Patents by Inventor Simon Vandenbruaene

Simon Vandenbruaene 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).

  • Method and apparatus for continuous treatment of a strip of hot dip galvanized steel
    Patent number: 5628842
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously treating a strip of hot dip-galvanized steel. The method comprises the steps of rapidly reheating the strip to a predetermined temperature between 460.degree. C. and 600.degree. C., with a heating flux greater than 180 kWatts per meter squared based for each face of the strip; maintaining the strip at a substantially constant temperature for a predetermined period of time lasting between 10 and 30 seconds; and subsequently cooling the strip rapidly to a temperature below 420.degree. C., using a cooling flux of a magnitude greater than 100 kWatts per meter squared for each face of the strip. The step of rapidly reheating is performed following a drying operation conducted on the strip as it exits from a zinc bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignees: Centre de Recherches Metallurgiques-Centrum Voor Research In de Metallurgie, Cockerill Sambre S.A., Hoogovens Groep BV, N.V. Sidmar
    Inventors: Stephan Wilmotte, Michel Dubois, Erik Van Perlstein, Simon Vandenbruaene, Michel Beguin