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US20080035628A1
US20080035628A1 US10/577,405 US57740504A US2008035628A1 US 20080035628 A1 US20080035628 A1 US 20080035628A1 US 57740504 A US57740504 A US 57740504A US 2008035628 A1 US2008035628 A1 US 2008035628A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
    • B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
    • B21C37/08—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams
    • B21C37/0815—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams without continuous longitudinal movement of the sheet during the bending operation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
    • B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
    • B21C37/08—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams
    • B21C37/0803—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams the tubes having a special shape, e.g. polygonal tubes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
    • B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
    • B21C37/14—Making tubes from doubled flat material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
    • B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
    • B21C37/15—Making tubes of special shape; Making tube fittings
    • 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
    • B21D19/00—Flanging or other edge treatment, e.g. of tubes
    • B21D19/08—Flanging or other edge treatment, e.g. of tubes by single or successive action of pressing tools, e.g. vice jaws
    • 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

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  • This invention relates to a method of producing a hollow profile having at least one flange by means of internal high pressure forming.
  • German document DE 10130794 A1 discloses an extruded profile which has a flange and is subsequently subjected to internal high pressure forming, the course and the direction of the flange over the length of the structural part not being established in a dimensionally accurate manner until during deformation according to the internal high pressure process.
  • an extruded hollow profile having a flange generally has the disadvantage that the hollow profile can only be bent and/or widened with difficulty.
  • the reason for this is that the connecting point of the flange on the hollow profile acts like a tension rod against the forming force.
  • the flange cannot expand sufficiently and therefore the hollow profile cannot be formed in a controlled manner.
  • German document DE 19905365 A1 It is known from German document DE 19905365 A1 to produce a hollow profile having a flange by roll forming from a sheet-metal blank. The hollow profile is then subsequently subjected to internal high pressure forming.
  • the flange is established beforehand in such a way that its position and dimensions are not formed until during the internal high pressure forming.
  • such a method is complicated in its implementation inasmuch as that portion of the flange on the initial hollow profile which is to be deformed during the internal high pressure forming has to be accurately established or calculated as a function of the holding-down force for the flange on the one hand and the internal high pressure to be applied on the other hand.
  • the hollow profile shown in this publication has the disadvantage that the initial hollow profile has sharp edges, which, on account of the pronounced hardening during the profile production process, can remain behind as visible residual edges or undulations on the final finished hollow profile produced by the IHPF process.
  • the bending-back or stretching of such profile edges, hardened to a pronounced extent, cannot be completely taken into account in the IHPF process.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a hollow profile by means of which a hollow profile having at least one flange can be produced in a simple and controlled manner.
  • the method is distinguished by the fact that an initial hollow profile consists of a single sheet, at least one flange being formed in the longitudinal direction of the initial hollow profile likewise by corresponding folding or roll forming of the sheet.
  • the sheet can be produced in particular from a sheet-metal blank and/or a roll-formed sheet unwound from the coil.
  • the joint location of the sheet is welded and the closed initial hollow profile is inserted into an internal high pressure forming (IHPF) tool.
  • IHPF internal high pressure forming
  • the at least one flange is positioned in a corresponding cavity in the IHPF tool and is clamped in place with a defined holding-down force during the internal high pressure forming.
  • the inner contour of the IHPF tool, on the one hand, and the holding-down force to be applied on the flange during the internal high pressure forming, on the other hand, are selected in such a way that the position of the flange always remains unchanged relative to the finished hollow profile then formed.
  • the flange can be produced in different ways during the folding or roll forming of the sheet.
  • the flange prefferably be formed by doubling of the material of the sheet during the folding or roll forming, that is to say the sheet is folded over or roll-formed, with the flange being formed.
  • Another possibility is to fold or roll-form the sheet in such a way that the two ends of the sheet form an overlapping joint for forming the flange.
  • the sheet it is also possible for the sheet to be folded or roll-formed at one end, with the flange being formed, and for the other end, during the folding or roll-forming, to be formed in such a way that it abuts against the transition region between the flange and the initial hollow profile.
  • the sheet is welded together in the region of its free ends. Since these free ends can lie in the region of the flange or outside this region, welding is carried out there in each case.
  • the weld is at any rate located outside the flange region in the initial hollow profile.
  • Hollow profiles produced by the method according to the invention are suitable, for example, for use in body construction as roof frames, side sills, transverse members or longitudinal and transverse members in the body floor assembly, in which case the adjacent body components can then be attached to the flange by conventional joining processes, such as resistance spot welding for example.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows an IHPF tool with a flange clamped in place
  • FIGS. 2 a and 2 b show an initial hollow profile with different positions of the weld
  • FIG. 3 shows a further initial hollow profile with a single flange
  • FIGS. 4 a and 4 b respectively show an initial hollow profile with a weld outside the flange region.
  • FIG. 1 Shown schematically in FIG. 1 is an IHPF tool 1 which consists of a top part 2 and a bottom part 3 . Both parts 2 and 3 form a cavity 4 , which corresponds to the contour of the final finished hollow profile.
  • a sheet-metal blank formed into an initial hollow profile 5 is inserted into this cavity 4 .
  • the initial hollow profile 5 has a flange 6 , which is clamped in place in a corresponding section 7 of the cavity 4 .
  • the clamping in place can be effected with such a holding-down force that either no subsequent flow of material can take place from the region of the flange 6 into the finished hollow profile or such a subsequent flow of material is allowed.
  • FIGS. 2 a and 2 b show an initial hollow profile 5 in which a flange 8 is formed by an overlapping joint of the free ends of the sheet.
  • the flange 8 can then be welded either by a weld 9 being provided in the joint region of the flange 8 ( FIG. 2 a ) or by a weld 9 being provided in the course of the flange 8 transversely to the latter ( FIG. 2 b ).
  • FIG. 3 shows an initial hollow profile 5 in which the flange 10 is formed by a free end of the sheet being appropriately bent over and by the other free end being welded on in the transition region between the flange 10 and the initial hollow profile 5 .
  • a further possibility consists in forming a flange 11 of the initial hollow profile 5 in such a way that the sheet is folded over and thus overlaps in the region provided for the flange 11 .
  • This is shown by way of example in FIG. 4 a for a single flange 11 and in FIG. 4 b for two flanges 11 .
  • the weld 9 is located outside the flange in the region of the initial hollow profile 5 .
  • Such an initial hollow profile with a weld 9 established outside the flange region is preferably to be used when a subsequent flow of material from the region of the flange 11 during the internal high pressure forming is to be permitted.

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DE10350145.2 2003-10-28
DE10350145A DE10350145B4 (de) 2003-10-28 2003-10-28 Erzeugen von IHU-Bauteilen mit Flansch
PCT/EP2004/010182 WO2005051562A1 (de) 2003-10-28 2004-09-11 Erzeugen von ihu-bauteilen mit flansch

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