JP2008265609A - Impact absorbing member and method of manufacturing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an impact absorbing member which minimizes the rise of manufacturing cost since induction hardening is not required, has superior bend crushing characteristics, and is reduced in weight, and also to provide a method of manufacturing the impact absorbing member. <P>SOLUTION: This impact absorbing member for a center pillar and a side sill or the like is obtained by forming a steel plate, comprises at least a first member having two side wall parts, a bottom part, and a corner part connecting the side wall parts to the bottom part, and absorbs an impact energy applied to the first member in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the first member. At least the area of a part of the side wall part of the first member forms an overlapped part where steel plate is overlapped. Desirably, at least a part of the steel plate forming the overlapped part is joined in an overlapped state. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an impact-absorbing member and a method for manufacturing the impact-absorbing member, and specifically, an impact-absorbing member that has excellent bending crush characteristics and can be reduced in weight at low cost without performing induction hardening, and It relates to the manufacturing method.

  As is well known, reinforcement members for automobile bodies such as side sills and center pillars are designed to protect passengers by absorbing impact energy when the automobile is collided from the side and reducing the impact force on the cabin. Excellent bending crush properties are required. Here, “bending crushing characteristics” means, for example, the absorbed energy (collapse load × displacement) until a predetermined amount (for example, 60 mm) of displacement is applied in the direction crossing the axial direction, and the mass of the member. It is a characteristic evaluated by the magnitude of the amount of absorbed energy per unit mass divided by.

Increasing the thickness of the reinforcing member in order to improve the bending crushing property increases the weight of the vehicle body, and using a high-strength material for the reinforcing member increases the manufacturing cost.
Therefore, in Patent Document 1, by performing induction hardening on a portion where high strength of the press-molded product is required, for example, the central region between one end and the other end is high in strength and from the central region. An invention for manufacturing a center pillar having a strength distribution in which the hardness gradually decreases toward one end and the other end is disclosed.

In addition, in Patent Document 2, for example, by performing induction molding on the center pillar reinforcement after performing induction hardening in advance on a specific portion that is bent during press molding, in the blank material for press molding the center pillar reinforcement, An invention for increasing the bending strength of the center pillar reinforcement is disclosed.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-17933 JP 2000-68012 A

  In any of the inventions disclosed in Patent Documents 1 and 2, it is necessary to subject the press-formed product or its material to induction hardening in order to improve the bending crushing characteristics of the impact absorbing member. For this reason, an increase in the manufacturing cost of the impact absorbing member is unavoidable depending on these inventions. Therefore, application to an impact absorbing member for an automobile body that is strongly required not only for bending resistance but also for low cost is costly. Not always enough.

  The present invention has been made in view of the problems of such conventional technology, and since it is not necessary to perform induction hardening, an increase in manufacturing cost can be suppressed as much as possible, and it has excellent bending crushing characteristics, It is another object of the present invention to provide an impact absorbing member that can be reduced in weight and a manufacturing method thereof.

  The present invention includes at least a first member obtained by molding a metal plate and having two side walls, a bottom, and a corner connecting the side walls and the bottom, and a shaft of the first member. An impact absorbing member for absorbing impact energy loaded in a direction crossing the direction, wherein at least a part of the side wall is formed in a shape in which a metal plate is folded It is an impact-absorbing member characterized by being.

  From another viewpoint, the present invention is obtained by molding a metal plate, and includes at least a first member having two side walls, a bottom, and a corner connecting the side walls and the bottom, A method of manufacturing an impact absorbing member for absorbing impact energy loaded in a direction crossing the axial direction of the first member, wherein a metal plate is folded over at least a partial region of the side wall. It is a manufacturing method of the impact-absorbing member characterized by including the process of setting it as the folding overlap part formed in this.

In the present invention, it is desirable that at least a part of the metal plate forming the folded portion is overlapped and joined.
In these present inventions, it is desirable that the folding portion is formed by folding the metal plate in triplicate.

In the present invention, it is desirable to further include a second member that is joined to flanges provided on the two side wall portions of the first member and forms a closed cross-section together with the one member.
The present invention can be equally applied if the impact absorbing member is a member that undergoes bending crushing deformation at the time of automobile collision deformation, such as a side sill, a center pillar, or a roof rail side.

  According to the present invention, there is provided an impact absorbing member that can suppress an increase in manufacturing cost as much as possible because it does not need to perform induction hardening, has excellent bending crushing characteristics, and can be reduced in weight. It becomes possible.

The best mode for carrying out the impact absorbing member according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Since the shock absorbing member of the present embodiment has a first member and a second member, these will be described.
[First member]
The impact absorbing member of the present embodiment is for absorbing impact energy loaded in a direction crossing the axial direction of the first member. This first member can be obtained by press-molding a metal plate (for example, a high-tensile steel plate). The first member is molded as a groove-like body having two side walls, a bottom, and a corner connecting the side walls and the bottom by this press molding.

