Patents by Inventor Joachim Konrad
Joachim Konrad 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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Patent number: 11634809Abstract: An apparatus for coating a PET container in a coating chamber includes a lance that introduces material and energy into the container while it is in the coating chamber. This results in a reaction that coats the bottle's interior with a silicon oxide. Before reaching the coating chamber, the bottle will have passed through a cooling system connected to coating chamber. The cooling system passes cooled gas through a feed, thereby cooling said bottle before it reaches the coating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Sebastian Kytzia, Joachim Konrad
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Publication number: 20220013334Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for coating containers with a barrier layer having at least one plasma chamber, which encloses at least one treatment space, in which at least one container with a container interior can be inserted and can be positioned on the treatment space, wherein a gas lance is provided which can be introduced into the container interior and which further acts as microwave antenna, with the plasma chamber being designed to be capable at least of partial evacuation and being designed to fill the container interior at least partially with a plasma and a process gas. The device is designed such that the container can be preheated by means of a plasma, more particularly by means of a microwave plasma, using a noble gas which can be introduced into the container interior through the gas lance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Sebastian KYTZIA, Joachim KONRAD
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Publication number: 20200216222Abstract: Device for coating containers by a coating method. The device includes a carrier frame having outer dimensions less than the inner dimensions of an ISO container. The carrier frame includes within its outer dimensions: a conveying region where a conveying device for the containers is arranged; a treatment region where a container treatment unit for coating the containers is arranged; a transfer region where a transfer device is arranged; which moves the containers between the conveying device and the container treatment unit; a maintenance region accessible from outside, in which no components are arranged; an electronics region, where a switchgear cabinet for the electronics of the components of the device is arranged; a process-gas processing region, where the components for handling the process gas for the coating method are arranged; and a vacuum pump region, where vacuum pumps for producing the vacuum needed for a coating method are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Joachim KONRAD, Sebastian KYTZIA, Michael HERBORT
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Publication number: 20200207554Abstract: A device for coating containers using a coating process with a main supporting frame, which includes: a container conveying device, a treatment station for coating the containers, and a transfer device, which moves the containers between the conveying device and the treatment station. The transfer device has a gripper unit, which is mounted pivotably along a pivot axis aligned parallel to the conveying device on a gripper frame, which is arranged fixed in place in relation to the main supporting frame during operation. The gripper unit is mounted on a carriage connected to the gripper frame. Thee carriage performs linear movements in three mutually perpendicular directions. The gripper unit is movable between a first position, in which it can grip the containers in the region of the conveying device, and a second position, in which it can insert the containers into the treatment station and fetch them from it.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: KHS CORPOPLAST GMBHInventors: Sebastian KYTZIA, Joachim KONRAD, Michael HERBORT
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Publication number: 20200131608Abstract: A method of determining a composition of a steel alloy includes minimizing a presence of AlN by satisfying the following condition: Al×N<5×103 (weight %), minimizing a formation of cementite by satisfying the following condition: Si+Al>4×C (weight %), wherein an Al content is selected in a range of 0.05 to 3.00 in weight %, wherein a N content is selected in a range of 0.001-0.025 in weight %, wherein a Si content is selected in a range of 0.25-4.00 in weight %, wherein a C content is selected in a range of 0.1-0.70 in weight %.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: SALZGITTER MANNESMANN PRECISION GMBH, ILSENBURGER GROBBLECH GMBHInventors: Philippe Schaffnit, JÜRGEN KLABBERS-HEIMANN, JOACHIM KONRAD
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Publication number: 20190161855Abstract: A method for coating an inside of a polyethylene terephthalate bottle with an oxide of silicon includes cooling the bottle within a covered cooling segment while transporting it toward a coating chamber, immediately after having cooled and transported said PET bottle to said coating chamber, forming a plasma, creating an under-pressure, and coating an inner surface of said bottle with an oxide of silicon.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Sebastian Kytzia, Joachim Konrad
