EP1197274B1 - Innenhochdruckumformungspresse - Google Patents

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EP1197274B1
EP1197274B1 EP01127374A EP01127374A EP1197274B1 EP 1197274 B1 EP1197274 B1 EP 1197274B1 EP 01127374 A EP01127374 A EP 01127374A EP 01127374 A EP01127374 A EP 01127374A EP 1197274 B1 EP1197274 B1 EP 1197274B1
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Frederico G. Jaekel
Frank A. Horton
Arthur L. Lee
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Cosma International Inc
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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
    • B21D26/041—Means for controlling fluid parameters, e.g. pressure or temperature

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  • the tube-end engaging structure seals opposite ends of the tubular metal blank in said die cavity and is movable to longitudinally.
  • the side ram assemblies 28 and 30 of the present invention employ pressur intensifying structures 110 within tube-end engaging structures 36 and 38, there is no need to provide a separate, costly "intensifier" system for providing high internal pressures to expand the tube.
  • intensifiers are normally required in high pressure hydroforming systems (i.e., hydroforming systems that utilize hydraulic expansion pressures greater than 2,000 atmospheres), and heretofore have been particularly required in high pressure hydroforming operations in which the opposite ends of a tube are engaged and forced inwardly to effect metal material flow along the length of the tube to replenish or maintain the wall thickness of the tube during expansion thereof.
  • intensifiers have been used in conjunction with separate side ram members that are used only to push the opposite ends of the tube inwardly to effect the aforementioned material flow.
  • the frame assembly 222 includes a pair of press side frame members 232 depicted as parallel laterally spaced elongate vertical members for mountin the upper press assembly 224 and lower press assembly 228.
  • the upper ends of the side frame members 232 have a crown plate 234 mounted across the tops thereof.
  • the crown plate 234 serves as support for parts of the hydraulic fluid system, to be described later.
  • a front end portion of the tube-end engaging structure 282 that protrudes beyond the front member 276 of the cylinder 274 is of slightly reduced diameter, and at the forward end of this front portion of the piston rod is a tube engaging portion in the form of a tapered nose section 288.
  • the tapered nose section 288 is constructed and arranged to be received within the open end of a tube blank T to be hydroformed.
  • the rearward portion of the tapered nose section 288 preferably has a radially outwardly extending annular flange (not shown) which abuts against the end edge of the tube blank T to enable nose section 288 to apply a substantial force against the tube end in the longitudinal tube direction.
  • the water pump and motor 360 draws hydroforming fluid from the upper gravity tank 330 through line 362 and pumps it through a flex line 364 and a high pressure close-out valve 366.
  • the hydroforming fluid travels into the intensifier chamber 306 from the close-out valve 366.
  • pump and motor 360 is omitted, and hydroforming fluid travels from tank 330 to chamber 306 under force of gravity.
  • the fluid is forced under low pressure from chamber 306 under force of gravity.
  • the fluid is forced under low pressure from chamber 306 into the tube T through the fluid outlet 308 in the nose of the tube-end engaging structure 304.
  • the high pressure seal 301 prevents the hydroforming fluid 350 from tank 330 from mixing with the hydraulic fluid 336 from tank 338.

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Shaping Metal By Deep-Drawing, Or The Like (AREA)

Claims (4)

  1. Vorrichtung (10, 220) zum Hydroverformen eines rohrförmigen Metallrohteils (T), die aufweist:
    eine Werkzeugeinrichtung (12, 228), die eine innere Werkzeugfläche aufweist, welche einen Werkzeughohlraum bildet, wobei der Werkzeughohlraum so aufgebaut und angeordnet ist, dass er das rohrförmige Metallrohteil (T) aufnimmt;
    eine hydraulisch angetriebene, an den Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung (36, 38, 282, 304), die so aufgebaut und angeordnet ist, dass sie an den entgegengesetzten Enden des rohrförmigen Metallrohteils (T) in dem Werkzeughohlraum angreift und diese im Wesentlichen abdichtet, wobei die an Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung (36, 38, 282, 304 beweglich ist, um das rohrförmige Metallrohteil in Längsrichtung zusammenzudrükken,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    eine Hydroformflüssigkeitsquelle (80, 330), die höher als der Werkzeughohlraum angeordnet ist, und so aufgebaut und angeordnet ist, dass dem rohrförmigen Metallrohteil (T) innerlich Hydroformflüssigkeit unter Schwerkraft zugeführt werden kann;
    wobei die an den Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung (36, 38, 282, 304) so aufgebaut und angeordnet ist, dass sie Hydroformflüssigkeit von der Hydroformflüssigkeitsquelle (80, 330) aufnimmt, und einen Hydrofromflüssigkeits-Zufuhrauslass aufweist, durch den Hydroformflüssigkeit einem Inneren des rohrförmigen Metallrohteils (T) zur Verfügung gestellt werden kann; und
    eine hydraulisch angetriebene Druckverstärkungseinrichtung (110, 300), die als Reaktion auf den hydraulischen Flüssigkeitsdruck bewegt werden kann, um die dem Inneren des rohrförmigen Metallrohteils (T) zur Verfügung gestellte Hydroformflüssigkeit unter Druck zu setzen und hierdurch einen Durchmesser des Rohteils (T) aufzuweiten, bis eine Außenfläche des rohrförmigen Metallrohteils (T) im Wesentlichen konform zur inneren Werkzeugfläche ist, wobei die hydraulisch angetriebene, an den Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung (36, 38, 282, 304) beweglich ist in Reaktion auf den hydraulischen Flüssigkeitsdruck, damit die an den Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung (36, 38, 282, 304) das rohrförmige Metallrohteil (T) in Längsrichtung zusammendrücken kann und Metallmaterial des in Richtung des Durchmessers aufgeweiteten Rohteiles veranlasst, in Längsrichtung nach innen zu fließen, um eine Wandstärke des in Richtung Durchmesser aufgeweiteten rohrförmigen Metallrohteils aufzufüllen, und um dessen Wandstärke innerhalb eines vorbestimmten Bereiches zu halten.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, bei der die Hydroformflüssigkeitsquelle (330) Hydroformflüssigkeit durch einen ersten Pfad (334) zur Verfügung stellt, um den rohrförmigen Metallrohteil (T) zu füllen, bevor die an den Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung (282, 304) mit den gegenüberliegenden Enden des rohrförmigen Metallrohteils (T) in Eingriff kommt, und bei der die Hydroformflüssigkeitsquelle (330) Hydroformflüssigkeit über einen zweiten, vom ersten Pfad (334) verschiedenen Pfad (362) der an den Rohrenden angreifenden Einrichtung und durch den Flüssigkeits-Zufuhrauslass in das rohrförmige Metallrohteil (T) zur Verfügung stellt, nachdem die an den Rohrenden angreifende Einrichtung mit den entgegengesetzten Enden des rohrförmigen Metallrohteils in Eingriff ist.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, bei der sich die Hydroformflüssigkeit unter Schwerkraft durch den ersten Pfad (334) und durch den zweiten Pfad (362) bewegt.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3, bei der der zweite Pfad (362) eine Pumpe (360) aufweist, um das Strömen der Hydroformflüssigkeit zu der die Rohrenden angreifenden Einrichtung (304) zu erleichtern.
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