The first member is a folded portion in which at least a partial region of the side wall portion is formed in a shape in which the metal plate is folded.
The length of the folded portion is preferably at least 5 times the plate thickness. If the length is too small, the bending crushing characteristics, that is, the effect of increasing the absorbed energy per unit mass may be insufficient.

  The folded portion does not necessarily need to be in contact with each other, but the gap between the stacked metal plates is less than or equal to the thickness of the metal plate in order to have good bending crushing characteristics. desirable.

It is desirable that at least a part of the metal plate forming the folded portion is overlapped and joined.
The folded portion is preferably formed by folding the metal plate in triplicate.

  In the present embodiment, the first member further has a substantially hat-shaped cross-sectional shape including an outward flange at the end of the side wall. In the present invention, the outward flange is not necessarily required, but is effective for sufficiently securing a joining margin with a second member described later.

  As described above, the first member is obtained by press-molding a metal plate. In this embodiment, at least a side wall of the first member is included in a part of the press-forming process of the first member. A step is provided in which a part of the part is formed as a folded portion formed in a shape in which the metal plate is folded.

Fig.1 (a)-FIG.1 (d) are explanatory drawings which show typically an example of the process which makes a part of side wall part of a 1st member and a corner part overlap.
As shown in FIG. 1 (a), in order to secure the extra line length of the folded portion, a flat blank (metal plate) 1 is used, and a first composed of blank holders 2, 2, punch 3, and die 4 is used. The concave portion 1a is formed by drawing the portion corresponding to the bottom portion of the first member with the mold 5. At this time, it is desirable to dispose the blank holders 2 and 2 and the punch 3 on the upper die as shown in FIG.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 1 (b), the concave portion 1 a is pressed with the pad 7 by the second mold 10 constituted by the dies 6, 6, the pad 7, the holders 8, 8 and the punch 9. Then, the forming material 1 is formed into a hat shape by drawing or bending.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 1 (c), the third mold 14 constituted by the die 11, the holders 12, 12 and the punch 13 is used to convert the concave extra wire length portion 1 b to the shoulder portion and wall portion of the punch 13. Perform preforming to move to the periphery. In order to facilitate folding, it is effective that the tip of the punch 13 has a substantially convex shape.

  And as shown in FIG.1 (d), as a last process, it shape | molds to the predetermined folding parts 1c and 1c with the 4th metal mold | die 18 comprised with the die | dye 15, the holders 16 and 16, and the punch 17. FIG.

Thereby, at least a part of the side wall portion of the first member constituting the shock absorbing member of the present embodiment becomes a folded portion where the metal plate is folded.
In the present embodiment, the case where the first member is formed by press molding described with reference to FIGS. 1A to 1D is taken as an example. However, the method for forming the first member is as follows. It is not limited to press molding, but may be molded by roll forming, for example.

FIG. 2A to FIG. 2C are explanatory views schematically illustrating another example of a process in which a part of the side wall of the first member is folded and overlapped.
First, as shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b), the flat blank 1 is used, and the folded portions 1e and 1e are formed at portions corresponding to the side wall portions by press molding or roll forming. Next, as shown in FIG. 2 (c), the member 1 is firstly formed by bending and drawing with a press so that a part of the side wall portion is folded and overlapped portions 1e and 1e.

  When at least a part of the metal plates forming the folded portions 1e and 1e are overlapped and joined, the folded portions 1e and 1e are formed when the folded portions 1e and 1e are formed as shown in FIG. It is desirable to weld a part of.

In the present embodiment, a part of the side wall portion is formed in the folded portions 1e and 1e, but the side wall portions 1e and 1e may be all.
The first member has a part or all of the folded portion, for example, welding such as laser welding, resistance spot welding or plasma welding, brazing, mechanical joining such as rivet or clinching, structural bonding, etc. It is desirable to form by overlapping bonding.

  Next, at least a partial region of the side wall portion of the first member is a folded portion formed in a shape in which the metal plate is folded, thereby crossing the axial direction of the first member, For example, a mechanism for improving the impact absorbing ability when an impact load is applied in a direction substantially orthogonal to the axial direction will be described.

  When an impact load is applied in a direction crossing the axial direction of the first member, the side wall portion receives a high bending stress. Therefore, if the side wall portion that receives high bending stress is reinforced, the shock absorbing ability against bending load can be improved. In order to reinforce the side wall, the thickness and strength of the metal plate may be increased. However, as described above, increasing the thickness of the first member causes an increase in the vehicle body weight, while the first member. If a high-strength material is used, the manufacturing cost increases. Moreover, when induction hardening is performed on the side wall, an increase in manufacturing cost is unavoidable.

