Method of manufacturing plate-like molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, and plate-like molded body having a plurality of thickened portions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10464116-B2
Application number	US-201515112072-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2015
Priority date	Mar 28, 2014
Publication date	Nov 5, 2019
Grant date	Nov 5, 2019

Abstract

[Solution] Provided is a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, including at least a drawing step of obtaining by a drawing process a cylindrical drawn molded body including a flat plate portion and a cylindrical drawn portion that swells in such a manner as to project from the flat plate portion and has a circular top portion. The drawing step includes a first step of pressing a region spaced apart from an edge in a plate-like member having a flat plate shape, with a first mold and a second mold, to form a concave curved portion in the plate-like member, and a second step of holding an outer circumferential section of the plate-like member between a third mold and a fourth hold while a region containing the concave curved portion in the plate-like member is held between the first mold and the second mold, and moving the first mold and the second mold relative to the third mold and the fourth mold to cause the region containing the concave curved portion to project with respect to the outer circumferential section and to obtain the cylindrical drawn molded body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, comprising at least
a drawing step of obtaining by a drawing process a cylindrical drawn molded body including a flat plate portion and a cylindrical drawn portion that swells in such a manner as to project from the flat plate portion and has a circular top portion,
wherein the drawing step includes
a first step of pressing a region spaced apart from an edge in a member having a flat plate shape, with a first mold and a second mold, to form a concave curved portion in the member, and
a second step of holding an outer circumferential section of the member between a third mold and a fourth mold while a region containing the concave curved portion in the member is held between the first mold and the second mold, and moving the first mold and the second mold relative to the third mold and the fourth mold to cause the region containing the concave curved portion to project with respect to the outer circumferential section and to obtain the cylindrical drawn molded body,

wherein each thickened portion out of said plurality of thickened portions has a plate thickness with a thickening rate of 20% or more with respect to an initial plate thickness as a plate thickness of the cylindrical drawn molded body, and has a length of five times or more the initial plate thickness in a cross section that is vertical to the flat plate potion and contains a specific center in a region corresponding to the cylindrical drawn portion.

2. The method of manufacturing the molded body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first step includes forming the concave curved portion in a region corresponding to the top portion, and
wherein the second step includes setting a plurality of thickening target regions containing at least a part of the concave curved portion along a circumferential direction with respect to the specific center in the region corresponding to the cylindrical drawn portion, and performing a drawing process such that in the cross section, an actual length of the thickening target region becomes longer than an actual length of each thickened portion out of said plurality of thickened portions in the molded body.

3. The method of manufacturing the molded body according to claim 2 , further comprising, after the drawing step, a thickening step of pressing the cylindrical drawn molded body such that an actual length of each of the thickening target regions in the cross section decreases, and the thickening target region and the flat plate portion finally become flat as a whole.

4. The method of manufacturing the molded body according to claim 1 , wherein the concave curved portion includes a curved portion that is curved in a hole shape.

5. The method of manufacturing the molded body according to claim 4 , wherein the concave curved portion further includes a ring curved portion that is curved in a groove shape and formed around the curved portion in such a manner as to have a polygonal shape as a whole when seen vertically to the flat plate portion.

6. The method of manufacturing the molded body according to claim 1 , wherein the concave curved portion includes a ring curved portion that is curved in a groove shape and formed in such a manner as to have a polygonal shape as a whole when seen vertically to the flat plate portion.

7. The method of manufacturing the molded body according to claim 1 , further comprising a third step of holding the flat plate portion between a fifth mold and sixth mold, and pressing the cylindrical drawn molded body with a seventh mold and an eighth mold each having a dome shaped portion of a pressing surface whose diameter is smaller than the cylindrical drawn portion for forming the portion around the concave portion to have a decreased length and increased thickness.

8. A molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, manufactured by the method of manufacturing a molded body according to claim 1 , comprising:
a flat plate portion; and
a cylindrical drawn portion that swells in such a manner as to project from the flat plate portion and has a circular top portion,
wherein when t [mm] is a standard plate thickness, a plate thickness ti [mm] of the thickened portion and a plate thickness td [mm] of a thinned portion having a smaller thickness than the standard plate thickness satisfy relational formulas below:
when 2.0<t<3.0, td≥0.9t, ti≥1.25t, and

when 3.0<t<4.0, td≥0.9t, ti≥1.35t.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp
• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Nakazawa Yoshiaki
• Sato Koichi
• Akiba Kojiro

Classifications

• B21D22/24

  involving two drawing operations having effects in opposite directions with respect to the blank · CPC title

• B21D22/26 Primary

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

• B21D35/006

  Blanks having varying thickness, e.g. tailored blanks · CPC title