Abstract: The distribution of load stresses on threads engaged with a standard screw or nut is very unequal. Indeed, the first threads in engagement support a large majority of the load. So if the load is too important, the threads give way and the function is not provided any more by the screw or the nut. In the prior art, threads are known whose depth or pitch varies a lot in order to cause a self-clamping. In particular, the invention aims at optimizing the resistance and the fatigue resistance of the screws by distributing the load at the very best on their threads without causing this self-clamping. It was shown that the control of the pitch variation, within a chosen pitch tolerance, makes it possible to control the stress distribution on the threads. It is possible to determine a different variation for each load case encountered.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for compacting a CIGS thin film in a non-vacuum environment are provided. According to the present invention, a substrate having a CIGS light absorbing layer configured thereon is processed with a soft baking process. Then, a pneumatic cylinder is employed for providing a pressure for driving a roller which is fixed to a holder. The holder is connected to the pneumatic cylinder. The roller is driven to downwardly apply a pressing force onto the CIGS light absorbing layer. The substrate is then moved back and forth to compact the CIGS light absorbing layer uniformly.

Abstract: There is provided a lubricant for hot plastic working, which contains 20 to 40 mass % of iron oxide and 10 to 30 mass % of sodium silicate, wherein impurities are 3 mass % or less, and the lubricant contains 40 to 60 mass % of water. By virtue of combined action of these components, the lubricant exhibits excellent lubricity and suppliability and does not adversely affect the corrosion resistance of product. The lubricant is suitably used for lubricating a guide shoe in piercing-rolling, for example, a high-Cr steel and achieves a great effect of preventing a seizure flaw from occurring on the outer surface of product by being applied directly to the outer surface of a workpiece just before piercing rolling, preferably, within one second before starting piercing rolling.

Abstract: A pusher device 4 includes a cylinder device 30 and a pusher mandrel 34. The cylinder device 30 includes a cylinder shaft 32. The pusher mandrel 34 is attached to the tip end of the cylinder shaft 32. The tip end of the pusher mandrel 34 is abutted against the rear end of a billet 20. The cross sectional area Sp of the pusher mandrel 34 and the cross sectional area Sb of the billet 20 satisfy Expression (1). The length Lp of the pusher mandrel 34 and the cross sectional area Sp of the pusher mandrel 34 satisfy Expression (2). The moving distance Lc of the tip end of the cylinder shaft 32 during piercing and rolling and the outer diameter Dc of the cylinder shaft 32 satisfy Expression (3). Therefore, the pusher device 4 can restrain the wall thickness deviation of the tip end part of a produced hollow shell. 0.3?Sp/Sb??(1) Lp/Sp?1.

Abstract: A tubular product comprises a side section having outer surfaces disposed along a parallelogram and a bottom section formed on one end of the side section. The outer surfaces of the side section are pressure formed by a roller. The tubular product preferably is manufactured from a tubular material by a process comprising the use of a device having a roller that is configured to engage with a side section of the tubular material. The device also comprises a mandrel configured to position the tubular material so that the roller can apply pressure against at least a portion of the outer surfaces of the side section and can extend the side section of the tubular material to form the product.

Abstract: A cladding tube for nuclear fuel made from metal and including concave dimples on its external surface. A nuclear fuel assembly includes at least a plurality of nuclear fuel rods provided with such cladding tubes. The cladding tube is advantageously manufactured by pilgrim rolling, the dimples being formed during the pilgrim rolling.

Abstract: An example method of forming a fuel cell sheet includes flattening a screen to form a sheet that has a plurality of apertures operative to communicate a fluid within a fuel cell.

