US Patent Issued to SMS group on Nov. 3 for "Method for recrystallisation annealing of a non-grain-oriented electric strip" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,303, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for recrystallisation annealing of a non-grain-oriented electric strip" was invented by Frank Maschler (Duisburg, Germany), Andreas Bottcher (Duisburg, Germany) and Pierre-Yves Halleux (Angleur, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the recrystallisation annealing of a non-grain-oriented electric strip (2) in a continuous annealing and coating line (1) is presented. Therein, the electric strip (2) is heated in an induction furnace (5) to a temperature of at least 680deg C. at a heating rate of at least 80 K/s and then, in an optional sec...