KR20160012607A - Self piercing rivet, and method for joining using the same - Google Patents

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KR20160012607A
KR20160012607A KR1020140094245A KR20140094245A KR20160012607A KR 20160012607 A KR20160012607 A KR 20160012607A KR 1020140094245 A KR1020140094245 A KR 1020140094245A KR 20140094245 A KR20140094245 A KR 20140094245A KR 20160012607 A KR20160012607 A KR 20160012607A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J15/00Riveting
    • B21J15/02Riveting procedures
    • B21J15/025Setting self-piercing rivets
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J15/00Riveting
    • B21J15/02Riveting procedures
    • B21J15/04Riveting hollow rivets mechanically
    • B21J15/048Setting self-drilling hollow rivets
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16BDEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B19/00Bolts without screw-thread; Pins, including deformable elements; Rivets
    • F16B19/04Rivets; Spigots or the like fastened by riveting
    • F16B19/08Hollow rivets; Multi-part rivets
    • F16B19/086Self-piercing rivets

Abstract

A self-piercing rivet and a joining method using the same are disclosed. The self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a head portion and a shank portion, and the head portion is formed with a filling hole penetrating up and down so as to fill the base material when riveting.
The joining method using a self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a step of feeding a self-piercing rivet to a punch unit, placing the base material on an envelope, a step of lowering the punch unit to be joined to the base material A pressing and heating step of press-fitting the self-piercing rivet into the base material with respect to the joining portion of the base material, and a step of press-fitting the self-piercing rivet into the base material And a filling step of filling the base material into the filling hole in the process.

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SELF PIECE RIVET, AND METHOD FOR JOINING USING THE SAME,

The present invention relates to a method of joining a work using a self-piercing rivet, and more particularly, to a self-piercing rivet which can pass and join two or more joining objects and a joining method using the same.

In the automobile industry, the use of aluminum alloys and plastic materials to improve fuel efficiency due to environmental problems has been aimed at reducing the weight of the vehicle body.

For this purpose, in the automobile industry, a joining method capable of replacing a conventional spot welding for assembling a vehicle body is being studied.

Recently, self-piercing rivet joining method using self piercing rivet has been applied as a joining method according to the above consideration.

The self-piercing rivet bonding method is different from the conventional riveting method in which a hole for rivet bonding is formed on a bonding object such as a steel plate and a rivet is inserted into the hole and then the head part is joined to bond the object to be bonded. The rivet is press-fitted into the object to be bonded by hydraulic pressure or pneumatic pressure to plastic-deform the rivet to join the object to be bonded.

That is, a self-piercing rivet can be used to join two or more identical or dissimilar materials.

FIG. 1 is a process diagram showing a joining process using a self-piercing rivet according to the related art, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a joining cross-section of a conventional material.

1, a conventional joining process using a self-piercing rivet 1 includes a feeding step of placing the base material 3 on the envelope 13 and feeding the self-piercing rivet 1 to the punch unit 11, A punching unit lowering step S2 in which the punching unit 11 is lowered and joined to the base material 3 and a punching unit lowering step S2 in which the punching unit 11 punches the self- A press-fitting step (S3) of press-fitting in the press fitting step (S4) and a joining completion step (S4).

The conventional self-piercing rivet 1 is press-fitted into the base material 3 by the punch unit 11 without needing any additional hole processing to join at least two sheets of material.

As shown in FIG. 1, the conventional self-piercing rivet 1 has the effect of improving the work environment compared with the conventional spot welding because the joining process is performed only by the pressing force of the punch unit 11. [

And, the joining method using such a self-piercing rivet can be used for mechanically joining parts such as an aluminum body which is not particularly easy to spot weld.

However, since the self-piercing rivet according to the prior art as described above has the advantage of exhibiting a strong bonding force in the tensile direction and the compressive direction, the self-piercing rivet joins the dissimilar material only by a simple pressing force, Or more) or a thick material or three or more materials.

2, the self-piercing rivet joint according to the prior art is formed in such a manner that when the self-piercing rivet 1 is joined to the base material 3, the self-piercing rivet 1 is folded by the volume of the self-piercing rivet 1 pressed into the base material 3 There is a problem that the lower surface of the base material 3 is pushed, but the protrusion height h of the protrusion 5 becomes higher than necessary.

The matters described in the background section are intended to enhance the understanding of the background of the invention and may include matters not previously known to those skilled in the art.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a filling hole having an inverted trapezoidal shape is formed in the head portion so that the filling material is filled in the filling hole during the self-piercing riveting process, thereby increasing the fastening force of the joint portion and minimizing the protrusion formed on the joint portion. To provide a piercing rivet and a joining method using the same.

