EP0523216B1 - Vorrichtung zum hydrostatischen umformen von hohlkörpern aus kaltumformbarem metall - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum hydrostatischen umformen von hohlkörpern aus kaltumformbarem metall Download PDF

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EP0523216B1
EP0523216B1 EP92903604A EP92903604A EP0523216B1 EP 0523216 B1 EP0523216 B1 EP 0523216B1 EP 92903604 A EP92903604 A EP 92903604A EP 92903604 A EP92903604 A EP 92903604A EP 0523216 B1 EP0523216 B1 EP 0523216B1
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Wilhelm Kaiser
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D26/00—Shaping without cutting otherwise than using rigid devices or tools or yieldable or resilient pads, i.e. applying fluid pressure or magnetic forces
    • B21D26/02—Shaping without cutting otherwise than using rigid devices or tools or yieldable or resilient pads, i.e. applying fluid pressure or magnetic forces by applying fluid pressure
    • B21D26/033—Deforming tubular bodies
    • B21D26/045—Closing or sealing means

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  • the invention relates to a device for the hydrostatic shaping of hollow bodies made of cold-formable metal within a mold cavity of a die, with a feed for the pressure fluid into the hollow body in the form of a pressure fluid that can be moved back and forth relative to the hollow body received in the die, and lockable in the feed position leading feed sleeve, which can be pushed with an insertion opening ahead onto a cylindrical support or connection area of the hollow body located outside the mold cavity of the die and which encompasses the support or connection area in the feed position by means of a seal which is automatically sealed by liquid pressure, and wherein the feed opening of the feed sleeve is approximately funnel-shaped and is provided with an axially outwardly opening, approximately frustoconical inner surface, to which there is an essentially circular cylindrical interior mantle surface connects.
  • hollow parts produced in this way is, on the one hand, that - e.g. In the case of permanent mold casting - undercut internal cavities can be created, which can either not be machined or only be manufactured with complicated tools (e.g. by spark erosion).
  • the known hollow parts - in contrast to the hollow parts produced by machining - are relatively light and, as a result of the strain hardening associated with the deformation, with a favorable fiber orientation, which is similar to that of a forged fiber, are very resistant.
  • the known hydroforming is always limited to parts in which the force-acting lines for introducing the axial forces, that is to say the ram and the longitudinal central axis of the tube, exactly coincide.
  • the longitudinal axis of the protuberance which is sectorally produced to match the die engraving, runs transversely to the force line of the press ram and the tube (see "Industrial Indicator", loc. Cit., P. 17, fig. 4 and 8).
  • EP-A-0 347 369 it is already known to accommodate the two-sided support or connection areas of the tubular hollow body to be deformed in feed sleeves.
  • the known feed sleeves have toroidal, tubular, hollow, self-sealing seals which encompass the two support or connection areas of the hollow body.
  • the known tubular seals are pressurized with a pressure medium pressure which is substantially higher than the forming pressure of the pressure medium acting on the interior of the hollow body.
  • the support or connection areas on the hollow body side are held immovably as in a pair of pliers during the forming phase according to EP 0 347 369 A2.
  • the object of the invention is to design the known device in such a way that not only a faster method of operation, in particular one Workpieces can be changed quickly, but also a long service life of the tool, especially since it is possible with materials that are difficult to form, such as stainless steel.
  • this object is achieved in that the feed sleeve can be driven back and forth, the seal of which forms a grooved collar made of largely incompressible material, which receives the support or connection area relatively displaceably to it, and that at least the circular cylindrical inner surface, optionally also the frustoconical Inner surface, the insertion opening are provided with a granular hard metal layer.
  • the device according to the invention allows a high working frequency. This is because only the hollow body to be formed needs to be inserted into the die, which can be done automatically, for example, using a loading robot, whereupon the respective feed sleeve is moved translationally in the direction of the die and is thereby pushed onto the cylindrical support or connection area of the hollow body. As soon as the hydraulic fluid guided by the feed sleeve is pressurized, the grooved ring seal fits snugly against the outer surface of the support or connection area on the hollow body side and tensions itself under the action of the same pressure medium pressure, which also causes the hollow body to be deformed.
  • the grooved collar is relieved, whereupon the feed sleeve, the deformed hollow body and the handling area on the die can be retracted so that it can be operated.
  • a self-sealing sleeve seal has been found to be a grooved ring sleeve made of largely incompressible material.
  • each support or connection area on the hollow body side is accommodated relatively displaceably in the axial direction by the feed sleeve, only the internal pressure acting through the pressure fluid inside the hollow body to be formed can nestle the hollow body wall against the engraving of the die and in this case material from the support body or connection area on the hollow body side received material "drag" into the mold cavity.
  • At least the circular cylindrical inner surface of the insertion opening is provided with a granular hard metal layer.
  • the sleeve seal consists of an elastomeric cast polyurethane resin with a hardness of more than 90 Shore-A, preferably a hardness of 93-95 Shore-A.
  • the insertion opening is part of a union nut spanning a sleeve body, the grooved ring collar is held between the union nut and the sleeve body.