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Patent number: 9273383Abstract: A steel contains, by weight: C: 0.3% to 0.5%, Si: 0.1% to 0.5%, Mn: 1% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 0.3% to 1%, Mo: 1% to 2%, W: 0.3% to 1%, V: 0.03% to 0.25%, Nb: 0.01% to 0.15%, Al: 0.01% to 0.1%, the remainder of the chemical composition of the steel being constituted by Fe and impurities or residuals resulting from or necessary to steel production and casting processes. The steel can be used to produce seamless tubes for hydrocarbon wells with a yield strength after heat treatment of 862 MPa or more or even 965 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Laurent Delattre, Herve Marchebois, Michel Piette, Christoph Bosch, Michaela Hoerstemeier, Joachim Konrad
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Publication number: 20150267282Abstract: A low alloy high-strength carbide-free bainitic steel for producing strips, sheets and pipes is disclosed with the following chemical composition (in weight %) 0.10-0.70 C, 0.25-4.00 Si, 0.05-3.00 Al, 1.00-3.00 Mn, 0.10-2.00 Cr, 0.001-0.50 Nb, 0.001-0.025 N, max 0.15 P, max 0.05 S, remainder iron and steel tramp elements with optional addition of one or more elements of Mo, Ni, Co, W, Nb, Ti, or V and Zr and rare earths with the proviso the for avoiding primary precipitations of AlN the condition Al×N<5×10?3 (weight %) and for suppressing the cementite formation the condition Si+Al>4×C (weight %) are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicants: SALZGITTER MANNESMANN PRECISION GMBH, ILSENBURGER GROBBLECH GMBHInventors: Philippe Schaffnit, Jürgen Klabbers-Heimann, Joachim Konrad
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Publication number: 20150203944Abstract: An austenitic steel alloy having excellent creep strength and resistance to oxidation and corrosion at elevated use temperatures up to approximately 750° C. has the following chemical composition (in weight %): 0.02?C?0.15%; 0.1?Si?2.0%; 25?Cr?33%; 22?Ni?38%; 1?Mo?6%; 0.4?Nb?1.5%; B?0.0120%; 0.01?N?0.2%; Mn?2%; Co?5%; W?2%; Al?0.05%; Cu?5%; Ti?0.5%; Ta?0.5%; V?0.5%; P?0.05%; S?0.05%, Remainder iron with melting related impurities and optional addition of rare earths and reactive elements such as Ce, Hf, La, Re, Sc and/or Y of together 1%.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: SALZGITTER MANNESMANN STAINLESS TUBES GMBHInventors: Juliane Mentz, Michael Spiegel, Joachim Konrad, Patrick Schraven
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Patent number: 9080230Abstract: A steel alloy with excellent creep strength and corrosion resistance that is ferritic at usage temperatures above 620° C. has the following chemical composition (in wt. %): C?1.0%; Si?1.0%; Mn?1.0%; P max. 0.05%; S max. 0.01%; 2?Al?12%; 3?Cr?16%; 2?Ni?10% and/or 2?Co?10%, where 2?Ni+Co?[% Cr]+2.07×[% Al]>=0.95×([% Ni]+[% Co]); N max. 0.0200%. The remainder is iron with steel production-related impurities. Optionally, one or more elements of V, Ti, Ta, Zr, Nb, Mo and W, as well as one or more elements of Hf, B, Se, Y, Te, Sb, La and Zr with a cumulative content of <0.1% can be added. The steel structure includes uniformly distributed coherent precipitates based on a chromium-stabilized (Ni, Co)Al—B2 intermetallic ordered phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2009Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: VALLOUREC DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Bernd Hahn, Joachim Konrad, André Schneider, Charles Stallybrass
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Patent number: 8852356Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a hot strip from transformation-free ferritic steel, wherein a melt is cast into a roughed strip and the latter is subsequently rolled into a hot strip. For this purpose, it is provided that the melt is cast in a horizontal strip casting facility under conditions of a calm flow and free of bending into a roughed strip in the range between 6 and 20 mm and is subsequently rolled into hot strip having a degree of deformation of at least 50%.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignees: Salzgitter Glachstahl GmbH, SMS Siemag AGInventors: Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Bianca Springub, Joachim Konrad, Hellfried Eichholz, Markus Schäperkötter
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Publication number: 20130061988Abstract: A steel contains, by weight: C: 0.3% to 0.5%, Si: 0.1% to 0.5%, Mn: 1% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 0.3% to 1%, Mo: 1% to 2%, W: 0.3% to 1%, V: 0.03% to 0.25%, Nb: 0.01% to 0.15%, Al: 0.01% to 0.1%, the remainder of the chemical composition of the steel being constituted by Fe and impurities or residuals resulting from or necessary to steel production and casting processes. The steel can be used to produce seamless tubes for hydrocarbon wells with a yield strength after heat treatment of 862 MPa or more or even 965 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: VALLOUREC MANNESMANN OIL & GAS FRANCEInventors: Laurent Delattre, Herve Marchebois, Michel Piette, Christoph Bosch, Michaela Hoerstemeier, Joachim Konrad
