Spinning method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTsunenari FUTAGI, Nobuyuki KAKIYA, Tadahisa AKIYAMA, Ikuo KATO, Akitoshi UCHIUMI, Shinichi OHNAKA, Toshimasa KOSHIMIZU, Haruo MACHIDA, Yuji MATSUMOTO
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Abstract
A workpiece having a first constant diameter portion, a tapered reduced-diameter portion, a concave portion, a tapered increased-diameter portion, and a second constant diameter portion is formed by machining the tapered reduced-diameter portion, and then machining the tapered increased-diameter portion and the concave portion.
Claims12
A spinning method for forming a concave portion dented in a radial direction of a cylindrical workpiece by pressing a spinning tool against a side wall portion of the cylindrical workpiece, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) attaching the workpiece to a die, the die including a first equal diameter portion having a constant diameter, a second equal diameter portion having a constant diameter and located away from the first equal diameter portion, a first inclined portion continuous with the first equal diameter portion, a second inclined portion continuous with the second equal diameter portion, a small diameter portion interposed between the first inclined portion and second inclined portion and having a constant diameter, and a workpiece movement preventing portion for preventing a movement of the workpiece from the first inclined portion toward the second inclined portion, the first inclined portion being reduced in diameter in a tapered manner as the first inclined portion goes away from the first equal diameter portion, the second inclined portion being increased in diameter in a tapered manner as the second inclined portion comes close to the second equal diameter portion;
- b) pressing the spinning tool to a region of the workpiece corresponding to the first inclined portion, and displacing the spinning tool from the first inclined portion toward the second inclined portion, thereby forming the region into a shape conforming to a shape of the first inclined portion;
- c) pressing the spinning tool to a region of the workpiece corresponding to the second inclined portion, and displacing the spinning tool from the second inclined portion toward the first inclined portion, thereby forming the region into a shape conforming to a shape of the second inclined portion;
- d) pressing the spinning tool to a region of the workpiece corresponding to the small diameter portion, and displacing the spinning tool, thereby forming the region into a shape conforming to that of the small diameter portion, and performing ironing on a thickness of the region by the spinning tool so that the thickness of the region is drawn;
- performing the step b) before the step c) and the step d);
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- forming, on the workpiece, a first constant diameter portion conforming to the first equal diameter portion;
- a tapered reduced-diameter portion having a shape conforming to that of the first inclined portion;
- a concave portion having a shape conforming to that of the small diameter portion;
- a tapered increased-diameter portion having a shape conforming to that of the second inclined portion;
- and a second constant diameter portion conforming to the second equal diameter portion.
A spinning method comprising:
- i) expanding at least a part of a cylindrical workpiece, and supporting the expanded part at a die located inwardly of the workpiece, thereby fixing the workpiece at a predetermined position of the die;
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- ii) pressing a spinning tool against an outer surface of the workpiece toward a central axis while the workpiece fixed at the die is rotated together with the die, thereby forming the workpiece into a predetermined shape.
A spinning method for shrinking and forming a cylindrical workpiece into a predetermined shape by pressing a spinning tool against the rotated cylindrical workpiece, the method comprising:
- moving the spinning tool along an axial direction while pressing the spinning tool against the workpiece toward a central axis;
- stopping the movement of the spinning tool and getting the spinning tool away from the workpiece when the spinning tool reaches a specific region of the workpiece, thus forming a raised portion raised radially outward in the specific region of the workpiece;
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- moving the spinning tool along the axial direction while pressing the spinning tool against the workpiece toward the central axis to compress the raised portion, thereby increasing a thickness of the specific region of the cylindrical workpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.