Abstract: A reinforcing unit that is mounted on a main body frame includes a beam material, and one or more reinforcing members that are mounted on an outside of the beam material, in which the beam material substantially has a continuously closed cross-sectional shape that includes an inner surface portion that is provided on a frame side where the main body frame is located, an outer surface portion that is provided on a counter-frame side that is a side opposite to the main body frame, and a side surface portion that connects the inner surface portion and the outer surface portion, and the reinforcing member restrains bulging deformation of the side surface portion in a case where an impact load is input to the outer surface portion.

Abstract: A metal pipe forming method includes: disposing a metal pipe material having a hollow shape between a pair of dies; and forming a metal pipe including a pipe portion and a flange portion by expanding the metal pipe material by supplying a fluid and bringing the metal pipe material into contact with the pair of dies. In the forming of the metal pipe, a gap which is positioned between a pair of inner surfaces of the flange portion and communicates with an internal space of the pipe portion is formed, and the flange portion is provided with a through-hole connected to the gap.

Abstract: A forming device includes a blow-forming die and a shielding member. The blow-forming die includes a first die that protrudes from a first die holder towards a second die holder and a second die that protrudes from the second die holder towards the first die holder. The shielding member is configured to extend from the first die holder to the second die holder before the blow-forming die commences forming a flange part of a pipe in a sub-cavity part. The sub-cavity part is between a main cavity part and the shielding member. The shielding member is separated from the first die and the second die.

Abstract: A forming device forms a metal pipe with a flange and includes a forming tool that forms the metal pipe, in which the forming tool includes a first die and a second die facing each other in a first direction in a cross-sectional view, and a third die disposed on at least one side of a metal pipe material in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and at least one of the first die and the second die is divided in the second direction and sandwiches a part of the metal pipe material in the second direction to form a flange portion.

Abstract: A forming system includes: a forming apparatus which supplies gas into a cylindrical metal pipe material having a welded portion to expand the metal pipe material; a supply device for supplying the metal pipe material to the forming apparatus; and a control device for controlling an operation of the supply device, in which in a case where a position where a distance from a center of the metal pipe material is the longest, on a surface of the die, when viewed from an extension direction of the metal pipe material in a state where the metal pipe material is disposed between the dies, is a longest position, the control device includes a control unit which controls supply of the metal pipe material to the forming apparatus such that the welded portion is not located on a straight line connecting the longest position and the center of the metal pipe material.

Abstract: A forming device which expands a metal pipe material to form a metal pipe having a pipe portion and a flange portion includes first and second dies paired with each other and including pipe forming surfaces for forming the pipe portion and flange forming surfaces for forming the flange portion, a drive unit that drives at least one of the first and second dies, and a controller that controls the drive unit, in which, on at least one of the flange forming surfaces of the first and second dies, a protrusion portion protruding by an amount not to abut against the other flange forming surface when the dies are closed is formed and the controller controls the drive unit to form a thin wall portion at which a thickness of the flange portion becomes partially small at the flange portion by the protrusion portion pressing the flange portion.

Abstract: There is provided a reinforcement member for a vehicle which includes a cylindrical body section having a continuously closed cross section intersecting with a longitudinal direction. The cylindrical body section has a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. The third surface has a fourth surface extending away from the second surface, and a fifth surface connecting the fourth surface and the first surface to each other. In a sectional view when viewed in the longitudinal direction, in a case where a virtual line connecting a first intersection portion where the first surface and the third surface intersect with each other and a second intersection portion where the second surface and the third surface intersect with each other is set, a third intersection portion where the fourth surface and the fifth surface intersect with each other protrudes outward with respect to the virtual line.

Abstract: A forming system forming a metal pipe by expanding a metal pipe material, includes: a main body part having a forming die for forming the metal pipe; an electrode causing a current to flow through the metal pipe material disposed in the forming die such that the metal pipe material is heated; a power supply unit disposed at a position separated from the main body part and supplying power to the electrode; and a power supply line connecting the power supply unit and the electrode, in which the power supply line includes a lower-side passing portion passing through a lower side of a placing surface on which the main body part is placed, a first connection portion drawn to an upper side of the placing surface and connecting the lower-side passing portion and the electrode, and a second connection portion connecting the lower-side passing portion and the power supply unit.