Also, it is intended to provide a self-piercing rivet which can be applied to a highly rigid material by securing ductility by resistance heating around the joint portion of the base material immediately before the piercing process, and a joining method using the same.

In one or more embodiments of the present invention, the self-piercing rivet comprises a head portion and a shank portion, wherein the head portion is provided with a self-piercing rivet having a filling hole penetrating upwardly and downwardly to fill the base material when riveting .

In addition, the filling hole may have a tapered shape in which the diameter decreases from the upper end to the lower end of the center of the head portion.

The base material is made of an aluminum sheet or an ultra high tensile steel sheet, and may be at least two sheets or more.

The base material may be made of a different material or a homogeneous material.

In one or more embodiments of the present invention, a material supply step of supplying the self-piercing rivet to the punch unit using the self-piercing rivet and placing the base material on an envelope; A joining and heating step of resistance heating the joining portion of the base material by supplying current in a state where the punch unit is lowered and joined to the base material; A punching unit for press-fitting the self-piercing rivet into the base material with respect to the joining portion of the base material; And a filling step of filling the base material into the filling hole when the self-piercing rivet is press-fitted into the base material.

Also, the filling step may fill the base material positioned inside the shank portion of the self-piercing rivet into the filling hole.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a filling hole penetrating through the head portion in a tapered inverted trapezoidal shape is formed in the head portion. In the self-piercing riveting process, the filling material is filled in the filling hole to increase the fastening force of the joint portion, There is an effect of minimizing the protrusion.

Further, resistance can be secured around the joint portion of the base material immediately before the press-fitting process to ensure ductility, so that the present invention can be applied to a high-rigidity material.

In addition, the effects obtainable or predicted by the embodiments of the present invention will be directly or implicitly disclosed in the detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention. That is, various effects to be predicted according to the embodiment of the present invention will be disclosed in the detailed description to be described later.

1 is a process diagram showing a bonding process using a self-piercing rivet according to the prior art.
2 is a cross-sectional view showing a bonded cross-section of a work according to the prior art.
3 is a cross-sectional view of a self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the invention.
4 is a process diagram illustrating a bonding process using a self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a cross-sectional view of a joint using a self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and the same or similar components are denoted by the same reference numerals throughout the specification.

FIG. 3 is a view illustrating the construction of the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a process diagram illustrating a joining process using the self-piercing rivet 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4, the self-piercing rivet device includes a C-shaped frame (not shown), a punch unit 11 formed on the upper side of the C-shaped frame, Shaped frame and an envelope 13 formed on the lower side of the frame.

Here, since the C-shaped frame is a well-known technique widely known in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The punch unit 11 includes a punch 11a for applying pressure to the self-piercing rivet 1 so as to press the self-piercing rivet 1 into the base material 3 when the self-piercing rivet 1 is supplied, And an electrode housing (11b) for resistance heating of the electrode housing (27).

The embroidery 13 is formed with a molding trough 13a for deforming the shank portion of the self-piercing rivet 1 in the process of press-fitting the self-piercing rivet 1 into the base material 3. [

This self-piercing rivet device is a piercing device in which the self-piercing rivet 1 is inserted into the base material 3 by the operation of the punch unit 11 with the base material 3 positioned between the punch unit 11 and the envelope 13 And the tip of the self-piercing rivet 1 is expanded outwardly along the forming trough 13a of the engine block 13 while press fitting, thereby joining the base material 3 integrally.

The self-piercing rivet 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention applied to such a self-piercing rivet device comprises a head portion 21 and a shank portion 23, and mechanically joins the upper and lower plate joints, Conclude.

The head portion 21 includes a filling hole 25 through which the base material is filled in the process of press-fitting the self-piercing rivet 1 into the base material 3.

At this time, the filling hole 25 is formed in the center of the head portion 21 in such a manner that the filling hole 25 passes through the head portion 21 in the upward and downward directions. The shape of the filling hole 25 is tapered ) Cross-section.

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the end face of the filling hole 25 has an inverted trapezoidal shape, but is not limited thereto.

When the filling hole 25 is riveted, a part of the base material 3 is filled and an undercut UC is formed in a direction in which the self-piercing rivet 1 is pulled out from the base material 3, so that the self-piercing rivet 1 And serves to increase the fastening force between the base materials 3.

Hereinafter, a joining method using the self-piercing rivet 1 having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to FIG.

4 is a process diagram illustrating a bonding process using a self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the joining method using the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the present invention comprises the following steps.

First, the material supply step S11 is performed.

In the material supply step S11, the base material 3 to be joined is seated on the upper part of the envelope 13.

Here, the base material 3 may include a non-ferrous metal such as an aluminum sheet, a steel plate (including ultra-high strength steel plate), and a metal sheet material.

