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EP2329897B1
EP2329897B1 EP09814390A EP09814390A EP2329897B1 EP 2329897 B1 EP2329897 B1 EP 2329897B1 EP 09814390 A EP09814390 A EP 09814390A EP 09814390 A EP09814390 A EP 09814390A EP 2329897 B1 EP2329897 B1 EP 2329897B1
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Ryuichi Inoue
Nozomu Kawabe
Yukihiro Oishi
Nobuyuki Okuda
Nobuyuki Mori
Masatada Numano
Takahiko Kitamura
Koji Mori
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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
    • B21D5/00—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves
    • 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
    • B21D22/00—Shaping without cutting, by stamping, spinning, or deep-drawing
    • B21D22/02—Stamping using rigid devices or tools
    • 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
    • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
    • B21D51/16—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects
    • B21D51/18—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects vessels, e.g. tubs, vats, tanks, sinks, or the like
    • 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
    • B21D22/00—Shaping without cutting, by stamping, spinning, or deep-drawing
    • B21D22/20—Deep-drawing
    • 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
    • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
    • B21D51/16—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects
    • B21D51/52—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects boxes, cigarette cases, or the like
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/12—All metal or with adjacent metals
    • Y10T428/12382—Defined configuration of both thickness and nonthickness surface or angle therebetween [e.g., rounded corners, etc.]

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  • the present invention relates to a pressed product to be used, for example, for the housing of a portable electronic device, particularly to a pressed product having a sharp corner portion.
  • Metal such as aluminum or its alloy is used as the material for the housing of a portable electronic device or the like, such as a cellular phone and a note-book-type personal computer. Generally, in comparison with resin, metal has a higher strength and is more resistant to an impact.
  • magnesium alloys have been used which are formed by adding various elements to magnesium. Although a magnesium alloy has excellent specific strength and specific rigidity, it has poor plastic workability at ordinary temperatures because it has a hexagonal crystalline structure (hexagonal close-packed structure). Consequently, the housing and the like are mainly formed by using a cast product produced by a die-casting process or a thixomold process. In recent years, engineers have been studying the performing of press working on a magnesium alloy (Patent Literatures 1 and 2).
  • a typical shape of the housing is a box type provided with a rectangular top plate and four side walls formed from the edges of the top plate.
  • the market desires to obtain a housing having sharpness both at the corner portion connecting the top plate and the side wall and at the corner portion connecting two side walls. It is likely that a housing having sharp corner portions can be formed when the injection molding of resin or casting is used. Nevertheless, a resinous product and a cast product generally have a lower strength than that of a pressed product of metal.
  • JP 9 001253A discloses a socket for a hose union formed by press working to have a sharp corner at the outer peripheral face of the end cap of the socket.
  • Examples of the present invention offer a shaped body having a sharp corner portion and having high strength. More specifically, the present invention offers a pressed product produced by press-forming a blank metal plate as set out in claim 1.
  • the pressed product of the present invention is formed by the press forming of a metal plate, in addition to the strength of the material itself, the strength can be increased by the plastic working, so that the entire pressed product has high strength. Furthermore, because the pressed product of the present invention has the foregoing sharp corner portion, it can give an impression of stylishness with a refined design. As a result, it is expected that the pressed product has excellent appearance as a commodity and therefore has an enhanced commercial value.
  • the above-described pressed product of the present invention having a sharp corner portion can be produced, for example, by performing the below-described multistage press working on a blank plate made of metal. More specifically, the production method is to produce a pressed product having a corner portion by performing press working on a metal plate and has the steps described below.
  • a step of preparing a blank plate this step prepares a blank plate made of metal.
  • a first pressing step this step produces a pressed material that has at least one corner portion connecting two surfaces in the peripheral surface under the condition that the blank plate is heated at a temperature of 200°C or more and 300°C or less.
  • the first press working is performed so that at least one corner portion can have an inside corner radius "r" that is practically 0 mm by using a punch having a shoulder portion with a corner radius Rp that is practically 0 mm.
  • a second pressing step this step produces a pressed product that has at least one corner portion having an outside corner radius R that is equal to or smaller than the thickness "t" of the metal plate by performing the second press working under the condition that the foregoing pressed material is heated at a temperature of 200°C or more and 300°C or less.
