Patents by Inventor Frank Wörster

Frank Wörster 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: 11834726
    Abstract: A method for producing a patterned stainless steel sheet with improved visual characteristics in the wavelength area of visible light including providing a deformed stainless steel sheet; performing a heat treatment on the deformed stainless steel sheet, wherein the heat treatment is conducted at a temperature of 900-1200° C.; performing a mechanical treatment on at least one surface of the heat treated stainless steel sheet; transferring the mechanically treated stainless steel sheet to a patterning process, wherein, in the patterning process, at least one side of the mechanically treated stainless steel sheet is patterned using a patterning roll having a surface with an emboss depth of up to 100 micrometers to provide a patterned stainless steel sheet; and performing a heat treatment on the patterned stainless steel sheet, wherein the heat treatment is conducted at a temperature range of 900-1200° C., wherein the mechanical treatment is carried out by blasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Outokumpu Oyj
    Inventors: Jörn Teipel, Dirk Wiemer, Lutz Zoppke, Patrick Vogel, Andreas Jääger, Michael Weg, Burkhard Arnold, Frank Wörster
  • Publication number: 20210388460
    Abstract: A method for producing a patterned stainless steel sheet with improved visual characteristics in the wavelength area of visible light including providing a deformed stainless steel sheet; performing a heat treatment on the deformed stainless steel sheet, wherein the heat treatment is conducted at a temperature of 900-1200° C.; performing a mechanical treatment on at least one surface of the heat treated stainless steel sheet; transferring the mechanically treated stainless steel sheet to a patterning process, wherein, in the patterning process, at least one side of the mechanically treated stainless steel sheet is patterned using a patterning roll having a surface with an emboss depth of up to 100 micrometers to provide a patterned stainless steel sheet; and performing a heat treatment on the patterned stainless steel sheet, wherein the heat treatment is conducted at a temperature range of 900-1200° C., wherein the mechanical treatment is carried out by blasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Jörn Teipel, Dirk Wiemer, Lutz Zoppke, Patrick Vogel, Andreas Jääger, Michael Weg, Burkhard Arnold, Frank Wörster
  • Patent number: 11155892
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a patterned stainless steel sheet with modified visual characteristics in the wavelength area of visible light the deformed stainless steel having a thickness of 0.3-3.5 mm. In the method the deformed stainless steel sheet is pretreated by at least one heat treatment step and at least one mechanical treatment step on at least one surface of the heat treated stainless steel sheet. The pretreated stainless steel sheet is further transferred to a patterning process, and at least one heat treatment step is carried out on the patterned stainless steel sheet surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Outokumpu Oyj
    Inventors: Jörn Teipel, Dirk Wiemer, Lutz Zoppke, Patrick Vogel, Andreas Jääger, Michael Weg, Burkhard Arnold, Frank Wörster
  • Publication number: 20180148810
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a patterned stainless steel sheet with modified visual characteristics in the wavelength area of visible light the deformed stainless steel having a thickness of 0.3-3.5 mm. In the method the deformed stainless steel sheet is pretreated by at least one heat treatment step and at least one mechanical treatment step on at least one surface of the heat treated stainless steel sheet. The pretreated stainless steel sheet is further transferred for patterning process, and at least one heat treatment step is carried out for the patterned stainless steel sheet surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Jörn Teipel, Dirk Weimer, Lutz Zoppke, Patrick Vogel, Andreas Jääger, Michael Weg, Burkhard Arnold, Frank Wörster
  • Patent number: 9770744
    Abstract: A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 ?m includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 ?m. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Outokumpu Nirosta GmbH
    Inventors: Roman Glass, Utz Karsten, Jörg Kazmierski, Nina Kolbe, Hans-Joachim Krautschick, Klaus Manfred Lange, Stefan Peter Puls, Janine Schauer-Paβ, Bernd Schuhmacher, Dirk Wiemer, Frank Wörster
  • Publication number: 20150283590
    Abstract: A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 ?m includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 ?m. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Roman Glass, Utz Karsten, Jörg Kazmierski, Nina Kolbe, Hans-Joachim Krautschick, Klaus Manfred Lange, Stefan Peter Puls, Janine Schauer-Pass, Bernd Schuhmacher, Dirk Wiemer, Frank Wörster