Patents by Inventor Gianpietro Benedetti

Gianpietro Benedetti 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: 20240058853
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a plant for producing flat rolled products, in order to obtain strips having a multiple crown transverse profile that subsequently have to be divided in a longitudinal direction into strips of a smaller width; the method provides a rolling step carried out in a rolling mill comprising roughing stands and finishing stands equipped with respective work rolls, in order to supply a strip of a determinate width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Gianpietro BENEDETTI, Paolo BOBIG, Matteo Remy BULFONE
  • Publication number: 20230330740
    Abstract: Method to produce metal strip that comprises the casting of a cast product through a casting machine provided with a crystallizer to obtain a slab, and the hot rolling of the slab in a rolling station to obtain metal strip. The casting machine, during casting, exerts an action of reducing the thickness of the cast product exiting the crystallizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Gianpietro BENEDETTI, Paolo BOBIG
  • Publication number: 20230257848
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing compact coils of ultra-fine grained, martensite-free steel bars, the process comprising the following stages: a) rolling a steel billet by means of a roughing rolling mill producing a steel bar; b) performing at least one first cooling stage so that the steel bar has a surface temperature higher than the martensite start temperature, and performing at least one first equalization stage in air; c) rolling the steel bar by means of at least one intermediate rolling mill; d) performing at least one second cooling stage always maintaining the surface temperature higher than the martensite start temperature, and performing at least one second equalization stage in air; e) rolling the steel bar by means of a finishing rolling mill in a non-recrystallization temperature range, maintaining the whole cross-section of the steel bar within said non-recrystallization temperature range, and with a total reduction between 25 and 50% with respect to the cross-section of the steel bar at the entry
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Claudio Fabbro, Maicol Cimolino, Simone Ferrarese
  • Publication number: 20230234123
    Abstract: Steel production plant to obtain long products such as rods, bars or sections, with overall productivity comprised between 0.7-3.0 Mton/year, preferably between 1.0 and 3.0 Mton/year, comprising at least two co-rolling lines (11a, 11b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Gianpietro BENEDETTI
  • Publication number: 20220288659
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a plant for producing flat rolled products, in order to obtain strips having a multiple crown transverse profile that subsequently have to be divided in a longitudinal direction into strips of a smaller width; the method provides a rolling step carried out in a rolling mill comprising roughing stands and finishing stands equipped with respective work rolls, in order to supply a strip of a determinate width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Gianpietro BENEDETTI, Paolo BOBIG, Matteo Remy BULFONE
  • Publication number: 20220001442
    Abstract: Method to produce metal strip that comprises the casting of a cast product through a casting machine provided with a crystallizer to obtain a slab, and the hot rolling of the slab in a rolling station to obtain metal strip. The casting machine, during casting, exerts an action of reducing the thickness of the cast product exiting the crystallizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Gianpietro BENEDETTI, Paolo BOBIG
  • Patent number: 11156402
    Abstract: Apparatus for melting metal material comprising a container for metal material, by way of example, but not limited to, metal scrap, DRI, cast iron, supplied in an electric arc-type melting furnace, and a plurality of electrodes to melt the metal material, which can be inserted in said container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Stefano Terlicher, Federico Bianco, Damiano Patrizio
  • Publication number: 20200284512
    Abstract: Apparatus for melting metal material comprising a container for metal material, by way of example, but not limited to, metal scrap, DRI, cast iron, supplied in an electric arc-type melting furnace, and a plurality of electrodes to melt the metal material, which can be inserted in said container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Stefano Terlicher, Federico Bianco, Damiano Patrizio
  • Patent number: 10576520
    Abstract: An apparatus for the hot production of strip (N) including a casting machine (11) configured to cast a thin slab (TS), a heating device (16) configured to maintain the temperature of and/or heat said thin slab (TS), at least one roughing unit (19) and a finishing unit (20) configured to obtain a strip (N), and wherein said casting machine (11), the heating device (16), the roughing unit (19), and the finishing unit (20) are disposed aligned along a common working axis (Z).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Paolo Bobig, Matteo Remy Bulfone
  • Patent number: 10357821
    Abstract: A steel plant for the production of long metal products includes a continuous casting machine and a rolling mill disposed contiguous and in direct succession downstream of the continuous casting machine. The continuous casting machine is provided with at least two casting lines and the rolling mill is provided with at least two rolling lines. The plant includes a single feed apparatus for feeding molten metal, and the at least two casting lines are configured to receive molten metal from the single feed apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Giuseppe Bordignon, Fabrizio Mulinaris, Alfredo Poloni
  • Patent number: 10343200
    Abstract: A steel plant for the production of long metal products comprises a continuous casting machine, a rolling mill disposed downstream of the continuous casting machine, and one or more transfer paths for the semifinished cast products, configured to connect the continuous casting machine and the rolling mill. The steel plant also comprises at least one maintenance and/or heating furnace, a discharge plate for the semifinished cast products, and an aerial transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Giuseppe Bordignon, Fabrizio Mulinaris, Alfredo Poloni
  • Patent number: 9821369
    Abstract: Rolling method for the production of flat products with low productivity, which includes a continuous casting step at a speed between 3.5 m/min and 6 m/min of a thin slab with a thickness between 25 and 50 mm. It also includes a roughing step to reduce the thickness in at least one roughing stand to a value between 6 mm and 40 mm, and suitable for winding, a rapid heating step by means of induction in order to at least restore the temperature lost in the segment downstream of casting and in the roughing step, a winding/unwinding step in a winding/unwinding device with two mandrels. The method also includes a rolling step in a rolling unit that consists of a single reversing stand of the Steckel type to roll the product unwound by the winding/unwinding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Paolo Bobig