The base material 3 may include a sheet material of the same material, or may include a sheet material of a different material.

As described above, the base material 3 is bonded in a state in which at least two or more sheets of the same material or different materials are overlapped.

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the base material 3 is bonded to each other through the self-piercing rivet 1 in a state in which the two sheets of the plate material are overlapped, but the present invention is not limited thereto, Two sheets of sheet material, or three or more sheet materials may be applied.

This base material 3 is seated on the envelope 13 and the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention is supplied to the punch unit 11. [

Following the material supply step S11, the bonding and heating step S12 is performed.

In the joining and heating step S12, the punch unit 11 is lowered and brought into contact with the upper surface of the base material 3 that is seated on the engine block 13.

At this time, the punch unit 11 and the envelope 13 supply current through the electrode housing 11b in the punch unit 11 in contact with the upper and lower surfaces of the base material 3, 3 by resistance heating.

When the self-piercing rivet 1 is press-fitted into the base material 3, the joining and heating step S12 secures the flexibility of the joining portion 27 of the base material 3 due to the resistance heating, 25 to facilitate filling of the base material 3.

Following the joining and heating step (S12), the pressing-in step (S13) is performed.

The punch 11a of the punch unit 11 presses the self-piercing rivet 1 into the joint portion of the base material 3 in the press-fitting step S13.

The filling step S14 is performed at the same time as the press-fitting step S13.

That is, the filling step S14 is performed in the last step of the press-fitting step S13, and a portion of the top plate among the base material 3 is filled in the filling hole 25 of the self-piercing rivet 1. [

5 is a cross-sectional view of a joint using a self-piercing rivet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a sectional view of a joined portion 27 using the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the present invention because a part of the base material 3 is filled with the filling hole 25 of the self-piercing rivet 1, The thickness of the protruding portion 5 projecting to the lower plate by the volume of the filled base material 3 is reduced. Here, the thickness of the reduced protrusion 5 is

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h.

That is, if the thickness of the protruding portion 5 on the bottom surface of the base material 3 joined by using the conventional self-piercing rivet 1 is h, the base material 3 joined by using the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the present invention, The thickness of the projecting portion 5 of the lower surface is

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h.

As a result, the thickness of the protruding portion 5 of the base material 3 bonded by using the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the present invention is reduced, and the appearance quality of the bonded workpiece is advantageously excellent.

In addition, the filling hole 25 of the self-piercing rivet 1 is formed into an undercut UC while filling the base material 3 with a tapered cross section. This has the effect of increasing the fastening force between the base material 3 and the self-piercing rivet 1. [

When the self-piercing rivet 1 is pressed into the base material 3, the shank portion 23 of the self-piercing rivet 1 is widened outward by the molding trough 13a of the envelope 13, (UC) is formed between the first and second substrates (3) and (3).

That is, the undercut UC on the filling hole 25 increases the fastening force between the base material 3 and the self-piercing rivet 1 in the upward and downward directions and the undercut UC by the shank portion 23, Thereby increasing the fastening force of the base material 3 made of the upper and lower plates.

Therefore, according to the self-piercing rivet 1 and the joining method using the self-piercing rivet 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, there is an advantage that a material having difficulty in mechanical joining can be joined with strong coupling force.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be understood that the invention may be varied and varied without departing from the scope of the invention.

1: Self-Pierced Rivet
3: Base material
5:
11: Punch unit
11a: punch
11b: electrode housing
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13a: Molding bone
21:
23: Shank portion
25: filling hole
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UC: Undercut

Claims (6)

A self-piercing rivet comprising a head portion and a shank portion,
The head
A self-piercing rivet in which a filling hole is formed through the inside so as to fill the base material during riveting .
The method according to claim 1,
The filling hole
And a tapered shape in which the diameter decreases from an upper end to a lower end of the center of the head portion.
The method according to claim 1,
The base material
An aluminum sheet or an ultra high tensile strength steel sheet, and at least two or more sheets of the rivet.
The method according to claim 1,
The base material
Self-piercing rivets made of different materials or homogeneous materials.
A self-piercing rivet according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
Feeding the self-piercing rivet to the punch unit, and placing the base material on the envelope;
A joining and heating step of resistance heating the joining portion of the base material by supplying current in a state where the punch unit is lowered and joined to the base material;
A punching unit for press-fitting the self-piercing rivet into the base material with respect to the joining portion of the base material; And
A filling step of filling the base material into the filling hole when the self-piercing rivet is pressed into the base material;
Wherein the self-piercing rivet comprises a self-piercing rivet.
6. The method of claim 5,
The filling step
Wherein the base material located inside the shank portion of the self-piercing rivet is filled in the filling hole.
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