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US 11,517,960 B2Granted
Method for producing a component
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMohamed Youssef, Matthias Warkentin
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Abstract
A method for producing a component from an aluminum alloy using a semisolid method is provided. The alloy contains less than 1.3% by weight of iron and no more than 0.2% by weight of silicon, and the component has sufficient ductility such that the component can be joined to other components by self-piercing riveting, flow drilling, high-speed tack setting, friction welding and/or weld riveting.
Claims20
A method for producing a component, the method comprising:
- preparing an alloy based on aluminum and converting the alloy into a semisolid state including solid particles of pure aluminum suspended in a liquid metal, the semisolid state free of solid aluminum-iron particles;
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- forming the component with a semisolid method, wherein the alloy contains less than 1.3% by weight of iron and no more than 0.2% by weight of silicon.
A method for producing a component, the method comprising:
- rheocasting an aluminum alloy containing less than 1.3% by weight of iron and no more than 0.2% by weight of silicon and forming the component, the aluminum alloy including solid particles of pure aluminum suspended in a liquid metal and free of solid aluminum-iron particles suspended in the liquid metal.
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