  • Publication number: 20170002439
    Abstract: Plant for the production of metal products comprising: a main rolling line configured to roll thin slabs; a main casting line of thin slabs associated downstream to a heating and/or maintenance furnace to heat and/or maintain the cast thin slabs at a uniform temperature, the main casting line being positioned upstream of and aligned with said main rolling line, the main rolling line being configured to roll the thin slabs arriving at least from the heating and/or maintenance furnace; an auxiliary rolling line provided with at least one rolling unit configured to roll conventional slabs and obtain thin slabs, and with a transfer unit positioned downstream of the rolling unit and configured to transfer the thin slabs rolled by the latter to the heating and/or maintenance furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Paolo Bobig
  • Patent number: 9433983
    Abstract: Rolling method for the production of flat products with low productivity, comprising a continuous casting step at a speed comprised between 3.5 m/min and 6 m/min of a thin slab with a thickness comprised between 25 mm and 50 mm, a roughing step to reduce the thickness in at least one forming stand or roughing stand, to a value comprised between 10 mm and 40 mm, preferably between 10 mm and 30 mm, even more preferably between 10 mm and 20 mm and suitable for winding, a rapid heating step using induction in order to at least restore the temperature lost in the segment downstream of casting and in the roughing step, a winding/unwinding step in a winding/unwinding device with two mandrels, a rolling step in a Steckel type rolling unit with two reversing type stands of the product unwound by the winding/unwinding device comprising not more than three double rolling passes, or two inversions, in order to obtain a final product comprised between 1-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Paolo Bobig
  • Publication number: 20160243611
    Abstract: A steel plant for the production of long metal products comprises a continuous casting machine and a rolling mill disposed contiguous and in direct succession downstream of the continuous casting machine. The continuous casting machine is provided with at least two casting lines and the rolling mill is provided with at least two rolling lines. The plant comprises a single feed apparatus for feeding molten metal, and the at least two casting lines are configured to receive molten metal from the single feed apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Giuseppe Bordignon, Fabrizio Mulinaris, Alfredo Poloni
  • Publication number: 20160243602
    Abstract: A steel plant for the production of long metal products comprises a continuous casting machine, a rolling mill disposed downstream of the continuous casting machine, and one or more transfer paths for the semifinished cast products, configured to connect the continuous casting machine and the rolling mill. The steel plant also comprises at least one maintenance and/or heating furnace, a discharge plate for the semifinished cast products, and an aerial transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Giuseppe Bordignon, Fabrizio Mulinaris, Alfredo Poloni
  • Patent number: 9186711
    Abstract: A rolling line for the production of flat product includes a casting machine to continuously case a thin slab, a temperature maintenance and homogenization unit, a rolling unit a forming stand or roughing stand connected to the exit of the casting machine to reduce the thickness of the slab. The forming stand or roughing stand is configured to perform an adaptive reduction of the thickness of the cast slab smaller than or equal to about 65% at least as a function of the thickness, width and type of material of the finished flat product. The rolling unit is configured to perform a reduction of the reduction of the thin slab coming from the temperature maintenance and homogenization unit to a thickness comprised between about 1.2 mm and about 20 mm by three or fewer double rolling passes through the double rolling stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Paolo Bobig
  • Patent number: 9126246
    Abstract: Rolling method for the production of flat products, such as metal strip, which provides a production step of a thin slab with a thickness comprised between 30 and 90 mm, preferably between 35 and 70 mm, a temperature maintenance and/or possible heating step of the slab to be sent for rolling, and a rolling step with multiple passes performed in a reversing rolling mill (14) comprising at least a reversing rolling stand (15), in which at least a winding reel furnace (16a) is also present upstream of the stand (15) and a winding reel furnace (16b) downstream of the stand (15), a winding step also being provided downstream of the rolling in at least a coiler (19a, 19b) to form a relative coil of strip of a defined weight, comprised between 20 and 30 tons, and a cooling step of the strip being provided between the reversing rolling mill (14) and said at least one coiler (19a, 19b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Paolo Bobig
  • Patent number: 9126249
    Abstract: A zeroing system of a rolling stand which allows to replace the working cylinders or rolls in a four-high rolling stand for hot rolling strips and to subsequently zero the rolling stand without removing the strip from between the rolls themselves during the step of rolling. Furthermore, the system of the invention allows to very rapidly and accurately carry out the zeroing operation, thus increasing the productivity in the entire production system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Luca Sandrin
  • Patent number: 8925711
    Abstract: Device for feeding metal into melting plant, in particular into melting furnace including hearth and lateral aperture. Device includes means to feed metal terminally associated with a connection conveyor including a loading plane and cooperating with translation and positioning means. Connection conveyor able to assume first position during continuous loading step, wherein its front terminal end is located substantially flush with the furnace internal wall through the aperture, to introduce metal inside the furnace; a second position distanced from the furnace wall during the step of tapping liquid metal from the furnace; and a third position while first loading the furnace, with the furnace switched off, wherein its loading plane front end is inside the furnace volume to be disposed in proximity to the distal internal wall opposite the furnace proximal internal wall, to unload and distribute a charge to cover at least part of the furnace bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
    Inventors: Gianpietro Benedetti, Alfredo Poloni