This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent and 1 published patent application and 1 EPO patent. Top assignee: Tata Steel Ijmuiden B.v.. Active years: 2026.
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Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2026
Title: Freek Sluis and His Steel-Coating Patent.
Introduction
Freek Sluis is an inventor associated with Haarlem, the Netherlands, and Tata Steel IJmuiden B.V. His patent work concerns steel-strip manufacturing and hot-dip coating.
Latest Patents
The supplied information lists one patent for Sluis: “Method of manufacturing a steel strip and coated steel sheet obtainable thereby.” The method involves hot rolling a steel strip, cold rolling it to a final thickness between 0.40 mm and 1.00 mm in a multi-stand mill, and hot-dip coating it with a zinc-based coating. After coating, a gas knife wipes the strip. The patent also describes a coated steel sheet comprising a steel substrate with a hot-dip metal coating. Sluis is credited with 1 patent in the information provided.
Career Highlights
Sluis’s listed invention addresses several stages of steel production, from rolling to coating. The described process specifies both the cold-rolled strip’s thickness range and the use of a gas knife to control the coating after the strip passes through molten zinc.
Collaborations
The supplied information identifies Edgar Matthijs Toose and Roel Marinus Maria Mallens as Sluis’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or the extent of their collaboration.
Conclusion
Freek Sluis’s listed patent focuses on manufacturing thin, zinc-coated steel strip through a defined rolling and hot-dip coating process.
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