Method of manufacturing a lightweight laminate
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsAndrey M. Ilinich, Alexander Mamutov, S. George Luckey, JR., David John Hill, Jason Scott Balzer
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Abstract
A method of producing a laminated article comprising placing a first metal skin, a core, and a second metal skin freely onto each other as discreet layers to provide a layered component; and forming the layered component into a shaped article via a die prior to producing a laminated article by applying pressure and heat to the shaped article, wherein at least the first skin moves relative to the core and/or second skin during the forming.
Claims20
A method of producing a laminated article comprising:
- placing a first metal skin, a core, and a second metal skin freely onto each other as discreet layers to provide a layered component;
- and
- forming the layered component into a shaped article via a die prior to producing a laminated article by applying pressure and heat to the shaped article,
- wherein at least the first skin moves relative to the core and/or second skin during the forming.
A method of producing a laminated article comprising:
- placing a first metal skin connected to a core and a second metal skin freely onto each other to provide two discreet layers;
- and
- forming the two discreet layers into a shaped article via a die prior to producing a laminated article by applying pressure and heat to the article,
- wherein at least one of the discreet layers moves relative to the other during the forming.
A method of producing a laminated article comprising:
- arranging first and second discreet layers to be freely in contact with each other within a die, wherein the first discreet layer comprises a laminated first skin and a first core and the second discreet layer comprises a laminated second skin and a second core;
- forming via the die a shaped article from the layers such that the layers move relative to each other during the forming;
- and
- laminating the shaped article.
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