Patents by Inventor Jens-Ulrik Becker
Jens-Ulrik Becker 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: 20160311197Abstract: A flat steel product is disclosed which is particularly suitable for the production of components for motor vehicle bodies by press-hardening, and which has insensitivity to cracking coupled with increased strength and has sufficient suitability for welding for incorporation into a welded construction. This combination of properties is achieved in accordance with the invention by virtue of the flat steel product having a core layer consisting of a steel alloyed with Mn, B and at least 0.3% by weight of C and having a tensile strength of more than 1500 MPa, and an outer layer cohesively bonded to the core layer. The C content of the outer layer is not more than 0.09% by weight. This flat steel product has, in the region of the outer layer, a tensile strength corresponding to not more than half the tensile strength of the steel of the core layer in the ready-hardened state, with the elongation A80 of the outer layer corresponding to at least 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Thomas Gerber, Julia Mura, Stefan Myslowicki
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Publication number: 20160145708Abstract: Methods for producing a flat product from an iron-based shape memory alloy may involve casting a melt comprised of iron, alloying elements, and impurities into a strip having a thickness of 1-30 mm and cooling the melt as the strip is formed. A twin-roll caster may be employed to help cool and form the melt into the strip. The resultant flat product is highly resistant to bending and is robust under pressure and torsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Rainer FECHTE-HEINEN, Christian HÖCKLING, Lothar PATBERG, Jens-Ulrik BECKER
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Patent number: 9088011Abstract: A bipolar plate which can be produced particularly economically for a fuel cell, with which a high degree of efficiency is guaranteed over a long service life. The bipolar plate has a core layer consisting of a steel material, the surfaces of said core layer, which are associated with the respective electrolyte carriers of the fuel cell, having a corrosion protection layer, protecting the core layer against corrosion. The corrosion protection layers consist of a metal material and extend on both sides over the whole surface of the core layer. At the same time the corrosion protection layers are in turn coated over the whole surface with an electrically conductive functional coating, which is essentially entirely impermeable for the metal ions emerging from the core layer and/or the corrosion protection layers. The invention likewise relates to at least one fuel cell comprising a bipolar plate according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Stefan Wischmann, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich, Michael Steinhorst, Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher
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Publication number: 20140322559Abstract: A flat steel product having a tensile strength of at least 1200 MPa and consists of steel containing (wt %) C: 0.10-0.50%, Si: 0.1-2.5%, Mn: 1.0-3.5%, Al: up to 2.5%, P: up to 0.020%, S: up to 0.003%, N: up to 0.02%, and optionally one or more of the elements “Cr, Mo, V, Ti, Nb, B and Ca” in the quantities: Cr: 0.1-0.5%, Mo: 0.1-0.3%, V: 0.01-0.1%, Ti: 0.001-0.15%, Nb: 0.02-0.05%, wherein ?(V, Ti, Nb)?0.2% for the sum of the quantities of V, Ti and Nb, B: 0.0005-0.005%, and Ca: up to 0.01% in addition to Fe and unavoidable impurities. The flat steel product has a microstructure with (in surface percent) less than 5% ferrite, less than 10% bainite, 5-70% untempered martensite, 5-30% residual austenite, and 25-80% tempered martensite, at least 99% of the iron carbide contained in the tempered martensite having a size of less than 500 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Jian Bian, Thomas Heller, Rudolf Schoenenberg, Richard G. Thiessen, Sabine Zeizinger, Thomas Rieger, Oliver Bulters
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Patent number: 8545993Abstract: A composite material with a ballistic protective effect having a first, outer layer made of a first steel alloy and at least one second layer which is arranged under the first layer and is made of a second steel alloy. The composite material with a ballistic protective effect allows for a reduction in the weight or the wall thicknesses of the composite material in comparison to conventional composite ballistic materials, by utilizing a first steel alloy of the first layer that has the following alloy constituents in percent by weight (% by weight): 0.06%?C ?1.05%, 0.05%?Si?1.65%, 0.3%?Mn?2.65%, 0.015%?Al?1.55%; Cr?1.2%, Ti?0.13%, Mo?0.7%, Nb?0.1%, B?0.005%, P?0.08%, S?0.01%, Ni?4.0%, and V?0.05%, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The second layer of the composite material having a higher elongation than the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Harald Hofmann, Christian Höckling, Andreas Kern, Udo Schriever, Horst Walter Tamler, Hans-Joachim Tschersich