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METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HOT ROLLED STRIP AND HOT ROLLED STRIP PRODUCED FROM TRIPLEX LIGHTWEIGHT STEEL
Publication number: 20120121452Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a hot strip from a triplex lightweight steel, wherein a melt is cast into a roughed strip and the latter is subsequently rolled into a hot strip. For this purpose, it is provided that the melt is cast in a horizontal strip casting facility under conditions of a calm flow and free of bending into a roughed strip in the range between 6 and 20 mm and is subsequently rolled into hot strip having a degree of deformation of at least 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: SALZGITTER FLACHSTAHL GMBHInventors: Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Bianca Springub, Joachim Konrad, Hellfried Eichholz, Markus Schäperkötter, Zacharias Georgeou -
Publication number: 20120093677Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a hot strip from transformation-free ferritic steel, wherein a melt is cast into a roughed strip and the latter is subsequently rolled into a hot strip. For this purpose, it is provided that the melt is cast in a horizontal strip casting facility under conditions of a calm flow and free of bending into a roughed strip in the range between 6 and 20 mm and is subsequently rolled into hot strip having a degree of deformation of at least 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicants: SMS SIEMAG AG, Salzgitter Flachstahl GMBHInventors: Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Bianca Springub, Joachim Konrad, Hellfried Eichholz, Markus Schäperkötter
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Patent number: 8096171Abstract: In a method for the diagnostics of an internal combustion engine exhaust gas system that includes a particle filter, first and second sets of value vectors are determined, each including associated values for absolute pressure upstream and downstream of the particle filter, a differential pressure determined from the values of the absolute pressure, an exhaust gas volume flow through the particle filter, and a temperature of the exhaust gas volume flow. After a temperature-standardization of the pressure values, characteristics for dependence of the pressure values are generated from temperature-standardized values of the first set of value vectors and possibly stored as reference characteristics. By comparing temperature-standardized values for the absolute pressure on the inlet and outlet sides of the particle filter and the differential pressure of the second set of value vectors with reference characteristics, flow anomalies can be determined in the exhaust gas system.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignees: Daimler AG, Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Joachim Konrad, Yi Liu, Emmanuel Routier, Kevin Sisken, Patrick Wolf, Peter Schimmelpfennig
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Publication number: 20110189496Abstract: A steel alloy with excellent creep strength and corrosion resistance that is ferritic at usage temperatures above 620° C. has the following chemical composition (in wt. %): C?1.0%; Si?1.0%; Mn?1.0%; P max. 0.05%; S max. 0.01%; 2?Al?12%; 3?Cr?16%; 2?Ni?10% and/or 2?Co?10%, where 2?Ni+Co?[% Cr]+2.07×[% Al]>=0.95×([% Ni]+[% Co]); N max. 0.0200%. The remainder is iron with steel production-related impurities. Optionally, one or more elements of V, Ti, Ta, Zr, Nb, Mo and W, as well as one or more elements of Hf, B, Se, Y, Te, Sb, La and Zr with a cumulative content of <0.1% can be added. The steel structure includes uniformly distributed coherent precipitates based on a chromium-stabilized (Ni, Co) Al-B2 intermetallic ordered phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2009Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: V & M Deutschland GmbHInventors: Bernd Hahn, Joachim Konrad, Andre Schneider, Charles Stallybrass
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Publication number: 20110100094Abstract: In a method for the diagnostics of an internal combustion engine exhaust gas system that includes a particle filter, first and second sets of value vectors are determined, each including associated values for absolute pressure upstream and downstream of the particle filter, a differential pressure determined from the values of the absolute pressure, an exhaust gas volume flow through the particle filter, and a temperature of the exhaust gas volume flow. After a temperature-standardization of the pressure values, characteristics for dependence of the pressure values are generated from temperature-standardized values of the first set of value vectors and possibly stored as reference characteristics. By comparing temperature-standardized values for the absolute pressure on the inlet and outlet sides of the particle filter and the differential pressure of the second set of value vectors with reference characteristics, flow anomalies can be determined in the exhaust gas system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicants: Daimler AG, Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Joachim Konrad, Yi Liu, Emmanuel Routier, Kevin Sisken, Patrick Wolf, Peter Schimmelpfennig