Abstract:
Disclosed are a hot press forming method and a product formed using the hot press forming method, able to process a plated steel blank under appropriate heat treatment conditions to prevent the volatilization of a plated layer and the formation of oxidized scale, and which divisionally heats the plated steel blank in a secondary heating process to provide different strengths and physical properties to the product. The hot press forming method includes primarily and entirely heating the plated steel material to a predetermined temperature and maintaining the plated steel material at the predetermined temperature, secondarily and rapidly heating at least one portion of the plated steel material after the high temperature maintenance of the plated steel material, and performing a hot press forming and cooling process on the secondarily heated plated steel material.
Abstract:
A metal plate material hot molding apparatus is provided for press molding a heated metal plate material. The apparatus may include supply piping for a cooling medium in a mold, and ejection holes penetrating from a molding surface of the mold to the supply piping. The exemplary apparatus may also include discharge piping for the cooling medium situated in the mold, and discharge holes penetrating from the molding surface of the mold to the discharge piping, and cooling piping. Molding procedure can be performed while the cooling medium is ejected from the ejection holes to a gap between the metal plate material and the mold.
Abstract:
A hot forming die according to an exemplary embodiment can be provided for a press forming apparatus which can press-forms a heated metal plate (e.g., a work material) and may cool the work material by ejecting a cooling medium onto the work material. The hot forming die can have a main supply path through which the cooling medium passes, a plurality of branch supply paths branching off the main supply path, injection ports for ejecting the cooling medium to the outside of the die, and nozzle members fixed on the ejection port side of the branch supply paths to restrict the passage amount of the cooling medium by using passage holes for allowing the cooling medium to pass there through. In a hot press forming method according to an exemplary embodiment, the cooling medium in the die can be held on standby after being pressurized to a degree at which the cooling medium is not ejected. The cooling medium according to an exemplary embodiment may be further pressurized to a pressure higher than the pressure at the standby time at predetermined timing during or after pressing and then is ejected onto the work material.
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:
A tubular cooling element includes a continuous coil having a plurality of straight pipe sections and “U” shaped 180° elbow sections that are an integral part of the tubular cooling element, the continuous coil including a pipe having a wall thickness of from 0.270 inches to 0.600 inches and an outer diameter of from 2.375 inches to 3.5 inches.
Abstract:
A mould for moulding a wind turbine blade, the mould comprising a mould body having a front moulding surface and a rear face, the mould body having at least one tube therein for conveying a heating liquid therethrough, the at least one tube defining a plurality of laterally spaced heating elements, and a continuous layer of heat conductive material located in the thickness direction of the mould body between the plurality of laterally spaced heating elements and the front moulding surface and extending laterally across the space between adjacent heating elements.
Abstract:
A hot stretch wrap forming die typically includes a rigid backing section, a series of spaced ribs extending forward from the backing section, and an elongated face sheet secured to the ribs forward of the backing section with a convex forward-facing die face. The ribs elastically deflect during thermal expansion of the face sheet when a heated metal bar is forced against the die face so that the metal bar transfers heat to the face sheet. The die typically includes stiff ribs secured to the backing section and the face sheet which provide substantially fixed points for the face sheet during its thermal expansion. The face sheet may include several face sheet segments which together form the die face. The face sheet may also include contour plates which form respective portions of the die face and which may be used to adjust the specific contour of the die face.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for bending a flat workpiece (2), comprising the discharge of high-energy radiation (19) in the form of at least one planar fanned beam (24) from a bending recess (12) of a die arrangement (3) having a bending die (7) onto a workpiece (2) bearing against a contact surface (11) of the bending die (7) for the local heating thereof before and/or during a bending process. The one or more planar fanned beams (24; 24a. 24b, . . . ) are produced by a number of optionally activatable radiation sources (22a, 22b, . . . ) which are arranged within the die arrangement (3) along the bending recess (12) or are caused by the distribution of a concentrated radiation beam (40) that is introduced from a radiation source (39) outside the bending dies (7a, 7b, . . . ) via a number of beam affecting arrangements (23a, 23b, . . . ) within the bending dies (7a, 7b, . . . ) and the exiting radiation (19) is thereby adjusted to the bending length (21) of the workpiece to be bent (2) via the number of planar fanned beams (24, 24a, 24b, . . . ).
Abstract:
A closing machine (1) for closing a rotating work piece (9) by pressing a heated die (4) against the work piece (9) comprises an air purge box (510) which opens onto the vicinity of the work piece (9), air supply means for supplying air to the air purge box (510), and a sensor (501, 502) provided in the interior of the air purge box (510) to detect a state of the work piece (9) or the die (4).
Abstract:
Forge lubrication processes are disclosed. A solid lubricant sheet is placed between a workpiece and a die in a forging apparatus. Force is applied to the workpiece with the die to plastically deform the workpiece. The solid lubricant sheet decreases the shear factor for the forging system and reduces the incidence of die-locking.