Abstract: In straightening a duplex stainless steel pipe on a multi-roll pipe straightener, the value of A defined by the formula (1) is set to not more than 2.0% when it is not necessary to improve the mechanical strength of the pipe, and the value of A is set to more than 2.0% but not more than 3% when it is necessary to improve the mechanical strength of the pipe. Thereby, the mechanical strength of the duplex stainless steel pipe is regulated, A=(Di?Hi)/Di??(1) where each of the symbols in the formula (1) indicates the following: Di: the outer diameter (mm) of the pipe at an entry side of an i-th stand in the straightener, and Hi: the gap (mm) between groove bottom portions of the rolls at an i-th stand in the straightener.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to: (1) methods of forming enhanced-surface walls (20) for use in apparatae (e.g., heat transfer devices, fluid mixing devices, etc.) for performing a process, (2) to enhanced-surface walls per se, and (3) to various apparatae incorporating such enhanced-surface walls.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high-tensile steel material having a tensile strength of the 550 MPa class or more which can simultaneously raise the strength and toughness of the heat affected zone of weld to equal those of the matrix and a method of production of the same, that is, a high-tensile steel material with excellent weldability and toughness and with tensile strength of the 550 MPa class or more containing, by mass %, C: 0.005 to 0.10%, W: 0.10 to 3.0%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.080%, and V: 0.010 to 0.50%, limiting the Ti to less than 0.005%, satisfying equation; EC=2[C]?[Nb]/9?[V]/12>0.020, having an amount of precipitation of W contained in the steel material, in terms of analytical value obtained by quantitative analysis of potential electrolysis extraction residue by fluorescent X-ray analysis, of 0.0050% or less, and having 60% or more of its structural composition in a cross-section of the steel as a bainite structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a spacer tube (1) for the production of spacer frames for multi-pane insulated glazing having at least two glass panes, having a tube wall (2) that has a visible wall (6), a bottom wall (7) that lies opposite the former, and two side walls (8) that lie opposite one another, for a connection with a glass pane each, whereby at least one of the two side walls (8) is cold-strengthened, at least in partial regions, to increase the bending stiffness of the spacer tube (1), as well as a multi-pane insulated glazing having a spacer frame having at least one such spacer tube (1), and a device and a method for production of the spacer tube (1).

Abstract: A method for producing aluminum strips for lithographic printing plate supports, wherein the aluminum strip is produced from a rolling ingot, which after optional homogenizing is hot-rolled to a thickness of 2 mm to 7 mm and cold-rolled to a final thickness of 0.15 mm to 0.5 mm provides for an aluminum strip having a thickness of 0.15 mm to 0.5 mm and a printing plate support produced from the aluminum strip.

Abstract: In a rolling step of feeding an electrode hoop (1) having electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) formed on both sides of a band-shaped core (2) made of a metal thin plate to between a pair of mill rolls (8a, 8b) for rolling, the electrode hoop (1) is fed so that side a is wound about one of the mill rolls if the electrode mixture layers (3a, 3b) of the electrode hoop (1) have different average thicknesses, where the side a is one of the electrode mixture layers of the electrode hoop (1) having the smaller average thickness and side b is the other. This realizes a method for rolling an electrode hoop capable of making a rolled flat electrode even if the electrode mixture layers on both sides of the core have respective different thicknesses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a magnesium alloy sheet capable of producing a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent plastic workability such as press workability. The method of the present invention includes rolling a magnesium alloy blank with a reduction roll. The rolling includes controlled rolling performed under the following conditions (1) and (2) wherein M (% by mass) is the Al content in a magnesium alloy constituting the blank: (1) the surface temperature Tb (° C.) of the magnesium alloy blank immediately before insertion into the reduction roll satisfies the following expression: 8.33×M+135?Tb?8.33×M+165 wherein 1.0?M?10.0; and (2) the surface temperature Tr of the reduction roll is 150° C. to 180° C.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid housing, in particular a valve housing for an electromagnetically operable valve. The method includes providing at least three flat metal plates side by side, each having different magnetic properties directly adjacent to the others. The at least three plates are joined to the directly adjacent bordering edges to form a sheet metal section. The sheet metal section shaped into a sleeve shape. Furthermore, the bordering edges, which are now opposite one another, and run in the longitudinal direction of the sleeve to form a sleeve blank are joined together. The sleeve blank is machined until a desired geometric shape of the housing is achieved. The housing may be suitable in particular for use in fuel injectors in fuel injector systems of internal combustion engines operating by spark ignition of a compressed fuel-air mixture.