  On the other hand, in this Embodiment, it is the raw material of the 1st member by making the area | region of at least one part of a side wall part of the 1st member into the folding part formed in the shape where a metal plate folds up. It is possible to increase the effective thickness of the side wall without increasing the thickness of the metal plate, thereby increasing the bending deformation strength of the side wall and improving the impact absorbing ability of the first member against bending load. can do.

In addition, by overlapping and joining at least a part of the area of the folded overlapping portion,
Since the metal plates constituting the folded portion are deformed in directions away from each other and the folded portion is prevented from opening and deforming, the bending deformation strength of the side wall portion is further increased, and the shock absorbing member absorbs the shock. Performance can be further improved.

The first member is configured as described above.
[Second member]
The shock absorbing member of the present embodiment has a second member. In the present embodiment, the second member is joined to the first member via an outward flange provided at the end portions of the two side walls of the first member, and forms a closed cross section with the first member. To do.

  The second member may be any member that can be joined with the flange of the first member having a substantially hat-shaped cross section as a joint portion and can form a closed cross-section together with the first member. Is not limited to a particular shape. For example, the second member is a member having a cross section such as a flat plate or a substantially hat shape.

  The means for joining the second member to the flange of the first member is not limited to a specific means. For example, known welding means such as laser welding, resistance welding, and plasma welding can be exemplified.

The second member is configured as described above.
The impact absorbing member of the present embodiment is configured as described above.
The impact absorbing member of the present embodiment includes a first member that is obtained by press-molding a metal plate and has two side walls, a bottom, and a corner that connects the side and bottom. Since a part of the side wall portion is a folded portion formed in a shape in which the metal plate is folded, the thickness of the metal plate as the material is increased, or a high strength material is used for the metal plate as the material. Even if not, the thickness of at least a part of the side wall portion can be substantially increased, and thereby, the side wall portion that receives high stress when subjected to an impact load can be strengthened. Therefore, since it is not necessary to perform induction hardening, it is possible to provide an impact absorbing member that can suppress an increase in manufacturing cost as much as possible, has excellent bending crush characteristics, and can be reduced in weight. Become.

  The effect of applying the shock absorbing member according to the present invention to the side sill of an automobile body was examined by numerical analysis. As shown in FIGS. 3A to 3D, the numerical analysis is performed by using a flat plate 23 as a second member on the flanges 22a to 22d of the first member 21a to 21d having a hat-shaped cross section. This was done by changing the shape and joining conditions of the folded part of the side sill, which is an impact absorbing member having a closed cross-sectional shape joined together.

  In this numerical analysis, the axial length of the first members 21a to 21d is set to 800 mm, and the shape of the folded overlapping portion is triple folded to a part of the side wall portion 24b as shown in FIG. 3 (b). A folded portion 25b is formed, and the opening of the folded portion is arranged on the bottom side), M11 (folded in a triple manner over a part of the side wall 24c and the corner as shown in FIG. 3C). A folded portion 25c is formed, and the opening of the folded portion is arranged on the bottom side), or M7 (folded by folding all over the side wall portion 24d as shown in FIG. 3D). The shape in which the portion 25d is formed).

  There were three types of overlapping joining at the folding overlapping portions 25b, 25c, and 25d, with joining (one place, two places) and without joining. In addition, the flanges 22a to 22d and the flat plate 23 are spot-bonded at an interval of 30 mm at a distance of 10 mm from both ends in the axial direction at a distance of 10 mm from the end portions 26 a to 26 d in the flange width direction. Joined.

  4 (a) to 4 (f) are schematic diagrams showing the details of the superposition joining, and the black circles indicate the joining locations. That is, (a) and (b) in the figure show one in which one central portion and two end portions of the folded portion shown in FIG. 3 (b) are joined, respectively (c) and (d) in FIG. FIG. 3 (c) shows a joint at one center and two places in the folded portion, and FIGS. 3 (e) and (f) show the center of the folded portion shown in FIG. 3 (d). It shows what joined one place and two places.

Next, the point of numerical analysis including handling of joining will be described.
A general-purpose dynamic explicit finite element analysis code was used for the numerical analysis. The materials of the first members 21a to 21d and the second member 23 were 590 MPa class high-tensile steel plates having a plate thickness of 1.0 mm. For the deformation characteristics of the first members 21a to 21d, the strain rate dependency of the Copper-Symmonds type was taken into consideration.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the bending crushing analysis is performed by applying a forced displacement to a rigid impactor 28 having a radius of 130 mm at a speed of 64 km / h with respect to an impact absorbing member 27 having a total length of 800 mm and comprising a first member and a second member. The shock absorbing member 27 was displaced by 60 mm in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction. At this time, the support was provided with support bases 29 and 29 made of a rigid body having a radius of 50 mm at positions 300 mm apart from the center. Further, both end portions of the shock absorbing member 27 restrained cross-sectional deformation.

