Patents by Inventor Jean Claude Herman

Jean Claude Herman 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: 6821364
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a multiphase hot-rolled steel strip comprising an ultra-fast cooling operations, which consists in carrying out said ultra-fast cooling operation after controlled slow cooling of the strip on a conventional slow cooling table of the rolling mill. The controlled cooling constitutes a first slow cooling, at the output of the finishing mill, from an end-of-roll temperature to an intermediate temperature of about 750° C. to 500° C.; said first cooling determines the fraction of the first phase (ferrite) in the steel. The ultra-fast cooling (>150° C./s), which solidifies the resulting structure, lowers the temperature of the strip down to a coiling temperature, ranging between about 600° C. and room temperature, at which a second slow cooling is performed which results if the formation of the second phase (bainite or martensite).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Centre de Recherches Metallurgiques A.S.B.L.
    Inventors: Xavier Cornet, Jean-Claude Herman
  • Patent number: 6638380
    Abstract: A method for making a low carbon and low manganese cold rolled steel strip for deep-drawing whereby a steel strip hot rolled in the austenistic region coiled at the end of the high temperature hot rolling process (680° C.<T<750° C.) is subjected to a cold rolling process with a reduction rate between 65 and 80 %, and finally subjected to an annealing and overageing heat treatment. The method consists in heating the steel strip at a heating rate Vh ranging between 150° C./s and 1000° C. up to the annealing temperature Ta ranging between 650° C. and 750° C., and in maintaining it at said annealing temperature for a time interval between 1 and 20 seconds, then in cooling it at cooling rate Vc between 100° C./s and 500° C./s up to an overageing temperature Toa ranging between 150° C. and 450° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Centre de Recherches Metallurgiques
    Inventors: Annick De Paepe, Jean Claude Herman, Stéphan Wilmotte
  • Publication number: 20030041933
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a multiphase hot-rolled steel strip comprising an ultra-fast cooling operations, which consists in carrying out said ultra-fast cooling operation after controlled slow cooling of the strip on a conventional slow cooling table of the rolling mill. The controlled cooling constitutes a first slow cooling, at the output of the finishing mill, from an end-of-roll temperature to an intermediate temperature of about 750° C. to 500° C.; said first cooling determines the fraction of the first phase (ferrite) in the steel. The ultra-fast cooling (>150° C./s), which solidifies the resulting structure, lowers the temperature of the strip down to a coiling temperature, ranging between about 600° C. and room temperature, at which a second slow cooling is performed which results if the formation of the second phase (bainite or martensite).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Xavier Cornet, Jean-Claude Herman