| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080271823 | Method for Steel Strip Coating and a Steel Strip Provided With Said Coating - Coating steel strips comprising, in % by weight, C: ≦1.6%, Mn: 6-30%, Al: ≦10%, Ni: ≦10%, Cr: ≦10%, Si: ≦8%, Cu: ≦3%, Nb: ≦0.6%, Ti: ≦0.3%, V: ≦0.3%, P: ≦0.1%, B: ≦0.01%, the rest being iron and unavoidable impurities, and a method of forming steel strips are described. Up to now, such steel strips were not adequately coatable, with a metal coating ensuring outstanding corrosion-resistance and good welding properties. This is ensured by applying an aluminium layer to the steel strip before final annealing and applying the metal coating to said aluminium layer after final annealing. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080308191 | Process For Melt Dip Coating a Strip of High-Tensile Steel - A process for melt dip coating a strip of high-tensile steel with alloy constituents including zinc and/or aluminum includes the following steps. The strip is heated in a continuous furnace initially in a reductive atmosphere to a temperature of approximately 650° C., at which the alloy constituents diffuse to the surface in small amounts. The surface, consisting predominantly of pure iron, is converted into an iron oxide layer by a short heat treatment at a temperature of up to 750° C. in a reaction chamber which is integrated in a continuous furnace and has an oxidizing atmosphere. In a subsequent annealing treatment at a higher temperature in a reductive atmosphere, this iron oxide layer prevents the alloy constituents from diffusing to the surface. In the reductive atmosphere, the iron oxide layer is converted into a pure iron layer to which the zinc and/or aluminium are applied in the molten bath with optimum adhesion. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090199931 | Method for Melt Immersion Coating of a Flat Steel Product Made of High Strength Steel - A method for coating a flat steel product manufactured from a high strength steel with a metallic coating, wherein the flat steel product is initially subjected to a heat treatment, in order then, in the heated state, to be hot-dip galvanized with the metallic coating in a melting bath containing overall at least 85% zinc and/or aluminum. The heat treatment includes heating the steel product in a reducing atmosphere, followed by converting a surface of the flat product to an iron oxide layer by a heat treatment lasting 1 to 10 secs in an oxidizing atmosphere, followed by annealing in a reducing atmosphere over a period of time which is longer than the duration of the formation of the iron oxide layer such that the iron oxide layer is reduced at least on its surface to pure iron, followed by cooling the product to a melting bath temperature. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100024925 | Steel Sheet Product Provided with an Anticorrosion Coating and Process for Producing It - A flat steel product, and a method for its production, which is formed from a steel substrate, such as strip or sheet steel, and a zinc-based corrosion protection coating, applied to at least one side of the steel substrate, which contains (in wt. %) Mg: 0.25 to 2.5%, Al: 0.2 to 3.0%, Fe: ≦4.0%, and optionally in total up to 0.8% of one or more elements of the group Pb, Bi, Cd, Ti, B, Si, Cu, Ni, Co, Cr, Mn, Sn and rare earths, remainder zinc and unavoidable impurities are described. The corrosion protection coating has an Al content of maximum 0.5 wt. % in an intermediate layer extending between a surface layer directly adjacent to the surface of the flat steel product and a border layer adjacent to the steel substrate and with a thickness amounting to at least 20% of the total thickness of the corrosion protection coating. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100055344 | Process for Producing a Sheet Steel Product Coated with an Anticorrosion System - Economic production of highly corrosion-resistant flat steel products with a corrosion protection system, which are at the same time easy to process further, is described. The following work steps are applied: preheating the steel substrate to a strip temperature under inert gas atmosphere; cooling the steel substrate to the strip inlet temperature; hot dip coating of the steel substrate in a zinc bath so that a metallic corrosion protection coating is formed on the steel substrate which has an Al content of max 0.5 wt. % in an intermediate layer; adjusting the thickness of the metallic corrosion protection coating applied to the steel substrate in the melt bath to values of 3 to 20 μm per side by scraping away excess coating material; cooling the steel substrate with the metallic corrosion protection coating; and applying the organic coating to the metallic corrosion protection coating of the steel substrate. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100065160 | Process for coating a hot- or cold- rolled steel strip containing 6 - 30% by weight of MN with a metallic protective layer - A method for coating hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel strip containing 6-30 wt %. Mn with a metallic protective layer, includes annealing the steel strip at a temperature of 800-1100° C. under an annealing atmosphere containing nitrogen, water and hydrogen and then subjecting the steel strip to hot dip coating. The method provide an economical way of hot dip coating a high manganiferous sheet steel in that, in order to produce a metallic protective layer substantially free from oxidic sub-layers on the steel strip, the % H | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100294400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STEEL COMPONENT BY HOT FORMING AND STEEL COMPONENT PRODUCED BY HOT FORMING - A method for producing a steel component provided with a metallic coating which protects against corrosion, comprising the following steps: | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110017361 | Method for Coating a Hot-Rolled or Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Product, Containing 6-30% wt. Mn, with a Metallic Protective Layer - A method for coating a hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel flat product, containing 6-30% wt. Mn, with a metallic protective layer by hot-clip coating in a melt bath. The coating, achieved with increased production reliability, is optimised by the steel flat product being subjected to a pickling treatment in which the manganese oxide adhering to the steel flat product is essentially fully removed in the pickling bath before the steel flat product enters the melt bath. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110017362 | STEEL FLAT PRODUCT HAVING A METALLIC COATING WHICH PROTECTS AGAINST CORROSION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A METALLIC ZN-MG COATING, WHICH PROTECTS AGAINST CORROSION, ON A STEEL FLAT PRODUCT - A steel flat product having a Zn—Mg—Al coating. The coating, which in addition to zinc and unavoidable impurities, comprises in wt. %: Mg: 4-8%, Al: 0.5-1.8% and optionally one or more of the following: Si: <2%, Pb: <0.1%, Ti: <0.2%, Ni: <1%, Cu: <1%, Co: <0.3%, Mn: <0.5%, Cr: <0.2%, Sr: <0.5%, Fe: <3%, B: <0.1%, Bi: <0.1%, Cd: <0.1%, REM<0.2%, and Sn<0.5%. The steel flat product according to the invention is not only outstandingly protected against corrosion, but also welds well and coats well with an organic layer applied subsequently. The invention also relates to a method for producing a steel flat product having a Zn—Mg—Al coating. | 01-27-2011 |