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US 2015/0082854 A1Published application
Incremental forming method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKiyoshi Nonomura, Koji Kurozumi, Koji Inoue
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Abstract
An incremental forming method includes pressing a rod-shaped tool into a workpiece and stretching the workpiece little by little while moving the rod-shaped tool so that a percentage of decrease in plate thickness of the workpiece after forming with respect to plate thickness of the workpiece before forming is made to be within a range of 35% to 40%, inclusive.
Claims2
An incremental forming method comprising:
- pressing a rod-shaped tool into a metal plate and stretching the metal plate little by little while moving the rod-shaped tool so that a percentage of decrease in plate thickness after incremental forming of the metal plate with respect to plate thickness before incremental forming of the metal plate is made to be within a range of 35% to 40%, inclusive.
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