EP3607098B1 - Poste de thermorégulation destiné au traitement thermique partiel d'une pièce métallique - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a temperature control station for the partial heat treatment of a metallic component, a device for the heat treatment of a metallic component and the use of at least one tangential nozzle in a temperature control station for the partial heat treatment of a metallic component.
- the invention can be used in particular in connection with a press hardening line in which a press hardening tool is arranged downstream of a continuous furnace, in particular a roller hearth furnace.
- the upper and lower end areas of the B-pillar should have a comparatively low strength in order to be able to absorb deformation energy during a side impact on the one hand and during a side impact on the other the assembly of the B-pillar to enable simple connectivity with other body components.
- the hardened component In order to form such a partially hardened body component, it is necessary for the hardened component to have different strength properties in the subregions.
- the tempering station is provided and set up to set different temperatures in the subareas of the component, which is initially uniformly heated, so that different strength properties are set in the subareas during the subsequent press hardening.
- Optimal cycle times which play an important role in the vehicle industry in particular, can be achieved here in particular if the components oven, temperature control station and press hardening tool are arranged one behind the other.
- one or more specific sub-areas of the component which should have a higher ductility or lower strength in the hardened component than other, hardened sub-areas of the component, are specifically cooled in the temperature control station, in particular while the others, parts of the component to be hardened are kept at a high temperature.
- partitions which are also referred to as bulkheads, are regularly used, which are arranged next to the nozzles in the temperature control station and which are provided and set up for the (thermal) delimitation of the respective sub-areas of different strength.
- the partition walls can even touch the component, if necessary, but a gap, which is to be kept as small as possible, must regularly be provided between the lower end of the respective partition and the component.
- the gap between the partition and the component is not small enough to reliably prevent a possible leakage of cold air to the hotter and hot part of the component. This leads to an unwanted blurring in the transition area, as a result of which the transition area is usually larger than necessary or desired.
- warping of the hot component or insufficiently precise positioning of the component can lead to undesired enlargements of the gap.
- the automotive industry is increasingly placing great importance on the smallest possible transition areas so that the subsequent crash behavior can be better mapped in the previous design, in particular in the previous simulation of the crash behavior. Therefore, there is an increasing effort to be able to set the transition areas as precisely and as small as possible, which is made more difficult in particular by the leakage flows between the partition and the component that have occurred in previous temperature control stations.
- Thermal treatment methods are from the DE 10 2015 112 293 A1 and DE 10 2012 021 576 A1 known.
- a temperature control station and a device for heat treatment of a metallic component are to be specified, which it allow a transition area between differently heat-treated sub-areas of the component to be set as reliably and / or exactly as possible, in particular as small as possible.
- the temperature control station and the device should in particular allow contact of the component with a partition wall for (thermal) delimitation of the differently temperature-controlled subregions of the component is no longer necessary.
- a temperature control station for the partial heat treatment of a metallic component has at least one (horizontal) processing plane arranged in the temperature control station, in which the component can be arranged, and at least one nozzle, which is oriented towards the processing plane and for discharging a fluid flow for cooling at least a first sub-area of the component is provided and set up.
- the at least one nozzle is a tangential nozzle.
- the tangential nozzle is characterized in particular by the fact that it generates and / or discharges a fluid flow at at least one nozzle outlet which has at least one directional component or a streamline that is essentially tangential and / or parallel to the processing plane and / or a surface of the component .
- the terms "essentially tangential” and “im “Essentially parallel” here includes in particular deviations from the ideal shape ("tangential” or “parallel") in the range from -10 ° to + 20 ° [degrees], preferably 0 ° to 20 °.
- the tangential nozzle preferably generates a horizontal flow downstream of its nozzle outlet.
- a plane in which a nozzle outlet cross-section or an opening of a nozzle outlet of the tangential nozzle is located can enclose an angle of 0 ° to 135 ° [degrees], preferably 0 ° to 75 ° and in particular 20 ° to 75 ° with the (horizontal) processing plane .
