Abstract: An incremental forming tool of the present invention includes a holding portion attached to an incremental forming apparatus and a free curved surface part for pressing a metal plate. The free curved surface part is made of at least a hard metal base material and a surface of the free curved surface part is covered with a hard film. The surface of the hard film has an Rpk of 0.15 ?m or less, the Rpk is defined by JIS B 0671 and is calculated from a material ratio curve of a roughness curve, and has an Ra of 0.2 ?m or less, the Ra is defined by JIS B 0601 and is calculated from a roughness curve. Therefore, a molded product having a smooth worked surface with no roughness can be produced without adding any extra equipment for preventing adhesion.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes an inner ring having an axis of rotation and an outer ring coaxial with the inner ring. The non-pneumatic tire further includes support structure extending from the inner ring to the outer ring and a circumferential tread extending about the outer ring. The circumferential tread includes a band layer constructed of a single material and a tread rubber layer directly attached to the band layer.

Abstract: Flanges formed on sheet metal parts to increase the part stiffness or create mating surface for further assembly are created in an incremental sheet forming process using forming tool and supporting tool that move along a specified tool path so as to gradually deform a peripherally-clamped sheet metal work piece into the desired geometry. With two universal tools moving along the designed toolpath on the both sides of the part, the process is very flexible. Process time is can also be reduced by utilizing an accumulative double-sided incremental hole-flanging strategy, in which the flange is formed in only one step.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of first tool teaching points and the subsequent first tool teaching point, and calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of second tool teaching points that corresponds to the one first tool teaching point and the subsequent second tool teaching point, calculating an inter-midpoint distance between the midpoint of the first tool teaching points and the midpoint of the corresponding second tool teaching points, determining whether the inter-midpoint distance is within a given tolerance range, and reporting, when the inter-midpoint distance is out of the given tolerance range, the corresponding first tool teaching points and second tool teaching points as poor.

Abstract: A method for producing a gearwheel having an axis of rotation and a tooth system. The teeth have an axial undercut on the tooth flank sides thereof. A blank is provided having a tooth system, wherein the teeth of the tooth system are provided so as to be tilted relative to the axis of rotation such that a forming tool can advance substantially fully into the tooth flank sides of the teeth through an axial linear motion along the axis of rotation. A preliminary form of the at least one axial undercut can be provided on the tooth flank sides. A first axial forming operation is performed in the form of a first axial forging blow via which a preliminary form of the at least one axial undercut is introduced on the tooth flank sides or an already existing preliminary form of an axial undercut is sized for accuracy.

Abstract: An tool for the incremental forming of material sheeting is disclosed. The tool comprises a forming tip, a shank, and an interface adapter positioned between the forming tip and the shank. The forming tip has a diameter and the shank has a diameter. The diameter of the forming tip is greater than the diameter of the shank. The forming tip may be of a variety of configurations. The forming tip may be donut-shaped. The donut-shaped tip may have a recessed area formed therein. The recessed area may be frustoconically shaped. As an alternative to the forming tip being donut-shaped, the forming tip may be made up of at least two forming spheres. An adapter is provided to which the spheres may be attached either directly or by arms. The diameters of the spheres may be the same or may be different diameters.

Abstract: An incremental forming method includes pressing a rod-shaped tool into a workpiece and stretching the workpiece little by little while moving the rod-shaped tool so that a percentage of decrease in plate thickness of the workpiece after forming with respect to plate thickness of the workpiece before forming is made to be within a range of 35% to 40%, inclusive.

