# US 7,461,533 B2 · Forging method forged product and forging apparatus

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- Number: US 7,461,533 B2
- Document ID: US7461533B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 10/566,467
- Filed: 2004-07-30
- Published: 2007-08-09
- Granted: 2008-12-09
- Earliest claimed: 2003-07-31
- Assignees: Showa Denko K.K.
- Inventors: Atsushi Otaki; Hidemitsu Hamano
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7461533B2

## CPC

- B21J 5/08: Upsetting
- B21J 5/00: Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing (for working sheet-metal or metal tubes, rods, or profiles B21D; for working wire B21F); Special equipment or accessories therefor
- B21J 5/008: {Incremental forging}
- B21J 9/06: Swaging presses; Upsetting presses
- B21K 1/766: {Connecting rods}
- B21K 5/16: tools for turning nuts
- B21J: FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES (rolling of metal B21B; making particular products by forging or pressing B21K; cladding or plating B23K; finishing surfaces by hammering B23P9/04; compacting surfaces by blasting with particulate material B24C1/10; general features of presses, presses for consolidating scrap B30B; furnaces in general F27)
- B21K: MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS (making particular articles by working sheet metal without essentially removing material B21D; processing wire B21F; making pins, needles or nails B21G; making particular articles by rolling B21H; forging machines, pressing machines, hammering machines, in general B21J; making chains B21L; plating B23K)

## Abstract

A forging apparatus 1A includes a swaging apparatus 2 equipped with a fixing die 10, a guide 20 having an insertion passage 22 for inserting and holding a bar-shaped raw material 5 in a buckling preventing state, and a punch 30. The raw material 5 is fixed to the fixing die 10 with the one end portion of the raw material protruded. The one end portion of the raw material 5 is inserted into the insertion passage 22 of the guide 20. Thereafter, while pressing the raw material 5 with the punch 30 in the axial direction, in a state in which an entire peripheral surface of the exposed portion 8 of the raw material 5 exposed between the guide 20 and the fixing die 10 is not restrained, the guide 20 is moved in a direction opposite to the moving direction of the punch 30 so that a length of the exposed portion 8 of the raw material 5 becomes a budding limit length or less at a cross-sectional area of the exposed portion 8 of the raw material 5. Thus, the one end portion of the raw material 5 is subject to swaging processing.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A forging method for upsetting a diameter expansion scheduled portion of a bar-shaped raw material using an upsetting apparatus equipped with a fixing die for fixing the bar-shaped raw material, a guide having an insertion passage for inserting and holding the raw material in a buckling preventing state, and a punch for axially pressing the raw material inserted in and held by the insertion passage of the guide,
the forging method comprising:
inserting the diameter expansion scheduled portion of the raw material fixed to the fixing die with the diameter expansion scheduled portion protruded from the fixing die into the insertion passage of the guide; and
moving the guide in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the punch while axially pressing the raw material with the punch by moving the punch in a state in which a part of a peripheral surface of an exposed portion of the raw material exposed between the guide and the fixing die is restrained or an entire peripheral surface of the exposed portion of the raw material is not restrained, to thereby execute upsetting of the diameter expansion scheduled portion of the raw material,
wherein the upsetting is executed so that, in the case of t0<T, G satisfies a relational expression of:
(L−X)/[(l0−L)/P−t0]≦G≦P(X1−X)/(l0−X1−Pt0),
where P is an average moving speed of the punch from initiation of a movement thereof, G is an average moving speed of the guide from initiation of the movement thereof, X0 is a buckling limit length at the cross-sectional area of the raw material before the upsetting, X1 is a buckling limit length at the cross-sectional area of an enlarged diameter portion of the raw material after the upsetting, X is an initial clearance between the guide and the fixing die (O≦X≦X0), t0 is a time lag from the initiation of the movement of the punch to the initiation of the movement of the guide (0≦t0), L is a length of the enlarged diameter portion of the raw material after the upsetting, l0 is a length of the raw material in the state prior to the upsetting required for the enlarged diameter portion, and T is upsetting time from the initiation of the movement of the punch.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The forging method as recited in claim 1, wherein the diameter expansion scheduled portion of the raw material is an end portion of the raw material.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The forging method as recited in claim 1, wherein the diameter expansion scheduled portion of the raw material is an axial central portion of the raw material.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The forging method as recited in claim 1, wherein the diameter expansion scheduled portion of the raw material is one end portion of the raw material and the other end portion thereon, wherein each of the one end portion and the other end portion of the raw material fixed to the fixing die with the one end portion and the other end portion protruded from the fixing die is inserted into the insertion passage of the corresponding guide, and wherein the one end portion and the other end portion are simultaneously subjected to upsetting.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The forging method as recited in claim 1, wherein an edge portion of a leading end surface of the guide at a side of the insertion passage and/or an opening edge portion of a raw material fixing and fitting aperture formed in the fixing die are beveled.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The forging method as recited in claim 1, wherein the diameter expansion scheduled portion of the raw material is subjected to upsetting with a part of a peripheral surface of the raw material restrained by a restraining die portion having a forming dented portion, and thereafter the enlarged diameter portion of the raw material is pressed with a second punch provided at the restraining die portion to thereby fill the forming dented portion with the material of the enlarged diameter portion by plastically deforming the enlarged diameter portion within the forming dented portion of the restraining die portion.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The forging method as recited in claim 6, wherein the fixing die is provided with a flash forming dented portion continuing from the forming dented portion of the restraining die portion, and wherein the material of the enlarged diameter portion is filled into the forming dented portion and the flash forming dented portion by plastically deforming the enlarged diameter portion within the forming dented portion of the restraining die portion.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The forging method as recited in claim 6, wherein the forming dented portion is a closed dented portion.