- the tangential nozzle contributes in particular to directing the air flow in such a way that an air pulse in the direction of a second partial area of the component is suppressed at the nozzle outlet. It is particularly preferred if a nozzle outlet or a nozzle outlet opening of the tangential nozzle points or is directed towards the first partial area of the component and / or away from a second partial area of the component.
- the solution presented here advantageously allows a type of “aerodynamic seal” to be provided in the direction of the second partial area of the component. This helps to ensure that essentially no leakage of the fluid flow reaches the second sub-area of the component, which should change its high component temperature as little or as little as possible during the cooling of the first sub-area in the temperature control station for the purpose of hardening the second sub-area.
- very sharply delimited transition areas can be represented in an advantageous manner.
- a transition area that can be achieved by means of the solution presented here lies approximately in the range from 1 mm to 60 mm [millimeters].
- the size, in particular the width of the transition area is mainly (only) determined by the physically unavoidable heat conduction in the component.
- soft outer flanges can be easily produced on hard components.
- the metallic component (to be treated by means of the temperature control station) is preferably a metallic blank, a sheet steel or an at least partially preformed semi-finished product.
- the metallic component is preferably made with or made of a (hardenable) steel, for example a boron (manganese) steel, e.g. B. with the designation 22MnB5 formed.
- the metallic component is further preferably provided or precoated at least to a large extent with a (metallic) coating.
- the metallic coating can be, for example, a (primarily) zinc-containing coating or a (primarily) aluminum and / or silicon-containing coating, in particular a so-called aluminum / silicon (Al / Si) coating.
- the metallic component can (alternatively) also be formed with or from aluminum or with or from an aluminum alloy.
- the temperature control station is preferably arranged downstream of a first furnace and / or upstream of a second furnace.
- a processing plane in which the component can be or is arranged is arranged in the temperature control station.
- the processing level here refers in particular to the level into which the component can be brought for treatment in the temperature control station and / or in which the component is arranged and / or fixable during the treatment in the temperature control station.
- the working plane is preferably aligned essentially horizontally.
- the temperature control station has at least one nozzle.
- the nozzle is oriented towards the working plane.
- the nozzle for discharging a fluid stream for cooling at least a first sub-area of the component is provided and set up, in particular so that a temperature difference between the at least one first (more ductile in the finished component) sub-area and at least one second (in the finished component in Compared to this, the harder) partial area of the component is adjustable.
- a plurality of nozzles is preferably provided, the nozzles particularly preferably being arranged in a nozzle field. When a plurality of nozzles are provided, at least one of the nozzles is a tangential nozzle.
- the fluid flow is preferably formed with a cooling fluid.
- the cooling fluid can be formed with a gas, for example nitrogen, or with a gas mixture, in particular air.
- the cooling fluid can be formed with a gas-liquid mixture, for example an air-water mixture.
- the temperature control station can have one or more further nozzles which have a different, in particular structurally simpler, nozzle geometry.
- at least one further nozzle can be provided which has or forms, in particular surrounds, at least one nozzle channel running essentially perpendicular to the processing plane.
- the further nozzle is preferably arranged next to the (tangential) nozzle in the temperature control station, but in particular not between the (tangential) nozzle and a partition.
- the further nozzle and the (tangential) nozzle can be held at the same height within the temperature control station and / or above the processing plane.
- the at least one further nozzle is preferably designed in the manner of a shower head. In other words, this means in particular that the at least one further nozzle has a multiplicity of outlet openings on an underside pointing towards the processing plane.
- a combination of (tangential) nozzles and further nozzles, each designed in the manner of a shower is particularly advantageous in the event that large-area first partial areas of the component are to be cooled. It is particularly advantageous if the (tangential) nozzles are arranged in the area of a partition and the further nozzles (in comparison to this) are arranged more towards the center of the first partial area of the component to be cooled. If the deformation of the component due to residual stress increases over large areas so that with pure horizontal flow (from the tangential nozzles) behind the elevations, dead areas with a lower flow velocity can arise, this leads to slower cooling in places. Therefore, large areas should (also) be flown vertically.