  • the second press working is performed so that the above-described corner portion, which has an inside corner radius "r” that is practically 0 mm, can have an outside corner radius R that is equal to or smaller than the foregoing thickness "t" by using a step-shaped punch for pressing both the end face of the pressed material and the corner portion, which has been formed on the inside surface in the first pressing step and which has "r" that is practically 0 mm.
  • a sharp corner portion having an outside corner radius R that is equal to or smaller than the thickness "t" of the metal plate can become easily formed when the blank plate to be pressed has the thinnest possible thickness. Nevertheless, when the blank plate itself is excessively thin, the strength of the pressed product is decreased, so that it cannot satisfy the strength and rigidity required for the housing of a portable electronic device.
  • the corner portion being likely to suffer from an impact at the time of the falling, it can be conceived to form the corner portion at a high working ratio.
  • the corner portion-formed place in the blank plate is partially elongated reducing its thickness. This thickness decrease leads to the reduction in strength.
  • the above-described production method carries out the press forming at a high working ratio by dividing the process into multiple stages as described above, not by a process of one stage. Consequently, the corner portion is prevented from becoming extremely thin, so that the reduction in strength resulting from the thickness reduction can be suppressed.
  • the above-described production method can not only produce a pressed product having a sharp corner portion but also maintain the sharp corner portion for a long period.
  • the above-described production method performs the press working under a heated condition. Consequently, even a metal that has poor plastic workability and therefore develops springback, cracking, or the like in the cold working, such as magnesium alloy having an elongation of 20% or so at the most at ordinary temperatures, can increase the elongation of the object to be worked (the blank plate and pressed material) to 100% or more at the time of the pressing. Furthermore, because the object to be worked has a sufficient elongation, a pressed product that has a corner portion having an extremely small outside corner radius R can be produced with high precision.
  • the pressed product of the present invention has a sharp corner portion and high strength.
  • a corner portion formed on the peripheral surface that is, the corner portion forming the appearance, is sharp.
  • a corner portion formed on the inside surface is also sharp. Consequently, the pressed product has an ample internal space.
  • various components can be adequately housed in the housing.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view for explaining the procedure of the press working in the process of producing a pressed product having a sharp corner.
  • the (A) portion of Fig. 1 shows a state in which a blank plate is placed in a die.
  • the (B) portion of Fig. 1 shows a state in which a pressed material is formed by the first press working.
  • the (C) portion of Fig. 1 shows a state in which a punch is performing pressing in the second press working.
  • the (C') portion of Fig. 1 is a partially enlarged view of the corner portion shown in the (C) portion.
  • the (D) portion of Fig. 1 shows a state in which a pressed product having a sharp corner portion is formed by the second press working.
  • the (E) portion of Fig. 1 shows an obtained pressed product.
  • the pressed product of the present invention may be formed by using various metals having excellent press formability at a temperature range of 200°C or more and 300°C or less.
  • magnesium alloys having various compositions formed by adding various elements to Mg (the remainder: Mg and impurities).
  • the types of magnesium alloy include Mg-Al-based alloy, Mg-Zn-based alloy, Mg-RE (rare-earth element)-based alloy, and Y-added alloy.
  • Mg-Al-based alloy which contains A1, has high corrosion resistance.
  • Mg-Al-based alloy examples include, as specified in the Standards of American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), AZ-family alloy (Mg-Al-Zn-based alloy, Zn: 0.2 to 1.5 mass %), AM-family alloy (Mg-Al-Mn-based alloy, Mn: 0.15 to 0.5 mass %), AS-family alloy (Mg-Al-Si-based alloy, Si: 0.6 to 1.4 mass %), and Mg-Al-RE (rare-earth element)-based alloy. It is desirable that the Al content be 1.0 to at most 11 mass %.
  • an Mg-Al-based alloy containing 8.3 to 9.5 mass % Al and 0.5 to 1.5 mass % Zn represented by AZ91 alloy, has excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties such as strength and resistance to plastic deformation in comparison with other Mg-Al-based alloys such as AZ31 alloy.
