Patents by Inventor Thorsten MANNS

Thorsten MANNS 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: 11365483
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool has a substrate of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or cubic boron nitride and a multi-layered wear resistant coating deposited thereon has a total thickness from 4 to 25 ?m. The multi-layered wear resistant coating includes a TiAlCN layer (a) represented by the formula Ti1-xAlxCyNz with 0.2?x?0.97, 0?y?0.25 and 0.7?z?1.15 deposited by CVD, and a ?-Al2O3 layer (b) of kappa aluminium oxide deposited by CVD immediately on top of the TiAlCN layer (a). The Ti1-AlxCyNz layer (a) has an overall fiber texture with the {111} plane growing parallel to the substrate surface and a {111} pole figure, measured over an angle range of 0°???80° and the ?-Al2O3 layer (b) has an overall fiber texture with the {002} plane growing parallel to the substrate surface and a {002} pole figure, over an angle range of 0°???80°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: WALTER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns
  • Patent number: 11286570
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating. The coating has an inner layer of 4-14 ?m thick Ti1-xAlxN, an intermediate layer of 0.05-1 ?m TiCN and at least one outer layer of 1-9 ?m ?-Al2O3. The ?-Al2O3 layer exhibits an X-ray diffraction pattern, as measured using CuK? radiation and theta-2theta scan. A texture coefficient TC(hkl) is defined according to Harris formula, wherein the (hkl) reflections used are (0 2 4), (1 1 6), (3 0 0) and (0 0 12), I(hkl)=measured intensity (peak intensity) of the (hkl) reflection, I0(hkl)=standard intensity according to ICDD's PDF-card No. 00-042-1468, n=number of reflections used in the calculation, and 3<TC(0 0 12)<4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WALTER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns
  • Patent number: 11247276
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or cubic boron nitride and a multi-layered wear resistant coating. The multi-layered wear resistant coating has a total thickness from 5 to 25 ?m and includes refractory coating layers deposited by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) or moderate temperature chemical vapour deposition (MT-CVD). The multi-layered wear resistant coating has at least one pair of layers (a) and (b), with layer (b) being deposited immediately on top of layer (a). Layer (a) is a layer of aluminium nitride having hexagonal crystal structure (h-AlN) and a thickness from 10 nm to 750 nm. Layer (b) is a layer of titanium aluminium nitride or titanium aluminium carbonitride represented by the general formula Ti1-xAlxCyNz with 0.4?x?0.95, 0?y?0.10 and 0.85?z?1.15, having a thickness from 0.5 ?m to 15 ?m, and at least 90% of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz of layer (b) has a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns
  • Patent number: 10662524
    Abstract: A tool having includes a base body of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or high-speed steel and a single-layer or multi-layer wear protection coating deposited thereon by CVD process and having a thickness within the range of from 2 ?m to 25 ?m. The wear protection coating has at least a Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer with 0.40?x?0.95, 0?y?0.10 and 0.85?z?1.15 having a thickness in the range of from 1 ?m to 16 ?m and having >85 vol-% face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure. The Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer includes precipitations of Ti1-oAloCpNq at the grain boundaries of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz crystallites have a higher Al content than inside the crystallites, wherein 0.95?o?1.00, 0?p?0.10, 0.85?q?1.15 and (0?x)?0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns
  • Publication number: 20200002819
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating. The coating has an inner layer of 4-14 ?m thick Ti1-xAlxN, an intermediate layer of 0.05-1 ?m TiCN and at least one outer layer of 1-9 ?m ?-Al2O3. The ?-Al2O3 layer exhibits an X-ray diffraction pattern, as measured using CuK? radiation and theta-2theta scan. A texture coefficient TC(hkl) is defined according to Harris formula, wherein the (hkl) reflections used are (0 2 4), (1 1 6), (3 0 0) and (0 0 12), I(hkl)=measured intensity (peak intensity) of the (hkl) reflection, 10(hkl)=standard intensity according to ICDD's PDF-card No. 00-042-1468, n=number of reflections used in the calculation, and 3<TC(0 0 12)<4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Thorsten MANNS
  • Publication number: 20190338424
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool has a substrate of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or cubic boron nitride and a multi-layered wear resistant coating deposited thereon has a total thickness from 4 to 25 ?m. The multi-layered wear resistant coating includes a TiAlCN layer (a) represented by the formula Ti1-xAlxCyNz with 0.2?x?0.97, 0?y?0.25 and 0.7?z?1.15 deposited by CVD, and a ?-Al2O3 layer (b) of kappa aluminium oxide deposited by CVD immediately on top of the TiAlCN layer (a). The Ti1-AlxCyNz layer (a) has an overall fiber texture with the {111} plane growing parallel to the substrate surface and a {111} pole figure, measured over an angle range of 0°???80° and the ?-Al2O3 layer (b) has an overall fiber texture with the {002} plane growing parallel to the substrate surface and a {002} pole figure, over an angle range of 0°???80°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Thorsten MANNS
  • Patent number: 10407777
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or cubic boron nitride, a multi-layered wear resistant coating and at least two refractory coating layers deposited. The at least two refractory coating layers include a first coating layer and a second coating layer deposited on top of each other. The first coating layer is titanium aluminum nitride or carbonitride Ti1-uAluCvNw, with 0.2?u?1.0, 0?v?0.25 and 0.7?w?1.15 deposited by CVD. The second coating layer is titanium carbonitride TixCyN1-y, with 0.85?x?1.1 and 0.4?y?0.85, and is deposited on top of the first coating layer by MT-CVD. The second TixCyN1-y coating layer has a columnar grain morphology and the overall fiber texture of the TixCyN1-y coating layer is characterized by a texture coefficient TC (1 1 1)>2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: WALTER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns, Sakari Ruppi
  • Publication number: 20190111497
