Staged shearing and forming methods for t-bar cylindrical members

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12466138-B2
Application number	US-202418664281-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 14, 2024
Priority date	Mar 14, 2023
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a staged shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member, comprising: controlling a shear working surface of a shear spinning wheel in contact with a surface of a cylindrical member blank; controlling a circumferential rotation of the cylindrical member blank; controlling a working surface of a flow spinning wheel to be in perpendicular contact with a surface of the unsaturated I-bar cylindrical member and controlling the cylindrical member blank to be maintained in a circumferential rotational state; controlling the flow spinning wheel to thin one side of the unsaturated I-bar cylindrical member; controlling a fractal working surface of a fractal spinning wheel in contact with a top of the saturated I-bar structure; controlling a working surface of a flat spinning wheel to be in perpendicular contact with a surface of the Y-bar cylindrical member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member, comprising:
S 1 , mounting a cylindrical blank onto a mandrel of a numerically controlled spinning machine, and assembling a shear spinning wheel, a flow spinning wheel, a fractal spinning wheel, and a flat spinning wheel on a spinning wheel stand of the numerically controlled spinning machine; S 2 , adjusting the shear spinning wheel so that a shearing working surface of the shear spinning wheel contacts a surface of the cylindrical blank, starting the numerically controlled spinning machine, allowing the cylindrical blank to rotate circumferentially under driving of the mandrel, controlling an axial feeding of the shear spinning wheel along the cylindrical blank until a feeding amount of the shear spinning wheel is reached, thus forming an unsaturated I-bar cylindrical member with an unsaturated I-bar structure; S 3 , adjusting the flow spinning wheel so that a working surface of the flow spinning wheel contacts a surface of the unsaturated I-bar cylindrical member perpendicularly, maintaining a rotational state of the cylindrical blank from S 2 , wherein the flow spinning wheel thins an unthinned side of the unsaturated I-bar cylindrical member to make wall thicknesses on both sides equal, then the flow spinning wheel performs axial extrusion shaping on the unsaturated I-bar structure to obtain a saturated I-bar cylindrical member with a saturated I-bar structure; S 4 , adjusting the fractal spinning wheel so that a fractal working surface of the fractal spinning wheel contacts a top of the saturated I-bar structure, maintaining the rotational state of the cylindrical blank from S 2 , conducting a radial feed movement of the fractal spinning wheel until a feeding amount of the fractal spinning wheel is reached, thus forming a Y-bar cylindrical member with a Y-bar; and S 5 , adjusting the flat spinning wheel so that a working surface of the flat spinning wheel contacts a surface of the Y-bar cylindrical member perpendicularly, maintaining the rotational state of the cylindrical blank from S 2 , wherein the flat spinning wheel applies radial loading along a top of the Y-bar to reshape the Y-bar cylindrical member into the T-bar cylindrical member.

2 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein an end of the cylindrical blank in S 1 is processed with a positioning step, and a height of the positioning step is equal to a shearing amount of the shear spinning wheel in S 2 .

3 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein the shear spinning wheel includes an upper shearing working surface and a lower shearing working surface disposed at 90° relative to each other, the upper shearing working surface and the lower shearing working surface are connected by a transition fillet, and a radius of the transition fillet is in a range of 0.5 to 3 mm.

4 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein the flow spinning wheel is a biconical angle spinning wheel with a spinning wheel forming angle of 0 to 30° and a radius of a transition fillet of 0.5 to 3 mm, and a thinning amount of the flow spinning wheel is equal to a shearing amount of the shear spinning wheel.

5 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein the fractal spinning wheel is a biconical angle spinning wheel with a spinning wheel forming angle of 30 to 45° and a radius of a transition fillet of 0.5 to 3 mm.

6 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein a spinning wheel forming angle of the flat spinning wheel is 0°, and a feeding amount of the flat spinning wheel is equal to the feeding amount of the fractal spinning wheel.

7 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein a count of shear spinning wheels, a count of flow spinning wheels, a count of fractal spinning wheels, and a count of flat spinning wheels are 2, respectively, and the flow spinning wheels, the fractal spinning wheels, and the flat spinning wheels are symmetrically installed on the spinning wheel stand of the numerically controlled spinning machine.

8 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein a rotational speed of the mandrel is 30 to 180 rpm, a feeding speed of the shear spinning wheel is 0.5 to 2 mm/s, a feeding speed of the flow spinning wheel is 0.3 to 3 mm/s, a feeding speed of the fractal spinning wheel is 0.5 to 2.5 mm/s, and a feeding speed of the flat spinning wheel is 0.5 to 2.5 mm/s.

9 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 1 , wherein a bar height of the saturated I-bar structure is h s , and a width of the saturated I-bar structure is w s , where the bar height h s and an outer diameter D 0 of the cylindrical blank, a shearing amount s of the shear spinning wheel, and the feeding amount f s of the shear spinning wheel satisfy a relationship as follows:
h s ≈√{square root over ( D 1 2 +4 f s D 1 )}− D 1 /2
wherein, D 1 =D 0 −2s; and w s ≈s.

10 . The graded shearing and forming method for a T-bar cylindrical member of claim 9 , wherein a height H, a width W, a web thickness t 1 , and a flange thickness t 2 of a T-bar of the T-bar cylindrical member, the shearing amount s of the shear spinning wheel, and the feeding amount f p of the fractal spinning wheel satisfy a relationship as follows:
H≈h s −f p ,W ≈( D 1 +2 h s −f p −0.5 s )*(2 f p +s )/ S *( D 1 +2 h s −2 f p −0.5 s ), t 1 ≈s,t 2 ≈0.5 s.

Assignees

• Univ Northwestern Polytechnical

Inventors

• Zhan Mei
• Bai Danni
• Fan Xiaoguang
• Gao Pengfei
• Ma Fei

Classifications

• B21D22/16 Primary

  over shaping mandrels or formers · CPC title

• B29C67/0022

  using an internal mandrel · CPC title

• B29D22/00

  Producing hollow articles (tubular articles B29D23/00; pneumatic tyres B29D30/00) · CPC title

• B29C67/0014 Primary

  for shaping tubes or blown tubular films · CPC title

• B29D23/00

  Producing tubular articles (B29D24/00 takes precedence) · CPC title