- the vertical flow can be provided in a particularly advantageous manner in that, in addition to the at least one (tangential) nozzle, one or more further nozzles are provided, each of which is formed in the manner of a shower.
- a nozzle geometry of the at least one nozzle is designed such that at least one component of the fluid flow flowing (within the nozzle) in the direction of a second sub-area of the component is deflected towards the first sub-area of the component.
- the component of the fluid flow is preferably deflected within the nozzle and / or directly upstream of a nozzle outlet opening towards the first partial area.
- the nozzle geometry of the at least one nozzle is designed such that at least one component of the fluid flow initially flows through the nozzle in a direction towards a second sub-area of the component and is then deflected towards the first sub-area.
- the fluid flow is preferably deflected from a deflection area of the nozzle to the first partial area, the deflection area regularly being arranged (directly) upstream of a nozzle outlet and / or a nozzle outlet opening.
- the nozzle geometry of the at least one nozzle is designed in such a way that the (entire flowing through the respective nozzle) fluid flow initially flows through the nozzle in a direction towards a second sub-area of the component and then towards the first sub-area is diverted. (Immediately) after the fluid flow has been deflected towards the first sub-area, the fluid flow can leave the at least one nozzle essentially tangentially and / or parallel to the processing plane and / or a surface of the first sub-area of the component.
- the nozzle geometry of the at least one nozzle is preferably designed in such a way that at least one component of the fluid flow, at least one (central) streamline of the fluid flow or even the entire fluid flow flowing through the respective nozzle flows through the nozzle (initially) in a first direction, then is deflected and then flows through the nozzle in a second direction.
- the first direction (predominantly) has a directional component directed radially outward
- the second direction predominantly) has a directional component directed radially inward.
- the information "radially outwards" and "radially inwards" are defined in relation to a nozzle inlet section or nozzle inlet channel running essentially perpendicular to the processing plane.
- the fluid flow thus regularly or firstly flows through a nozzle inlet section or nozzle inlet channel running essentially perpendicular to the processing plane, is then deflected radially outward, then deflected so that it is radially inward in the area of a nozzle outlet or towards the nozzle outlet is directed.
- the at least one nozzle preferably has a deflection area.
- the deflection area is particularly preferably at least partially curved or executed curved.
- the deflection area can be arranged directly upstream of a nozzle outlet.
- a nozzle outlet of the at least one nozzle is designed, roughly aligned and / or arranged relative to a deflection area of the nozzle that one (each) flow pulse in the direction of a second sub-area (7) of the component (2) is suppressed at the nozzle outlet.
- the nozzle outlet is preferably arranged downstream and / or after a curvature of the nozzle geometry, a curved section of the nozzle and / or a deflection area of the nozzle.
- a concave inside of the curvature, the curvature section or the deflection region preferably points towards the first partial region of the component.
- a convex outside of the curvature, the curvature section or the deflection region preferably points towards a second partial region of the component.
- the nozzle outlet is particularly preferably oriented (directly) towards the first sub-area and / or in the direction of the first sub-area.
- the at least one nozzle is preferably arranged adjacent to and / or (directly) in the area of a partition which (thermally) delimits the first sub-area from a second sub-area of the component.
- the partition wall can be a part of the temperature control station and / or (in any case also) be arranged above the component.
- the at least one nozzle has a cranked design.
- the at least one nozzle is particularly preferably cranked in such a way that a nozzle outlet of the at least one nozzle has a smaller (horizontal) distance from the partition than a nozzle inlet of the at least one nozzle.
- the nozzle outlet can be arranged very close to or even at least partially below the partition and thus very close to the transition area to be generated, while still being sufficient remaining space between the nozzle inlet and the partition wall for thermal insulation attached to the partition wall.
- the at least one nozzle has a deflection area which extends towards and / or at least partially below a partition wall which delimits the first partial area from a second partial area of the component.
- the partition is preferably a part of the temperature control station and is regularly (at least also) arranged above the component.