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Patent number: 8535813Abstract: A use of a coilable multi-layer metallic composite material produced by means of roll-cladding in a vehicle structure, in particular a body structure, provides an alternative to monolithic materials. The composite material used in a vehicle structure is a lightweight composite material and comprises three layers of a steel alloy, wherein at least one of the layers is formed from a high-strength or very high-strength steel alloy.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Lothar Patberg, Peter Seyfried, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20130209831Abstract: High-strength, cold-formable steel and a flat steel product produced from such a steel, in which an optimal combination of weldability and a low tendency towards delayed cracking is ensured along with good strength and hot and cold deformability. In order to achieve this, a steel according to the invention contains (in % by weight) C: 0.1-1.0%, Mn: 10-25%, Si: up to 0.5%, Al: 0.3-2%, Cr: 1.5-3.5%, S: <0.03%, P: <0.08%, N: <0.1%, Mo: <2%, B: <0.01%, Ni: <8%, Cu: <5%, Ca: up to 0.015%, at least one element from the group “V, Nb” with the following proviso: Nb: 0.01-0.5%, V: 0.01-0.5% and optionally Ti: 0.01-0.5% and iron and unavoidable, production-related impurities as the remainder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Sinasi Göklü, Harald Hofmann, Christian Höckling, Matthias Schirmer, Ingo Thomas
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Patent number: 8491063Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel rim for a motor vehicle which can be economically manufactured, with a wheel disc made of steel sheet and a rim flap running around the circumference of the wheel disc. Due to the fact that the steel sheet of the wheel disc is formed from at least three superimposed steel layers, joined to one another by roll-bonding in a non-detachable manner, of which the inner core layer has a lower strength than the outer layers, it is thereby guaranteed that the wheel rim according to the invention, with a low weight, can safely accommodate the forces arising in practical operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Günter Stich, Horst Walter Tamler, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Thomas Heller, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20120328899Abstract: The invention relates to a metal strip which is produced from steel by hot rolling and by cold rolling of the metal strip. The invention also relates to a blank produced from the metal strip, the use of the metal strip, and to a method of producing it. The object of providing metal strip from which components of minimum weight which are adapted to specific loads can be produced with little cost or complication is achieved by metal strip of the generic kind which, after the cold rolling, is of constant thickness and has, section by section, regions whose mechanical properties vary. What “after the cold rolling” means, for the purposes of the present invention, is that, immediately on completion of the cold rolling, i.e. without any further treatment such as heat treatment, regions whose mechanical properties vary are present in the metal strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Harald Hofmann
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Patent number: 8221898Abstract: A multilayered composite part includes a plurality of steel alloy layers connected to one another, with at least one core layer consisting of a soft, well deformable steel alloy and at least one steel alloy layer of a very high strength steel alloy, arranged on the core layer. A multilayered composite part which is characterized simultaneously by a high strength paired with very good outer skin quality and very good paint adherence, is achieved in that at least one outer steel alloy layer of a soft, well deformable steel alloy is provided on the very high strength steel alloy layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Peter Seyfried, Michael Steinhorst, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20120174752Abstract: A composite material with a ballistic protective effect having a first, outer layer made of a first steel alloy and at least one second layer which is arranged under the first layer and is made of a second steel alloy. The composite material with a ballistic protective effect allows for a reduction in the weight or the wall thicknesses of the composite material in comparison to conventional composite ballistic materials, by utilizing a first steel alloy of the first layer that has the following alloy constituents in percent by weight (% by weight): 0.06%?C?1.05%, 0.05%?Si?1.65%, 0.3%?Mn?2.65%, 0.015%?Al?1.55%; Cr?1.2%, Ti?0.13%, Mo?0.7%, Nb?0.1%, B?0.005%, P?0.08%, S?0.01%, Ni?4.0%, and V?0.05%, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The second layer of the composite material having a higher elongation than the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Harald Hofmann, Christian Hockling, Andreas Kern, Udo Schriever, Horst Walter Tamler, Hans-Joachim Tschersich
