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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Constellium Singen Gmbh, Singen, DE;

Inventors:

Mary-Anne Kulas, Voreppe, FR;

Andreas Afseth, Coublevie, FR;

Volkmar Gillich, Neuhausen, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 13/02 (2006.01); C22F 1/047 (2006.01); C22C 21/06 (2006.01); C21D 1/60 (2006.01); C21D 1/613 (2006.01); C21D 9/52 (2006.01); C22C 21/08 (2006.01); C23F 1/36 (2006.01); C25D 11/16 (2006.01); C21D 8/02 (2006.01); C25D 11/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 13/02 (2013.01); C21D 1/60 (2013.01); C21D 1/613 (2013.01); C21D 8/0226 (2013.01); C21D 8/0236 (2013.01); C21D 8/0263 (2013.01); C21D 8/0273 (2013.01); C21D 9/52 (2013.01); C22C 21/06 (2013.01); C22C 21/08 (2013.01); C22F 1/047 (2013.01); C23F 1/36 (2013.01); C25D 11/16 (2013.01); C25D 11/246 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an outside decorative trim strip of a motor vehicle, such as window surrounds or body shell trim, made of aluminum alloy, by shaping and brightening of a plate or strip made by vertical continuous casting of an alloy slab of series AA5xxx of high purity, homogenization-heating of the slab, hot rolling, cooling, cold rolling with intermediate annealing in a continuous tunnel furnace, or holding between the solvus temperature and the alloy burning temperature typically for 3 seconds to 5 minutes, quenching in air or water, possible annealing at a temperature of 100 to 200° C. The invention also relates to a decorative trim strip of motor vehicle manufactured using such a method.


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