Method for forming a workpiece
AssigneePmg Asturias Powder Metal S.A.U.
InventorsDiego Castro Menendez-Castanedo, Juan Ignacio Lopez Martinez, Ivan Jose Presa Lopez
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for forming a surface relief on an available surface of a compacted sintered component which forms the workpiece, using a forming element that is moved in the working direction towards the available surface. The working direction runs radially in relation to the workpiece and a contact surface of the forming element. The shape of the surface having the relief is applied to the surface of the workpiece in the working direction.
Claims20
A method for forming a relief on a sintered workpiece, comprising:
- moving a forming element having at least one forming relief in a radial working direction into contact with the surface of the sintered workpiece;
- radially applying the at least one forming relief to the surface of the sintered workpiece;
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- creating a corresponding relief in the surface of the sintered workpiece having an inverse shape of the at least one forming relief of the forming element, wherein the surface of the sintered workpiece includes a toothing system comprising at least one tooth.
A method for using a tool for forming a relief on a surface of a sintered workpiece, comprising:
- radially deflecting a forming element toward the sintered workpiece, wherein the forming element has at least one forming relief facing the surface of the sintered workpiece;
- impressing the at least one forming relief at least partially into a surface of the sintered workpiece;
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- removing the at least one forming relief of the forming element from contact with the sintered workpiece, revealing a sintered workpiece having a corresponding relief formed in the surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.