Abstract: In a multi-staged cold-rolling line, a strip is rolled. An actual rolling force of a last rolling stage of the cold-rolling line is detected and fed to a force control unit which determines a control parameter using the actual rolling force and a target rolling force and outputs a control parameter. An actual thickness is detected directly downstream of the last rolling stage and is sent to a thickness control unit which acts on the last rolling stage. Another actual strip thickness is detected directly upstream of the last rolling stage. Enter and exit speeds of the last rolling stage are detected and with a pre-determined final strip thickness following the last rolling stage fed to a setpoint determination unit which determines a target thickness which is used as a setpoint for another thickness control unitacting on the next to last rolling stage and receiving the other actual thickness value.

Abstract: a billet made of high Cr-high Ni alloy, which contains, by mass percent, 20 to 30% of Cr, 30 to 50% of Ni, and at least one element selected from Mo and W with a value “Mo+0.5W” of 1.5% or more is heated under conditions satisfying the following formula (1), and then the billet is pierced and rolled using an inclined roll type piercing mill with a roll gouge circumferential speed of 2.28 m/sec or higher. This prevents melted rash on the inner surface and lengthens the plug life. T?1575?4.45×Vf?104.7×{?ln(th/ro)}??(1) wherein T indicates a heating temperature (° C.) of the billet, Vf indicates the roll gouge circumferential speed (m/sec), ro indicates a radius (mm) of a billet at an entry-side, and th indicates a radial thickness (mm) of a pipe after piercing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a rolling process, in which a metal strip is rolled flat by use of at least one roller. It is known from the prior art that the relative position of a neutral point represents a measure of the instantaneous stability of a rolling process. However, traditional methods for calculating the position of the neutral point do not accurately represent the actual properties of metal and therefore have only limited usefulness for predicting the stability of a rolling process. In order to allow better control of a rolling process for rolling a metal strip with regard to the actual behavior of the metal strip, the invention proposes a new method for calculating the relative position of the neutral point, in which in particular the flat yield stress ke and the hydrostatic pressure pNH at the neutral point are incorporated.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating a uranium-bearing foil are described. The foil may be substantially pure uranium, or may be a uranium alloy such as a uranium-molybdenum alloy. The method typically includes a series of hot rolling operations on a cast plate material to form a thin sheet. These hot rolling operations are typically performed using a process where each pass reduces the thickness of the plate by a substantially constant percentage. The sheet is typically then annealed and then cooled. The process typically concludes with a series of cold rolling passes where each pass reduces the thickness of the plate by a substantially constant thickness amount to form the foil.

Abstract: The present invention features a high-strength and light TWIP steel sheet which can be used to manufacture vehicle body parts, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: In a multi-stand rolling mill train, a strip successively runs through individual rolling stands. The strip—always as seen in relation to a rolling centre line—is threaded into each of the rolling stands with known respective head offset and inlet-side head pitch, and therefore a strip head emerges with the respective head offset, a respective outlet-side head pitch and a respective outlet-side head curvature. The respective outlet-side head pitch is determined on the basis of respective inlet-side head pitch and pass reduction which takes place in the respective rolling stand. The respective outlet-side head curvature of the strip is determined based on respective measured and further data. The respective outlet-side head curvature is used to determine a respective control intervention for the respective rolling stand and/or the one arranged directly downstream and to drive the corresponding rolling stand in accordance with the respective determined control intervention.

