Patents by Inventor Ronald Kefferstein

Ronald Kefferstein 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).

  • Publication number: 20130029172
    Abstract: Coated steel having a well defined and uniform thickness is useful and advantageous for preparing products by hot stamping. Products prepared by hot stamping such a steel are particularly advantageous when subjected to a subsequent spot welding step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Pascal DRILLET, Dominique Spehner, Ronald Kefferstein
  • Patent number: 8307680
    Abstract: Coated steel having a well defined and uniform thickness is useful and advantageous for preparing products by hot stamping. Products prepared by hot stamping such a steel are particularly advantageous when subjected to a subsequent spot welding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Pascal Drillet, Dominique Spehner, Ronald Kefferstein
  • Publication number: 20120064362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making a hot stamped coated steel sheet product, comprising the steps of pre-coating a steel strip or sheet with aluminium-or aluminium alloy, cutting said pre-coated steel strip or sheet to obtain a pre-coated steel blank, heating the blank in a furnace preheated to a temperature and during a time defined by diagram according to thickness, at a heating rate Vc between 20 and 700° C. comprised between 4 and 12° C./s and at a heating rate Vc? between 500 and 700° C. comprised between 1.5 and 6° C./s, to obtain a heated blank; then transferring said heated blank to a die, hot stamping the heated blank in the die obtain a hot stamped steel sheet product, cooling at a mean rate Vr between the exit of the heated blank from the furnace, down to 400° C., of at least 30° C./s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Dominque SPEHNER, Ronald Kefferstein, Pascal Drillet
  • Patent number: 8066829
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making a hot stamped coated steel sheet product, comprising the steps of pre-coating a steel strip or sheet with aluminium- or aluminium alloy, cutting said pre-coated steel strip or sheet to obtain a pre-coated steel blank, heating the blank in a furnace preheated to a temperature and during a time defined by diagram according to thickness, at a heating rate Vc between 20 and 700° C. comprised between 4 and 12° C./s and at a heating rate Vc? between 500 and 700° C. comprised between 1.5 and 6° C./s, to obtain a heated blank; then transferring said heated blank to a die, hot stamping the heated blank in the die obtain a hot stamped steel sheet product, cooling at a mean rate Vr between the exit of the heated blank from the furnace, down to 400° C., of at least 30° C./s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Arcelormittal France
    Inventors: Dominique Spehner, Ronald Kefferstein, Pascal Drillet
  • Publication number: 20110214475
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making a hot stamped coated steel sheet product, comprising the steps of pre-coating a steel strip or sheet with aluminium-or aluminium alloy, cutting said pre-coated steel strip or sheet to obtain a pre-coated steel blank, heating the blank in a furnace preheated to a temperature and during a time defined by diagram according to thickness, at a heating rate Vc between 20 and 700° C. comprised between 4 and 12° C./s and at a heating rate Vc? between 500 and 700° C. comprised between 1.5 and 6° C./s, to obtain a heated blank; then transferring said heated blank to a die, hot stamping the heated blank in the die obtain a hot stamped steel sheet product, cooling at a mean rate Vr between the exit of the heated blank from the furnace, down to 400° C., of at least 30° C./s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Dominique SPEHNER, Ronald Kefferstein, Pascal Drillet
  • Publication number: 20110165436
    Abstract: Coated steel having a well defined and uniform thickness is useful and advantageous for preparing products by hot stamping. Products prepared by hot stamping such a steel are particularly advantageous when subjected to a subsequent spot welding step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: ARCELORMITTAL FRANCE
    Inventors: Pascal Drillet, Dominique Spehner, Ronald Kefferstein
  • Publication number: 20110006491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making a hot stamped coated steel sheet product, comprising the steps of pre-coating a steel strip or sheet with aluminium—or aluminium alloy, cutting said pre-coated steel strip or sheet to obtain a pre-coated steel blank, heating the blank in a furnace preheated to a temperature and during a time defined by diagram according to thickness, at a heating rate VC between 20 and 700° C. comprised between 4 and 12° C./s and at a heating rate VC? between 500 and 700° C. comprised between 1.5 and 6° C./s, to obtain a heated blank; then transferring said heated blank to a die, hot stamping the heated blank in the die obtain a hot stamped steel sheet product, cooling at a mean rate Vr between the exit of the heated blank from the furnace, down to 400° C., of at least 30° C./s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: ArcelorMittal France
    Inventors: Dominique SPEHNER, Ronald KEFFERSTEIN, Pascal DRILLET
  • Patent number: 6564604
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a part with very high mechanical properties, formed by stamping of a strip of rolled steel sheet and more particularly hot rolled and coated with a metal or metal alloy ensuring protection of the surface and the steel, whereby: the steel sheet is cut to obtain a steel sheet blank, the steel sheet blank is stamped to obtain the part, an alloyed intermetallic compound is applied to the surface, before or after the stamping, ensuring protection against corrosion, against steel decarburization, which intermetallic compound may provide a lubrication function, the excess material from the steel sheet required for the stamping operation is trimmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Unisor
    Inventors: Ronald Kefferstein, Xavier Jartoux
  • Patent number: 6447590
    Abstract: An aqueous composition containing at least 2% by weight of pregelatinized starch and, as an emulsion, at least 1% or vegetable wax or oil, preferably chosen from carnauba wax, jojoba oil and candelilla wax. Also a process for applying a layer of this composition and in drying it so as to obtain a dry film having; a surface density of between 1 and 2.5 g/m2. Treating a metal surface with the composition provides temporary corrosion protection and prelubrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Usinor
    Inventors: Ronald Kefferstein, Lothaire Scherer
  • Publication number: 20010042393
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a part with very high mechanical properties, formed by stamping of a strip of rolled steel sheet and more particularly hot rolled and coated with a metal or metal alloy ensuring protection of the surface and the steel, whereby:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Ronald Kefferstein, Xavier Jartoux
  • Patent number: 6309697
    Abstract: The invention concerns a composition useful for providing temporary protection against corrosion to metal surfaces comprising an oil-in-water emulsion characterised in that said emulsion contains in its aqueous phase at least a compound of general formula (I) in which the groups R, R1 and R2 represent independently of one another a hydrogen atom, a C1-C20 alkyl group, a C1-C20 halogenoalkyl group with the halogen being chlorine, bromine, iodine or fluorine, a C3-C6 cycloalkyl group, a carboxylic function or a C1-C6 carboxyalkyl group; n is a whole number varying from 1 to 3; and X represents an oxygen or sulphur atom in the form of one of its soluble salts. The invention also concerns a method for preparing said composition, its method of application to the surface of metal part and the resulting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Sollac
    Inventors: Lothaire Scherer, Ronald Kefferstein, Philippe Antoine
  • Patent number: 6063447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating the surface of a metal part to prepare it for drawing and to protect it temporarily against corrosion, comprising applying an aqueous treatment composition to the surface of said part and drying the aqueous composition so applied, characterized in that the aqueous composition is first obtained by mixing:an aqueous solution comprising at least one alcohol or fatty acid polyethoxylate; andan oil-in-water emulsion comprising at least 3% to 13% by volume of an oil phase comprising at least 75% to 90% by volume of at least one mineral oil and 5% to 10% by volume of at least one surfactant.The invention also relates to the metal parts so obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Sollac
    Inventors: Claude Morand, Ronald Kefferstein