  • the granular hard metal layer is a spark erosion coating with tungsten carbide particles with a hardness of approximately 80 to approximately 82 HRc.
  • the feed sleeve is hydraulically and / or pneumatically driven in translation. This is expediently done in that the feed sleeve arranged coaxially to the circular cylindrical support or connection area of the hollow body is held coaxially at the free piston rod end of a pneumatically and / or hydraulically driven piston-cylinder unit.
  • the device for hydrostatic shaping of hollow bodies which is partially shown in FIG. 1, is designated overall by reference number 10.
  • a die 12 which consists of an upper die 13 and a lower die 14, is fastened on a press table 11.
  • Upper die 13 and lower die 14 form an upper mold cavity 15 and a lower mold cavity 16, which together add up to a common mold cavity 17.
  • the engraving 18 of the mold cavity 17 determines the surface contour of a tubular hollow body 19 as soon as it is hydrostatically deformed within the mold cavity 17 by expansion.
  • the interior of the hollow body 19 is designated 20.
  • the upper die 13 can be moved in accordance with the movement arrow denoted by y be moved up and down.
  • the upper die 13 is releasably attached to a press upper part, not shown.
  • the cross section of the supporting or connecting area 22 is approximately circular.
  • An infeed sleeve 23 is arranged coaxially at the end of a piston rod end 24, shown in broken lines, of a hydraulically driven piston-cylinder unit.
  • the entire feed sleeve 23 is essentially rotationally symmetrical, as is the piston rod end 24.
  • the feed sleeve 23 has a sleeve body 25, the extension 26 pointing to the right has an external thread 27 which is screwed into a corresponding internal thread of the piston rod end 24 in a liquid-tight and pressure-tight manner.
  • the feed sleeve 23 has an inner channel 28 which is open at both ends and runs coaxially to it for the transmission of hydraulic pressure fluid (for example an emulsion suitable for hydraulic purposes).
  • An angular channel 29 provided inside the piston rod end 24 opens into the channel 28.
  • a tubular high-pressure line 31 connects to the connection 30 of the channel 29 on the piston rod side. which leads to a high pressure generator (not shown) for the hydraulic fluid.
  • a union nut 32 is screwed onto an external thread of the socket body 25 at 33.
  • the radial inner surface 34 of the union nut 32 and the front end region of the channel 28 of the sleeve body 25 form an annular inner groove 35, in which a sleeve seal, namely a groove ring sleeve 36, is received in a form-fitting manner.
  • the grooved collar 36 has an annular base body 37, to which two sealing lips 38, 39 are integrally connected, which form an annular groove 40 between them, which backwards, i.e. towards the liquid connection 30, is open.
  • the radially extending disk-shaped wall 41 of the union nut 32 forms an insertion opening 42 which is composed of a frustoconical inner surface 43 and an adjoining circular cylindrical inner surface 44.
  • the surfaces 43 and 44 are each provided with a granular hard metal layer 49 and 48, which consists of tungsten carbide particles and has a hardness of approximately 82 HRc.
  • the tungsten carbide particles are applied by electrical discharge and intimately connected to the union nut 32 made of hardened steel.
  • the feed sleeve 23 with the piston rod end 24 is translationally movable back and forth along the movement double arrow denoted by x.
  • the feed sleeve 23 is shifted to the left along x and first reaches the intermediate position shown in broken lines, according to which the front end of the tubular hollow body 19, which is open at 45, is passed over.
  • the feed sleeve 23 is further shifted to the left along x until the union nut 32 fits snugly in the receiving opening 46 on the die side.
  • Piston rod ends 24 with feed sleeve 23 are then locked in this feed position, not shown, against displacement along the direction x. This is done in a simple manner in that the hydraulic working pressure in the hydraulic cylinder, of which only the piston rod end 24 is shown, remains.
  • hydraulic fluid is introduced into the interior 20 of the tubular hollow body 19 via the line path 31, 30, 28.
  • the hydrostatic internal pressure builds up via a filling pressure of approximately 65-80 bar to a forming pressure of up to approximately 1500 bar, at which the hydrostatic forming is to be ended in the present application.
  • This clawing locking prevents the material of the grooved collar 36 from migrating or creeping along the outer lateral surface A of the tubular hollow body 19.
  • a tendency to creep would occur without the aforementioned measure at pressures above 800-1000 bar.
  • Such pressures which can easily reach 3000 bar and more, are particularly necessary when forming stainless steels.
  • the frustoconical inner surface 43 serves for self-centering of the holding area 22 within the insertion opening 42.
  • the hard metal layer 49 on the frustoconical inner surface 43 therefore counteracts wear on the union nut 32.
  • the grooved collar 36 consists of an elastomeric cast polyurethane resin sold under the trademark " Vulkollan " by Bayer AG, DE-5090 Leverkusen, with a hardness of 93 Shore-A.
  • hydraulic fluid can be fed at both ends into a hollow body 19 to be formed, via identical feed sleeves 23.
  • a blind sleeve 23 is used, which has no pressure medium feed, since the channel 28 has an end at 47 at the end.
  • Channel 28 is used in the blind sleeve 23 and in the feed sleeve 23 for the essentially axial force-free sliding seat receptacle of the support or connection area 22 on the hollow body side.

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EP92903604A 1991-02-01 1992-01-31 Vorrichtung zum hydrostatischen umformen von hohlkörpern aus kaltumformbarem metall Expired - Lifetime EP0523216B1 (de)

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PCT/DE1992/000063 WO1992013655A1 (de) 1991-02-01 1992-01-31 Vorrichtung zum hydrostatischen umformen von hohlkörpern aus kaltumformbarem metall

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