Patents by Inventor Olga A. Girina
Olga A. Girina 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: 20230272502Abstract: A method for producing a zinc or zinc-alloy coated steel sheet with a tensile strength higher than 900 MPa, for the fabrication of resistance spot welds containing in average not more than two Liquid Metal Embrittlement cracks per weld having a depth of 100 ?m or more, with steps of providing a cold-rolled steel sheet, heating cold-rolled steel sheet up to a temperature T1 between 550° C. and Ac1+50° C. in a furnace zone with an atmosphere (A1) containing from 2 to 15% hydrogen by volume, so that the iron is not oxidized, then adding in the furnace atmosphere, water steam or oxygen with an injection flow rate Q higher than (0.07%/h×?), ? being equal to 1 if said element is water steam or equal to 0.52 if said element is oxygen, at a temperature T?T1, so to obtain an atmosphere (A2) with a dew point DP2 between ?15° C. and the temperature Te of the iron/iron oxide equilibrium dew point, then heating the sheet from temperature T1 up to a temperature T2 between 720° C. and 1000° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Jean-Marc PIPARD, Sebastien CREMEL, Anirban CHAKRABORTY, Damon PANAHI, Olga GIRINA, Hassan GHASSEMI-ARMAKI, Pavan CHALLA VENKATA SURYA, Yacine BENLATRECHE
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Publication number: 20230265537Abstract: A cold rolled steel sheet having a composition including of 0.05 % ? Carbon ? 0.15 %, 1.8% ? Manganese ? 2.7%, 0.1% ? Silicon ? 1%,0.01% ? Aluminum ? 0.8%,0.1% ? Chromium ? 0.9%,0% ? Phosphorus ? 0.09%,0.0001% ? Titanium ? 0.1%,0.0005% ? Boron ? 0.003%, 0.01% ? Niobium ? 0.1%, 0 % ? Sulfur ? 0.09 %, 0 % ? Nitrogen ? 0.09%, 0% ? Vanadium ? 0.2%, 0%?Molybdenum?0.2%, 0%?Nickel?2%, 0% ? Copper ? 2%, 0% ? Calcium ? 0.005%, 0% ? Cerium ? 0.1%, 0% ? Magnesium ? 0.05%, 0% ? Zirconium ? 0.05%, the remainder being composed of iron and unavoidable impurities caused by processing, the microstructure of the steel sheet including in area fraction, 40% to 60% martensite, 15 to 40% of inter-critical ferrite, a cumulated amount of 10 to 35% of transformed ferrite and bainite and 0% to 5% of residual austenite.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Dongwei FAN, Olga GIRINA
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Patent number: 11649522Abstract: A method for producing a zinc or zinc-alloy coated steel sheet with a tensile strength higher than 900 MPa, for the fabrication of resistance spot welds containing in average not more than two Liquid Metal Embrittlement cracks per weld having a depth of 100 ?m or more, with steps of providing a cold-rolled steel sheet, heating cold-rolled steel sheet up to a temperature T1 between 550° C. and Ac1+50° C. in a furnace zone with an atmosphere (A1) containing from 2 to 15% hydrogen by volume, so that the iron is not oxidized, then adding in the furnace atmosphere, water steam or oxygen with an injection flow rate Q higher than (0.07%/h×?), ? being equal to 1 if said element is water steam or equal to 0.52 if said element is oxygen, at a temperature T?T1, so to obtain an atmosphere (A2) with a dew point DP2 between ?15° C. and the temperature Te of the iron/iron oxide equilibrium dew point, then heating the sheet from temperature T1 up to a temperature T2 between 720° C. and 1000° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: ArcelorMittalInventors: Jean-Marc Pipard, Sebastien Cremel, Anirban Chakraborty, Damon Panahi, Olga Girina, Hassan Ghassemi-Armaki, Pavan Challa Venkata Surya, Yacine Benlatreche
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Patent number: 11512362Abstract: A method for producing a coated steel sheet having a tensile strength TS of at least 1450 MPa and a total elongation TE of at least 17% includes the successive steps of providing a cold rolled steel sheet made of a steel having a chemical composition comprising, in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.45%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.10%?Al?0.7%, and optionally 0%?Nb?0.05%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet at an annealing temperature AT higher than the Ac3 transformation point of the steel, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it down to a quenching temperature QT lower than the Ms transformation point of the steel and comprised between 150° C. and 250° C., and reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 450° C.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Publication number: 20220017985Abstract: A cold rolled and heat-treated steel sheet having a composition including, by weight percent: C 0.3-0.4%, Mn 2.0-2.6%, Si: 0.8-1.6%, Al 0.01-0.6%, Mo 0.15-0.5%, Cr 0.3-1.0%, Nb?0.06%, Ti?0.06%, Ni?0.8%, S?0.010%, P?0.020% and N?0.008%, the remainder of the composition being iron and unavoidable impurities resulting from the smelting, and having a microstructure consisting of, in surface fraction: between 15% and 30% of retained austenite, said retained austenite having a carbon content of at least 0.7%, between 70% and 85% of tempered martensite, at most 5% of fresh martensite and at most 5% of bainite. It also deals with a manufacturing method thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Patrice ALEXANDRE, Magali BOUZAT, Anirban CHAKRABORTY, Hassan GHASSEMI-ARMAKI, Olga GIRINA, Ronan JACOLOT, Alexey KOLTSOV, Aude NADLER, Damon PANAHI, Michel SOLER
