Patents by Inventor Reinhard Poprawe

Reinhard Poprawe 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).

  • Laser-assisted plating of strip
    Patent number: 6002098
    Abstract: Process for the joining of strips and/or sheets of metallic materials, wherein the strips/sheets are introduced converging on one another at an angle into a roll nip, the surfaces coming into contact with one another being heated, but not melted by a laser beam immediately prior to physical contact and the strips/sheets being so pressed together in a directly following joining pass that they are rigidly connected to one another at material surfaces brought into contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Pircher, Rudolf Kawalla, Reinhard Poprawe, Gerd Susek