- a convex outside of the deflection area is preferably directed towards the partition and / or towards a second partial area of the component.
- the at least one nozzle in particular a deflection area of the at least one nozzle, is designed so that the fluid flow is directed on a side facing the processing plane and / or on an area facing a second sub-area of the component creates a negative pressure area around the nozzle.
- the negative pressure area is an area with a pressure that is lower than the ambient pressure.
- a flow pulse in the direction of the first partial area of the component is preferably to be set or adjusted by the geometry of the deflection area in such a way that a (slight) negative pressure is created on the underside of the nozzle. The resulting ejector effect even allows some warm air from the hot area of the temperature control station, i.e. H.
- a distance between the processing plane and the at least one nozzle be adjustable in this way or it is set so that the at least one nozzle does not contact the component.
- the distance is preferably in the range from 0.01 mm to 6 mm [millimeters], particularly preferably in the range from 0.5 mm to 5 mm or even in the range from 1 mm to 3.5 mm.
- the nozzle geometry and / or an outer contour of the nozzle is preferably designed in such a way that the negative pressure area described above arises itself or, in particular, when the nozzle does not contact the component.
- the solution presented here can thus be designed to be very fault-tolerant with regard to positioning errors and / or temperature-related or residual stress-related geometry errors of the component.
- the at least one nozzle in the temperature control station is preferably movable, in particular held or supported in a displaceable manner.
- the exact position of the transition area can advantageously be readjusted in a simple manner in the horizontal direction.
- At least one heat source which is (thermally) separated from the at least one nozzle in the temperature control station, is preferably arranged in the temperature control station.
- the heat source and the nozzle can be (thermally) separated from one another and / or shielded by means of a partition.
- the at least one heat source is preferably at least one radiant heat source.
- the heat source is preferably an actively operable, in particular electrically operable or energizable heat source.
- the heat source is particularly preferably formed with an electrically operated heating element (which does not physically or electrically contact the component).
- the heating element can be a heating loop, an all-ceramic heating element and / or a heating wire.
- the heat source with a (gas-heated) radiant tube be formed.
- the heat source and the nozzle are advantageously held in a nozzle box arranged in the temperature control station, the nozzle box having at least one partition between the heat source and the nozzle. It is particularly preferred if a nozzle outlet or a nozzle outlet opening of the tangential nozzle points or is directed away from the heat source.
- the press hardening tool is provided and set up in particular to reshape the component at the same time or at least partially in parallel and (at least partially) to quench it.
- the press hardening tool can be part of a press or be formed by a press.
- the first furnace, the temperature control station, the second furnace and the press hardening tool (in the order mentioned) are preferably arranged in particular directly one behind the other. However, between the first furnace and the temperature control station, between the temperature control station and the second furnace and / or between the second furnace and the press hardening tool, an optionally by means of at least one Handling device to be bridged distance be provided, which is preferably at least 0.5 m [meters].
- the first furnace or the second furnace is a continuous furnace or a chamber furnace.
- the first furnace is preferably a continuous furnace, in particular a roller hearth furnace.
- the second furnace is particularly preferably a continuous furnace, in particular a roller hearth furnace, or a chamber furnace, in particular a multi-layer chamber furnace with at least two chambers arranged one above the other.
- the second furnace preferably has a furnace interior which can in particular (exclusively) be heated by means of radiant heat, in which an (almost) uniform internal temperature can preferably be set or set.
- the second furnace is designed as a multi-layer chamber furnace, several such furnace interiors can be present, depending on the number of chambers.
- Radiant heat sources are preferably arranged in the first oven and / or in the second oven.
- at least one electrically operated heating element (which does not contact the component), such as at least one electrically operated heating loop, an all-ceramic heating element and / or at least one electrically operated heating wire, is arranged in an oven interior of the first oven and / or in an oven interior of the second oven .
- at least one, in particular gas-heated, radiant tube can be arranged in the oven interior of the first oven and / or the oven interior of the second oven.
