Abstract:
There is provided a hot press-formed product, including a thin steel sheet formed by a hot press-forming method, and having a metallic structure that contains bainitic ferrite at 70% to 97% by area, martensite at 27% by area or lower, and retained austenite at 3% to 20% by area, the remainder structure of which is at 5% by area or lower, whereby balance between strength and elongation can be controlled in a proper range and high ductility can be achieved.
Abstract:
Press systems for manufacturing hot formed structural components are provided. The systems comprise a fixed lower body, a mobile upper body and a mechanism configured to provide upwards and downwards press progression of the mobile upper body with respect to the fixed lower body. The system further includes a cooling tool configured to cool down a previously heated blank. The cooling tool includes upper and lower mating dies, the lower die connected to the lower body with one or more lower biasing elements and/or the upper die connected to the upper body with one or more upper biasing elements. The system further includes a press tool configured to draw the blank, wherein the press tool is arranged downstream from the cooling tool. Moreover, methods for hot forming structural components are also provided.
Abstract:
A two-blow heating and forming tool for the simultaneous production of two hot-formed and press-hardened motor vehicle components is provided. The tool includes a heating device and a forming device, with at least two contact heating tools and at least two hot-forming and press-hardening tools being arranged next to one another in parallel in a press such that, during a closing movement, two blanks are heated and two heated blanks are hot-formed and press-hardened to form two motor vehicle components. A method for producing hot-formed and press-hardened motor vehicle components using a two-blow heating and forming tool is also provided, the method including producing two mirror-inverted motor vehicle components simultaneously in one press cycle.
Abstract:
A method to form a disposable compressed gas cartridge, wherein the method provides a steel sheet, and using sequentially (N) progressively longer dies forms from the steel sheet a vessel comprising a cylindrical wall, a closed end, and an open end, wherein the cylindrical wall comprises a body diameter, and wherein (N) is greater than equal to 5. The method then heats a first portion of the vessel at an annealing temperature, wherein that first portion includes the open end and a portion of the cylindrical wall adjacent the open end. The method then uses sequentially (M) tubular dies to form a cartridge neck by progressively narrowing the first portion of the vessel from the body diameter at a distal end of the first portion to an open end diameter at the open end to form an empty gas cartridge, wherein the body diameter is greater than a neck diameter.
Abstract:
A cooling gas system for a can bodymaker tool pack is provided. The cooling gas system uses a compressed gas to cool a punch and/or a die pack. That is, a compressed gas is delivered to at least one location adjacent the punch and die pack. A nozzle assembly directs the compressed gas toward a selected location. As the compressed gas passes through the nozzle assembly, or immediately after passing through the nozzle assembly, the compressed gas expands. As is known, an expanding gas cools as it expands. Thus, a cool gas is directed to the surface of the punch and the die pack. The cool gas absorbs heat from the punch and die pack thereby cooling the heated components.
Abstract:
An electronic device and a method for manufacturing the housing thereof are disclosed. The electronic device includes a housing made of a metal material, the housing has a bottom, a sidewall extending along a first direction from an outer edge of the bottom, and a texture extending from an outer surface of the bottom to an outer surface of the side wall; M electronic elements set in the housing fixedly, where M≧1 and is a positive integer. The texture of the surface of the housing of the electronic device provided by the disclosure is extended from the bottom to the side wall, providing the user with a favorite appearance effect.
Abstract:
Provided is a technique which can, in order to guarantee the molding accuracy of hot press molding, accurately measure the temperature of a workpiece being subjected to the hot press molding. A hot press mold is a mold used for hot press molding for hardening and molding a workpiece, which has been heated, by pressing the workpiece. The hot press mold is provided with a stroke type temperature measuring device which is extended and retracted by a pressing force applied thereto through the workpiece. The temperature measuring device is provided in such a manner that the temperature measuring device protrudes outward from the molding surface of the mold, and when subjected to the pressing force applied through the workpiece while being in contact with the workpiece, the temperature measuring device shortens in length and retracts into the mold. It is preferable that the temperature measuring device is provided with a first elastic member and a second elastic member which shorten in length when subjected to the pressing force applied through the workpiece, and that the temperature measuring device is extended and retracted in two stages by means of the first elastic member and the second elastic member.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a metal forming system, comprising a platform and a gantry means, in which the platform is provided with a plurality of lower mold bases bearing sheet metals, while the gantry means is provided with at least one upper mold base and a toggle unit. The gantry means is performing lateral displacement on the platform, so as to be displaced to a location above the lower mold base which is predetermined to operate. The toggle unit is for adjusting the longitudinal position of the upper mold base so as to change the distance between the upper mold base and the lower mold base, resulting in determining whether a mold-closing state or a mold-opening state. A metal forming operation is performed on the sheet metal between the upper mold base and the lower mold base so as to manufacture a metal formed part when the mold-closing state.
Abstract:
A method for producing a sheet metal part with a press includes the steps of heating a sheet metal blank at least in regions to a above the austenitizing temperature Ac3, inserting the heated sheet metal blank into a forming tool station of the press, hot forming the sheet metal blank to the sheet metal part in the forming tool station, during which the press performs a closing movement, holding the forming tool station closed for a first holding time and cooling the formed sheet metal part during the first holding time, transferring the formed sheet metal part into a second tool station, hardening at least regions of the sheet metal part by cooling in the second tool station within the at least one second holding time, wherein the forming tool station during the closing movement of the press from an upper reversal point to a lower reversal point is moved relative to the press by at least one elastic actuating element so that the hot forming is terminated and the step of holding the forming tool station closed starts before the press reaches the lower reversal point.
Abstract:
A method of forming a product by shaping and hardening a sheet-steel blank formed from separate sheets welded together, heating the blank to the austenitising range, hot stamping the blank in a cooled tool pair, hardening the product while it remains in the tool pair, and cooling the weld between two adjacent sheets at a reduced cooling rate as compared to the cooling rate of areas on either side of the weld.