olaf Fischer, Jurgen Schneider, Carl-Dieter Wuppermann