- a plurality of radiant tube gas burners or radiant tubes, into each of which at least one gas burner burns, are arranged in the furnace interior of the first furnace and / or the furnace interior of the second furnace. It is particularly advantageous here if the inner area of the steel pipes into which the gas burners burn is atmospherically separated from the furnace interior so that no combustion gases or exhaust gases enter enter the furnace interior and thus influence the furnace atmosphere. Such an arrangement is also referred to as "indirect gas heating".
- the use of at least one tangential nozzle in a temperature control station is proposed for the partial heat treatment of a metallic component, in particular for the partial cooling of a first partial area of the component.
- the tangential nozzle is preferably used to discharge an essentially horizontally oriented air stream that flows along a surface of a first sub-area of the component in order to reduce the strength of the first sub-area (compared to a second sub-area) in the finished heat-treated (i.e. press-hardened) component cool.
- the tangential nozzle can be aligned in such a way that the air stream flows from an edge (to be set) or a contour of the first sub-area and / or from a partition wall towards a center of the first sub-area.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of a temperature control station 1 for the partial heat treatment of a metallic component 2.
- a processing plane 3 is arranged, in which the component 2 lies.
- a nozzle 4 is arranged in the temperature control station 1 here, by way of example, which is oriented towards the processing plane 3 and for discharging a fluid stream 5 (in Fig. 1 shown in dashed lines) is provided and set up for cooling a first partial area 6 of the component 2.
- the nozzle 4 is a tangential nozzle 13. This is characterized in that it generates a fluid flow 5 at a nozzle outlet 9 of the nozzle 4, which is essentially tangential or parallel to a surface of the component 2, here to a surface of the first partial area 6 of the component 2. This alignment is illustrated by the arrow at the end of the fluid flow 5 shown in dashed lines. Furthermore, a (in Fig. 1 cut) nozzle geometry 8 of the nozzle 4 is designed such that at least one component of the fluid flow 5 flowing in the direction of a second sub-area 7 of the component 2 is deflected towards the first sub-area 6. According to the illustration after Fig.
- the nozzle geometry is even designed in such a way that the entire fluid flow 5 flowing through the nozzle 4 initially flows through the nozzle 4 in one direction towards a second sub-area 7 of the component 2 and is then deflected towards the first sub-area 6 of the component 2.
- the nozzle 4 has in FIG Fig. 1 a deflection area 10.
- a nozzle outlet 9 of the nozzle 4 follows downstream of the deflection area 10.
- the nozzle outlet 9 is designed, roughly aligned and arranged relative to the deflection area 10 that a flow impulse in the direction of the second sub-area 7 of the component 2 is suppressed at the nozzle outlet 9.
- Fig. 1 it is also shown that the deflection area 10 of the nozzle 4 extends towards and at least partially below a partition 11 which (thermally) delimits the first sub-area 6 of the component 2 from the second sub-area 7 of the component 2.
- the partition wall 11 is formed here, for example, as part of a nozzle box 19, in which a heat source 20 is kept (thermally) separated or isolated from the nozzle 4.
- the partition wall 11 helps to (thermally) seal off the nozzle 4 and the first sub-area 6 of the component 2 from the heat source 20 and thus the first sub-area 6 of the component 2, which is cooled by the nozzle 4, from the second sub-area 7 of the component 2, which is heated (thermally) by means of the heat source 20, so that different component temperatures can be set in the subregions 6, 7, which lead to different structures and / or strength properties in the subregions 6, 7 of the component.
- nozzle 4 in Fig. 1 is designed in such a way that the fluid flow 5 is on a side of the Nozzle 4 and a negative pressure area 12 is generated at an area of the nozzle 4 pointing towards a second partial area 7 of the component 2.
- a distance between the processing plane 3 and the nozzle 4 is set in such a way that the nozzle 4 does not contact the component 2.
- the temperature control station 1 has a further nozzle 18 here.
- the further nozzle 18 is formed, for example, in the manner of a shower and is held next to the tangential nozzle 13 in the temperature control station 1.
- Fig. 2 shows a schematic representation of a device 14 according to the invention for heat treatment of a metallic component 2.