  In the spot welded portion between the flange and the flat plate, the positions of both contacts corresponding to the spot joint portion 30 were coupled by a beam element having a nugget diameter of 5.5 mm simulating spot welding. At this time, the deformation characteristic of the beam element was an elastic perfect plastic body with a yield stress of 1200 MPa. Further, regarding the joining of the folded structure portion, both contact points of the joining portion were fastened by a rigid beam element, and this fastening was performed in the entire area of the first member 26 in the longitudinal direction. In the analysis, the friction coefficient was set to zero.

  The bending crushing characteristic is calculated by calculating the absorbed energy (crush load x displacement) up to 60 mm, dividing it by the mass of the shock absorbing member, and obtaining the absorbed energy amount per unit mass. The value was divided by the amount of energy absorbed per unit mass of the base shape M0 (base ratio in Table 1).

  The analysis results are summarized in Table 1. In addition, the code | symbol EA @ 60 / mass in Table 1 shows the absorbed energy amount (kJ / g) per unit mass to the crushing amount 60mm.

表１に示すように、Ｍ１０タイプ、Ｍ１１タイプ、Ｍ７タイプのいずれも少なくとも側壁部の一部を折り重なり形状部となすことにより、折り重なり部が存在しないベース形状Ｍ０に比較して、単位質量当たりのエネルギー吸収量（ＥＡ／質量）が増加することがわかる。

As shown in Table 1, each of the M10 type, M11 type, and M7 type has a unit mass compared to the base shape M0 where there is no folded portion by forming at least a part of the side wall portion into a folded shape portion. It can be seen that the amount of energy absorption per unit (EA / mass) increases.

  In particular, it can be seen that the amount of energy absorption per unit mass (EA / mass) is further increased by overlapping and joining the folded overlapping portions as compared to the base shape M0.

Fig.1 (a)-FIG.1 (d) are explanatory drawings which show typically an example of the process which makes the corner part and side wall part of a 1st part a folding part. FIG. 2A to FIG. 2C are explanatory views schematically illustrating another example of a process in which a part of the side wall of the first member is folded and overlapped. FIG. 3A to FIG. 3D are explanatory views partially showing the cross-sectional shape of the shock absorbing member numerically analyzed in the example. FIG. 4A to FIG. 4F are explanatory diagrams showing the presence / absence of overlap welding and the welding position in the folded shape portions M10, M11, and M7 of the shock absorbing member used for numerical analysis in the example. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the point of numerical analysis in the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Blank 1a Concave shape part 1c Folding overlap part 2 Blank holder 3 Punch 4 Die 5 1st metal mold 6 Die 7 Pad 8 Holder 9 Punch 10 2nd metal mold 11 Die 11a Return 12 Holder 13 Punch 14 3rd metal mold Die 15 Die 16 Holder 17 Punch 18 Fourth mold 21a to 21d First member 22a to 22d Flange 23 Second member (flat plate)
24b, 24c Side wall part 24c Corner part 25b-25d Folding overlap part 26 First member 26a-26d End part 27 of flange width direction Shock absorbing member 28 Rigid impactor 29 Support base 30 Spot joint part

Claims (5)

  A first member obtained by molding a metal plate and having at least a first member having two side walls, a bottom, and a corner connecting the side wall and the bottom, and intersects with the axial direction of the first member. An impact absorbing member for absorbing impact energy loaded in a direction toward which at least a part of the side wall portion is a folded portion formed in a shape in which the metal plate is folded. A shock absorbing member, characterized in that there is.   The shock absorbing member according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the metal plate forming the folded portion is overlapped and joined.   The impact absorbing member according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the folded portion is formed by folding the metal plate in triplicate.   Furthermore, it has a 2nd member joined to the flange provided in the said 2 side wall part of the said 1st member, and forms a closed cross section with this 1st member, The Claim 1 to Claim 3 characterized by the above-mentioned. The impact-absorbing member described in any one of the preceding items.   It is obtained by molding a metal plate, and includes at least a first member having two side wall portions, a bottom portion, and a corner portion connecting the side wall portion and the bottom portion, and intersects with the axial direction of the first member. A method of manufacturing an impact absorbing member for absorbing impact energy loaded in a direction to be folded, wherein at least a partial region of the side wall portion is a folded portion formed in a shape in which the metal plate is folded. The manufacturing method of the impact-absorbing member characterized by including the process to do.

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