US Patent Issued to SMS GROUP on July 15 for "Casting-rolling system for batch and continuous operation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,034, issued on July 15, was assigned to SMS GROUP GMBH (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Casting-rolling system for batch and continuous operation" was invented by Dieter Rosenthal (Niederfischbach, Germany) and Christoph Klein (Kreuztal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an ultra-thin strip of less than 0.8 mm from cast steel in batch/continuous operation with a casting-rolling system. The method includes casting a thin slab having a casting thickness of 90-150 mm and width of at least 1000 mm at a casting speed of 7 m/min. The thin slab is heated/homogenized to a first temperature in a continuous furnace and subs...