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Patent number: 11131003Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.5%, 0%<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Patent number: 11124853Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength ?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0<Cr?0.5%, 0<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Publication number: 20210222267Abstract: A method IS for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength ?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%. The method includes the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 250 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Patent number: 11035020Abstract: A method for producing a coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of at least 1450 MPa and a total elongation of at least 17% is provided. The method includes providing a cold rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.45%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50%?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.10%?Al?0.7%, optionally 0%?Nb?0.05%, and a remainder of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The sheet is annealed at an annealing temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point of the steel, quenched to a quenching temperature lower than the Ms transformation point of the steel and between 150° C. and 250° C., reheated to a partitioning temperature between 350° C. and 450° C., maintained at the partitioning temperature for at least 80 s, then coated by galvannealing, with an alloying temperature between 470° C. and 520° C. A steel sheet is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Patent number: 11001904Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by re-heating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 250 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Publication number: 20210047707Abstract: A method for producing a coated steel sheet having a tensile strength TS of at least 1450 MPa and a total elongation TE of at least 17% includes the successive steps of providing a cold rolled steel sheet made of a steel having a chemical composition comprising, in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.45%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.10%?Al?0.7%, and optionally 0%?Nb?0.05%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet at an annealing temperature AT higher than the Ac3 transformation point of the steel, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it down to a quenching temperature QT lower than the Ms transformation point of the steel and comprised between 150° C. and 250° C., and reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 450° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Olga A. GIRINA, Damon PANAHI
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Publication number: 20200181729Abstract: A method for producing a zinc or zinc-alloy coated steel sheet with a tensile strength higher than 900 MPa, for the fabrication of resistance spot welds containing in average not more than two Liquid Metal Embrittlement cracks per weld having a depth of 100 ?m or more, with steps of providing a cold-rolled steel sheet, heating cold-rolled steel sheet up to a temperature T1 between 550° C. and Ac1+50° C. in a furnace zone with an atmosphere (A1) containing from 2 to 15% hydrogen by volume, so that the iron is not oxidized, then adding in the furnace atmosphere, water steam or oxygen with an injection flow rate Q higher than (0.07%/h×?), ? being equal to 1 if said element is water steam or equal to 0.52 if said element is oxygen, at a temperature T?T1, so to obtain an atmosphere (A2) with a dew point DP2 between ?15° C. and the temperature Te of the iron/iron oxide equilibrium dew point, then heating the sheet from temperature T1 up to a temperature T2 between 720° C. and 1000° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Jean-Marc PIPARD, Sebastien CREMEL, Anirban CHAKRABORTY, Damon PANAHI, Olga GIRINA, Hassan GHASSEMI-ARMAKI, Pavan CHALLA VENKATA SURYA, Yacine BENLATRECHE
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Publication number: 20190264299Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0<Cr?0.5%, 0%<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Publication number: 20190264300Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength ?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0<Cr?0.5%, 0<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Patent number: 10378077Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength ?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.5%, 0%<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?A1?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: ArcelorMittalInventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Publication number: 20190010574Abstract: A method for producing a coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of at least 1450 MPa and a total elongation of at least 17% is provided. The method includes providing a cold rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.45%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50%?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.10%?Al?0.7%, optionally 0%?Nb?0.05%, and a remainder of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The sheet is annealed at an annealing temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point of the steel, quenched to a quenching temperature lower than the Ms transformation point of the steel and between 150° C. and 250° C., reheated to a partitioning temperature between 350° C. and 450° C., maintained at the partitioning temperature for at least 80 s, then coated by galvannealing, with an alloying temperature between 470° C. and 520° C. A steel sheet is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Olga A. GIRINA, Damon PANAHI
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Publication number: 20170145536Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength ?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%<Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%<Cr?0.5%, 0%<Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?A1?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by reheating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 120 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi
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Publication number: 20170137910Abstract: A method for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength?1470 MPa and a total elongation TE?19%, the method comprising the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT?Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%?C?0.40%, 1.50%?Mn?2.30%, 1.50?Si?2.40%, 0%?Cr?0.7%, 0%?Mo?0.3%, 0.01%?Al?0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT<Ms transformation point and between 150° C. and 250° C., and making a partitioning treatment by re-heating the quenched steel sheet to a partitioning temperature PT between 350° C. and 420° C. and maintaining the steel sheet at this temperature during a partitioning time Pt between 15 seconds and 250 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Olga A. Girina, Damon Panahi