Patents by Inventor Rolf Bode

Rolf Bode 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: 8815025
    Abstract: A high strength steel, including about 0.05 to about 0.25% of C, less than about 0.5% of Si, about 0.5 to about 3.0% of Mn, not more than about 0.06% of P, not more than about 0.01% of S, about 0.50 to about 3.0% of Sol. Al, not more than about 0.02% of N, about 0.1 to about 0.8% of Mo, about 0.02 to about 0.40% of Ti, and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein the steel has a structure formed of at least three phases including a bainite phase, and a retained austenite phase in addition to a ferrite phase having a composite carbide containing Ti and Mo dispersed and precipitated therein, wherein the total volume of the ferrite phase and the bainite phase is not smaller than 80%, the volume of the bainite phase is about 5% to about 60%, and the volume of the retained austenite phase is about 3 to about 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Günter Stich
  • Patent number: 7919194
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignees: JFE Steel Corporation, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Taro Kizu, Shusaku Takagi, Kohei Hasegawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Akio Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasushi Tanaka, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Jian Bian, Günter Stich, Rolf Bode, Brigitte Bode, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20090214892
    Abstract: A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of Germany
    Inventors: Kenji Kawamura, Taro Kizu, Shusaku Takagi, Kohei Hasegawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Akio Kobayashi, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yasuhi Tanaka, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Jian Bian, Gunter Stich, Rolf Bode
  • Publication number: 20090139872
    Abstract: A cost-favorable process for production of corrosion-resistant sheet steel products, having good characteristics of use for certain application purposes includes applying a zinc-containing coating by electro-galvanizing a flat steel product, finally cleaning mechanically and/or chemically the flat steel product, applying a magnesium-based coating to the finally cleaned zinc-containing coating by means of vapour deposition, and heat treating the coated flat steel product to form a diffusion or convention layer between the zinc-containing coating and the magnesium-based coating at a temperature of 320 ° C. to 335 ° C. under normal atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
    Inventors: Nicole Weiher, Bernd Schuhmacher, Michael Steinhorst, Andreas Klare, Tamara Appel, Ralf Bause, Stefan Kohler, Krasimir Nikolov, Monika Riemer, Slavcho Topalski, Frank Friedel, Wilfried Prange, Reinhard Schulski, Christian Schwerdt, Rolf Bode, Brigitte Bode
  • Publication number: 20070119521
    Abstract: A high strength steel, including about 0.05 to about 0.25% of C, less than about 0.5% of Si, about 0.5 to about 3.0% of Mn, not more than about 0.06% of P, not more than about 0.01% of S, about 0.50 to about 3.0% of Sol. Al, not more than about 0.02% of N, about 0.1 to about 0.8% of Mo, about 0.02 to about 0.40% of Ti, and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein the steel has a structure formed of at least three phases including a bainite phase, and a retained austenite phase in addition to a ferrite phase having a composite carbide containing Ti and Mo dispersed and precipitated therein, wherein the total volume of the ferrite phase and the bainite phase is not smaller than 80%, the volume of the bainite phase is about 5% to about 60%, and the volume of the retained austenite phase is about 3 to about 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: JFE Steel Corporation, a corporation of Japan, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, a corporation of Germany
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokota, Akio Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Seto, Yoshihiro Hosoya, Thomas Heller, Brigitte Hammer, Rolf Bode, Gunter Stich
  • Patent number: 6726786
    Abstract: The invention relates to processes for the production of a buckling-resistant stove-finished structural member from cold rolled and dressed strip (cold strip) non-ageing steel with high bake-hardening potential, more particularly of more than 70 N/mm2. The characterising feature of the invention is that the cold strip is converted by dressing into a yield point stretch-free state (Reh−Rel<2 N/mm2), then stored at a temperature below room temperature and further processed into the form of a structural member, whereafter the strip is finally stove finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG
    Inventors: Rolf Bode, Ilse Heckelmann
  • Patent number: 6162308
    Abstract: A method for producing a cold-rolled steel sheet or strip with good formability, especially stretch formability, for making pressings with a high buckling resistance from a steel comprising (in % by mass): 0.01 to 0.08% C, 0.10 to 0.80% Mn, maximum 0.15% Si, 0.015 to 0.08% Al, a maximum 0.005% N, 0.01 to 0.04% Ti and/or Nb, whose contents exceeding the quantity necessary for stoichiometric binding of the nitrogen, ranges from 0.003 to 0.015% Ti or 0.0015 to 0.008% Nb, and a maximum 0.15% in total of one or several elements from the group copper, vanadium, nickel, the remainder being iron, including unavoidable impurities, including a maximum 0.08% P and a maximum 0.02% S, comprises preheating the cast slab to a temperature exceeding 1050.degree. C., hot-rolling at a final temperature ranging from over the Ar.sub.3 temperature to 950.degree. C., coiling the hot-rolled strip at a temperature ranging from 550 to 750.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Thyssen Stahl AG
    Inventors: Ilse Heckelmann, Ullrich Heidtmann, Rolf Bode