Patents by Inventor Nicolas CHARBONNIER

Nicolas CHARBONNIER 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: 11414721
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a TWIP steel is provided including: (A) feeding of a slab comprising by weight: 0.5<C<1.2%, 13.0?Mn<25.0%, S?0.030%, P?0.080%, N?0.1%, Si?3.0%, 0.051%?Al?4.0%, 0.1?V?2.5%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more of Nb?0.5%, B?0.005%, Cr?1.0%, Mo?0.40%, Ni?1.0%, Cu?5.0%, Ti?0.5%, 0.06?Sn?0.2%, the remainder of the composition being made of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, (B) reheating the slab and hot rolling the slab to provide a hot rolled slab, (C) coiling the hot rolled slab to provide a coiled slab, (D) first cold-rolling the coiled slab to provide a first cold rolled slab, (E) recrystallization annealing the first cold rolled slab such that an annealed steel sheet having an UTSannealed is obtained and (F) second cold-rolling the annealed steel sheet with a reduction rate CR % that satisfies the following equation A: 1216.472?0.98795*UTSannealed?(?0.0008*UTSannealed+1.0124)*CR %2+(0.0371*UTSannealed?29.583)*CR %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Nicolas Charbonnier, Gerard Petitgand, Sebastien Allain, Marie-Christine Theyssier
  • Publication number: 20190276910
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a recovered steel sheet having an austenitic matrix presenting at least one mechanical property (M) equal or above a target value Mtarget is provided. The method includes a calibrating process involving heat on at least 2 samples of the steel, corresponding to Pareq values P, submitting said samples to X-ray diffraction so as to obtain spectrums including a main peak whose width at mid height FWHM is being measured, measuring a mechanical property (M) of said samples, measuring a recovery or recrystallization state of each sample, drawing a curve of M as a function of FWMH in a domain where the samples are recovered from 0 to 100%, but not recrystallized. The method further includes calculating a FWHMtarget corresponding to a target mechanical property Mtarget, determining a pareq value Ptarget of the heat treatment to perform to reach Mtarget and selecting a time ttarget and a temperature TĀ°target corresponding to the Ptarget value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: ArcelorMittal
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe HELL, Nicolas CHARBONNIER, Thierry IUNG, Blandine REMY
  • Publication number: 20190218638
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a TWIP steel is provided including: (A) feeding of a slab comprising by weight: 0.5<C<1.2%, 13.0?Mn<25.0%, S?0.030%, P?0.080%, N?0.1%, Si?3.0%, 0.051%?Al?4.0%, 0.1?V?2.5%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more of Nb?0.5%, ?B?0.005%, Cr?1.0%, Mo?0.40%, Ni?1.0%, Cu?5.0%, Ti?0.5%, 0.06?Sn?0.2%, the remainder of the composition being made of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, (B) reheating the slab and hot rolling the slab to provide a hot rolled slab, (C) coiling the hot rolled slab to provide a coiled slab, (D) first cold-rolling the coiled slab to provide a first cold rolled slab, (E) recrystallization annealing the first cold rolled slab such that an annealed steel sheet having an UTSannealed is obtained and (F) second cold-rolling the annealed steel sheet with a reduction rate CR % that satisfies the following equation A: 1216.472?0.98795*UTSannealed?(?0.0008*UTSannealed+1.0124)*CR %2+(0.0371*UTSannealed?29.583)*CR %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Nicolas CHARBONNIER, Gerard PETITGAND, Sebastien ALLAIN, Marie-Christine THEYSSIER