Abstract: A forming system includes first and second tools, moving assemblies, and a control unit. The moving assemblies move the first tool and the second tool relative to the sheet. The control unit is configured to control movement of the first tool and the second tool by the one or more moving assemblies by moving at least one of the first tool or the second tool in a first deformation direction to deform the sheet, then moving the first and second tools laterally relative to the sheet to a subsequent location while engaging the sheet, then moving at least one of the first tool or the second tool in the first deformation direction or an opposite second deformation direction to deform the sheet, and then continue moving the first and second tools to deform the sheet in order to create a three-dimensional component from the sheet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a collar to the end of a pipe. The apparatus comprises an attachment clamp surrounding the pipe and a body part, connected by hinging to a pivoting cradle having a forming cone, which can enter the end of the pipe. In the method, the forming cone is moved axially and obliquely to the central axis of the pipe, inside the pipe until it contacts the inner surface of the pipe, the forming cone being loaded with the desired load pressure against the inner surface. The forming cone is then pivoted using a pivoting cradle outwards from the central axis of the pipe, around the inner edge of the attachment clamp, and the forming cone and pipe are simultaneously rotated with respect to each other around the central axis of the pipe until the desired collar has formed.

Abstract: A radial dimension of a pipe is changed by applying contiguous pipe contacting surfaces of adjacent cam rollers. Pipe contacting surfaces uniformly vary in width of curvatures as distances change between a center of rotation of the cam rollers and the pipe contacting surfaces side walls of the cam rollers are shaped and adjacent. Bevel gear teeth on sloped side walls force all rollers to turn uniformly. Cylinders on a frame surrounding the pipe drive pistons, lever arms and cam rollers that move the pipe wall. Radial forces on the cam rollers hold sloped side walls adjacent, bevel gears engaged and pipe contacting surfaces contiguous. Smoothly deforming a pipe wall inward forms a nozzle sat an end, a restrictor, a pipe closure, a solid rod or a pipe joint. In a joint, outer and inner pipe walls are moved inward respectively beyond and within elastic limits, ensuring tightness.

Abstract: A method of incrementally forming a workpiece. The method may include incrementally forming a stiffening feature on the workpiece and incrementally forming a part on the workpiece. A gap between forming tools may be decreased to reform the part.

Abstract: A portable handheld device for introducing an external profile into a longitudinal workpiece by noncutting shaping includes a locking element and a profiling tool having a pitchless profile disposed opposite the locking element and disposable at an adjustable angle as a function of a desired lead angle of the external profile within a force transmission plane, wherein the workpiece is disposable and removable between the profiling tool and the locking element, and wherein the profile tool and the locking element are configured to execute a feed movement relative to one another and to be adjustable to a neutral position.

Abstract: A method of incrementally forming a workpiece. The method includes incrementally forming a first monotonic wrap surface in a first direction and incrementally forming a second wrap surface in a second direction disposed opposite the first direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for preparing the end faces of thin-walled jackets for welding, comprising a housing (1), on which an annular separator (2) is mounted, said separator containing at least two groups of elongated deformation elements (4, 6). The longitudinal axes of the deformation elements (4) of a first group are aligned radially in relation to the central axis of the separator (2) and the longitudinal axes of the deformation elements (6) of a second group are aligned at an acute angle (?) in relation to a radial through the central axis of the separator (2).

Abstract: A system and method for incrementally forming a workpiece. A first manipulator is configured to move a first tool in multiple directions along a first surface of a workpiece. A second manipulator is configured to move a second tool in multiple directions along a second surface of the workpiece. The first and second tools move along first and second predetermined paths of motion and exert force to form the workpiece.

Abstract: A closing machine (1) for closing an open end of a work piece (9) by pressing a die (4) against the work piece (9) rotating about an axial center comprises a chuck spindle (20) that drives the work piece (9) to rotate, a chuck sliding support mechanism (62) that supports the work piece (9) so that the work piece (9) can move in a rotary axis direction relative to the chuck spindle (20), and a thrust stopper (6) that causes an end portion of the work piece (9), which is moved by a load applied from the die (4), to abut against the thrust stopper (6) such that the work piece (9) is supported in a predetermined closing position.

Abstract: A method of incrementally forming a workpiece. The method includes determining a desired workpiece geometry, generating a tool path in which a feature is formed outwardly from a point that is disposed a maximum distance from a reference position, and incrementally forming the workpiece.

