Method of manufacturing products having a deformable connection for facilitating manufacture
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorHitoshi Takanashi
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Abstract
A method of producing products wherein semi-finished products are supported between a pair of elongate, parallel carriers. Each semi-finished product is shaped by pressing the product into a finished form. Also, each semi-finished product is connected to at least one of the carriers by a deformable element. Deformation of the deformable element allows the semi-finished product to approach or move away from that carrier. Thus, when the semi-finished product is shaped by pressing, deformation of the deformable element allows the semi-finished product to move relative to that carrier so that unwanted tensions are relieved. Accordingly, the semi-finished product does not twist undesirably.
Claims8
A method of manufacturing products of pre-determined shape, comprising:
- arranging a first carrier and a second carrier in parallel to each other;
- arranging a plurality of semi-finished products between the first and second carriers, each semi-finished product having at least a first end and a second end, said each semi-finished product being connected to the first carrier at the first end and the second carrier at the second end, wherein the connection of said each semi-finished product to at least one of the first and second carriers is by at least one deformable element;
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- supplying the plurality of semi-finished products to a processing machine which deforms said each semi-finished product into the predetermined shape using a bending process, wherein said at least one deformable element of said each semi-finished product deforms during the bending process, thereby allowing said each semi-finished product to move relative to at least one of the first and second carriers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.