Metal deforming – By application of fluent medium – or energy field – With actuated tool engaging work
Patent
1997-02-02
1998-09-08
Jones, David
Metal deforming
By application of fluent medium, or energy field
With actuated tool engaging work
72 62, B21D 2602
Patent
active
058028994
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This application claims benefit of international application PCT/DE 94/01300 filed Nov. 3, 1994.
The invention relates to a method for internal high-pressure deforming of hollow offset shafts made of cold-deformable metal.
In general, in internal high-pressure deforming, a pipe length with a straight or nonstraight longitudinal axis is deformed by the simultaneous action of internal pressure Pi and axial force Pa. Some internal highpressure deforming methods are described in further detail, for instance in the Tagungsband des 14. Umformtechnischen Kolloguiums in Technology, Hannover, 1993!, page 9, which is hereby entirely incorporated by reference.
Internal high-pressure deforming of typical hollow-shaft-like workpieces is conventionally done in two deformation phases as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. After the pipes are filled, they are first flared. Here the principles of free flaring, or in other words non-tool-bound flaring, apply. The pipe surface is curved; the contact that occurs between the workpiece and the tool at the end of this first deformation phase initially extends over only a portion of the workpiece surface. In the further deformation phase, the workpiece is made, by means of calibration, to rest entirely against the internal shape of the forming tool. The course of the wall thickness in the longitudinal section of hollow shafts made in this way is as a rule approximately 15% of the initial wall thickness So of the lengths of pipe; see FIG. 3. The course of the wall thickness is dependent primarily on the expandability of the pipe materials. The free flaring length or buckling limit, in the internal high-pressure deforming methods known until now, is at maximum 2xdo, where do is the diameter of the initial pipe.
The object of the present invention is to create an improved internal high-pressure deforming method that makes it possible to produce high-quality hollow shafts.
According to the invention, this object is attained by the method in accordance with claim 1.
The method of the invention is especially suitable for hollow shafts of the kind described for instance in German Patent Application P 40 07 284.3. This relates for instance to drive shafts of a motor vehicle with a middle tubular region which has a greater outer diameter and a thin wall thickness, and end regions on both sides which have a thick wall thickness. The differences in wall thickness in these shafts, and the free flaring length, are many times greater than the method limits known until now in internal high-pressure deforming.
By the method of the invention, the following advantages, among others are attained:
1. The production of hollow shafts with a course of wall thickness in longitudinal section that has wall thickness differences of far more than 15%, referred to S.sub.o.
2. The production of hollow shafts with a flaring length of far more than 2xdo.
The method of the invention will be described in further detail below in conjunction with the drawing. Shown are:
FIG. 1, a schematic internal high-pressure method;
FIG. 2, a succession of method steps for producing a partially flared pipe;
FIG. 3, the course of wall thickness of a flared pipe;
FIG. 4, one example of an object made according to the invention; and
FIG. 5, schematically, an ensuing method step.
As seen particularly from FIG. 2, a method product as shown in FIG. 4 is produced by first filling the pipe with a fluid, which may be a gas or a highly volatile liquid. Next, flaring is done, by sealing off the pipe ends in a manner known per se and applying an internal high pressure. After the flaring in phase 1 and calibration of the hollow body in phase 2, the high calibration pressure is maintained or even further increased in phase 3.
According to the invention, as seen particularly in FIG. 5, upsetting of the shaped long pipe is now carried out.
The first part of the object of the invention is attained by appending to the two deformation phases a third deformation phase, shown in FIG. 5. After the flaring in phase 1 and calibration in phase 2, in phase 3 the hi
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Bogel Helmut
Klaas Friedrich
Weber Georg
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