Abstract: A closing machine includes left and right chuck spindles (20) for driving a work piece (9) to rotate, a chuck spindle moving device (30) which moves the respective chuck spindles (20) in a horizontal direction orthogonal to a rotary axis O20 thereof, and left and right slide stoppers (34) for restricting the movement of the chuck spindles (20). The work piece (9) is introduced into each chuck spindle (20), and the chuck spindle moving device (30) moves the respective chuck spindles (20) until the movement of the respective chuck spindles (20) is stopped by the respective slide stoppers (34). During a closing operation, the rotary axis O20 of the chuck spindle (20) and a rotary axis O4 of a die (4) are offset in the horizontal direction by an offset S.

Abstract: A process and apparatus to make an edge or a collar featuring a complex structure on extruded, deep-drawn and deep-drawn/wire-drawn metal rough pieces with which bottles for the beverage and food sector or for technical use are particularly obtained, suitable for the application of a closing cap and fit to use on a tapering machine. The process includes a starting operating stage to deform an upper end portion of a metal holder by turning it outwardly so as to obtain an edge or a collar with a basically circular section, one or more intermediate operating stages to deform the edge or collar by squeezing in the radial direction and stretching towards the bottom of the metal holder, a final operating deformation stage to obtain an edge or collar with a complex ovoidal profile for the application of at least two caps of different types.

Abstract: Interchangeable tubing manipulating appliances for use with nut driving tools are disclosed for tubing manipulation, cutting, bending and the like. The appliances include tubing locating and stabilizing structure and securement for aligning and stabilizing the locating and stabilizing structure at one side of the driving tool adjacent to its nut driving head. A rotatable member is engagable at the nut driving head for selective rotation thereof relative to the tubing locating and stabilizing structure. The rotatable member includes a tubing engaging portion and a faceted engagable portion receivable at the nut driving tool. Embodied for tubing cutting, a cutting utility is included mounted adjacent the securement. The rotatable member receives and rotates the tubing. Embodied as a tubing bender, the rotatable member includes a tubing guide end, the locating and stabilizing structure adapted to receive tubing thereat and having an opening for receipt of the rotatable member therethrough.

Abstract: A press-molding device (80) press molds a bottom portion of a work piece (9) having a closed-end shape between an, inner die (521) inserted into the work piece (9) and an outer die (551) disposed on an outside of the work piece (9). A chuck position switching mechanism (501) grips the work piece (9) so that the work piece (9) can move in an axial direction. An inner die moving mechanism (522) inserts the inner die (521) into the inside end of the work piece (9). A stopper mechanism (531) supports the inner die (521) in a processing position by restricting movement of the inner die (521). An outer die moving mechanism (552) press-molds the bottom portion of the work piece (9) between the outer die (551) and the inner die (521), thereby press-molding the workpiece (9) smoothly without damaging an inner peripheral surface of the workpiece (9).

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a platform, a stylus, and an ultrasonic energy generation system. The platform may be capable of holding a sheet of material. The stylus may be capable of impinging the sheet of material to incrementally form a shape for a part. The ultrasonic energy generation system may be capable of sending ultrasonic energy into at least a portion of the sheet of material in a location on the sheet of material where the stylus impinges the sheet of material.

Abstract: A closing machine (1) for closing a work piece (9) by pressing a rotating die (4) against the rotating work piece (9) comprises a die support shaft (41) that supports the die (4), which is disposed coaxially with the work piece (9), rotatably, a power transmission mechanism (401) which transmits the torque of a motor 46 to the die support shaft (41) and a one-way clutch (410) which blocks torque that is input into the power transmission mechanism (401) from the die support shaft (41). During a closing operation, the die (4) is pressed against the work piece (9) so as to contact the work piece (9) slidingly such that the die (4) rotates in accordance with the work piece (9), which rotates at a higher speed than the die (4).

Abstract: A drawing apparatus is capable of releasing a material, the inner surface of which has been formed into a concavo-convex shape with drawing, from a mold with excellent release performance, even in the case where the concavo-convex part formed in the inner surface of the product is of a shape causing it to get caught in the direction of pulling out of the product against the mold. The mold is formed in a split structure having a concavo-convex surface shape and is contractible in diameter after the forming of the material.

