GB2540306A - Value stream process for forming vehicle rails from extruded aluminum tubes - Google Patents

Value stream process for forming vehicle rails from extruded aluminum tubes Download PDF

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GB2540306A
GB2540306A GB1618102.6A GB201618102A GB2540306A GB 2540306 A GB2540306 A GB 2540306A GB 201618102 A GB201618102 A GB 201618102A GB 2540306 A GB2540306 A GB 2540306A
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aluminum tube
extruded aluminum
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Luckey George
John Hill David
Friedman Peter
John May Christopher
Kernosky Stephen
M Ilinich Andrey
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Ford Global Technologies LLC
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Priority claimed from US14/266,903 external-priority patent/US9709333B2/en
Priority claimed from US14/279,808 external-priority patent/US9925577B2/en
Priority claimed from US14/300,378 external-priority patent/US9545657B2/en
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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • B21D9/00—Bending tubes using mandrels or the like
    • B21D9/16—Auxiliary equipment, e.g. machines for filling tubes with sand
    • B21D9/18—Auxiliary equipment, e.g. machines for filling tubes with sand for heating or cooling of bends

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Fluid Mechanics (AREA)
  • Shaping Metal By Deep-Drawing, Or The Like (AREA)
  • Extrusion Of Metal (AREA)
  • Bending Of Plates, Rods, And Pipes (AREA)

Abstract

A value stream process or method for forming vehicle rails from extruded aluminum tubes includes the steps of extruding an aluminum tube and hydroforming the extruded aluminum tube into a vehicle rail. More specifically, the method includes extruding the aluminum tube, bending the aluminum tube, preforming the aluminum tube, hydroforming the aluminum tube into a vehicle rail, trimming the vehicle rail to length and then artificially aging the rail followed by batch chemical pretreatment. In an alternative embodiment the artificial aging and batch chemical pretreatment processes are performed in reverse order. In either of the embodiments, localized induction annealing to recover formability may be performed between bending and preforming, between preforming and hydroforming or both.
GB1618102.6A 2014-04-30 2014-06-16 Value stream process for forming vehicle rails from extruded aluminum tubes Expired - Fee Related GB2540306B (en)

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US14/266,065 US20150315666A1 (en) 2014-04-30 2014-04-30 Induction annealing as a method for expanded hydroformed tube formability
US14/266,903 US9709333B2 (en) 2014-05-01 2014-05-01 Multipurpose rack for processing parts through multiple manufacturing processes
US14/279,808 US9925577B2 (en) 2014-05-16 2014-05-16 Rotary-draw bending mandrel with galling-resistive inserts
US14/300,378 US9545657B2 (en) 2014-06-10 2014-06-10 Method of hydroforming an extruded aluminum tube with a flat nose corner radius
PCT/US2014/042449 WO2015167588A1 (en) 2014-04-30 2014-06-16 Value stream process for forming vehicle rails from extruded aluminum tubes

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