Hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10022763-B2
Application number	US-201415103003-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2014
Priority date	Dec 26, 2013
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

A method produces a press-molded article having a hat shaped cross-section with flanges at both sides, a top plate, vertical walls at both sides, and having a shape curved in the vertical direction to an inverted checkmark shape along the longitudinal direction when the molded article is viewed from a side face with the top plate section on the top side. An intermediate molded body is formed by drawing a metal stock sheet into an intermediate shape, and after preparing the outside shape of the intermediate molded body by trimming, drawing is subsequently performed to form the final shape.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a hat shaped cross-section component, using a restriking punch and a restriking die, the restriking die being disposed facing the restriking punch and having a first recess portion configuring a top face side of a forming recess that is formed at the restriking die and that is open toward a restriking punch side, and a second recess portion configuring an opening side of the forming recess and having a larger width dimension than the first recess portion, the method comprising:
a supporting process of disposing a semi-finished formed component with a hat-shaped cross-section between the restriking punch and the restriking die, and supporting a top plate of the semi-finished formed component from the restriking punch side using a support member extending from the restriking punch toward the restriking die side;
a positioning process of housing the top plate inside the first recess portion, gripping the top plate using the support member and the restriking die, and positioning the semi-finished formed component in a width direction using the first recess portion and a pair of vertical walls that extend from both width direction ends of the top plate of the semi-finished formed component; and
a restriking process of inserting the restriking punch inside the second recess portion, and restriking the semi-finished formed component using the restriking punch and the restriking die.

2. The hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method of claim 1 , wherein, in the restriking process, the semi-finished formed component is restruck by the restriking punch and the restriking die while flanges configuring both width direction end portions of the semi-finished formed component are in a free state.

3. The hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method of claim 1 , wherein, in the positioning process, a restriking pad configuring part of the restriking die is disposed so as to extend toward the restriking punch side, and the top plate of the semi-finished formed component supported by the support member is housed inside the first recess portion while being gripped by the restriking pad and the support member.

4. The hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method of claim 1 , wherein the support member employed is contacted by the pair of vertical walls of the semi-finished formed component.

5. The hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method of claim 1 , further comprising
an intermediate process of changing the height of the pair of vertical walls of the semi-finished formed component prior to restriking the semi-finished formed component, wherein:
the intermediate process includes
gripping the top plate of the semi-finished formed component using an intermediate forming punch and an intermediate forming pad, and moving an intermediate forming die relatively toward a side of the intermediate forming punch so as to bend and stretch the pair of vertical walls at one side in a length direction of the semi-finished formed component toward an opposite side to the top plate using the intermediate forming die, and,
after bending and stretching the pair of vertical walls, moving an intermediate forming holder provided at both width direction sides of the intermediate forming punch relatively toward a side of the intermediate forming die so as to bend back the pair of vertical walls at the other side in the length direction of the semi-finished formed component toward the side of the top plate using the intermediate forming holder.

6. The hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method of claim 1 , wherein:
the semi-finished formed component comprises a curving member having a curving portion forming a protrusion toward an outer surface side or an inner surface side of the top plate in side view, and
a semi-finished forming process for forming the semi-finished formed component includes,
gripping a central portion of a metal sheet between a semi-finish forming punch and a semi-finished forming pad and forming a metal sheet that curves up-down,
gripping portions at both sides of the metal sheet using a semi-finished forming holder provided at both width direction sides of the semi-finish forming punch, and a semi-finished forming die, and
forming the semi-finished formed component by moving the semi-finish forming punch and the semi-finished forming pad in up-down direction relative to the semi-finished forming holder and the semi-finished forming die.

7. The hat shaped cross-section component manufacturing method of claim 1 , wherein the semi-finished formed component comprises a steel sheet having a sheet thickness of from 0.8 mm to 3.2 mm, and a tensile strength of from 200 MPa to 1600 MPa.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp

Inventors

• Tanaka Yasuharu
• Aso Toshimitsu
• Ogawa Misao
• Miyagi Takashi
• Yamamoto Shinobu

Classifications

• B21D5/01 Primary

  between rams and anvils or abutments · CPC title

• B21D37/10

  Die sets; Pillar guides · CPC title

• B21D53/88

  other parts for vehicles, e.g. cowlings, mudguards · CPC title

• B21D22/26 Primary

  for making peculiarly, e.g. irregularly, shaped articles · CPC title