Abstract: Interchangeable tubing manipulating appliances for use with nut driving tools are disclosed for tubing manipulation, cutting, bending and the like. The appliances include tubing locating and stabilizing structure and securement for aligning and stabilizing the locating and stabilizing structure at one side of the driving tool adjacent to its nut driving head. A rotatable member is engagable at the nut driving head for selective rotation thereof relative to the tubing locating and stabilizing structure. The rotatable member includes a tubing engaging portion and a faceted engagable portion receivable at the nut driving tool. Embodied for tubing cutting, a cutting utility is included mounted adjacent the securement. The rotatable member receives and rotates the tubing. Embodied as a tubing bender, the rotatable member includes a tubing guide end, the locating and stabilizing structure adapted to receive tubing thereat and having an opening for receipt of the rotatable member therethrough.

Abstract: A tool and process for flaring an open end of a hollow metal tube utilizes a body having an elongated working surface which is substantially conical in shape so that one end of the working surface is a smaller end and so that the other end of the working surface is a larger end. The working surface further includes at least two outwardly-extending, smooth-surfaced protuberances which are regularly spaced around the working surface and which extend along the length thereof so that by rotating the tool about its longitudinal axis, inserting the smaller end of the working surface into an open end of a hollow metal tubing, and then urging the working surface against the open end of the metal tubing, the open end of the metal tubing is flared by the working surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a one-piece flexible tube connector includes obtaining a tube blank having an initial length, an initial outer diameter, and an initial wall thickness. The tube blank is secured in a fixture and fed longitudinally into a forming tool. During the forming process, one of the tube blank and the forming tool is spun increasing an initial wall thickness of a portion of the tube blank to a second wall thickness, while the initial outer diameter of the tube blank is controlled. The thickened portion of the tube blank extends along a second length of the tube blank that is less than the initial length. After the spinning process, an attachment feature, such as a barbed feature, is formed or machined into the thickened portion of the tube blank to produce the one-piece flexible tube connector.

Abstract: A method and tool for producing a flow formed part are disclosed, wherein the tool has an annular array of spline forming recesses for producing a flow formed part having splines and machining and production costs are minimized and efficiency is maximized.

Abstract: In order to provide a method and apparatus for forming a sheet metal, in which a three-dimensional product such as a prototype for commercialized press-forming can be formed in short time without limitations as to the shape and with high accuracy, preventing body wrinkles or reduction of the sheet thickness, a process of: performing drawing-forming to a predetermine height by pushing the forming punch having a desired shape in the sheet thickness direction with the edges of the blank workpiece being clamped; performing shape-forming with the shaping tool in the opposite side to the forming punch by increasing a clamping pressure to lock movement of a material with the forming punch being pushed; performing drawing-forming again by decreasing the clamping pressure and raising the forming punch by a desired height; and performing shape-forming with the shaping tool by increasing the clamping pressure to lock movement of a material, is repeated at least once.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a workpiece to a desired, non-planar configuration are provided. At least one friction stir forming tool, having a shoulder and a pin, is used to urge the workpiece to the desired configuration and friction stir form the workpiece. The forming tool can urge the workpiece against a contour surface of a die or a shoulder that is opposite the structural member from the tool. Thus, the forming tool plasticizes a portion of the workpiece and urges the workpiece to the desired configuration. In addition, the material properties of the workpiece can be improved by the friction stir processing.

Abstract: A device for forming a circumferential groove in a pipe is disclosed. The pipe has an inner and an outer surface. The device has a first roller tool, which engages the outer surface of the pipe, and a second roller tool, which engages the inner surface of the pipe. The roller tools are arranged opposite to one another and are rotated relative to the pipe while being forced toward each other, thereby cooperating to form the groove. To prevent excessive thinning of the pipe wall, the roller tools are offset from each other along their axes of rotation. The midpoint of facing circumferential surfaces on each roller tool serves as a measuring point for the relative offset.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cold forming a battery terminal having a base and an insert. The insert includes a first portion encapsulated within the base and a second portion that extends beyond a first side of the base.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a forming machine for working a workpiece, for example by deforming it or fixing it in another workpiece, in which the workpiece is fitted over a mandrel, at least a part of the mandrel is expanded so as to fix the workpiece, the workpiece and at least one tool, such as a forming roller, are rotated about an axis relative to each other and the workpiece is worked by means of said tool. Less than half of the expanded or expandable part of the mandrel engages portions of the workpiece that are being worked with the tool.

