公开(公告)号：US20210238726A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US17059351

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: SMS group GMBH

Inventor： Lutz KÜMMEL ,  Thomas DAUBE

IPC: C23C14/02 ,  C23C14/56 ,  C23C14/16 ,  B65H23/02 ,  B65H23/032

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a vacuum-coating system (10) for coating a band-type material (11), in particular made of metal. For this, the band-type material (11) is moved, via a conveying section (12), in a transport direction (T) and is vacuum-coated within a coating chamber (14), in which a vacuum is applied. As seen in the transport direction (T) of the band-type material (11), at least one flatness optimization device (39) is arranged upstream of the coating chamber (14), through which flatness optimization device the band-type material (11) can be guided. In this way, a desired flatness is generated for the band-type material (11).

公开(公告)号：US20210215477A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-15

申请号：US17055244

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: SMS GROUP GMBH

Inventor： Martin FRIEDRICH ,  Frank MÖNSTERS ,  Tobias HÖHNE ,  Norman GIESEN

IPC: G01B11/27 ,  B22D11/20

Abstract: A device for determining orientation of an object, including a measurement body, which reflects electromagnetic radiation and can be brought into physical contact with a surface of the object to determine the orientation. The device includes: a measurement carriage movable along the object during the determination of the orientation and which has a sliding surface that can be brought into physical contact with the object; a retaining unit which retains the measurement body and is connected to the measurement carriage so as to be pivotable between a maximal position, in which the measurement body protrudes beyond the sliding surface on the object side, and a minimal position, in which the measurement body does not protrude beyond the sliding surface on the object side; and a restoring device that applies a force to the retaining unit toward the maximal position.

公开(公告)号：US11052457B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-06

申请号：US16464898

申请日：2017-11-24

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Sebastian Böcking ,  Guido Fick

IPC: B22D11/06

Abstract: A casting nozzle for feeding molten metal into a moving casting mold of a caterpillar casting machine, including an elongated housing body having a slot-like outlet side (A), wherein multiple flow passages are formed in the housing body along its longitudinal direction (x) and over its width direction (B), through which passages molten metal can be channeled in the direction of the outlet side (A) and can be fed from there into the moving casting mold, wherein the housing body is of an at least two-part design in the direction of its height and has at least one upper shell and at least one lower shell, wherein the upper shell and the lower shell are spaced apart from one another by separating webs and the individual flow passages extend between the separating webs.

公开(公告)号：US20210197251A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-01

申请号：US16761838

申请日：2018-10-02

Applicant: SMS GROUP GMBH

Inventor： Axel STAVENOW ,  Alexander RAILE

IPC: B22D11/128 ,  B22D11/20 ,  B22D11/12

Abstract: A strand guide segment for a continuous casting plant, which strand guide segment has an upper frame, a lower frame and position-controlled hydraulic cylinder units for setting the distance between the upper frame and the lower frame and, as a result, a strand thickness of a strand to be guided by the strand guide segment. A first end of each hydraulic cylinder unit is mounted on the upper frame. At the second end of the hydraulic cylinder units, facing away from the upper frame, each hydraulic cylinder unit is detachably connected by a respective flange connection to a respective tie rod which, at its end facing away from the flange connection, is mounted on the lower frame. The invention further relates to a corresponding continuous casting plant.

公开(公告)号：US11040393B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-22

申请号：US16464385

申请日：2017-11-24

Applicant: SMS Group GmbH

Inventor： Sebastian Boecking ,  Guido Fick

IPC: B22D11/06

Abstract: The invention relates to a transport device (10), in particular for transporting cooling blocks (12) in a caterpillar casting machine, comprising a guide rail (16), which forms an endless circulating track (U) for a caterpillar casting machine (14), and a support element (18) having a plurality of rollers (20), by means of which the support element (18) is guided on the guide rail (16) and rolls along same, wherein a cooling block (12) of a caterpillar casting machine (14) can be placed on the support element (18). The guide rail (16) has a first running surface (16.1) and a second running surface (16.2), wherein the running surfaces (16.1, 16.2) are provided on opposite sides of the guide rail (16). The support element (18) has at least three rollers (20.1, 20.2, 20.3), of which two rollers (20.1, 20.2) are in rolling contact with the first running surface (16.1) of the guide rail (16), and at least one further roller (20.3) is in rolling contact with the second running surface (16.2) of the guide rail (16), wherein at least one roller (20.1; 20.2; 20.3) is preloaded towards the guide rail (16).

