Bekaert SA provides steel wire transformation and coating technologies. The Company offers steel wire products and ropes. Bekaert serves telecommunications, oil and gas extraction, energy transportation, agricultural fences, solar wafering, and bookbinding industries worldwide.
In India, the Pharmaceutical business of NV Bekaert SA is focused on Catalytic Converter and method for making the same, Stab resistant insert with steel cords and non-woven textile, Elevator rope, Temperature resistant material comprising short metal fibers.
NV Bekaert SA filed patent application numbered 6149/DELNP/2010 that is titled as COLD DRAWN LOW CARBON STEEL FILAMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAID FILAMENT. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 318150.
This invention covers Metallurgy compound. A steel filament adapted for the reinforcement of elastomer or for thermoplastic products has a carbon content ranging up to 0.20 per cent by weight. The steel filament is provided with a coating promoting the adhesion with elastomer or thermoplastic products. The steel filament is drawn until a final diameter of less than 0.60 mm and a final tensile strength of more than 1200 MPa. Intermediate heat treatments are avoided so that the carbon footprint of the steel filament is substantially reduced.
During patent examination, the patent examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act Section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970 claimed that the claimed process has any technical advancement over the known process. So the claimed subject matter of claims 6-7,9-11 is not allowable as per section 3(d) of patents(amended) Act,2005.
As a response, it is submitted that It is steel filament with a production process which costs less energy, with improved properties over prior composition.
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