Abstract: A forming system includes a forming device that forms a heated metal material with a forming die, a first scale removing unit that removes scales from a formed product removed from the forming die and cools the formed product, and a machining unit that machines the formed product that has been scale-removed and cooled by the first scale removing unit.

Abstract: An information providing device provides information to a formed product formed by a forming device including a die for forming a metal material, in which the information is provided to the formed product after being formed by the forming device, and the information is information from which at least forming conditions of the formed product are acquirable. The information providing device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires the forming conditions.

Abstract: Provided is a forming device that forms a heated metal material with a forming die, in which the forming die includes an angular portion formed by a first forming surface and a second forming surface that intersect each other in a cross-sectional view, the second forming surface is movable relative to the first forming surface, and during the forming, the second forming surface moves in a pressing direction in which the metal material is pressed in a stage before the angular portion and the metal material come into contact with each other.

Abstract: A forming device which expands a metal pipe material to form a metal pipe having a pipe portion and a flange portion includes a hardness lowering portion which lowers a hardness of the flange portion to be lower than a hardness of the pipe portion.

Abstract: Provided is a flanged member that has a tubular shape and includes a flange portion, the flanged member including: a cross-section changing portion of which a cross-sectional shape changes along an axial direction of the flanged member, in which in any two cross-sections in the cross-section changing portion, a perimeter of one cross-section is 1.25 times or less a perimeter of the other cross-section.

Abstract: Provided is a display device for a forming device that forms a heated metal material using a metal member. The display device proposes and displays a variable parameter that is adjustable.

Abstract: A forming device of forming a metal pipe having a pipe portion includes a first die and a second die constituting a first cavity portion configured to form the pipe portion and a second cavity portion configured to form a flange portion, a drive mechanism configured to move at least one of the first die and the second die, and a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas into a metal pipe material which is held between the first die and the second die and is heated, in which each of the first die and the second die has flange forming surfaces which face each other and constitute the second cavity portion, and a protrusion portion, which protrudes from one flange forming surface to the other flange forming surface, is formed on at least one of the flange forming surfaces of the first die and the second die.

Abstract: The controller controls the gas supply of the gas supply unit so as to maintain a pressure in a metal pipe material at a first pressure when a gas is supplied into the metal pipe material which is formed into a pipe portion in a main cavity portion in a state where an upper die and a lower die are joined to each other. It is possible to prevent pressure drop in the pipe portion caused by cooling of the pipe portion due to a contact between the dies, and the pipe portion. Thus, it is possible to suppress a decrease in a force for pressing the pipe portion against the dies. It is possible to suppress a decrease in adhesion between the pipe portion and the dies when the metal pipe is formed, and it is possible to suppress occurrence of variations in hardenability in the pipe portion.

Abstract: A forming apparatus which forms a metal pipe by expanding a metal pipe material, includes: a forming die for forming the metal pipe; a first electrode and a second electrode which clamp the metal pipe material at both end sides and heat the metal pipe material by causing an electric current to flow through the metal pipe material; and a first fluid supply unit and a second fluid supply unit which supply a fluid into the metal pipe material heated by the first electrode and the second electrode to expand the metal pipe material, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is provided with a movement restriction mechanism which restricts a movement of the metal pipe material in an axial direction of the metal pipe material.

Abstract: A forming apparatus that forms a metal pipe material includes an electrode that holds the metal pipe material and supplies electric power to the metal pipe material to heat the metal pipe material, a forming die that quenches and forms the expanded metal pipe, and a member that suppresses quenching, in which a region where quenching is not performed in the metal pipe is adjusted by adjusting a length of the member.

Abstract: A metal pipe forming method includes: disposing a metal pipe material having a hollow shape between a pair of dies; and forming a metal pipe including a pipe portion and a flange portion by expanding the metal pipe material by supplying a fluid and bringing the metal pipe material into contact with the pair of dies. In the forming of the metal pipe, a gap which is positioned between a pair of inner surfaces of the flange portion and communicates with an internal space of the pipe portion is formed, and the flange portion is provided with a through-hole connected to the gap.

Abstract: A forming device includes a blow-forming die and a shielding member. The blow-forming die includes a first die that protrudes from a first die holder towards a second die holder and a second die that protrudes from the second die holder towards the first die holder. The shielding member is configured to extend from the first die holder to the second die holder before the blow-forming die commences forming a flange part of a pipe in a sub-cavity part. The sub-cavity part is between a main cavity part and the shielding member. The shielding member is separated from the first die and the second die.