Abstract: A processing method for a metal plate includes a curve surface forming recess forming step, a protruding step, and a shaping and dividing step. In the curve surface forming recess forming step, a recess is formed in the metal plate, the recess having an outer periphery forming a curve surface, a side portion formed in a frustum, and a bottom portion being round. In the protruding step, a portion of the recess from the bottom portion to the side portion is protruded toward an inside of the recess, and the side portion of the recess is formed to be close to a center of the recess. In the shaping and dividing step, the protruded portion and the outer periphery of the recess are shaped so that the recess is divided into a group of the plural recess portions adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A processing method for a metal plate includes a curve surface forming recess forming step, a protruding step, and, a shaping and dividing step. In the curve surface forming recess forming step, a recess is formed in the metal plate, the recess having an outer periphery forming a curve surface, a side portion formed in a frustum, and a bottom portion being round. In the protruding step, a portion of the recess from the bottom portion to the side portion is protruded toward an inside of the recess, and the side portion of the recess is formed to be close to a center of the recess. In the shaping and dividing step, the protruded portion and the outer periphery of the recess are shaped so that the recess is divided into a group of the plural recess portions adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A structure of mounting a current sensor to a battery cable includes a battery cable, a thermal fusion bonding tape wound around an outer circumference of the battery cable, and a current sensor. The current sensor includes a housing including a current detecting part configured to detect a current flowing through the battery cable, and a holder configured to hold and compress a thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion in cooperation with the housing to deform a cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion into an elliptical shape. The thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is a portion where the thermal fusion bonding tape is wound around the battery cable. Upon a compression between the housing and the holder being released, the elliptical shape of the cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is maintained.

Abstract: A structure of mounting a current sensor to a battery cable includes a battery cable, a thermal fusion bonding tape wound around an outer circumference of the battery cable, and a current sensor. The current sensor includes a housing including a current detecting part configured to detect a current flowing through the battery cable, and a holder configured to hold and compress a thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion in cooperation with the housing to deform a cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion into an elliptical shape. The thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is a portion where the thermal fusion bonding tape is wound around the battery cable. Upon a compression between the housing and the holder being released, the elliptical shape of the cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is maintained.

Abstract: A structure of mounting a current sensor to a battery cable includes a battery cable, a thermal fusion bonding tape wound around an outer circumference of the battery cable, and a current sensor. The current sensor includes a housing including a current detecting part configured to detect a current flowing through the battery cable, and a holder configured to hold and compress a thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion in cooperation with the housing to deform a cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion into an elliptical shape. The thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is a portion where the thermal fusion bonding tape is wound around the battery cable. Upon a compression between the housing and the holder being released, the elliptical shape of the cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is maintained.

Abstract: A sheet metal-made cup-shaped material including a circular base plate portion and a cylindrical portion extends from an outer peripheral edge portion of the base plate portion in one direction along the axis of the base plate portion. An annular groove is formed in an upper end portion of the cylindrical portion, whereby an annular projection that projects in a direction opposite to a direction along which the cylindrical portion extends is formed in the cylindrical portion. The annular projection and the cylindrical portion are clampingly pressed to a degree at which the annular groove at least disappears, whereby the outer circumferential face of the projection and the outer circumferential face of the cylindrical portion are flush with each other. Therefore, the axial length of a sheet metal-made back face pulley is increased, and the whole of the increased axial length can be used as the effective length.

Abstract: In the invention, a sheet metal-made cup-shaped material (4) comprising: a circular base plate portion (2); and a cylindrical portion (3) which extends from an outer peripheral edge portion of the base plate portion (2) in one direction along the axis of the base plate portion (2) is prepared, an annular groove (13) is formed in an upper end portion of the cylindrical portion (3), whereby an annular projection (15) that projects in a direction opposite to a direction along which the cylindrical portion (3) extends is formed in the cylindrical portion (3), and the annular projection (15) and the cylindrical portion (3) are clampingly pressed by a rotary lower mold (5e), a rotary upper mold (6d), and a flat-face forming rolling roller (18) to a degree at which the annular groove (13) at least disappears, whereby the outer circumferential face (15a) of the projection (15), and the outer circumferential face (30) of the cylindrical portion (3) are formed to be flush with each other.

Abstract: In the invention, a sheet metal-made cup-shaped material (4) comprising: a circular base plate portion (2); and a cylindrical portion (3) which extends from an outer peripheral edge portion of the base plate portion (2) in one direction along the axis of the base plate portion (2) is prepared, an annular expansion (40) that is radially outward expanded is formed in the cylindrical portion (3), and the annular expansion (40) and the cylindrical portion (3) are clampingly pressed by a rotary lower mold (5) and a flat-face forming rolling roller (16) to a degree at which the annular expansion (40) disappears, whereby the outer circumferential face (30) of the cylindrical portion (3) is flatly formed. Therefore, the axial length (h4) of a sheet metal-made back face pulley (11) is increased, and the increased axial length (h4) can be used as the effective length.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a disc-shaped material made from metal sheet, provided for the manufacture of a pulley or the like. According to the present invention, even if the metal sheet is thin and light weight, a peripheral wall of sufficient strength can be formed, by the following steps: rotating the material held between a pair of dies and pressing an outer periphery of the material by means of a forming roller, in a radially inward direction, thereby thickening axially the outer periphery of the material to be extended to both sides of a non-processed portion, thus forming the peripheral wall.

