Method of manufacturing bar member and bar member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9695925-B2
Application number	US-201514612687-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2015
Priority date	Feb 4, 2014
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a bar member including a pipe and metal members includes: forming a core member including a metal ring having an outer peripheral face subjected to face roughening and a mandrel; winding glass fibers around the outer peripheral face; winding a carbon fiber prepreg around the core member; forming the pipe externally fitted and fixed to the outer peripheral face by baking and curing the carbon fiber prepreg; pulling the mandrel out of the pipe; and screwing together the metal members and the metal ring.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a bar member including a pipe made of a carbon fiber reinforced resin, and a metal member that is fastened to an end portion of the pipe in an axial direction of the pipe, the method comprising:
forming a core member including a mandrel made of metal that extends in the axial direction and a metal ring having an outer peripheral face subjected to face roughening, by externally fitting the metal ring onto the mandrel;
winding glass fibers around the outer peripheral face of the metal ring;
interposing the glass fibers between a prepreg sheet obtained by impregnating carbon fibers with a resin and the outer peripheral face of the metal ring by winding the prepreg sheet around an outer peripheral face of the core member, wherein the prepreg sheet is in close contact with an outer peripheral face of the mandrel and the glass fibers;
forming the pipe where the end portion is externally fitted and fixed to the outer peripheral face of the metal ring by baking and curing the prepreg sheet wound around the outer peripheral face of the core member;
pulling only the mandrel in the core member out of the pipe; and
screwing together the metal member and an inner peripheral face of the metal ring.

2. The method of manufacturing a bar member according to claim 1 , wherein a process of winding the glass fibers around the outer peripheral face of the metal ring includes a process of winding fabric of the glass fibers around the outer peripheral face of the metal ring.

3. The method of manufacturing a bar member according to claim 1 , wherein of a process of winding the glass fibers around the outer peripheral face of the metal ring includes a process of winding a non-woven fabric of the glass fibers around the outer peripheral face of the metal ring.

4. The method of manufacturing a bar member according to claim 1 , further comprising exposing a portion of the metal ring such that the portion protrudes to an outer side in the axial direction from the completed pipe when each of the glass fibers and the prepreg sheet is wound around the outer peripheral face of the core member.

5. The method of manufacturing a bar member according to claim 1 , further comprising forming, on the inner peripheral face of the metal ring, a female threaded portion that is to be screwed to a male threaded portion provided on the metal member.

6. A bar member manufactured by the manufacturing method according to claim 1 .

7. The bar member according to claim 6 , wherein the bar member constitutes a rack bar included in a rack-and-pinion-type steering apparatus.

Assignees

• Jtekt Corp
• Ibaraki Ind Corp

Inventors

• Toyodome Shuji
• Kunishima Takeshi

Classifications

• B29C70/32 Primary

  on a rotating mould, former or core · CPC title

• F16H55/26

  Racks · CPC title

• Y10T29/49465

  Gear mounting · CPC title

• F16H55/06 Primary

  Use of materials; Use of treatments of toothed members or worms to affect their intrinsic material properties · CPC title

• F16C3/026

  Shafts made of fibre reinforced resin · CPC title