公开(公告)号：US20210140470A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-13

申请号：US16618341

申请日：2018-05-28

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Andrej Tucak ,  Daniel Knie ,  Roland Will

IPC: F16C13/02 ,  F16C35/06

Abstract: A bearing closure device has a externally threaded ring that can be slid onto a roll journal. One stop close to the roll barrel and one stop away from the roll barrel are provided on the roll journal in order to limit the axial movement of the threaded ring. A ring nut with an internal thread is screwed onto the external thread of the threaded ring. To facilitate safe screwing on and unscrewing of the ring nut and to keep screws pressure-free during the operation of the bearing a pressure ring is mounted between the bearing and the threaded ring in an axially displaceable manner. In addition, a plurality of screws can be screwed into axial threaded bores in the threaded ring in order to press against the pressure ring in the axial direction. Finally, the ring nut can be screwed or adjusted against the pressure ring.

公开(公告)号：US10974296B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-13

申请号：US15778463

申请日：2016-10-28

Applicant: SMS GROUP GMBH

Inventor： Daniel Knie ,  Johannes Alken

IPC: B21B31/07 ,  F15B13/02

Abstract: A volume flow regulating valve for controlling the volume flow of a fluid medium in two outflow ducts. The volume flow regulating valve is composed of a cylinder with a dual piston mounted axially displaceably in the cylinder, with a central pressure chamber being formed in the region of the barbell-shaped central piece of the dual piston. Aside from an inlet for the fluid medium, it is also the case that the two outlet ducts are provided at the central pressure chamber. The outlet ducts are arranged on the cylinder with such an axial spacing that—when the dual piston is situated in a central position in relation to the two outlet ducts—the first outlet duct—preferably partially covered by the first piston—and the second outlet duct—preferably partially covered by the second piston—each open up an equal opening cross-sectional area.

公开(公告)号：US10914344B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-09

申请号：US16083033

申请日：2017-03-20

Applicant: SMS Group GmbH

Inventor： Daniel Knie ,  Andrej Tucak

IPC: B21B31/07 ,  F16C35/078 ,  B21B31/08 ,  F16C13/02 ,  F16C19/38 ,  F16C21/00

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for mounting a bearing 200 on a roll neck and for removing the bearing from the roll neck of a roll. Known devices of this type have a first and a second piston/cylinder unit. They also have a stop ring 130, fixed in the axial direction A at the end of the roll neck 320 remote from the body, which acts as a stop for the inner piston 110 of the first piston/cylinder unit. In addition, the known devices have a nut 150 which can be screwed onto an external thread of the inner piston to secure the bearing 200 in the axial direction, in particular during a rolling operation. As an alternative to the known prior art, the present invention provides that an annular cylinder 120 serves both as a cylinder for the first piston/cylinder unit and as a cylinder for the second piston/cylinder unit. For its function as a cylinder for the second piston/cylinder unit, said annular cylinder is covered to a certain ex ent on its side remote from the body by an annular cylinder cover 122. The cylinder cover 122 serves, together with an outer flange 142 of an outer piston 140, to axially delimit a removal pressure chamber 2 of the second piston/cylinder unit.

公开(公告)号：US10894994B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-19

申请号：US15328234

申请日：2015-06-01

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Tilmann Böcher ,  Marcel van Reimersdahl ,  Luc Neumann ,  Uwe Plociennik

IPC: C21D9/00 ,  C21D8/02 ,  B22D11/041 ,  B22D11/12 ,  B22D11/124 ,  B22D11/22

Abstract: A method for producing a metal product, wherein in a strand casting system, liquid metal is output as a slab from a mold vertically downward in a conveying direction, is guided along a strand guide, and is deflected into the horizontal, wherein the slab is heated in a furnace or inductively downstream of the stand casting system.

公开(公告)号：US10882097B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-05

申请号：US16297189

申请日：2019-03-08

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Felix Rodermund-Gebhart ,  Dirk Kalkhoff

IPC: B21H1/12 ,  B21H1/06

Abstract: In a ring-rolling machine having a mandrel roll and a related radial roll, the mandrel roll can be handled in operationally reliable and structurally simple manner if an axial bearing of the mandrel roll is opened by way of an opening drive that does not rotate along with the mandrel roll and/or is closed by inserting the mandrel roll into the axial bearing.