Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for making metal body and metal box by using hydroforming
- Patent Title (中): 使用液压成型制作金属体和金属盒的方法
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Application No.: US14146755Application Date: 2014-01-03
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Publication No.: US09021846B2Publication Date: 2015-05-05
- Inventor: Hui-Wen Hu
- Applicant: Technology on Prototyping Ultimate (TOPU)
- Applicant Address: TW Pingtung County
- Assignee: Technology on Prototyping Ultimate (TOPU)
- Current Assignee: Technology on Prototyping Ultimate (TOPU)
- Current Assignee Address: TW Pingtung County
- Agency: Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP
- Agent Tim Tingkang Xia, Esq.
- Priority: TW102100276 20130104; TW102114662 20130424
- Main IPC: B21D26/02
- IPC: B21D26/02 ; B21D26/049 ; B21D26/041 ; B21D26/043 ; B21D26/033 ; B21D51/52

Abstract:
A hydroforming method for metal produces hardware having a throat in only one side and having approximately right-angled corners without causing thinning and breakage. The method includes using a working fluid to exert a liquid pressure on a metal embryo and cooperating with a push rod of a hydroforming mold to supply material from the lower edge, forcing the side sheet metals to bulge. Furthermore, by using the hydroforming mold to provide a downwardly pressing active force on the metal embryo, under feeding of the downwardly pressing active force cooperating with continuous liquid pressure, the metal embryo deforms and bulges such that each corner of the metal embryo and the wall corners of the die cavity of the hydroforming mold have approximately the same angles. Hardware, every angle of which approximates a right angle, can be obtained after removing the hydroforming mold. This method can also be used to obtain a metal box.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140196514A1 Method for Making Metal Body and Metal Box by Using Hydroforming Public/Granted day:2014-07-17
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