Abstract: According to the invention, an inward collar is integrally shaped on the inner periphery of a cylindrical boss portion. The inward collar is raisedly shaped in the axial direction on the inner periphery of the cylindrical boss portion by a top pattern tool having an ironing punch, and a bottom pattern tool having an ironing punch. The ironing process of forming the inward collar is repeated several times by using plural dies to finish the final shape.

Abstract: A method of forming a cylindrical portion of a sheet metal member having a center hole, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of holding a sheet metal material having a boss portion between rotating dies, rotating the sheet metal material with the rotating dies, and pressing a cylindrical portion formed at an outer periphery of the base plate of the sheet metal material by means of a forming roller, thereby forming the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: In a sheet metal member having a boss which is obtained by the method of the present invention, a cylindrical portion is formed at an outer peripheral edge, thereby allowing the member to be used as a pulley for a flat belt, a V belt or a poly-V belt. According to the present invention, when the boss is to be formed, the positional accuracies of portions other than the boss with respect to the boss are improved. The present invention includes: a boring step of opening a circular hole in a circular blank; a curving step of shaping the circular blank into a projected shape; and a bending step of restricting a radially outward spread of an outer peripheral edge portion of the circular blank which has undergone the curving step, and bending an inclined portion between the outer peripheral edge portion of the circular blank and the circular hole into a recessed shape, thereby forming the case-like boss.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a poly-V pulley made of metal sheet, which can be easily produced from a thick flat-plate material. By this method, the poly-V pulley is formed to have a two-part arrangement of poly-V grooves having different diameters, i e., a small diameter and a large diameter. A circular flat-plate material having a boss portion at the center thereof is bent, thereby forming a first forming body whose section is dish-shaped. The first forming body includes a supporting base and a conical peripheral portion consecutively disposed so as to be inclined and widened from the outer peripheral end of the supporting base portion in the outward direction. Next, the conical peripheral wall is extended in the widening end direction so as to decrease the thickness thereof, thereby forming a second forming body whose section is also deep dish-shaped.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a sheet metal pulley for a V belt without cutting which may impair the environment of a factory. A sheet metal pulley for a V belt which is obtained by the production method of the present invention has plural valley portions around which V belts are to be wound. In the production method, an annular first valley portion which is opened in a V-like shape is formed by slitting a root portion of a cylindrical portion of a sheet metal cylindrical member and an outer periphery of a base plate portion continuous to the root portion.

Abstract: A method of forming a cylindrical portion of a cylindrical member made of a sheet metal according to the present invention relates to steps of rotating a cylindrical member fitted into rotating dies with the rotating dies while pressing the cylindrical portion against the rotating dies by the forming roller. In the present invention, a pressed portion of the cylindrical portion, pressed by a forming roller is moved from an opening end side of the cylindrical portion to a root portion side thereof according to each phase. For example, the pressed portion of the cylindrical portion pressed by the forming roller includes two sections, namely a first phase-pressed portion positioned on the opening end side of the cylindrical portion and a second phase-pressed portion positioned on the root portion side thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming an inner flange on a sheet metal member having a cylindrical portion with an inner flange 3 required in coupling of a shaft such as a pulley used in an automobile. The axial length of a boss formed on the sheet metal member is reduced by pressing the boss in the axial direction of the boss, and an excess portion produced as a result of the reduction of the axial length of the boss is gathered in one place in the axial direction of the boss, for example, the end in the axial direction of the boss to project inwardly into the inside of the boss, so that the inner flange is formed by the projected excess portion. A step of gathering the excess portion produced as a result of the reduction of the axial length of the boss can be conducted by a pressing process in which a pressing die is moved in the axial direction of the boss.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a key portion on a sheet metal member, the key portion being useful in coupling of a shaft to a member such as a pulley used in an automobile. According to the method of the invention, an inner metal part of a cylindrical portion of the sheet metal member is pressed in the axial direction so that the inner metal part is removed away and a predetermined place of the inner metal part remains, the remaining metal part being used as the key portion. Pressing the inner metal part in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion can be conducted by a pressing process in which a pressing die is moved in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion. A key portion can be easily formed on the cylindrical portion, and an inner flange can be formed together with the key portion.

Abstract: An ionizing radiation sensitive resist consisting essentially of a polymer having a recurring unit represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or a halogen atom and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be identical or different, are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, alkyl groups having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, alkoxy groups having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, haloalkyl groups having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or haloalkoxy groups having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, at least a part of the X groups present in said polymer being a halogen atom, at least a part of the Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 group present in said polymer being a halogen atom, and at least a part of the R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 groups present in said polymer being a haloalkyl or haloalkoxy group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms. Said ionizing radiation sensitive resist is suitable as a negative type resist.

Abstract: A positive type photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble novolac resin and (A) a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a compound represented by the following general formula (II) or (B) a compound represented by the following general formula (III) and a compound represented by the following general formula (IV), wherein the molar ratio of the compound represented by the general formula (I) to the compound represented by the general formula (II) is 6/4-9/1 or the molar ratio of the compound represented by the general formula (III) to the compound represented by the general formula (IV) is 1/9-9/1 and the total amount of the component (A) or (B) is 5-100 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the alkali-soluble novolac resin: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.5, R.sub.8 and R.sub.10, which may be identical or different, represent alkyl groups, aryl groups or aralkyl groups; and R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.9, R.sub.11 and R.sub.

Abstract: An epoxidized polyether, characterized by containing oxytetramethylene units and having in one molecule 0.9 or more epoxy groups on the average represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen atoms or alkyl groups. An epoxy resin obtained from said epoxidized polyether alone or in admixture with an ordinary epoxy compound has a high flexibility.