Abstract: A roll mill for rolling a product has a roll stand with working rolls and a control device. The product has a head part and is moved towards the stand at a product head part speed. The working rolls form a rolling gap. The control device controls the stand such that, before the product head part enters the gap, the rolls are rotated at a peripheral speed which is essentially the same as the product head part speed; the gap is vertically adjusted to essentially a product head part thickness, on the feeding side, before the product enters the gap; and, during or following the insertion of the product into the gap, the gap is closed to a pre-determined value, and the peripheral speed of the working rolls is modified, especially increased, according to the gap, essentially at the same time as the closing of the gap.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for improving deposited film uniformity and controlling the erosion of sputter targets. Improved methods for achieving predetermined microstructure orientation in copper hollow cathode magnetron (HCM) sputter targets and targets prepared by such methods are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for producing a pot-shaped housing part, especially for a hub part of a hybrid drive, the housing part having a bottom and a wall extending away from the bottom, and an outer face of the wall extending at least approximately up to an outer face of the bottom, which outer face of the bottom faces away from a free edge of the wall, comprises the following steps: providing a plate-shaped blank; clamping the blank in a radially inner zone thereof in a workpiece holder, the radially inner zone forming the bottom of the housing part to be produced, a radially outer zone of the blank directly adjoining the radially inner zone being free, the radially outer zone forming the wall of the housing part to be produced, and the workpiece holder having a circumferential contact surface; folding the radially outer zone of the blank towards the contact surface and pressing the radially outer zone against the contact surface by means of a forming process in order to reduce the radius of curvature at the transition fro

Abstract: In a method and a control device for adjusting a state of a rolling stock, particularly a near-net strip, defined at least by an out-of-parallel condition and/or a curvature of the rolling stock, the rolling stock is transitioned from an initial into an intermediate state by a roll stand and by impressing a stress onto the rolling stock by an additional processing device, and the rolling stock is transitioned from the intermediate into a final state by at least one processing aggregate. By determining whether rolling stock should be fed into the at least one processing aggregate, the intermediate state requiring a non-zero out-of-parallel condition and/or curvature in order to achieve a predetermined final state, and the roll stand and/or the processing device are controlled and/or regulated as a function thereof to adjust the required intermediate state, the shape reliability of an ultimately parallel, non-curved rolling stock can be increased.

Abstract: Seamless pipes excellent in quality features with high productivity is made by a by carrying out piercing-rolling using a piercer provided with a pair of inclined rolls. The piercing-rolling is carried out under conditions such that the plug tip draft (TDFT) or the root of the product of the plug tip draft (TDFT) are controlled along with the number of billet revolutions (N), namely (TDFT×N)0.5. In addition, positions of the inclined rolls are controlled in connection with the gorge draft (GDFT) indicating the ratio of the roll gap (Rg) which is minimal in the gorge section between the inclined rolls to the billet outside diameter (Bd). The piercing-rolling is carried out using a plug having a particular shape.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a low-friction sliding member having a sliding surface slidable relative to an opposing member via an oil, wherein the sliding surface has a plurality of texture groups, each of the texture groups consists of at least two adjacent fine recesses having portions aligned to each other in either a sliding direction or oil flow direction; a distance between the texture groups is larger than a distance between the adjacent recesses; and the texture groups is distributed uniformly over the sliding surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hollow, elongated structural element, where a first and a second blank (1, 14) are led through an oven (2) for heating to working temperature and are led through rollers (3, 4) with profiled surfaces for pre-forming in one or more steps. The blanks are each led through a forging press with a number of cooperating dies, the blank being worked in a number of steps (5, 8, 11) into halves of an essentially finished product, having a cross-section substantially in the shape of a U-profile with a predetermined varying height, width and thickness of material along its length. The second blank (14) is essentially a copy of the first blank (1). In a final step (15) the blanks are joined together into a composite hollow structural element (18). The invention also relates to a structural element manufactured according to the method.

Abstract: A vehicle seat back having a vehicle seat back frame and a method of producing the seat back frame can be used in multiple vehicles and includes a stamped first vertical frame member having a varying depth u-shaped and a roll formed second frame member having a constant depth u-shaped cross section and the first frame member is a common part used in multiple vehicles having a substantially constant height vehicle seat backs and the second frame member is cut to length used in multiple vehicles having different width vehicle seat backs.