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Publication number: 20110227400Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel rim for a motor vehicle which can be economically manufactured, with a wheel disc made of steel sheet and a rim flap running around the circumference of the wheel disc. Due to the fact that the steel sheet of the wheel disc is formed from at least three superimposed steel layers, joined to one another by roll-bonding in a non-detachable manner, of which the inner core layer has a lower strength than the outer layers it is thereby guaranteed that the wheel rim according to the invention, with a low weight, can safely accommodate the forces arising in practical operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Günter Stich, Horst Walter Tamler, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Thomas Heller, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20110111252Abstract: A use of a coilable multi-layer metallic composite material produced by means of roll-cladding in a vehicle structure, in particular a body structure, provides an alternative to monolithic materials. The composite material used in a vehicle structure is a lightweight composite material and comprises three layers of a steel alloy, wherein at least one of the layers is formed from a high-strength or very high-strength steel alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Lothar Patberg, Peter Seyfried, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20100323216Abstract: A multilayered composite part includes a plurality of steel alloy layers connected to one another, with at least one core layer consisting of a soft, well deformable steel alloy and at least one steel alloy layer of a very high strength steel alloy, arranged on the core layer. A multilayered composite part which is characterized simultaneously by a high strength paired with very good outer skin quality and very good paint adherence, is achieved in that at least one outer steel alloy layer of a soft, well deformable steel alloy is provided on the very high strength steel alloy layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2008Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Peter Seyfried, Michael Steinhorst, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich
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Publication number: 20100178579Abstract: A bipolar plate which can be produced particularly economically for a fuel cell, with which a high degree of efficiency is guaranteed over a long service life. The bipolar plate has a core layer consisting of a steel material, the surfaces of said core layer, which are associated with the respective electrolyte carriers of the fuel cell, having a corrosion protection layer, protecting the core layer against corrosion. The corrosion protection layers consist of a metal material and extend on both sides over the whole surface of the core layer. At the same time the corrosion protection layers are in turn coated over the whole surface with an electrically conductive functional coating, which is essentially entirely impermeable for the metal ions emerging from the core layer and/or the corrosion protection layers. The invention likewise relates to at least one fuel cell comprising a bipolar plate according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AGInventors: Stefan Wischmann, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich, Michael Steinhorst, Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher
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Publication number: 20090010793Abstract: A method for producing cold-formable, high-strength steel strips or sheets with TWIP properties, wherein in successive working steps are carried out without interruption, uses a molten material of the following composition (mass %): C: 0.003-1.50%, Mn: 18.00-30.00%, Ni: ?10.00%, Si: ?8.00%, Al: ?10.00%, Cr: ?10.00%, N: ?0.60%, Cu: ?3.00%, P: ?0.40%, S: ?0.15%, selectively one or more components from the Se, Te, V, Ti, Nb, B, REM, Mo, W, Co, Ca and Mg group provided that the total content of Se, Te is ?0.25%, the total content of V, Ti, Nb, B, REM is ?4.00%, the total content of Mo, W, Co is ?1.50% and the total content of Ca, Mg is ?0.50%, the rest being iron and melting conditioned impurities, wherein the content of Sn, Sb, Zr, Ta and As, whose total content is equal to or less than 0.30% is included in said impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2004Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL AGInventors: Jens-Ulrik Becker, Harald Hofmann, Manfred Menne, Jochen Wans