  • the types of Mg-Zn-based alloy, containing Zn include, as specified in the ASTM Standards, ZK-family alloy (Mg-Zn-Zr-based alloy, Zn: 3.5 to 6.2 mass %, Zn: 0.45 mass % or more).
  • the pressed product of the present invention is formed by performing press working, such as bending and deep drawing, on a metal plate.
  • the peripheral surface has at least one corner portion that connects two surfaces in the peripheral surface.
  • a typical shape of the pressed product has a top-plate portion (an undersurface portion) and a side-wall portion formed from the edge of the top-plate portion. More specifically, the types of the shape include a box-shaped body having a top-plate portion with the shape of a rectangular plate and only one pair of opposed side-wall portions, a box-shaped body having two pairs of opposed side-wall portions, and a lidded hollow cylindrical body having a top-plate portion with the shape of a circular plate and a hollow cylindrical side-wall portion.
  • the top-plate portion and the side-wall portion each have an outside surface and an inside surface that are practically parallel to each other.
  • the corner portion connecting two outside surfaces is sharp.
  • top-plate portion and side-wall portion are each typically formed with a flat surface; their shape and size are not particularly limited. They may have a unitarily formed or bonded boss or the like. They may have a through hole penetrating from the outside surface to the inside surface or a groove recessed in the thickness direction. They may have a stepped shape. They may have a portion having a locally different thickness, the portion being formed by plastic working or cutting. The portion other than the corner portion has a nearly uniform thickness, except the above-described portions having a boss, a recessed portion, and a different thickness.
  • the thickness "t" of the metal plate forming the pressed product is defined as the average thickness of the entire portion excluding the foregoing boss and the like and the corner portion. More specifically, five or more measuring spots are chosen from the portion other than the above-described portions such as the boss to obtain the average value.
  • the foregoing thickness "t” may be the average thickness of the entire top-plate portion.
  • the thickness "t” mostly depends on the thickness of the blank plate. In the case where the plate is not subjected to the press working, the thickness "t" is practically the same as that of the blank plate.
  • the above-described metal plate has a thickness "t" of 0.4 mm or more and 2.0 mm or less, a pressed product having excellent strength is obtained.
  • the thickness is less than 0.4 mm, because the blank plate is thin, it is easy to form a pressed product having a smaller outside corner radius R. As a result, a pressed product having very excellent appearance, such as stylishness, is obtained.
  • the metal plate has a thickness "t" of 2.0 mm or less; particularly 1.5 mm or less, yet particularly 0.6 mm or less, it is expected that the pressed product of the present invention can be suitably used, for example, for the housing of a portable electronic device.
  • the most noticeable feature of the pressed product of the present invention is that in the peripheral surface, at least one corner portion connecting two surfaces in the peripheral surface has an outside corner radius R that is equal to or smaller than "t.”
  • the conventional pressed product made of a metal plate has had an outside corner radius larger than the thickness of the metal plate; conventionally, no pressed product has satisfied the condition that R is equal to or smaller than "t.”
  • the pressed product of the present invention has at least one corner portion satisfying the condition that R is equal to or smaller than "t.”
  • the corner portion when the outside corner radius R satisfies the condition that R is equal to or smaller than (2/3) x t, the corner portion can easily have a hardness higher than that of the portion other than the corner portion, such as the top-plate portion, so that the corner portion can have improved impact resistance.
  • the condition that R is equal to or smaller than (1/2) ⁇ t is satisfied, the impact resistance of the corner portion and the stylishness can be further improved.
  • the outside corner radius R is 0.1 mm or more, the possibility of being cut or damaged by a sharp corner portion can be reduced.
  • R is 0.3 mm or less, the corner portion can have excellent impact resistance while obtaining good appearance.
  • the decreasing of the outside corner radius R can be achieved, for example, by increasing the pressing pressure in the second pressing step.
  • the inside corner radius "r" becomes practically 0 mm.
  • the two surfaces positioned at the inside of the above-described corner portion are practically perpendicular to each other.
  • Such a pressed product has an ampler internal space than the pressed product having an inside corner radius "r" that is larger than zero and therefore can be suitably used for a housing to be used to house various components.
