公开(公告)号：US20220268299A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-25

申请号：US17618223

申请日：2020-06-02

Applicant: SMS GROUP GMBH

Inventor： Andreas LÖHR ,  Frank-Günter BENNER ,  Sandra WIED ,  Markus PRINZ ,  Stephan STÄCKER ,  Mark STENSKE ,  Valentin TRIEBUS

IPC: F15B13/08 ,  B21B31/00

Abstract: A control unit for a distributor network of liquid and/or gaseous media, in particular for a roll stand, a media module, and a roll stand. The control unit has: a base plate having one or more media transport lines of the distributor network, which extend at least in sections in the plane of the base plate; and one or more functional blocks having an internal piping and one or more control elements having a functional connection thereto. The functional blocks are configured to be installable on the base plate so that the internal piping has a fluid connection to one or more of the media transport lines, and to be detachable from the base plate.

公开(公告)号：US20220260482A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-18

申请号：US17617958

申请日：2020-06-15

Applicant: SMS group GmbH ,  Drever International S.A.

Inventor： Alexandre Lhoest ,  Oliver Pensis ,  Ulrich Sommers ,  Vincent Housen

IPC: G01N21/17 ,  G01N33/204 ,  G01N27/72 ,  G01N23/083 ,  C21D11/00

Abstract: A device for the contactless determination of at least one property of a metal product during the metallurgical production of the metal product comprises a housing and at least one measuring device comprising a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. An electromagnetic field is generated by the transmitting unit and directed onto the metal product, thereby inducing a physical interaction in the material of the metal product, and a remaining and/or resulting part of this physical interaction is subsequently received by the receiving unit. At least one component of the measuring device comprising the transmitting unit and/or the receiving unit can be moved relative to the housing or the metal product moving therein, in order to thereby set or selectively change a predetermined distance to the metal product for the transmitting unit and/or the receiving unit.

公开(公告)号：US20220234133A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-28

申请号：US17618141

申请日：2020-03-30

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Andreas KREX ,  Guido FICK ,  Sebastian BÖCKING

IPC: B23K20/12

Abstract: A method for fixing a strip end segment of a metal strip wound into a coil to a strip winding of the coil arranged adjacent to the strip end segment. In order to enable the production of metal strip with improved quality, the strip end segment is fixed by materially bonding on the strip winding by means of a friction welding method.

公开(公告)号：US20220212238A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-07

申请号：US17611324

申请日：2020-03-12

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Thomas CMIEL ,  Dirk Heßberger

IPC: B21C51/00 ,  B21C1/22

Abstract: A drawing system and a method for automatically operating a drawing system. At least one quality-relevant feature of a drawn product, selected from a group of features including the straightness of the drawn product, the length of the drawn product, the diameter and/or at least a thickness of the drawn product, the roundness of the drawn product, and the surface quality of the drawn product, is measured by at least one quality sensor, and the obtained measurement value is processed in at least one control circuit which acts on at least one quality-relevant manipulated variable of the drawing system or parts of the drawing system via at least one controller., At least one reference variable for at least one quality-relevant feature of a specific drawn product is processed in a process controller.

公开(公告)号：US11366383B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US16589515

申请日：2019-10-01

Applicant: Carl Zeiss SMS Ltd.

Inventor： Vladimir Dmitriev ,  Kujan Gorhad ,  Joachim Welte ,  Tanya Serzhanyuk

IPC: G03F7/20 ,  G03F1/72 ,  G03F1/74 ,  G03F1/86 ,  G03F1/60

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method and an apparatus for determining positions of a plurality of pixels to be introduced into a substrate of a photolithographic mask by use of a laser system, wherein the pixels serve to at least partly correct one or more errors of the photolithographic mask. The method comprises the steps: (a) obtaining error data associated with the one or more errors; (b) obtaining first parameters of an illumination system, the first parameters determining an illumination of the photolithographic mask of the illumination system when processing a wafer by illuminating with the illumination system using the photolithographic mask; and (c) determining the positions of the plurality of pixels based on the error data and the first parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20220161153A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-26

申请号：US17596390

申请日：2020-06-12

Applicant: AUROTEC GMBH ,  BUSS-SMS-CANZLER GMBH

Inventor： Stefan ZIKELI ,  Hannes KITZLER ,  Philipp ZAUNER ,  Paul AIGNER ,  Michael LONGIN ,  Rainer NAEF

IPC: B01D1/22 ,  B01D1/00 ,  D01D1/02

Abstract: A thin-film treatment apparatus for treating viscous material includes a process housing oriented at an incline of at most 20° with a heatable and/or coolable housing casing, which surrounds a housing interior forming a material treatment space, an inlet nozzle arranged in an inlet zone of the process housing to introduce the material to be treated into the material treatment space, an outlet nozzle arranged in an outlet zone of the process housing to discharge the treated material from the material treatment space, and a drivable rotor shaft arranged in the material treatment space and extending coaxially for producing a material film on the inner surface of the housing casing and for conveying the material in the direction of an outlet zone. The rotor shaft includes at least one lift element arranged on the rotor shaft body, for producing a lifting force in the direction of the rotating rotor shaft body.

