Abstract: A method of forming a building material device utilizing a vehicle tire where the vehicle tire is split into three portions. Two of the vehicle portions are recombined into a subunit which is capable of holding the third portion within a chamber. The subunit containing the second portion is then combined with panels to form a finished unit capable of being used in a building structure.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot-stamped part includes: inserting a blank into a heating furnace including a plurality of sections with different temperature ranges; step heating the blank in multiple stages; and soaking the blank at a temperature of about Ac3 to about 1,000° C., wherein in the step of heating the blank, a temperature condition in the heating furnace satisfies the following equation: 0<(Tg?Ti)/Lt<0.025° C./mm, where Tg denotes a soaking temperature (° C.), Ti denotes an initial temperature (° C.) of the heating furnace, and Lt denotes a length (mm) of step heating sections.

Abstract: A method of forming a planetary carrier assembly is disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes providing a first carrier plate and a second carrier plate. The first carrier plate has a first body portion, and the second carrier plate has a second body portion including a plurality of legs. The method includes forming at least one staking element on an axial end of at least one of the plurality of legs. The method includes fixing the first carrier plate and the second carrier plate to each other via application of an axial load such that the at least one staking element on the at least one of the plurality of legs digs into the first carrier plate.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for coreless spinning of a large-ratio multi-variable-diameter hollow shaft, belonging to the field of spinning. The present invention includes following steps: S1: clamping a blank in a lower die unit, driving the workpiece to rotate, causing a rough spinning wheel and a fine spinning wheel to be in contact with the workpiece for staggered spinning, and performing curved reciprocating feed spinning via point contact to form a roughly-spun blank; S2: shifting the rough spinning wheel and the fine spinning wheel, causing shaping spinning wheels to be in contact with the workpiece for shaping spinning, and subjecting the shaping spinning wheels to linear contact shaping and fine spinning only in a radial direction, to obtain a finely spun blank. The present invention solves the problems of high machining difficulty and poor molding quality of hollow shafts in the prior art.

Abstract: A method is for producing a three-dimensional vehicle door frame inner reinforcement element (52) including an inner center pillar part (66), an inner front pillar part (68) and an inner side rail part (64) joining the inner center pillar part (66) and the inner front pillar part (68). The method includes providing an inner center pillar blank, an inner front pillar blank and an inner side rail blank, said inner blanks being substantially planar, assembling the inner center pillar blank and the inner front pillar blank to the inner side rail blank in order to form a substantially planar door frame inner reinforcement blank, and hot stamping the door frame inner reinforcement blank to shape the three-dimensional door frame inner reinforcement element (52).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and to a device (10) for producing a wheel rim (1) for a vehicle wheel (3), and to a method for producing a vehicle wheel (3).

Abstract: A first abutting surface, a first welding surface, a first facing surface are formed in a differential case. A second abutting surface, a second welding surface, and a second facing surface are formed in a differential ring gear. In an installing step, the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface are inserted, positions of the differential case and the differential ring gear are determined in an axial direction, a separation portion that spaces the first welding surface and the second welding surface away from each other and that has a non-linear portion is formed, and a void is formed between the first facing surface and the second facing surface. In a welding step, a laser is irradiated to the separation portion and the first welding surface and the second welding surface are welded.

Abstract: Provided are systems and apparatuses for manufacturing aircraft support structures. An example robotic end effector comprises a rotatable reel with a flat strip of material wound around the reel. The end effector further includes a forming shoe including a forming surface contacting the strip of material. A first end of the forming surface corresponds to a start shape and a second end of the forming surface corresponds to an end shape. As the strip of material passes from the first end of the forming surface to the second end of the forming surface, the strip of material transitions from the first shape to the end shape and is deposited as a formed stringer ply onto an application surface. The forming shoe may further include a vacuum system to suction air through a plurality of ports along the forming surface to urge the strip of material against the forming surface.

Abstract: A jacket main body is formed of a first aluminum alloy. A seal body is formed of a second aluminum alloy. The first aluminum alloy is higher in hardness than the second aluminum alloy in material type. A method includes: a preparing step of forming on an peripheral wall part a step part having a step bottom surface and a step side surface obliquely rising; a mounting step of mounting the seal body on the jacket main body to form a first butt portion and putting the step bottom surface and a back surface of the seal body on each other to form a second butt portion; a main joining step of performing friction stir welding while only the stirring pin of the rotary tool rotating contacts with only the seal body.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of forming a cooling plate, comprises laser welding a plurality of weld lines to physically connect a first substrate and a second substrate wherein the plurality of weld lines forms an inflatable track; and inflating the inflatable track with an inflation fluid to form a cooling channel in the cooling plate. In another embodiment, the cooling plate can comprise a first substrate and a second substrate and a plurality of weld lines can form a fluid tight seal for a cooling channel located therebetween.