Abstract: A can rounding system and method that uses arms that are able to maintain cans in a concentric arrangement during the welding process. The arms enable the can rounding system to maintain the concentric positions in order to achieve improved circular dimensions and increase the overall efficiency in the construction of cylindrical and conical structures, such as wind towers.

Abstract: The invention relates to ultrahigh strength hot-rolled steel having a chemical composition consisting of, by weight: 0.05%?C?0.1% 0.7%?Mn?1.1% 0.5%?Cr?1.0% 0.05%?Si?0.3% 0.05%?Ti?0.1% Al?0.07% S?0.03% P?0.05% the remainder comprising iron and impurities resulting from the production thereof. Moreover, the inventive steel has a bainitic-martensitic structure which can contain up to 5% ferrite. The invention also relates to a method of producing bands of said steel.

Abstract: There are provided a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having excellent weather resistance used for containers and a method of manufacturing the same. A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having excellent weather resistance includes, by weight: C: 0.05 to 0.07%, Mn: 2.5% or less, Nb: 0.04 to 0.06%, Ti: 0.08 to 0.10%, Cu: 0.30 to 0.60%, Cr: 0.5 to 1.0%, and Ni: 0.15 to 0.30%, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities. A method of manufacturing the hot-rolled steel sheet is also provided. A hot-rolled steel sheet provided has weather resistance by addition of Cu, Cr, and Ni and material characteristics of a tensile strength within the range of 800 to 900 MPa and a yield strength within the range of 700 to 800 MPa.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for bending flat semi-finished products into a profile having a changeable cross-section along the length thereof˜comprising at least one roll stand having profiling units in form of rollers and/or matrices. The semi-finished product can be led lengthwise between the profiling units. The invention further comprises at least two linear actuators (10, 12, 14, 16), arranged transversely to the length (Z) of the semi-finished product in order to produce translatory movements of the roll stand and rotational movements of the roll stand about an axis (Y) thereof. According to the invention, each of the at least two linear actuators are connected to the roll stand at a point provided at a distance from the axis (Y) of the roll stand.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal profile includes producing a metal component from a semi-finished product or a blank by a hot forming and hardening process and bending the metal component along at least one bending edge. Bending is simplified according to the invention in that, before forming, the metal component is heated along the bending edge in such a way that the strength is reduced in a heated region after heating. The metal profile, produced with this method, has at least one bending edge at which the strength of the metal profile is reduced. In addition the metal profile can be used in a motor vehicle body, in particular as A- and/or B-pillar.

Abstract: Cold rolled material manufacturing equipment comprises: an unwinding device (21a) for unwinding a hot rolled coil after acid pickling; joining means (23), disposed on the exit side of the unwinding device, for joining the tail end of a preceding coil (25b) to the leading end of a succeeding coil (22a) unwound from the unwinding device; a rolling mill (10a, 10b) for continuously rolling the coils, with the leading end and the tail end of the coils being joined, in one direction; a strip storage device (50), disposed between the joining means and the rolling mill, for storing a strip S in order to perform continuous rolling by the rolling mill during joining of the preceding coil and the succeeding coil by the joining means; a strip cutting device (28) for cutting the strip to a desired length; a winding device (24) for winding the rolled coil; transport means (30) for withdrawing the coil from the winding device, and transporting the coil to the unwinding device (21a, 21b) so that the coil is rolled a pluralit

Abstract: A rolling mill, in particular, a cold strip tandem rolling mill, for producing a metal strip, with a number of stands is arranged in a tandem path, wherein, in a direction of production of the metal strip, a first stand is designed as driving stand and serves as inlet for a section of the tandem path, in which a primary thickness reduction of the metal strip occurs, and by corresponding control of the driving stand, an increase in the mechanical inlet tension of the metal strip can be achieved. In a method for controlling a rolling mill, in particular, a cold strip tandem rolling mill, for producing a metal strip, in a production direction of the metal strip, a first stand is controlled as driving stand, the driving stand achieving a significant increase in the mechanical inlet tension on the metal strip and a significant thickness reduction of the metal strip.

