Patents by Inventor Stefan Peter Puls

Stefan Peter Puls 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: 20190153589
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a corrosion-protected steel product, in particular a steel strip or steel sheet, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a device for plasma nitriding a steel substrate and a coating device for applying a metallic material to the steel substrate. A process for producing a corrosion-protected steel product, in particular a steel strip or steel sheet, is also disclosed, wherein a steel substrate is provided and nitrogen is diffused by plasma nitriding into the steel substrate, and wherein a metallic material is applied to the steel substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher, Krasimir Nikolov, Claus-peter Klages
  • Patent number: 9770744
    Abstract: A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 ?m includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 ?m. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Outokumpu Nirosta GmbH
    Inventors: Roman Glass, Utz Karsten, Jörg Kazmierski, Nina Kolbe, Hans-Joachim Krautschick, Klaus Manfred Lange, Stefan Peter Puls, Janine Schauer-Paβ, Bernd Schuhmacher, Dirk Wiemer, Frank Wörster
  • Publication number: 20150283590
    Abstract: A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 ?m includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 ?m. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Roman Glass, Utz Karsten, Jörg Kazmierski, Nina Kolbe, Hans-Joachim Krautschick, Klaus Manfred Lange, Stefan Peter Puls, Janine Schauer-Pass, Bernd Schuhmacher, Dirk Wiemer, Frank Wörster
  • Patent number: 9088011
    Abstract: A bipolar plate which can be produced particularly economically for a fuel cell, with which a high degree of efficiency is guaranteed over a long service life. The bipolar plate has a core layer consisting of a steel material, the surfaces of said core layer, which are associated with the respective electrolyte carriers of the fuel cell, having a corrosion protection layer, protecting the core layer against corrosion. The corrosion protection layers consist of a metal material and extend on both sides over the whole surface of the core layer. At the same time the corrosion protection layers are in turn coated over the whole surface with an electrically conductive functional coating, which is essentially entirely impermeable for the metal ions emerging from the core layer and/or the corrosion protection layers. The invention likewise relates to at least one fuel cell comprising a bipolar plate according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
    Inventors: Stefan Wischmann, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich, Michael Steinhorst, Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher
  • Publication number: 20100178579
    Abstract: A bipolar plate which can be produced particularly economically for a fuel cell, with which a high degree of efficiency is guaranteed over a long service life. The bipolar plate has a core layer consisting of a steel material, the surfaces of said core layer, which are associated with the respective electrolyte carriers of the fuel cell, having a corrosion protection layer, protecting the core layer against corrosion. The corrosion protection layers consist of a metal material and extend on both sides over the whole surface of the core layer. At the same time the corrosion protection layers are in turn coated over the whole surface with an electrically conductive functional coating, which is essentially entirely impermeable for the metal ions emerging from the core layer and/or the corrosion protection layers. The invention likewise relates to at least one fuel cell comprising a bipolar plate according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Stefan Wischmann, Horst Walter Tamler, Roland Wunderlich, Michael Steinhorst, Krasimir Nikolov, Nicole Weiher, Jens-Ulrik Becker, Stefan Peter Puls, Bernd Schuhmacher