  • magnesium alloy When magnesium alloy is used to form the blank plate, it is desirable to use a rolled sheet produced by rolling a plurality of times a cast sheet produced by a continuous casting process such as the twin-roll process, particularly the casting process stated in WO/2006/003899 . Because the continuous casting process enables the rapid solidification, the creation of oxides and segregation can be decreased, so that a cast sheet having excellent rolling workability can be obtained.
  • a cast sheet is subjected to heat treatment such as the solution treatment (heating temperature: 380°C to 420°C, heating time: 60 to 600 minutes) or the aging treatment, the composition can be homogenized.
  • the solution treatment heating temperature: 380°C to 420°C, heating time: 60 to 600 minutes
  • the aging treatment the composition can be homogenized.
  • the size of the cast sheet is not particularly limited. Nevertheless, if the sheet is excessively thick, segregation tends to be created. Hence, it is desirable that the thickness be 10 mm or less, particularly 5
  • the desired sheet thickness can be obtained and the average crystal grain size can be decreased.
  • a magnesium alloy having a high Al content such as AZ91 alloy
  • defects such as coarse impurities in crystal and coarse precipitated impurities can be eliminated, so that the press workability can be increased.
  • the rolling operation may be performed by combining with a well-known condition, for example, in the case of magnesium alloy, the controlled rolling disclosed in Patent Literature 2 or the like.
  • an intermediate heat treatment (heating temperature: 250°C to 350°C, heating time: 20 to 60 minutes) is conducted to remove or decrease the strain, residual stress, aggregated texture, and so on all introduced into the object to be worked through the working before the intermediate heat treatment, the subsequent rolling operation can be performed more smoothly by preventing accidental cracking, strain, and deformation.
  • the obtained rolled sheet may undergo a heat treatment at 300°C or more to remove the work strain resulting from the rolling operation and to achieve complete recrystallization.
  • the obtained rolled sheet may acquire strain through the use of a roller leveler or the like under a heated condition to be recrystallized during the press working.
  • the press working in multiple stages be performed in a temperature range of 200°C to 300°C in every stage in order to increase the plastic workability of the object to be worked (the blank plate and pressed material).
  • the use of a punch having a shoulder portion with a corner radius Rp nearly equal to zero forms a pressed material having a sharp corner portion (practically right-angled) at the inside, that is, a pressed material having an inside surface in which a corner portion is formed by two surfaces perpendicular to each other.
  • the end face of the pressed material and the foregoing inside corner portion are pressed with a step-shaped punch.
  • constituting materials of the blank plate are forcefully gathered at the corner portion of the die, and the forcefully gathered constituting materials are deformed in such a way that a sharp corner portion is formed at the outside of the pressed material.
  • a suitable die is used, such as a movable die or a recessed die.
  • heat treatment may be conducted in order to remove the strain and residual stress introduced by the press working and to improve the mechanical property.
  • An example of the heat treatment condition is as follows: heating temperature: 100°C to 450°C, heating time: 5 minutes to 40 hours or so.
  • a plurality of pressed products each made of magnesium alloy and having corner portions were produced to examine the outside corner radius R of the corner portions and the hardness of the pressed products.
  • a plurality of cast sheets were prepared that were made of magnesium alloy having a composition equivalent to that of AZ91 alloy (Mg, 9.0 mass % Al, and 1.0 mass % Zn) and that were produced by the twin-roll continuous casting process.
  • the obtained cast sheets were subjected to a plurality of rolling operations until the thickness was reduced to 0.6 mm under the following rolling conditions: roller temperature: 150°C to 250°C, sheet temperature: 200°C to 400°C, and rolling reduction per pass: 10% to 50%.
  • the obtained sheet materials were subjected to blanking to prepare blank plates for the press forming.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view for explaining the procedure of the press working.
  • Figure 1 shows the blank plate by emphasizing it.