Abstract: A strip has a strip head and a strip leg. It is rolled, beginning at the strip head, in a roll stand of a rolling device between an upper and a lower roller arrangement of the roll stand. It is monitored whether the strip foot reaches a switching point located, viewed in the rolling direction, in front of the roll stand. From the time the strip leg reaches the switching point, the roller arrangements are subjected to a bending force expanding the roller arrangements by means of an adjusting device, the force being at least as high as a minimal force. The minimal force is at least as high as a balancing force of the upper roller arrangement. The minimal force is determined as a function of the parameters of the strip and/or the operating parameters of the rolling device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a multi-gauge strip which has a thick portion and a thin portion which are continuously disposed along its length. The method of producing multi-gauge strips consisting of a relatively thick portion and a relatively thin portion formed along the widthwise direction while continuously transferring a strip material, is characterized by comprising the steps of: primarily forming a strip material by pressing the upper side thereof so as to make a groove in the lower side of the part where a thin portion is to be formed; and secondly forming the resulted strip by pressing the upper side of the primarily formed strip so as to form the part having a groove into a thin portion and the other part into a thick portion.

Abstract: A method of producing flat products in aluminum alloys comprising: A) cold rolling to a hardened condition: B) applying a short-time ion beam surface treatment; and C) repeating steps A and B until a flat rolled product of a specified thickness is obtained. The surface treatment is preferably performed using an ion beam of atomic mass A?10 amu having a power of between about 20-40 keV and an ion current density of between about 0.1-1 mA/cm2 for from about 5 to about 200 seconds. In the process of irradiation flat products may be continuously and uniformly displaced with respect to the ion beam.

Abstract: Temper rolling at a total elongation percentage of 0.1% or more is performed on a steel strip using a temper rolling mill in which at least one roll stand having high roughness work rolls, the center-line averaged roughness Ra of which being in the range of 3.0 to 10.0 ?m, is provided, or at least one roll stand having bright rolls is further provided downstream of the above roll stand, and as a result, a predetermined elongation percentage, flatness, and center- line averaged roughness can be imparted even to a steel strip having a yield strength of 340 MPa or more at a rolling load approximately equivalent to that for a mild steel without using a large facility and complicated control. In particular, a high tensile-strength cold rolled steel sheet having an Ra of 0.5 to 3.0 ?m and superior die galling resistance is obtained.

Abstract: A plug material having a prescribed shape is prepared, the prepared plug material is thermally treated in a heat treatment atmosphere that contains at least 1.0 vol. % oxygen at a heat treatment temperature of at least 950° C. and less than 1050° C. and thus a plug having an oxide scale layer 30 on the surface is manufactured. According to the manufacturing method, pores PO that extend along the surface SF of the plug material are formed under outer scale layer 20 in the oxide scale layer 30, which allows cracks to be more easily propagated in the outer scale layer 20. Therefore, the outer scale layer 20 is more easily peeled off than the conventional one.

Abstract: A regulation device (7) for a rolling stand (2) has a force regulator (8) and a position regulator (9) mounted underneath the force regulator. During operation of the regulation device, a rolling force target value (F*) and a rolling force actual value (F) are supplied to the force regulator (8). A regulating distance correcting value (ds1*) is determined by the force regulator (8) from the rolling force target value (F*) and the rolling force actual value (F). The regulating distance correcting value (ds1*), an excentricity compensation value (ds2*), and a regulating distance actual value (s) of a regulating element (6) are supplied to the position regulator (9). A correcting quantity (dq) is determined by the position regulator (9) from the values (ds1*, ds2*, s) supplied thereto and is delivered to the regulating element (6). The regulating distance of the regulating element (6) is changed according to the correcting quantity (dq).

