US Patent Issued to SMS group on Oct. 21 for "Atomization unit for atomizing metal melts, in particular for powder-metallurgical purposes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,530, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Atomization unit for atomizing metal melts, in particular for powder-metallurgical purposes" was invented by Peter Weiland (Dortmund, Germany), Norbert Vogl (Ratingen, Germany), Reiner Purling (Honningen, Germany) and Lukas Gellings (Viersen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomization unit (1) for atomizing metal melts, in particular for powder-metallurgical purposes, includes a crucible (2) having a base outlet (4). A melt nozzle (16) is arranged below the base outlet (4) and a gas nozzle (9) is preferably arranged concentrically with respect t...