- the device 14 has a heatable first furnace 15, a temperature control station 1 (directly) downstream of the first furnace 15, and a heatable second furnace 16 (directly) downstream of the temperature control station 1 and a press hardening tool 17 arranged (directly) downstream of the second furnace 16.
- the device 14 here represents a hot forming line for (partial) press hardening.
- the press hardening tool 17 is part of a press or is formed by a press.
- a temperature control station and a device for heat treatment of a metallic component are specified here, which at least partially solve the problems described with reference to the prior art.
- the temperature control station and the device allow a transition area between differently heat-treated sub-areas of the component to be set as reliably and / or exactly as possible, in particular as small as possible.
- the temperature control station and the device allow, in particular, that contact of the component with a partition wall for (thermal) delimitation of the differently temperature-controlled subregions of the component is no longer necessary.
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- Poste de thermorégulation (1) permettant le traitement thermique partiel d'une pièce métallique (2), comportant un plan de traitement (3) disposé dans le poste de thermorégulation (1), la pièce (2) pouvant être disposée dans le plan de traitement, au moins une buse (4) orientée vers le plan de traitement (3) et prévue et réalisée pour émettre un flux de fluide (5) afin de refroidir au moins une première zone partielle (6) de la pièce (2), l'au moins une buse (4) étant une buse tangentielle (13), une sortie de buse (9) de l'au moins une buse (4) étant conçue de telle sorte qu'une impulsion d'écoulement en direction d'une seconde zone partielle (7) de la pièce (2) est empêchée au niveau de la sortie de buse (9).
- Poste de thermorégulation selon la revendication 1, dans lequel une géométrie de buse (8) de l'au moins une buse (4) est conçue de telle sorte qu'au moins un composant du flux de fluide (5) s'écoulant en direction d'une seconde zone partielle (7) de la pièce (2) est dévié vers la première zone partielle (6).
- Poste de thermorégulation selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel la géométrie de buse (8) de l'au moins une buse (4) est conçue de telle sorte qu'au moins un composant du flux de fluide (5) traverse initialement la buse (4) dans une direction allant vers une seconde zone partielle (7) de la pièce (2) puis est dévié vers la première zone partielle (6).
- Poste de thermorégulation selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel la géométrie de buse (8) de l'au moins une buse (4) est conçue de telle sorte que le flux de fluide (5) traverse initialement la buse (4) dans une direction allant vers une seconde zone partielle (7) de la pièce (2) puis est dévié vers la première zone partielle (6).
- Poste de thermorégulation selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel l'au moins une buse (4) présente une zone de déviation (10) qui s'étend vers et/ou au moins partiellement en dessous d'une cloison (11), laquelle sépare la première zone partielle (6) d'une seconde zone partielle (7) de la pièce (2).
- Poste de thermorégulation selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel l'au moins une buse (4) est conçue de telle sorte que le flux de fluide (5) génère une région de pression négative (12) sur un côté faisant face au plan de traitement (3) et/ou au niveau d'une zone de la buse (4) faisant face à une seconde zone partielle (7) de la pièce (2).
- Poste de thermorégulation selon l'une des revendications précédentes, dans lequel une distance entre le plan de traitement (3) et l'au moins une buse (4) peut être réglée de telle sorte que l'au moins une buse (4) ne soit pas en contact avec la pièce (2).
- Dispositif (14) permettant le traitement thermique d'une pièce métallique (2), comprenant au moins :- un premier four (15) chauffable,- un poste de thermorégulation (1) disposé en aval du premier four (15) et réalisé selon l'une des revendications précédentes.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 8, comprenant en outre au moins :- un second four (16) chauffable, disposé en aval du poste de thermorégulation (1), et/ou- un outil de durcissement par trempe (17) disposé en aval du poste de thermorégulation (1) et/ou du second four (16).
- Utilisation d'au moins une buse tangentielle (13) dans un poste de thermorégulation (1) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7 pour le traitement thermique partiel d'une pièce métallique (2).
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