JP2009183992A - Method for manufacturing hollow component - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a hollow component, which can realize a cost reduction. <P>SOLUTION: This method includes: (1) preparing a blank member 12a by cutting or shearing a cylindrical member with a saw or a shearing device into a predetermined length; (2) pressing the blank member 12a under a predetermined load with a predetermined mold to form an opening member 14 having a hollow part P with one end thereof opened and the other end thereof closed; (3) subjecting the outer peripheral surface of a part of the opening member 14 to diameter reduction processing to obtain a drawn member 16; and (4) forcing a punch having a gear shape on the outer peripheral surface thereof into the hollow part P to form a gear 20 on the inner peripheral surface of a diameter reduced part 18a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hollow part used in an industrial machine.

  Among the components of industrial machines, there are various products having internal gears (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In general, hobbing, broaching, or the like is employed as a method of manufacturing a gear by cutting.

  In recent years, cold forging is often used as a method for manufacturing external gears. In this case, a predetermined external gear is formed by performing forging processes such as extrusion and upsetting on a die having a gear shape. On the other hand, the internal gear is formed by pushing a gear-shaped punch into a cup-shaped member.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2000-345586 (FIG. 1)

  For internal gear products, depending on the product, it may be necessary to secure the diameter of the hollow part on the bottom side of the internal gear larger than the gear large diameter when the bottom of the cup-shaped member is folded. There may be (relief shape). Such a relief shape is formed by cutting before forming the internal gear. Therefore, the manufacturing cost is remarkably increased.

  In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a hollow part capable of realizing cost reduction.

  The method for manufacturing a hollow part according to the present invention includes a step of preparing an opening member having at least one end opened and having a hollow portion, and a diameter reduction of an outer peripheral surface corresponding to a portion from the opening to a predetermined depth in the opening member. The process includes forming a reduced diameter portion by processing, obtaining a non-reduced diameter portion that is not reduced in diameter as a relief portion, and forming a meshing portion on the inner peripheral surface of the reduced diameter portion.

  According to the present invention, a hollow part in which a relief portion is formed can be obtained by subjecting a part of the opening member to a diameter reduction drawing process. There is no need to form a relief portion by cutting as in the prior art. Thereby, cost reduction of a hollow component is realizable.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a method for manufacturing a hollow part according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, although there may be some errors on the drawing, the first member is processed in order while maintaining the volume of the member.

  (1) The blank member 12 is prepared by cutting or shearing the cylindrical member into a predetermined length with a saw or a shearing device (FIG. 1A). The diameter of the blank member 12 is designed in consideration of various conditions such as forging to be performed later. Depending on the shape of the final hollow part, the columnar member may be changed to a prismatic member.

  Examples of the columnar member include a material obtained by linearly stretching a wire-shaped metal material that has been previously drawn to a predetermined diameter and wound in a coil shape with a roller or the like. Further, it may be a rod-shaped metal material having a predetermined diameter.

  As a step before making the opening member 14 of FIG. 2D from the blank member 12a, the blank member 12a is forged (forged) with a predetermined load with a predetermined mold to form a primary processed product 12b (FIG. 1B). )), And the primary processed product 12b is forged with a predetermined die with a predetermined load to form a secondary processed product 12c (FIG. 1C). A concave portion 13 is formed on the right side.

  (2) The secondary workpiece 12c is forged (forged) with a predetermined load using a predetermined mold to form an opening member 14 having a hollow portion P that is open at one end and closed at the other end (FIG. 2 ( d)). Here, the inner diameter of the opening member 14, that is, the diameter of the hollow portion P is φA. It is also possible to form by cutting. In order to obtain the opening member 14 shown in FIG. 1 (a) to FIG. 2 (d), it is preferable that a preliminary upsetting process is performed on the way as shown in FIGS. 1 (b) and (c). The shape on the opposite side of the hollow portion P is arbitrary depending on the final product shape. In order to obtain the opening member 14 in FIG. 2D, the opening member 14 may be obtained by performing cutting or the like in addition to the above.

  (3) A drawing member 16 is obtained by reducing the diameter of a part of the outer peripheral surface of the opening member 14 (FIG. 2E). The outer peripheral surface to which the diameter reduction processing is performed is a portion corresponding to a predetermined depth from the opening of the hollow portion P. The drawing member 16 includes a reduced diameter portion 18a formed by a reduced diameter drawing process and a non-reduced diameter portion 18b that has not been reduced in diameter drawn by the reduced diameter drawing process.

