Mold for thermally bending automotive glass

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10280106-B2
Application number	US-201515533256-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2015
Priority date	Apr 15, 2015
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

A bending mold capable of thermally bending an automotive windscreen comprises a fixed frame and two movable frames. A curvature adjusting apparatus is additionally provided corresponding to the bottom of each movable frame. Each curvature adjusting apparatus comprises two sidings, two hooks and an adjusting lever. The adjusting lever is in parallel to the connection line of two hinge connection points of the movable frame and the fixed frame on the same side, and the tops of the two hooks are respectively hanged on two corresponding sidings at adjustable positions. The process of thermally bending automotive glass can be accomplished with the bending mold, and does not require installing an anti-gravity mechanism. It has the advantages of simple mold structure design, less amount of materials and so on.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mold for thermally bending automotive glass, comprising a fixed frame and two movable frames, the two movable frames are respectively hinged to the left and the right ends of the fixed frame, the two movable frames are rotatable about the respective hinged connection points, so as to form a bending surface with the fixed frame, and the bending surface has a curvature equal to the curvature of a resulting shape of the thermally bent automotive glass,
wherein each of two movable frame further comprises a curvature adjusting device at the bottom of each movable frame, each curvature adjusting device comprises two sidings, two hooks and an adjusting lever, wherein the adjusting lever is hinged to the bottom surface of the movable frame on the same side, the adjusting lever is parallel to the connection line of the two hinged connection points of the movable frame on the same side and the fixed frame, the bottom ends of the two hooks are respectively fixed to the two ends of the adjusting lever, and the top ends of the two hooks are respectively hung on the two corresponding sidings at adjustable positions.

2. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 1 , wherein each of the two corresponding sidings has a plurality of through holes.

3. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 2 , wherein the top end of the hook is attachable to the corresponding through hole.

4. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 1 , wherein each of the two corresponding sidings has a groove or suspension rod.

5. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 4 , wherein the top end of the hook is attachable to the groove or on the suspension rod at adjustable positions.

6. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 1 , wherein each movable frame has a reinforcement rod is-additionally provided at the bottom of each movable frame.

7. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 6 , wherein the reinforcement rod has a positioning rod is additionally provided in the middle of the reinforcement rod.

8. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 7 , wherein the positioning rod is supported by the adjusting lever.

9. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 6 , wherein the two ends of the reinforcement rod are respectively attached to the two sides of the movable frame.

10. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 6 , wherein the reinforcement rod is parallel to the adjusting lever on the same side.

11. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 6 , wherein the adjusting lever has two positioning blocks on the same side.

12. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 11 , wherein the positioning rod is located between the two positioning blocks.

13. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 1 , wherein each hinged connection point of the movable frame and the fixed frame has a hinge adjusting device.

14. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 13 , wherein the hinge adjusting device comprises a first fixed base, a second fixed base, a hinged plate and an adjusting bolt.

15. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 14 , wherein the first fixed base is attached to the bottom surface of the movable frame.

16. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 14 , wherein the second fixed base is attached to the bottom surface of the fixed frame.

17. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 16 , wherein the first fixed base and the second fixed base are disposed to be opposite to each other.

18. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 16 , wherein the second fixed base further comprises a threaded through hole.

19. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 18 , wherein the threaded through hole further comprises an adjusting bolt extends through the threaded through hole.

20. The mold for thermally bending automotive glass according to claim 19 , wherein one end of the hinged plate is hinged to the first fixed base, and the other end of the hinged plate is attached to the tip end of the adjusting bolt.

Assignees

• Fuyao Glass Ind Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tso Fai
• Chi Kezhang
• Liu Fu
• He Jiangxing
• Zeng Guohai
• Guan Guoqiang

Classifications

• C03B23/027 Primary

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