Patents by Inventor Lakshman N. Pussegoda

Lakshman N. Pussegoda 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: 5186769
    Abstract: A method for producing seamless steel tubes suitable for use as grades of casing and line pipe having yield strengths in excess of 70,000 psi, without being heat treated. Such steels are made of an alloy comprising, by weight, about 0.10% to 0.18% carbon, about 0.10% to 2.0% manganese, about 0.10% to 0.16% vanadium, about 0.008% to 0.012% titanium and about 150 parts per million to 220 parts per million nitrogen, the balance comprising iron and incidental impurities. The subject method comprises the steps of alloying a steel of the aforesaid chemical composition, forming the steel into a billet of steel, reheating the billet in a reheating furnace, passing the billet through a piercing mill to form a steel shell, elongating the steel shell within a mandrel mill, and reducing the diameter of the elongated shell in a stretch reducing mill. Strains are applied to the shell in the stretch reducing mill below the T.sub.nr of the steel and above the A.sub.r3 to provoke dynamic recrystallization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: The Algoma Steel Corporation, Limited
    Inventors: Patrick J. Hunt, John J. Jonas, Stephen Yue, George E. Ruddle, Lakshman N. Pussegoda