  In the hollow portion P, the diameter of the reduced diameter portion 18a is reduced from φA to φB by the diameter reduction processing. The non-diametered portion 18b does not change the diameter of the hollow portion P, and forms a relief portion 18c that has been formed by conventional cutting. This relief portion 18c may be necessary due to various factors.

  (4) A punch (not shown) having a gear shape on the outer peripheral surface is pushed into the hollow portion P to form the gear 20 on the inner peripheral surface of the reduced diameter portion 18a (FIG. 2 (f)). Thereby, the hollow component 10 in which the gear 20 is formed can be obtained. Thereafter, the hollow part 10 having a desired shape can be finished by cutting the outer surface of the hollow part 10 or the like.

  Although the gear 20 is formed on the inner surface of the reduced diameter portion 18a using a gear-shaped punch, a spline or serration may be formed on the inner surface of the reduced diameter portion 18a using a spline-shaped or serrated punch. In broaching, the same relief part is often provided by cutting, and therefore broaching may be performed after the main diameter reducing step. A meshing structure formed on the inner surface of the reduced diameter portion 18a is selected according to the industrial machine to be used.

  By passing through the above process, the hollow component 10 which has the escape part 18c and in which the gear 20 was formed can be obtained. As in the prior art, it is not necessary to perform the cutting process after forming the gear 20 to form the relief portion 18c, so that the cost of the hollow part 10 can be reduced.

  Moreover, since the metal fiber of the hollow component 10 can be maintained by manufacturing the hollow component 10 by forging, the strength of the hollow component 10 can be ensured as compared with the case of manufacturing by cutting.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, embodiment of this invention is not limited to said content. Other embodiments will be described below.

  (A) An opening member 14 is prepared (FIG. 3A). The opening member 14 can be obtained by the process of FIGS. 1 (a) to 2 (d). Therefore, the description is omitted until the opening member 14 is prepared.

  (B) Backward extrusion processing is performed on the portion 22a of the opening member 14 to be reduced in diameter so that the inner diameter changes from φA to φC (> φA) (FIG. 3B).

  Here, if the thickness of the portion 22a to be diameter-reduced and the thickness of the portion 22b not to be diameter-reduced are substantially the same, the compressive load per unit area of both portions is the same. If the diameter reduction ratio is increased, deformation (buckling) may occur during diameter reduction drawing.

  On the other hand, in the present application, the inner diameter φC of the portion 22a to be reduced in diameter is made larger than the inner diameter φA of the portion 22b not to be reduced in diameter. The thickness of the portion 22a to be diameter-reduced is smaller than the thickness of the portion 22b not to be diameter-reduced. The compressive load per unit cross-sectional area of the portion 22a to be reduced and drawn can be made larger than the compressive load per unit cross-sectional area of the portion 22b that is not reduced and drawn. In addition, the cross-sectional area said here is a cross-sectional area of the cross section at the time of cut | disconnecting the opening member 14 in the thickness direction (vertical direction in a figure). The diameter-reducing process can be performed without buckling the portion 22b that is not subjected to the diameter-reducing process.

  When the thickness of the portion 22b to be reduced and drawn is m and the thickness of the portion 22b that is not reduced and drawn is n, m / n is 0.25 or more and less than 1, preferably 0.65 or more and less than 1. By doing so, the occurrence of buckling can be reliably prevented.

  Further, the connecting portion between the portion 22 a to be reduced in diameter and the portion 22 b not to be reduced in diameter is processed to be an inclined portion 24. The inclined portion 24 is an inclined surface that continues in the circumferential direction of the inner peripheral surface. The inclined portion 24 is inclined, for example, 5 ° with respect to the horizontal axis. By forming the inclined portion 24, it is possible to disperse the stress concentration at the time of diameter reduction when the connecting portion has a stepped shape.

  (C) Forging with a predetermined load using a predetermined mold (FIG. 3C). The portion 22a to be diameter-reduced by forging is diameter-reduced to become a diameter-reduced portion 26a. By diameter reduction processing, the diameter φC of the hollow portion Q1 is reduced to φD.

  (D) A punch having a gear shape or the like is pushed into the hollow part Q2 with respect to the forged part to obtain a hollow part 30 in which the engagement part 28 is formed on the inner peripheral surface of the reduced diameter part (FIG. 3D). ).