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or cubic boron nitride and a multi-layered wear resistant coating. The multi-layered wear resistant coating has a total thickness from 5 to 25 ?m and includes refractory coating layers deposited by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) or moderate temperature chemical vapour deposition (MT-CVD). The multi-layered wear resistant coating has at least one pair of layers (a) and (b), with layer (b) being deposited immediately on top of layer (a). Layer (a) is a layer of aluminium nitride having hexagonal crystal structure (h-AlN) and a thickness from 10 nm to 750 nm. Layer (b) is a layer of titanium aluminium nitride or titanium aluminium carbonitride represented by the general formula Ti1-xAlxCyNz with 0.4?x?0.95, 0?y?0.10 and 0.85?z?1.15, having a thickness from 0.5 ?m to 15 ?m, and at least 90% of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz of layer (b) has a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Thorsten MANNS
  • Patent number: 10214810
    Abstract: A tool has a main part of hard metal, cermet, ceramic, steel, high-speed steel, and a single or multilayer wear protection coating applied onto the main part by CVD and which has a thickness from 3 ?m to 25 ?m. The wear protection coating has at least one Ti1?xAlxCyNz layer with stoichiometric coefficients 0.70?x<1.0?y<0.25 and 0.75?z<1.15 and a thickness from 1.5 ?m to 17 ?m. The T1?xAlxCyNz layer has a lamellar structure with lamellae with thickness of no more than 150 nm, preferably no more than 100 nm, particularly preferably no more than 50 nm. Lamellae are made of periodically alternating regions of the Ti1?xAlxCyNz layer with alternatingly different stoichiometric proportions of Ti and Al, having the same crystal structure (crystallographic phase), and the Ti1?xAlxCyNz layer has at least 90% vol. % of face centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Thorsten Manns, Sakari Ruppi
  • Publication number: 20180216224
    Abstract: A tool having includes a base body of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or high-speed steel and a single-layer or multi-layer wear protection coating deposited thereon by CVD process and having a thickness within the range of from 2 ?m to 25 ?m. The wear protection coating has at least a Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer with 0.40?x?0.95, 0?y?0.10 and 0.85?z?1.15 having a thickness in the range of from 1 ?m to 16 ?m and having >85 vol-% face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure. The Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer includes precipitations of Ti1-oAloCpNq at the grain boundaries of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz crystallites have a higher Al content than inside the crystallites, wherein 0.95?o?1.00, 0?p?0.10, 0.85?q?1.15 and (0?x)?0.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Thorsten MANNS
  • Patent number: 9976213
    Abstract: A tool having a base body of carbide, cermet, ceramic, steel or high speed steel and a single-layer or multi-layer wear-protection coating applied thereto in a CVD process, wherein the wear-protection coating has at least one Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer having stoichiometry coefficients 0.70?x<1.0?y<0.25 and 0.75?z<1.15 wherein the Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer is of a thickness of 1 ?m to 25 ?m and has a crystallographic preferential orientation, which is characterized by a ratio of the intensities of the X-ray diffraction peaks of the crystallographic {111} plane and the {200} plane, wherein I{111}/I{200}>1+h (ln h)2, wherein h is the thickness of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer in micrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Sakari Ruppi, Thorsten Manns
  • Publication number: 20170275765
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, steel or cubic boron nitride, a multi-layered wear resistant coating and at least two refractory coating layers deposited. The at least two refractory coating layers include a first coating layer and a second coating layer deposited on top of each other. The first coating layer is titanium aluminium nitride or carbonitride Ti1-uAluCvNw, with 0.2?u?1.0, 0?v?0.25 and 0.7?w?1.15 deposited by CVD. The second coating layer is titanium carbonitride TixCyN1-y, with 0.85?x?1.1 and 0.4?y?0.85, and is deposited on top of the first coating layer by MT-CVD. The second TixCyN1-y coating layer has a columnar grain morphology and the overall fiber texture of the TixCyN1-y coating layer is characterized by a texture coefficient TC (1 1 1)>2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: WALTER AG
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Thorsten MANNS, Sakari RUPPI
  • Publication number: 20160333473
    Abstract: A tool has a main part of hard metal, cermet, ceramic, steel, high-speed steel, and a single or multilayer wear protection coating applied onto the main part by CVD and which has a thickness from 3 ?m to 25 ?m. The wear protection coating has at least one Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer with stoichiometric coefficients 0.70?x<1.0?y<0.25 and 0.75?z<1.15 and a thickness from 1.5 ?m to 17 ?m. The T1-xAlxCyNz layer has a lamellar structure with lamellae with thickness of no more than 150 nm, preferably no more than 100 nm, particularly preferably no more than 50 nm. Lamellae are made of periodically alternating regions of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer with alternatingly different stoichiometric proportions of Ti and Al, having the same crystal structure (crystallographic phase), and the Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer has at least 90% vol. % of face centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Thorsten MANNS, Sakari RUPPI
  • Publication number: 20160053372
    Abstract: A tool having a base body of carbide, cermet, ceramic, steel or high speed steel and a single-layer or multi-layer wear-protection coating applied thereto in a CVD process, wherein the wear-protection coating has at least one Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer having stoichiometry coefficients 0.70?x<1.0?y<0.25 and 0.75?z<1.15 wherein the Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer is of a thickness of 1 ?m to 25 ?m and has a crystallographic preferential orientation, which is characterised by a ratio of the intensities of the X-ray diffraction peaks of the crystallographic {111} plane and the {200} plane, wherein I{111}/I{200}>1+h (In h)2, wherein h is the thickness of the Ti1-xAlxCyNz layer in micrometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk STIENS, Sakari RUPPI, Thorsten MANNS