Press-forming tool and method for manufacturing press-formed product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9878362-B2
Application number	US-201214418049-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2012
Priority date	Dec 19, 2012
Publication date	Jan 30, 2018
Grant date	Jan 30, 2018

Abstract

A press-forming tool comprising: a punch including a punch portion and a plate portion transferring shape to a blank material; a die paired with the punch and opposes the punch portion; a wrinkle suppression mold including a first surface opposing the plate portion and comes into contact with the plate portion at a press-forming ending point, a second surface opposing the die and holds the blank material along with the die, and a third surface continued between the first and second surface and opposes the punch portion, and disposed between the third surface and the punch portion via a gap; a pressure receiving portion including a groove portion on the first surface of the wrinkle suppression mold; and a wrinkle suppression force increasing portion disposed on a surface opposing the first surface of the plate portion, protrudes toward the pressure receiving portion, and generates a reaction force opposed to a pressing direction when pressed in the pressing direction in end-phase of a press-forming.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A press-forming tool comprising:
a punch which includes a punch portion and a plate portion which are configured to transfer a shape to a blank material;
a die which is paired with the punch and which opposes the punch portion;
a wrinkle suppression mold which includes
a first surface which opposes the plate portion and which comes into contact with the plate portion at a press-forming ending point,
a second surface which opposes the die and which holds the blank material along with the die, and
a third surface which is continuous between the first surface and the second surface and which opposes the punch portion via a gap;
a pressure receiving portion which includes a groove portion and which is disposed on the first surface of the wrinkle suppression mold, the groove portion having a depth greater than zero with respect to the first surface of the wrinkle suppression mold; and

a wrinkle suppression force increasing portion which is disposed on the plate portion so as to oppose the first surface, which protrudes toward the pressure receiving portion, which does not contact the groove portion of the pressure-receiving portion at a press-forming starting point, and which generates a reaction force in a direction opposite to a pressing direction when being pressed in the pressing direction in an end phase of a press forming.

2. The press-forming tool according to claim 1 ,
wherein when a region in which a plate thickness is maximum in a flange portion of a press-formed product is defined as a plate thickness maximum portion and a region in which the plate thickness is more than 0% and less than or equal to 97% with respect to the plate thickness maximum portion is defined as a plate thickness decreasing portion, based on a case where the pressure receiving portion and the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion are removed from the press-forming tool,
the pressure receiving portion overlaps with a portion of a region corresponding to the plate thickness decreasing portion in the blank material when viewed along the pressing direction.

3. The press-forming tool according to claim 1 ,
wherein the pressure receiving portion is consisted of the groove portion,
when a thickness of the wrinkle suppression mold in a position of the groove portion is defined as L in mm units and a minimum value of the thickness of the wrinkle suppression mold in a position which excludes the groove portion and comes into contact with the blank material is defined as H in mm units, the wrinkle suppression mold satisfies a following Expression 1 or 2, and
when a protruding height of the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion is defined as G in mm units and a press stroke distance from the press-forming starting point to the press-forming ending point is defined as PS in mm units, and the protruding height G of the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion satisfies a following Expression 3:
20 ≦L ≦0.8 ×H when 40 ≦H ≦50  (Expression 1)

20 ≦L ≦40 when 50 <H ≦80  (Expression 2)

0.02 ×PS+H−L≦G ≦0.3 ×PS+H−L   (Expression 3).

4. The press-forming tool according to claim 1 ,
wherein a portion of a boundary which partitions the pressure receiving portion is the groove portion.

5. The press-forming tool according to claim 1 ,
wherein the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion includes an elastic body which applies the reaction force.

6. The press-forming tool according to claim 5 ,
wherein the elastic body is at least one of a disc spring, a helical spring, and a rubber.

7. A method for manufacturing a press-formed product which is press-formed using the press-forming tool according to claim 1 , comprising:
press-forming a blank material by increasing a wrinkle suppression force with respect to a portion of the blank material in an end phase of a press forming, which is started at a position at which a press stroke is 2% to 30% and which is ended at a forming end position, when a forming start position of the press stroke is defined as 100% and the forming end position of the press stroke is defined as 0% during the press forming of the blank material.

8. The press-forming tool according to claim 2 ,
wherein the pressure receiving portion is consisted of the groove portion,
when a thickness of the wrinkle suppression mold in a position of the groove portion is defined as L in mm units and a minimum value of the thickness of the wrinkle suppression mold in a position which excludes the groove portion and comes into contact with the blank material is defined as H in mm units, the wrinkle suppression mold satisfies a following Expression 1 or 2, and
when a protruding height of the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion is defined as G in mm units and a press stroke distance from the press-forming starting point to the press-forming ending point is defined as PS in mm units, and the protruding height G of the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion satisfies a following Expression 3:
20 ≦L ≦0.8 ×H when 40 ≦H ≦50  (Expression 1)

20 ≦L ≦40 when 50 <H ≦80  (Expression 2)

0.02 ×PS+H−L≦G ≦0.3 ×PS+H−L   (Expression 3).

9. The press-forming tool according to claim 2 ,
wherein a portion of a boundary which partitions the pressure receiving portion is the groove portion.

10. The press-forming tool according to claim 2 ,
wherein the wrinkle suppression force increasing portion includes an elastic body which applies the reaction force.

11. The press-forming tool according to claim 10 ,
wherein the elastic body is at least one of a disc spring, a helical spring, and a rubber.

12. A method for manufacturing a press-formed product which is press-formed using the press-forming tool according to claim 2 , comprising:
press-forming a blank material by increasing a wrinkle suppression force with respect to a portion of the blank material in an end phase of a press forming, which is started at a position at which a press stroke is 2% to 30% and which is ended at a forming end position, when a forming start position of the press stroke is defined as 100% and the forming end position of the press stroke is defined as 0% during the press forming of the blank material.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp

Inventors

• Yoshida Tohru

Classifications

• B21D22/22

  with devices for holding the edge of the blanks (B21D22/24 - B21D22/30 take precedence; shaping over a die without external former B21D11/02) · CPC title

• B21D24/04

  Blank holders; Mounting means therefor · CPC title

• B21J5/00

  Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing (for working sheet-metal or metal tubes, rods, or profiles B21D; for working wire B21F); Special equipment or accessories therefor · CPC title

• B21D5/01

  between rams and anvils or abutments · CPC title

• B21D53/88

  other parts for vehicles, e.g. cowlings, mudguards · CPC title