  In FIG. 3, the inner diameter of the portion 22a to be diameter-reduced is increased to reduce the thickness, but the outer diameter of the portion 32a to be reduced-diametered is changed from φE to φF (<φE) as shown in FIG. May be subjected to a rear extrusion process. You may cut the outer periphery of the part 32a which should be diameter-reduced. The compression load per unit area of the portion 32a to be reduced-diametered can be made larger than the compression load per unit area of the portion 32b that is not reduced-diametered. The diameter reduction drawing can be performed satisfactorily without buckling the portion 32b that is not diameter reduction drawing.

    3 and FIG. 4 are preferable if buckling does not occur. However, the portions 22a and 32b that should be reduced in diameter to the extent that buckling does not occur are reduced to portions 22b and 32b that are not reduced in diameter. The outer periphery 36 of the hollow part 40 may be straightened by reducing the diameter (FIG. 5 (b)). After FIG.5 (b), a meshing part is formed in the internal peripheral surface which forms the hollow part R with a punch similarly to other embodiment.

  The opening member is not limited to a cup shape having one end opened and the other end closed, and may be a cylindrical member having both opened. As shown in FIG. 6A, an opening member 52 having a hollow portion S that is open at both ends and does not change in inner diameter is prepared. The outer periphery of the hollow portion S facing from the one opening (the right side of the drawing) to a predetermined depth is subjected to diameter reduction drawing (FIG. 6B), and the non-diametered portion 54b forms a relief portion 54c. A punch having a gear shape or the like is pushed into the hollow portion S to form a meshing portion 46 on the inner surface of the reduced diameter portion 54a to obtain the hollow part 50 (FIG. 6C).

  As shown in FIG. 7A, an opening member 62 in which the inner diameter of the hollow portion T changes may be used. The diameter of the portion 64a subjected to the diameter reduction processing is larger than the diameter of the portion 64b where the diameter of the hollow portion T is not subjected to the diameter reduction processing. This is because buckling does not occur as in the case of FIG. The diameter reduction process is performed, and the diameter of the hollow portion T of the reduced diameter portion 66a is reduced from the opening to a predetermined depth. At this time, the diameter of the hollow portion T of the non-reduced diameter portion 66b remains wide, and that portion becomes the escape portion 66c. After that, the hollow part 60 is obtained by forming the engagement shape 68 in the reduced diameter portion 66a subjected to the reduced diameter drawing process as in the above embodiment.

  The meshing shape may be formed with a screw thread in addition to pressing the punch.

  Although the embodiments of the hollow part and the manufacturing method thereof according to the present invention have been described above, the present invention is an embodiment in which various improvements, modifications, or variations are added based on the knowledge of a person skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention, or Various embodiments can be implemented in a combined manner, and all of these aspects belong to the technical scope of the present invention.

  The method for manufacturing a hollow part according to the present invention can be effectively used for the purpose of reducing the manufacturing cost of components of an industrial machine.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the manufacturing process until just before forming a blank member with an opening member. It is a schematic diagram which shows the manufacturing process of the hollow component which concerns on this Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the manufacturing method of the hollow component which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which shortened the diameter of the outer periphery and made thickness of a reduced diameter part small. It is the figure which enlarged the thickness of the part which should be diameter-reduced. It is a figure which shows embodiment of this invention using a cylindrical opening member. It is a figure which shows embodiment of this invention using the cylindrical opening member from which the magnitude | size of a hollow part changes.

Explanation of symbols

10: hollow part 12a: blank member 14: opening member 16: throttle member 18a: reduced diameter portion 18b: non-reduced diameter portion 18c: relief portion 20: gear

Claims (4)

Preparing an opening member having a hollow portion having at least one end opened;
In the opening member, a reduced diameter portion is formed by reducing the diameter of the outer peripheral surface corresponding to the portion from the opening to a predetermined depth, and the non-reduced portion has an inner diameter larger than the inner diameter of the reduced diameter portion. Forming a relief part;
Forming a meshing portion on the inner peripheral surface of the reduced diameter portion;
A method for manufacturing a hollow part comprising: The method of manufacturing a hollow part according to claim 1, wherein the step of forming the meshing portion includes a step of pushing a punch having a gear shape, a spline shape, or a serration shape into the hollow portion. The method for manufacturing a hollow part according to claim 1 or 2, including a step of making the thickness of the portion to be the reduced diameter portion smaller than the thickness of the portion to be the non-reduced portion before forming the reduced diameter portion. When the thickness of the portion that becomes the reduced diameter portion is made smaller than the thickness of the portion that becomes the non-reduced portion, an inclined portion is formed at the connecting portion between the portion that becomes the reduced diameter portion and the portion that becomes the non-reduced portion. The manufacturing method of the hollow component of Claim 3 including a process.

Images