US 12,296,370 B2
Method for marking a steel strip, and steel strip with a plurality of markers
Wolfram Weber, Dinslaken (DE); Lothar Patberg, Moers (DE); Daniel Overlöper, Duisburg (DE); and Thorsten Grünendick, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr (DE)
Assigned to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg (DE)
Appl. No. 18/092,972
Filed by ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 12, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/069372
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 4, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/013169, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020208818.7 (DE), filed on Jul. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0246131 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. B21C 51/00 (2006.01)
CPC B21C 51/005 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A steel strip set, comprising a steel strip and a data container associated with the steel strip, the steel strip having a longitudinal side and a strip edge, wherein the data container comprises a plurality of data sets with unique data set identifiers, with each data set containing material properties of the steel strip, the steel strip having a plurality of markers applied to the strip edge along the longitudinal side at a plurality of discrete strip positions, each marker from the plurality of markers comprising a unique material identifier associated with the material properties of the steel strip at the respective discrete strip position, which is assigned to a unique data set identifier such that this results in a unique assignment of each marker to a data set, with each marker being assigned to the data set which contains the material properties of its respective strip position of the plurality of discrete strip positions.