Method of manufacturing mechanical part and mechanical part

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10675673-B2
Application number	US-201615535301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 7, 2016
Priority date	Jan 19, 2015
Publication date	Jun 9, 2020
Grant date	Jun 9, 2020

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a mechanical part of the present invention includes a first process of forming, by performing a folding processing to an end portion of the material, a portion to be processed having a structure, in which a plurality of layers respectively having a thickness corresponding to a plate thickness of a material overlap each other, in the material such that a plate thickness direction of the layer is orthogonal to a plate thickness direction of the material; and a second process of changing, by performing a forging processing to the portion to be processed, a shape of the portion to be processed to a target shape while press-welding the layers of the portion to be processed to each other by plastic deformation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a mechanical part, comprising:
a first process of forming, by performing a folding process to an end portion of a material having a circular shape with a plate thickness, a portion to be processed having a structure, in which a plurality of layers of the material of the end portion overlap each other in a direction where the plate thickness direction of the layers of the material of the end portion is orthogonal to a center axis of the material; and
a second process of changing, by performing a forging process to the portion to be processed, a shape of the portion to be processed to a target shape in which the plurality of the layers of the material are press-welded to each other by plastic deformation,
wherein the first process of forming includes:
a first standing wall portion forming process of forming a first standing wall by folding the end portion of the material in a folding direction toward the center axis so that the plate thickness direction of the first standing wall portion is orthogonal to the center axis,
an overlapping portion forming process of forming an overlapping portion where the layers of the material of the end portion overlap by folding the first standing wall portion by 90 degrees in the folding direction, and
a second standing wall portion forming process of forming a second standing wall by folding the overlapping portion at an inner end of the overlapping portion or at a position closer to the center axis of the material, thereby forming the portion to be processed.

2. The method of manufacturing a mechanical part according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the first process, the portion to be processed having a structure in which two layers or three layers overlap each other is formed in the material.

3. The method of manufacturing a mechanical part according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first process includes thickening the portion to be processed in the plate thickness direction of the plurality of layers by adding a pressing force to the portion to be processed in the plate thickness direction of the material.

4. The method of manufacturing a mechanical part according to claim 3 ,
wherein when a length of the portion to be processed in the plate thickness direction of the plurality of layers is defined as a thickness of the portion to be processed, a thickness of the portion to be processed before the thickening is defined as TO, and a thickness of the portion to be processed after the thickening ends is defined as Tcl, in the thickening, a thickening amount of the portion to be processed is controlled such that a thickening ratio Tra which is obtained by dividing the thickness Tcl by the thickness TO satisfies the following Conditional Expression (1),
1.0<Tra≤1.5  (1).

5. The method of manufacturing a mechanical part according to claim 1 ,
wherein the material includes a protrusion portion and a recessed portion provided on a surface of the material, and
wherein in the first process, the folding is performed such that the protrusion portion and the recessed portion mesh with each other at a boundary interface between the plurality of layers of the portion to be processed.

6. The method of manufacturing a mechanical part according to claim 1 ,
wherein when in both end portions of the portion to be processed in the plate thickness direction of the plurality of layers, an end portion farthest from the center axis of the material is defined as an outer end portion and the other end portion is defined as an inner end portion,
the second process includes
placing the material in which the portion to be processed is formed on a die,
interposing a part of the material except for the portion to be processed between a lower surface of a first punch and the die in a state where a side surface of the die comes into contact with the outer end portion of the portion to be processed, and
moving a second punch having a side surface on which an axial pressing protrusion is provided toward the die in the plate thickness direction of the material, pushing the axial pressing protrusion into the inner end portion of the portion to be processed, and changing the shape of the portion to be processed to the target shape while crushing the portion to be processed and press-welding the layers of the portion to be processed by the plastic deformation.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp
• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Yamagata Mitsuharu
• Yamamoto Shuji
• Wada Yasuhiro

Classifications

• B23K2101/008

  Gears · CPC title

• B23K20/02

  by means of a press {; Diffusion bonding} · CPC title

• B21D53/28 Primary

  gear wheels · CPC title

• B21K1/30 Primary

  with gear-teeth · CPC title

• B21D22/30

  to finish articles formed by deep-drawing · CPC title