  • the first press working produces a pressed material P (a box-shaped body having outside dimensions of 45 ⁇ 95 ⁇ 6 mm) having a flat top-plate portion 10 as shown in the (B) and (C) portions of Fig. 1 and two pairs of flat side-wall portions 11 formed from the top-plate portion 10. More specifically, as shown in the (A) portion of Fig. 1 , a blank plate B having a thickness "t" of 0.6 mm is placed on a plate 51 and a die plate 52, and on the blank plate B, a punch 53 and a holding plate 54 are placed. Then, under the condition that the blank plate B is sandwiched between the plate 51 and the punch 53, the punch 53 is moved downward in Fig. 1 to form the pressed material.
  • a pressed material P a box-shaped body having outside dimensions of 45 ⁇ 95 ⁇ 6 mm
  • the punch 53 has a shoulder portion whose corner radius Rp is practically 0 mm, and the two surfaces forming the shoulder portion are perpendicular to each other.
  • the corner portion 12 which connects the outside surface 10o of the top-plate portion 10 and the outside surface 11o of the side-wall portion 11, has an outside corner radius Ro that is larger than the thickness to of the top-plate portion 10.
  • the inside surface 10i of the top-plate portion 10 and the inside surface 11i of the side-wall portion 11 are perpendicular to each other.
  • the inside corner radius r 0 of the corner portion 12 is practically 0 mm.
  • the plate 51, the die plate 52, the punch 53, the holding plate 54, and the below-described stepped punch 55 and die 56 all can be heated with a heating means, which is unshown.
  • the heating temperature was 200°C or more.
  • the second press working uses, for example, as shown in the (C) and (D) portions of Fig. 1 , a protrusion-type stepped punch 55 and a die 56 having a recessed portion to press an end face 11e of the side-wall portion 11 of the pressed material P.
  • This pressing operation produces a pressed product F that has a sharp corner portion whose outside corner radius R is equal to or smaller than the thickness "t" of a metal plate 1.
  • the stepped punch 55 has an end-portion-pressing face 55p and a shoulder portion 55s that, at the inside surface of the pressed material P, is brought into contact with an inside corner portion 12i, which is nearly right-angled, to press the inside corner portion 12i.
  • a bottom face 56b and a side face 56s are perpendicular to each other, so that the corner portion is right-angled.
  • a pressed product F in which a corner portion 22 that connects an outside surface 20o of a top-plate portion 20 and an outside surface 21o of a side-wall portion 21 has an outside corner radius R that is equal to or smaller than the thickness "t" of the top-plate portion 20.
  • the thickness of the top-plate portion 20 and the side-wall portion 21 was measured using a pointed micrometer, the thickness was 0.6 mm, which is nearly equal to the thickness of the blank plate B.
  • the obtained pressed product was subjected to the measurements of the outside corner radius R, the hardness of the corner portion, and the hardness of the top-plate portion. The results are shown in Table I.
  • the outside corner radius R (mm) was measured by the following method. First, a pressed product was cut in a direction perpendicular to the ridge line between the outside surface of the top-plate portion and the outside surface of the side-wall portion. The cut surface was buff-polished (using diamond abrasive grain No. 200) and then observed under an optical microscope (400 power). The observed image was used to measure the radius. Similarly, the inside corner radius "r" (mm) of the corner portion was measured. The result showed that the radius was practically 0 mm and the inside surface of the top-plate portion and the inside surface of the side-wall portion were practically perpendicular to each other.
  • the hardness Hv of the corner portion was measured by the following method. First, a pressed product was cut in a direction perpendicular to the ridge line between the outside surface of the top-plate portion and the outside surface of the side-wall portion. The obtained cut piece was used to produce an embedded specimen. The cut surface was mirror-polished. Three measuring spots were chosen from the center portion of the plate in the thickness direction in the cut surface of the pressed product. The hardness of the individual measuring spots was measured using a micro-Vickers hardness tester. The average value of the three measurements is shown in Table 1.
  • the hardness Hv of the top-plate portion was measured by the following method. First, a part of the top-plate portion was cut from the pressed product. The obtained cut piece was used to produce an embedded specimen. The cut surface was mirror-polished. Three measuring spots were chosen from the center portion of the plate in the thickness direction in the cut surface of the top-plate portion. The hardness of the individual measuring spots was measured using a micro-Vickers hardness tester. The average value of the three measurements is shown in Table I. Alternatively, the hardness Hv may also be measured by producing an embedded specimen including both the corner portion and top-plate portion.
