Cushion pin device for press

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10239107-B2
Application number	US-201615228778-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 4, 2016
Priority date	Sep 5, 2013
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

A cushion pin device for a press having a cushion pad in which a blank holder is seated on the top thereof outside a lower mold, and locks a blank holder to an upper mold while pressurizing an edge of a molded panel, includes: a cushion support disposed below the cushion pad, a cushion cylinder connected with a lower part of the cushion pad to move up or down the cushion pad from the cushion support, a linear scale mounted between the cushion pad and the cushion support to measure the position of the cushion pad, a main pressure control unit that keeps internal pressure of each cushion cylinder similarly, and a sub pressure control unit that is interconnected with the main pressure control unit so as to control the locking position of the cushion pad when each cushion cylinder operates.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cushion pin device for a press comprising:
a cushion pad;
a cushion support disposed below the cushion pad;
cushion cylinders connected to the cushion pad to move the cushion pad up or down from the cushion support;
main pressure control units, each of the main pressure control units is connected to a corresponding cushion cylinder for controlling a flow of working fluids into and out of the corresponding cushion cylinder, each of the main pressure control units is in communication with the other cushion cylinders to keep internal pressure of each of the cushion cylinders at a same pressure so that each of the cushion cylinders operate simultaneously when the cushion cylinders are operated for lock holding and locking move-up of the cushion pad; and
a sub pressure control unit that is interconnected with the main pressure control units and cushion cylinders so as to control a locking position of the cushion pad when each of the cushion cylinders is operated, and
support cylinders separate from the cushion cylinders that are mounted on both lower sides of the cushion support to support both lower sides of the cushion pad respectively which moves up from the cushion support.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein each of the main pressure control units includes: main logic valves, each of which is mounted on an upper side of a corresponding cushion cylinder; a main pressure conformity pipe that is mounted by connecting the main logic valves to each other and in which the working fluids supplied to the cushion cylinders selectively flow through the main pressure conformity pipe by operation of the main logic valves respectively.

3. The device of claim 2 , wherein each of the main pressure control units further includes: relief pipes, each of which is mounted by connecting one lower side of the corresponding cushion cylinder and one side of corresponding main logic valve so as to return remaining working fluids of the corresponding main logic valve to the corresponding cushion cylinder.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein each relief pipe returns the working fluids that flow into the corresponding main logic valve to corresponding cushion cylinder when a pressure of the working fluids that flow into the corresponding main logic valve is equal to or higher than a preset pressure while keeping the internal pressure of each of the cushion cylinders at the same pressure through the main pressure conformity pipe.

5. The device of claim 3 , wherein the sub pressure control unit includes: a sub logic valve installed on the main pressure conformity pipe; and a sub pressure adjustment pipe that selectively discharges the working fluids that flow into the sub logic valve from the main pressure conformity pipe to each of the relief pipes to control a flow rate of the working fluids in the main pressure conformity pipe.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the sub pressure adjustment pipe is connected to each of the relief pipes provided in each of the cushion cylinders at both sides of the sub logic valve.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein a linear scale is mounted between the cushion pad and the cushion support so as to measure a position of the cushion pad which is operated by an operation of the cushion cylinders, and the sub pressure control unit is operated by a measurement value measured from the linear scale.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Ju Young

Classifications

• B21D24/08 Primary

  Pneumatically or hydraulically loaded blank holders · CPC title

• B21D24/02

  Die-cushions · CPC title

• B21D24/14 Primary

  pneumatically or hydraulically · CPC title

• B30B15/061

  Cushion plates · CPC title