公开(公告)号：US11319611B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US16084595

申请日：2017-03-03

Applicant: SMS Group GmbH

Inventor： Mostafa Biglari ,  Holger Behrens ,  Carsten Andreas Klein ,  Christian Klinkenberg ,  Lutz Kuemmel ,  Ulrich Sommers

IPC: C21D11/00 ,  C21D8/02 ,  B21B37/76 ,  C21D8/04 ,  C21D9/46 ,  B21B37/74 ,  G05B19/418 ,  B21B1/22 ,  C21D9/56 ,  C21D9/573 ,  C23C2/28 ,  C23C2/40 ,  G01N23/2055 ,  G05B13/02

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rolling a metal product (1), wherein the metal product is subjected to a rolling operation at a first station (2), which rolling operation is controlled by a control device (3), wherein the product (1) is subject to a measurement at a second station (4), wherein the product (1) is subjected to a further processing operation at a third station (6), and wherein the product (1) is in a specified quality at a fourth station (7). In order to increase the quality of the produced strip, the invention provides that the method has the following steps: a) measuring the value of a material property (IW) that the second station (4); b) feeding the value measured at the second station (4) to the control device (3), comparing the measured value with a value (SW) stored in the control device (3), and adjusting a parameter (PPI) if the measured value deviates from the stored value (SW), e) measuring a value of a quality material property (Q) at the fourth station (7); d) comparing the measured value with a stored value, and initiating a measure to influence the quality material property (Q) if the measured value deviates from the stored value beyond a permissible tolerance.

公开(公告)号：US20220088655A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17420485

申请日：2019-12-02

Applicant: SMS group GmbH

Inventor： Peter REBESCHIES ,  Sebastian BÖCKING ,  Hendrik LANGER ,  Christian HEHMANN ,  Guido FICK

IPC: B21B13/02 ,  B21B31/18

Abstract: A rolling apparatus, including a stand, at least two rolls, which are attached to the stand by chocks and are displaceable in relation to one another in the axial direction, and at least one axial displacing device, which is assigned to a chock of at least one of the rolls and can act on this chock. The axial displacing device has a fixed block, at least one displaceable bending block and at least one displacing cylinder, which is assigned to the bending block and by which the bending block can be displaced in relation to the fixed block. The fixed block is of a multipart form.

公开(公告)号：US11261941B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16622418

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: SMS Group GmbH

Inventor： Matthias Krueger ,  Frank Moellering ,  Nathalie Catic

IPC: F16H3/085 ,  F16H3/093 ,  B21B35/04 ,  B21B35/12

Abstract: The invention relates to a shiftable transmission (1) having at least two shifting levels, preferably for use in rolling mill technology, said shiftable transmission comprising: a rotatably mounted input shaft (20), to which an input torque an be applied; a rotatably mounted first output shaft (30) and a rotatably mounted second output shaft (40), which are arranged parallel and are connected to each other by means of an output transmission stage in such a way that aid output shafts rotate oppositely, preferably at the same rotational speed, when an input torque is applied to the input shaft (20) at any shifting level of the shiftable transmission (1); a first coupling (50), which is designed to selectively connect an disconnect the input shaft (20) and the first output shaft (30), a first shifting level of the shiftable transmission (1) being realized in the coupled state, in which first shifting level the input shaft (20) and the first output shaft (30) are connected to each other in such a way that the input torque is transferred from the input shaft (20) to the first output shaft (30) without step-up or step-down, preferably without redirection and without a spur gear stage.

公开(公告)号：US11249037B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US16304626

申请日：2017-05-24

Applicant: SMS GROUP GMBH

Inventor： Mostafa Biglari ,  Ulrich Sommers ,  Christian Klinkenberg ,  Michel Renard ,  Guy Raymond ,  Oliver Pensis ,  Tobias Terlau ,  Horst Krauthäuser

IPC: G01N23/20008 ,  C21D9/56 ,  C21D11/00 ,  G01N23/20 ,  G01N33/204 ,  B21B1/00 ,  B21B38/02

Abstract: A device for determining the microstructure of a metal product during metallurgical production of the metal product, the device having at least one X-ray source, at least one X-ray detector and at least one accommodating chamber, inside which the X-ray source and/or the X-ray detector is/are arranged and which has at least one window which is transparent to X-ray radiation. To allow reliable determination of the microstructure of a metal product during the metallurgical production thereof, the device includes at least one cooling installation for actively cooling the accommodating chamber.