Method and apparatus for producing forging by rotary forging
AssigneeHitachi Metals, Ltd.
InventorsEiji Shimohira, Koji Sato, Tsuyoshi Fukui
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Abstract
A cycle is repeated a plurality of times, which includes a forging process for placing a material to be forged in a lower die and pressing the material to be forged in this state and then separating an upper die from the material to be forged; an elevation process for lifting the material to be forged by using an elevation device to separate the material to be forged from the lower die; a rotation process for rotating the material to be forged around its center by using a rotation device; and a lowering process for placing the material to be forged rotated by the elevation device in the lower die.
Claims11
A method for producing a forging by rotary-forging a material to be forged, the method comprising:
- a forging step of pressing an upper die against the material to be forged placed on a lower die and then separating the upper die from the pressed material to be forged;
- a lifting step of lifting and separating the pressed material to be forged from the lower die by using an elevation member located in a center of the lower die;
- a rotation step for rotating the pressed material to be forged around a center thereof in a state in which the pressed material to be forged is separated from the lower die;
- and
- a lowering step of placing the rotated and pressed material to be forged onto the lower die by the elevation member, and
- wherein a cycle including the steps from the forging step to the lowering step is repeated a plurality of times,
- wherein during a first forging step of the cycle, forming an axis aligning part in the center of the material to be forged, the axis aligning part configured to align the center of the lower die with the center of the pressed material to be forged during the lowering step, wherein the axis aligning part is formed by the upper die, the lower die, or the upper die and the lower die,
- wherein a surface of the elevation member contacting the material to be forged functions as a part of the lower die in the forging step, and
- wherein in the rotation step, a manipulator holds the pressed material to be forged from both side surfaces of the pressed material to be forged to rotate the material.
A rotary forging apparatus comprising:
- an upper die configured to press a material to be forged;
- a lower die configured to receive the material to be forged;
- an elevation member, located in a center of the lower die, configured to lift and separate the material to be forged from the lower die, lower the material to be forged, and place the material to be forged on the lower die;
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- a manipulator configured to rotate the material to be forged around a center of the material in a state in which the material to be forged is separated from the lower die,
- wherein a surface of the elevation member contacting the material to be forged is configured to function as a part of the lower die,
- wherein surfaces of the lower die, the upper die, or the lower die and the upper die, include an axis aligning part configured to align the center of the lower die with a rotational center of the material to be forged after the elevation member lifts and separates the material to be forged from the lower die, lowers the material to be forged, and places the material on the lower die, and
- wherein a main body of the rotary forging apparatus comprises the upper die, the lower die, the elevation member, and the axis aligning part, and wherein the manipulator is configured to be detachable from the main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.