  • the performing of the multistage hot press working described above can produce with high precision pressed products whose outside corner radius R satisfies the condition that R is equal to or smaller than the thickness "t."
  • the corner portion and the top-plate portion have a comparable hardness. Consequently, because these pressed products have corner portions with high strength, it is expected that they are less likely to be deformed when they undergo an impact such as one due to the falling.
  • Table I also shows that when the outside corner radius R satisfies the condition that R is equal to or smaller than (2/3) ⁇ t, the hardness of the corner portion is increased. The reason for this is attributable to the work hardening resulting from the multistage press working. Furthermore, when the outside corner radius R satisfies the condition that R is equal to or smaller than (1/2) ⁇ t, the hardness of the corner portion is significantly increased. It can be expected that these pressed products have corner portions that are excellent in impact resistance and that can accordingly maintain the sharp condition for a long time.
  • test example 1 an explanation is given to the case where the corner portion connecting the top-plate portion and the side-wall portion has an outside corner radius R satisfying the condition that R is equal to or smaller than "t" in a box-type shaped body having two pairs of side-wall portions.
  • a pressed product can also be produced in which a corner portion connecting the side-wall portions has an outside corner radius R satisfying the condition that R is equal to or smaller than "t.”
  • a pressed product having only one pair of side-wall portions can also be produced.
  • an explanation is given by referring to the unitarily formed stepped punch. Nevertheless, a stepped punch formed by combining divided pieces may also be used.
  • a stepped punch may also be used that is provided with a divided piece for pressing mainly the top-plate portion and another divided piece for pressing the end face of the side-wall portion and part of the top-plate portion.
  • Blank plates having various thicknesses were prepared to produce pressed products made of magnesium alloy.
  • the produced pressed products were subjected to examination of strength and appearance.
  • Cast sheets (thickness: 4 mm) of the same type as prepared in Test example 1 were prepared.
  • the prepared cast sheets had a composition equivalent to that of AZ91 alloy and were subjected to a rolling operation by varying the number of times of rolling to produce rolled sheets having various thicknesses (thicknesses: 0.3 to 0.8 mm).
  • the obtained rolled sheets were subjected to blanking to prepare blank plates.
  • the individual blank plates underwent two stages of hot press working (the heating temperature at the time of pressing was selected as appropriate from the range of 200°C to 250°C).
  • pressed products were produced each of which had a flat top-plate portion and two pairs of flat side-wall portions formed from the top-plate portion.
  • the strength of the pressed product was measured as described below.
  • the pressed product was placed such that the top-plate portion of the pressed product pointed upward on the side-wall portion used as a supporting member. Under this condition, a cemented-carbide ball having a diameter of 38 mm is pressed into the center of the top-plate portion at a load of 1 kgf (9.8 N) to deform the pressed product permanently.
  • the amount of deformation (the dimensional difference between the most protruding portion and the most recessed portion in the peripheral surface of the top-plate portion) is measured with a contact profilometer. The amount of deformation is evaluated as the strength of the pressed product.
  • the pressed product When the amount of deformation is 1 mm or more, the pressed product is considered to have an insufficient strength and evaluated as “poor.” When the amount of deformation is less than 1 mm, the pressed product is considered to have a sufficient strength and evaluated as “good.” When the amount of deformation is less than 0.3 mm, the pressed product is considered to have an excellent strength and evaluated as “excellent.” The results are shown in Table II.
  • the appearance is evaluated through a panel test conducted by 10 panelist chosen randomly. When five or less panelists judged that the pressed product has a sharp and distinctive outside corner portion, stylishness, and excellent designability, the pressed product is evaluated as “poor.” When six to eight panelists judged as described above, the pressed product is evaluated as “good.” When nine or more panelists judged as described above, the pressed product is evaluated as “excellent.” The results are shown in Table II.
  • the above-described embodiments may be changed as appropriate without deviating from the gist of the present invention and not limited to the above-described constitutions.
  • the material of the metal plate may be changed from magnesium alloy to aluminum, its alloy, and other various metals.
  • the pressed product of the present invention can be suitably used for various electronic devices, particularly for the housing of a portable electronic device or the like.

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