### Claim 9

A forging apparatus comprising:
an upsetting apparatus comprising a fixing die for fixing a bar-shaped raw material, a guide having an insertion passage for inserting and holding the raw material in a buckling preventing state, a punch for axially pressing the raw material inserted in and held by the insertion passage of the guide, and a guide driving device for moving the guide in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the punch so that a length of the exposed portion of the raw material exposed between the guide and the fixing die becomes equal to or less than a buckling limit length at a cross-sectional area of the exposed portion of the raw material,
wherein the guide driving device is configured to move the guide so that, if t0≦T, G satisfies a relational expression of:
(L−X)/[(l0−L)/P−t0]≦G≦P(X1−X)/(l0−X1−Pt0),
where P is an average moving speed of the punch from initiation of a movement thereof, G is an average moving speed of the guide from initiation of the movement thereof, X0 is a buckling limit length at the cross-sectional area of the raw material before the upsetting, X1 is a buckling limit length at the cross-sectional area of an enlarged diameter portion of the raw material after the upsetting, X is an initial clearance between the guide and the fixing die (0≦X≦X0), t0 is a time lag from the initiation of the movement of the punch to the initiation of the movement of the guide (0≦t0), L is a length of the enlarged diameter portion of the raw material after the upsetting, l0 is a length of the raw material in the state prior to the upsetting required for the enlarged diameter portion, and T is an upsetting time from the initiation of the movement of the punch.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The forging apparatus as recited in claim 9, wherein the upsetting apparatus performs upsetting in a state in which a part of a peripheral surface of the exposed portion of the raw material is restrained or an entire peripheral surface of the exposed portion of the raw material is not restrained.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The forging apparatus as recited in claim 9, wherein the upsetting apparatus further includes a restraining die portion for restraining a part of the peripheral surface of the exposed portion of the raw material.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The forging apparatus as recited in claim 11, wherein the restraining die portion is provided with a second punch for pressing the enlarged diameter portion of the raw material formed by the upsetting apparatus and a forming dented portion into which the material of the enlarged diameter portion is filled by the pressing of the enlarged diameter portion by the second punch.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The forging apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein the fixing die is provided with a flash forming dented portion continuing from the forming dented portion of the restraining die portion.

### Claim 14 (depends on 12)

The forging apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein the forming dented portion is a closed dented portion.