Abstract: A tool and method of manufacturing a tool for making ballpoint pen tips, called rough tips, in their seat zone and preferably in their cone zone. The tool is mounted in fast-rotating precision spindles and the position of the tool may be adjusted to adjust the dimensions of the tip to be formed by the tool. The equipment is configured in a single-piece unit. A seat zone element for making the seat zone and preferably a cone element for making the cone of the tip may be formed on a base component.

Abstract: A multilayer metal gasket for an internal combustion engine having an integrated sensor or sensors, such as a pressure sensor. The sensor is located within a combustion cylinder opening in the gasket. Preferably, a sensor is located within each combustion cylinder opening of the gasket. The gasket may also include an integrated sensor signal conditioning module. The gasket is made by a method which includes forming the necessary sensor housings and signal line channels within the spacing layers of the gasket.

Abstract: A lipping tool for lipping an acetabular reamer, the lipping tool comprising a bending form having a bending form curved surface and a bending form axis of rotation; and a pressure tool having a pressure tool curved surface adjacent to and complimentary with the bending form curved surface. The pressure tool has a pressure tool axis. The pressure tool being rotatable about the pressure tool axis, the pressure tool being also rotatable about the bending form axis.

Abstract: An incremental forming apparatus 100 holds a workpiece 10 onto a table 110. A spindle is disposed perpendicularly above table 110. For incremental forming, an incremental forming tool 150 is mounted on the spindle, and a form portion 20 is formed on the workpiece 10. When incremental forming is completed, the tool on the spindle is replaced with a straightening tool 200, and hot air is blown out from the straightening tool 200 to anneal the edge lines 20a and 20b of the form portion 20 and to eliminate process strain.

Abstract: A method for cold forming splined transmission hubs is provided. A blank (10) with an inner surface and an outer surface is secured on a tool insert support member (100). The tool insert support member (100) has an internal spline tooth profile (110) machined into it. A forming roller (120) is inserted inside the blank and then moves radially under pressure until it contacts an inner surface of the blank. A set of teeth (111) are created on the outer surface of the blank (10) and the blank (10) is rotated relative to the forming roller (120) to form an oil reservoir on the inner surface of the blank.

Abstract: A tube flaring machine having a frame having an upper end and having a lower end; a tube clamp having a plurality of radially arranged clamping shoes; a collet ring and a gantry fixedly attached to and overlying the collet ring; a radially segmented anvil ring cumulatively forming an outwardly and downwardly flared anvil surface, the segments of the anvil ring being attached to lower ends of the clamping shoes; a mandrel including orbiting rollers having outwardly and downwardly flared outer surfaces; a mandrel guiding plate interconnecting the mandrel and the frame and positioning the mandrel below the anvil ring; a hydraulic motor for orbiting and rotating the rollers; and a hydraulic ram operatively connected to the frame for moving the mandrel and the anvil ring toward each other for compression and flaring therebetween of a pipe's end.

Abstract: This invention has an object of diminishing an inside diameter while securing the area of the terminal edge larger, at the extremity of a cylindrical body made of a metal used for a vibration isolating bushing and the like. Accordingly, the present invention provides a manufacturing method of vibration isolating bushing 10 serving to stick the rubber elastomer 16 to the outer circumference of an inner cylinder 12 made of a metal by means of vulcanization forming, by diminishing in diameter the extremity 18 by cold plastic working while turning a diameter diminishing jig 40 and pressing against the circumferential surface of the axial extremity 18 of the inner cylinder 12, and further by enlarging and forming the terminal edge 19 by cold plastic working while turning an upsetting jig 50 and pressing against the terminal edge 19 at the extremity 18 being diminished in diameter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wobble die (9) for shaping the internal contour or the external contour of a workpiece (4) in a wobble process. Thereby a wobble movement is initially selected. The three-dimensional geometry of the workpiece (4) is described. From the three-dimensional geometry of the workpiece (4) there is prescribed a virtual die (5), the shape of which corresponds in substance to the negative geometry of the workpiece (4). The virtual die (5) is deformed, taking into account the parameters of the selected wobble movement, to a geometry describing the wobble die (9). Finally, a wobble die (9) is produced on the basis of the geometry obtained in the preceding step.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method using steps of placing a tube in an opening matrix having an impression corresponding to the desired final external shape; inserting the end of the tube into a cavity of a shaping component, the cavity having a base, a side wall with adapted shape, and an opening opposite the base; pressing the end of the tube against the base of the cavity, leaving a clearance between the opening of the cavity and the matrix; applying an essentially axial force on the end of the tube, the zone application of the force rotating about a longitudinal axis of the tube thereby causing gradual deformation of the tube; withdrawing the end of the deformed tube outside the cavity of the shaping component and outside the matrix.

