IP Library Granted Patent US 10,161,024
Granted Patent B2
US 10,161,024 · App. 14/772,700 · Granted Dec 25, 2018

Method for producing an ultra high strength material with high elongation

Inventors: Thomas Fröhlich (Ratingen, DE); Marcel Hartig (Krefeld, DE); Seyed Amin Mousavi Rizi (Frechen, DE); Jochen Krautschick (Solingen, DE); Stefan Lindner (Willich, DE); Jasminko Skrlec (Duisburg, DE)
Assignee: Outokumpu Nirosta GmbH
C22C38/38C21D6/002C21D6/005C21D6/008C21D8/0236C21D8/0247C21D8/0273C21D9/46C21D9/52C22C30/00C22C38/001C22C38/02C22C38/04C22C38/06C22C38/18C21D2211/001
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Patent No.
US 10,161,024
App. No.
14/772,700
Granted
Dec 25, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing an ultra high strength material with high elongation by work hardening an essentially nickel-free austenitic material and then subjecting the material to heat treatment in the temperature range between 200° C. and <1,100° C. within a period from 10 s to 10 minutes.

Claims (9)

1. A method for producing an ultra high strength material with high elongation having the following composition (in % by weight) Mn 4-30%, Cr 10-30%, C<1.0%, N<1.0%, Al<1%, Fe remainder, including unavoidable impurities, and then subjecting the material to heat treatment below the recrystallization temperature in the temperature range between greater than 700° C. and <1,100° C. within a period from 10 s to 10 minutes, followed by subjecting the material to 40 to 95% work hardening by cold rolling.

2. A method for producing an ultra high strength material with high elongation by work hardening an austenitic material consisting of making the following composition (in % by weight) Mn>10-30%, C<1.6%, N<1.0%, Al <7%, Si>0.5-<4%, Fe remainder, including unavoidable impurities, and then subjecting the material to heat treatment below the recrystallization temperature in the temperature range between greater than 700° C. and <1,100° C. within a period from 10 s to 10 minutes.

3. The method according to claim 1 , in which the austenitic material is work hardened, in order to set a yield strength R p0.2 between 1150 and 1300 MPa, a tensile strength R m between 1100 and 1700 MPa and an elongation A 80 between 3 and 60%.

4. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that the heat treatment is carried out continuously on a running strip.

5. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that the heat treatment is carried out discontinuously on a component that has been cut or punched out of the strip.

6. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that components are cut or punched out of the work hardened strip and are hot worked in a subsequent step.

7. The method according to claim 1 , characterized in that components are cut or punched out of the work hardened strip and are cold worked in a subsequent step.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further including the step of using the resulting material as a component in the field of automobile and rail vehicle technology.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further including the step of using the component as a bodywork sheet metal part or sheet metal stiffening element, as a structural part or as a vehicle chassis.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE STREET ADDRESSES FOR ASSIGNEE'S THOMAS FRÖHLICH AND STEFAN LINDNER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 050040 FRAME 0853. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Aug 15, 2019
From: OUTOKUMPU NIROSTA GMBH
To: FRÖHLICH, THOMAS; LINDNER, STEFAN; SKRLEC, JASMINKO
Reel/Frame 050062/0157 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2019
From: OUTOKUMPU NIROSTA GMBH
To: FRÖHLICH, THOMAS; LINDNER, STEFAN; SKRLEC, JASMINKO
Reel/Frame 050040/0853 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE LAST NAME OF THIRD INVENTOR PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 037276 FRAME: 0240. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jan 27, 2016
From: FRÖHLICH, THOMAS; HARTIG, MARCEL; MOUSAVI RIZI, SEYED AMIN; KRAUTSCHICK, JOCHEN; LINDNER, STEFAN; SKRLEC, JASMINKO
To: OUTOKUMPU NIROSTA GMBH
Reel/Frame 037620/0753 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2015
From: FRÖHLICH, THOMAS; HARTIG, MARCEL; RIZI, SEYED AMIN MOUSAVI; KRAUTSCHICK, JOCHEN; LINDNER, STEFAN; SKRLEC, JASMINKO
To: OUTOKUMPU NIROSTA GMBH
Reel/Frame 037276/0240 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2013 003 516 · Mar 4, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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