Abstract: In straightening a duplex stainless steel pipe on a multi-roll pipe straightener, the value of A defined by the formula (1) is set to not more than 2.0% when it is not necessary to improve the mechanical strength of the pipe, and the value of A is set to more than 2.0% but not more than 3% when it is necessary to improve the mechanical strength of the pipe. Thereby, the mechanical strength of the duplex stainless steel pipe is regulated, A=(Di?Hi)/Di??(1) where each of the symbols in the formula (1) indicates the following: Di: the outer diameter (mm) of the pipe at an entry side of an i-th stand in the straightener, and Hi: the gap (mm) between groove bottom portions of the rolls at an i-th stand in the straightener.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayered steel composite which compatibly achieves properties such as strength and ductility that are incompatible in conventional steels and is excellent in strength, ductility, weldability, toughness and fatigue strength. Also, disclosed is a method for producing the multilayered steel which is produced by rolling with least two kinds of steels having different chemical compositions and microstructure or different mechanical properties, in combination.

Abstract: A tolerance ring includes a curved strip having first and second ends. Additionally, the tolerance ring includes a plurality of projections formed on the curved strip, and a physical connection between the first and second ends such that the curved strip forms a closed loop.

Abstract: According to the invention, folding a sheet edge at high folding speed with no faults may be achieved, wherein a conically contoured folding roller is used with an inclined attitude to the direction of movement thereof, firstly engaging the edge of the sheet for folding with the front region of the largest diameter thereof and then continuously folding the edge of the sheet until contact is made with the limiting part of the sheet component continuously over the conical region until the region of the smallest diameter thereof is reached.

Abstract: The invention relates to rolled material comprising a front and an end. The rolled material is rolled in a roll gap of a roll stand to a first desired measurement, beginning at the front of the rolled material. When the rolled material is being rolled in the roll stand, it is continuously determined by a control computer, which locates the position of the rolled material which is currently in the roll gap. When the position of the rolled material, which is directly in the roll gap, corresponds to a predetermined first modification position of the rolled material, which is arranged between the front of the rolled material and the end of the rolled material, the roller of the rolled material ends at a first desired measurement such that a first step is introduced into the rolled material on the first modification point.

Abstract: A golf club head has a hollow structure comprising a main body member and a face member. The face member is made of an unidirectionally rolled plate of a titanium alloy having alpha phase crystals. The rolled direction of the unidirectionally rolled plate is inclined at an angle ?1 of not more than 30 degrees with respect to the horizontal direction. The face member is provided on the rear face with a ribbed part having its longitudinal direction inclined at an angle ?2 of not more than 30 degrees with respect to the vertical direction. A method for manufacturing the golf club head comprises a step of preparing the face member which comprises the steps of: preparing the unidirectionally rolled plate; cutting out a blank for the face member from the unidirectionally rolled plate; and forming the ribbed part on the cutout blank by machining.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a golf club head having a hollow structure composed of a main body-member and a metal face member welded thereto, comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a rolled material having a constant thickness; (b) cutting out a face member part or blank from the rolled material; (c) making the face member by forming the turnback through press working on the face member part; and (d) reducing the thickness of a corresponding-to-turnback region by machining prior to the step (c), wherein the corresponding-to-turnback region is a region of the cutout face member part corresponding to the turnback, or a region of the rolled material corresponding to the turnback.

Abstract: A loosening preventive fastener for a screw tool formed in a relatively simple structure, easily manufacturable at low cost by mass production, and capable of easily and securely preventing a screw tool from being loosened as a fastener for a screw tool miniaturized or refined by precise processing for assembling various types of small-sized products; and a method and an apparatus for manufacturing the fastener. The fastener (10) such as a nut, an insert, etc. is to be fastened with a screw tool (30) such as a screw, a bolt, etc; and a concavity (18) is formed by press-forming from the outside in a part of the outer circumferential wall of the fastener to form a reduced-diameter deformation part (20) where the diameter of the crest or bottom of the female thread is partially reduced in the inner circumferential wall of the fastener.