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).
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Publication number: 20210087662Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Harald Hofmann, Thomas Heller, Sebastian Stille, Georg Parma, Janko Banik, Jonas Schwabe
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Patent number: 10435763Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG, JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Frank Hisker, Thomas Heller, Almir Dzafic, Richard G. Thiessen, Shinjiro Kaneko, Fusae Shiimori
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Patent number: 10301700Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Frank Hisker, Rudolf Kawalla, Grzegorz Korpala
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Publication number: 20170029917Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Frank Hisker, Thomas Heller, Almir Dzafic, Richard G. Thiessen, Shinjiro Kaneko, Fusae Shiimori
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Publication number: 20160201157Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Brigitte HAMMER, Thomas HELLER, Frank HISKER, Rudolf KAWALLA, Grzegorz KORPALA
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Publication number: 20150218684Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: August 6, 2015Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Frank Hisker, Rudolf Kawalla, Grzegorz Korpala
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Publication number: 20150203946Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Frank Hisker, Rudolf Kawalla, Grzegorz Korpala
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Patent number: 8815025Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Günter Stich
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Publication number: 20140041767Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Jörg Mertens, Günter Stich
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Publication number: 20110220252Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: TYHSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Ekaterina Bocharova, Dorothea Mattissen, Günter Stich, Silke Strauss
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Patent number: 7919194Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20100096047Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
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Publication number: 20100065161Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
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Publication number: 20100065162Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
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Publication number: 20100043513Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans
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Publication number: 20090277546Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Thomas Heller, Johann Wilhelm Schmitz, Jochen Wans, Andreas Nuss
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Publication number: 20090214892Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of GermanyInventors: 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
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Patent number: 7501028Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2003Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Stahl AGInventors: Brigitte Hammer, Karl Ernst Friedrich, Olaf Fischer, Jürgen Schneider, Carl-Dieter Wuppermann
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Publication number: 20070119521Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of GermanyInventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Gunter Stich
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Publication number: 20050247373Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2003Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Brigitte Hammer, Karl Friedrich, Olaf Fischer, Jurgen Schneider, Carl-Dieter Wuppermann