Abstract: A cylindrical portion formed in the inside end portion of the hub is caulked and spread using a pressing mold assembled to an oscillating/caulking apparatus to thereby form the caulking portion. In working or forming the caulking portion, a cylindrical projecting portion formed in the central portion of the leading end face of the pressing mold is inserted into the cylindrical portion to thereby prevent the inside diameter of the cylindrical portion from reducing excessively.

Abstract: When a shape of the cylindrical portion (8b) to be formed into the calking portion (9b) is devised and when a sectional shape of the annular recess portion (23) of the die (15a) for plastically deforming the cylindrical portion (8b) is devised, the calking portion (9b) is continuously given a compressive average stress during the process of working.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for forming sheet material into contoured parts. The invention method includes these steps: A die is fashioned having an outside surface corresponding to the inside surface of the desired part. A plastically deformable sheet of material is clamped to the die so that the material is tangent to the die at a tangent area. A forming path is defined that follows the part's outside surface definition beginning at a point adjacent to the tangent area and tracing around the tangent area in circuits that incrementally offset away from the tangent area until all of the outside surface of the part is traced. A forming tool is then moved along the forming path so that the end of the forming tool presses the sheet material against the die thereby gradually forming the sheet material against the die to produce a finished formed part.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming cylindrical magnetic assemblies for rotating electrical machines. The apparatus and method pre-bends and finally bends a flange of the supporting shell to lock the permanent magnets in place. This is done in a single station and in two steps by way of an apparatus that permits handling of cylindrical bodies of considerably different diameters and lengths.

Abstract: The invention is intended to reduce the installation cost and running cost, minimize the production cost and increase the tooth surface strength of hypoid teeth.

Abstract: A method of cold forming a capped cylinder with geometrically spaced torsional engagement radial projections on an exterior side of the capped cylinder is provided. The method includes the step of striking a generally flat blank to form a drawn part having a first capped portion and a second cylindrical portion adjacent an open end of the capped cylinder, placing the drawn part with the capped portion into a die with a cylindrical cavity portion having a first diameter with radial projections extending to a second diameter greater than said first diameter; inserting into the drawn part open end a mandrel, and rotating said mandrel with respect to the drawn part to plastically deform the drawn part cylindrical portion radially outward into the die cylindrical portion to cold form the radial projections on the exterior side of the second cylindrical portion of the capped cylinder.

Abstract: A flange is formed on a workpiece by first mounting the workpiece in an inner holder shiftable along about a main axis and securing the inner holder against rotation about the main axis. A roller is rotated about the main axis adjacent the inner holder. Then the inner holder and workpiece are displaced axially to press the workpiece axially against the roller and deform the workpiece and form a flange thereon. This is done without heating the workpiece, that is in a cold-forming operation.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted to condition the outer flanges of a vehicle wheel includes a main base assembly secured to a fixed surface, a lower tool assembly operatively supported by the main base assembly, at least one upper drive assembly operatively supported by the main base assembly, and an upper rim guide assembly. The upper drive assembly of the apparatus includes an electric servo drive unit operatively connected to drive a conditioner roll having an outer surface provided with a predetermined profile adapted to engage and condition at least one of the outer flanges of the vehicle wheel.