Patents by Inventor Jochen FLINSPACH

Jochen FLINSPACH 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).

  • Device and method for producing ingots
    Patent number: 10518318
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing ingots from metal or metal alloy. The method and the device are suitable for producing ingots from nickel, titanium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, zirconium, hafnium, or alloys thereof and alloys of the metals in continuous casting methods. The device has an ingot chamber, which is suitable for receiving multiple cast ingots and for allowing the ingots to cool in the ingot chamber. For this purpose, the ingots are arranged in the ingot chamber in a horizontally movable manner on ingot tube section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: ALD VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Arno Niebling, Jochen Flinspach
  • Melting method for alloys
    Patent number: 10196711
    Abstract: A method for producing metal alloys. The method allows the production of metal alloys consisting of at least two metals having a high melting point difference. Here, the higher melting metal is melted first and the lower melting metal is melted with a delay by means of heat transfer whereupon the metals mix together. This enables to obtain metal alloys with high purity and low evaporation losses, which in particular allow the use of contaminated starting components such as recycled metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ALD VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Flinspach, Frank Kunde, Thomas Hanselmann, Markus Mangelsen
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING INGOTS
    Publication number: 20180290205
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing ingots from metal or metal alloy. The method and the device are suitable for producing ingots from nickel, titanium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, zirconium, hafnium, or alloys thereof and alloys with said metals in continuous casting methods. The device has an ingot chamber, which is suitable for receiving multiple cast ingots and for allowing the ingots to cool in the ingot chamber. For this purpose, the ingots are arranged in the ingot chamber in a horizontally movable manner on ingot holding means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Arno NIEBLING, Jochen FLINSPACH
  • MELTING METHOD FOR ALLOYS
    Publication number: 20160153072
    Abstract: A method for producing metal alloys. The method allows the production of metal alloys consisting of at least two metals having a high melting point difference. Here, the higher melting metal is melted first and the lower melting metal is melted with a delay by means of heat transfer whereupon the metals mix together. This enables to obtain metal alloys with high purity and low evaporation losses, which in particular allow the use of contaminated starting components such as recycled metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Jochen FLINSPACH, Frank KUNDE, Thomas HANSELMANN, Markus MANGELSEN