Abstract: A refractory metal core (RMC) finishing method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, performing a plurality of finishing operations on a plurality of RMC samples, analyzing one or more properties of at least a portion of the plurality of RMC samples and selecting a combination of finishing operations for generating an RMC having desirable properties for manufacturing a part free from defects.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a valve body for a hollow valve. Said method comprises the following steps: providing a workpiece, blank or semi-finished product and a forming punch, introducing a protective layer between the workpiece and the forming punch (22) and press forming the workpiece to produce a preform. The invention also relates to a hollow valve produced by means of this method.

Abstract: A method of forming a component by applying a forming load to a blank of material against a mandrel, wherein the mandrel defines the shape of the component to be formed and applying a forming load as a combination of a localised force and localised friction heating.

Abstract: A hot press processing apparatus 1 includes: a heating step of heating a workpiece W; a pressing step of press-molding, by an upper die 11 and a lower die 12, the workpiece W heated in the heating step after loading the workpiece W between the upper die 11 and the lower die 12; and a cooling step of bringing the coolant into contact with a front surface of the workpiece W that is molded and placed in a pressed state by the pressing step, to thereby cool the workpiece W and place the workpiece W in a quenched state. In the hot press processing apparatus 1, the workpiece W molded and placed in the pressed state by the pressing step forms gaps c2 with respect to both of the upper die 11 and the lower die 12 so as to allow deformation at time of the cooling step except for an accuracy-guaranteed section Wr in the workpiece W.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a forming system for producing a gear part through a rotational forming. According to the invention provision is made in that in a preforming step a rotationally symmetrical workpiece is set into rotation about its center axis and, at least through axial feeding and passing of at least one forming roller, a stretch-flow forming is carried out, wherein a cylindrical circumferential wall with a defined target wall thickness is shaped which is smaller than a basic wall thickness of the workpiece. Subsequently, in a finish-forming step the preformed workpiece is clamped onto an inner mandrel with external toothing and set into rotation and at least one profiled toothed roller is fed radially, by which the cylindrical circumferential wall, whilst substantially maintaining the target wall thickness, is formed into the external toothing of the inner mandrel, wherein a drum-shaped toothed region with a splined toothing is shaped.

Abstract: A method includes moving a first part along a movement path. The method also includes introducing drops of a liquid metal onto the first part using a three-dimensional (3D) printer. The drops of the liquid metal solidify to form a second part that is joined to the first part. The method also includes mechanically joining the second part to a third part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for handling a rectifier of a turbojet of an aircraft, the rectifier having an axis defining the asymmetry thereof, said method comprising a step of placing the rectifier on the rollers of a supporting structure, the structure and the rollers thereof being arranged such that the axis of the rectifier is inclined at a non-null acute angle in relation to the horizontal, and a step of controlling, maintaining, assembling, handling, storing, deburring and/or cleaning the rectifier, during which the rectifier is pivoted about the axis thereof. The invention also relates to a trolley for handling a rectifier for an axial turbojet, said trolley comprising at least two of the lower rollers that have axes inclined in relation to the horizontal of said angle and at least one upper roller, the axis of which is inclined in relation to the vertical of said angle.

Abstract: A positioning device for hot stamping includes a pilot pin and a driving mechanism for driving the pilot pin. Before a plate material is placed into a press die, when the driving mechanism positions the pilot pin at a predetermined projecting position, a tip portion of the pilot pin projects from a pin guide hole and a body portion of the pilot pin formed further toward a base end side than the tip portion projects from the pin guide hole. Before a process in which the press die removes heat from the plate material after having been press-formed by the press die, when the driving mechanism positions the pilot pin at a predetermined immersed position, the body portion of the pilot pin is immersed in the pin guide hole while only the tip portion of the pilot pin projects from the pin guide hole.

Abstract: To automate a sub-process during the production of a component, which is to be equipped with coils, of an electric machine, a wire end shaping device is used, which is equipped with coils, of an electric machine, for shaping wire ends which protrude from an annular housing of the component, comprising a bending device for bending wire ends in a circumferential direction, a relative movement device for moving the housing and the bending device in a relative manner in an axial direction, and a controller. The receiving and rotating units, which receive the wire ends, of the bending device are held to be axially static relative to one another, wherein differences in length compensation and/or in a turning angle of the wire ends are handled by means of different movement profiles of the rotational movements of the receiving and rotating units.

Abstract: An improved anti-rotation device and connector assembly designed to prevent rotation of a first threaded portion of the connector assembly with respect to a second threaded portion of the connector assembly is provided. The anti-rotation device and connector assembly include features that guide and smooth the transition of the anti-rotation device into a position extending through the first and second threaded portions. The anti-rotation device may extend through a tab/groove interface between the first and second threaded portions, or the anti-rotation device may engage opposing interfacing edges of the first and second threaded portions along the length of the anti-rotation device. Once the anti-rotation device is installed through the first and second threaded portions, the anti-rotation device may prevent rotation of the threaded portions relative to each other.