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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8051695 | Method for cooling hot strip The method for cooling a hot strip which is obtained after a hot rolling process to the temperature range of 500° or less. Cooling water is brought into contact with the hot strip. The method includes a first cooling step and a subsequent second cooling step. Cooli... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7513137 | Method of making a shaped sheet-metal part A shaped part is made by forming in a flat steel plate a thickness-reducing groove and hot-shaping and hardening the flat steel plate into a three-dimensional shape. Then the plate formed with the groove is cooled, and a piece is sheared off the cooled plate along a... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7451630 | Heat treatment strategically strengthened door beam A method of forming a vehicle component, particularly an elongated impact beam, having an open section structure, in a manner to provide predetermined strategically strengthened portions, comprising the steps of cold forming unhardened steel into a workpiece having ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7308813 | Clutch housing and method for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a clutch housing having a boss portion and a drum portion integrally provided with the boss portion, is characterized by steps of integrally forming the boss portion and the drum portion by hot forging, and forced-cooling at least a portion... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290427 | Clamp ring with pre-heater A clamp ring for a forge die, the clamp ring comprising a substantially solid ring portion having a channel about the outer diameter and at least one flame aperture formed between the inside and the outside diameter and in fluid communication with the channel and a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7260972 | Method for production of stamped sheet metal panels Sheet metal parts having significantly strained portions, such as aluminum alloy body panels, can be formed by a sequence of steps comprising preform shape stamping, preform annealing and final shape stamping. The shape of the desired part is analyzed to identify po... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254459 | Bending process estimation apparatus, bending process estimation program, and bending process estimation method The present invention has been made to provide a laser bending process estimation apparatus, a laser bending process estimation program, and a laser bending process estimation method capable of estimating a result of a laser bending process without an actual workpie... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7231798 | System and method for tube bending A method for bending a tube in a pre-selected geometry includes deriving at least one processing parameter from the geometry, applying a thermal source circumferentially to the tube to heat the tube along at least one circumferentially directed path in accordance wi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7181948 | Method of making structural components Elongated structural components having regions of different thicknesses, especially for use in automobile bodies, are produced by flexible rolling metal strip so as to form along a length thereof rolled-strip segments of different wall thickness. The sheet bars are ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7121131 | Water cooled panel and forming method A bending method for producing a coil using a thick wall pipe, comprising a simultaneous hot bending and pressing of the pipe by which it is possible to obtain a coil without welded 180° elbows since the return sections are integral part of the pipe. ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117707 | Apparatus and method for thermomechanically forming an aluminide part of a workpiece A method of thermomechanically forming an aluminide part of a workpiece resistively heats at least a portion of the aluminide part, plastically deforms the heated portion of the aluminide part to a predetermined shape by applying pressure to the aluminide part posit... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114359 | Method for producing bent spring rails from an endless spring band The invention relates to a method for producing bent spring rails from an endless spring band. The method is characterized by the following steps: continuous bending of a section of spring band; cutting the bent section of spring band into a spring rail; discontinuo... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7096558 | Method of manufacturing golf club head A method of manufacturing a golf club head comprises: hot forging a material of a beta titanium alloy into the face plate, slow cooling the forged face plate; and assembling a golf club head from the face plate and other component(s). ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7013695 | Method for drawing continuous fiber An apparatus and method is disclosed for drawing continuous metallic wire having a first diameter to a metallic fiber having a reduced second diameter. A feed mechanism moves the wire at a first linear velocity. A laser beam heats a region of the wire to an elevated... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6868709 | Apparatus and method for thermomechanically forming an aluminide part of a workpiece A method of thermomechanically forming an aluminide part of a workpiece resistively heats at least a portion of the aluminide part, plastically deforms the heated portion of the aluminide part to a predetermined shape by applying pressure to the aluminide part posit... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6813923 | Method and apparatus for flexible manufacturing a discrete curved product from feed stock An apparatus for manufacturing a discrete curved product from a feed stock includes a source of heat that is adapted to impose a focused beam of light on at least one surface of a work piece to cause the surface of the work piece to expand and thereby move in the ge... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6799450 | Method of stretch forming an aluminum metal sheet and handling equipment for doing the same A method of stretch forming an aluminum metal sheet that includes the steps of placing an aluminum metal sheet in a hot forming tool, forming a shaped part at an elevated temperature, removing the hot shaped part from the forming tool, and thereafter transferring th... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6751998 | Method for forming a three dimensional object In a method for forming a three-dimensional object and in particular to a method for forming a three-dimensional beam, it is desirable to form three-dimensional beams (5) having complex forms by using an efficient forming process for the beams which may be in... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751999 | Method and apparatus for forming metallic materials A metallic material 27 is placed between an upper die 6 and a lower die 13. Inert gas is fed into the processing chamber 17 defined by a transparent quartz tube 16. The dies 6 and 13 are heated together with the metal... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6742374 | Method for partly reinforcing a workpiece A method is disclosed for partly reinforcing a workpiece which is capable of reinforcing the reinforcement requiring part of the workpiece on which stress is liable to be concentrated upon use of the workpiece. A workpiece 1 made of metal having a reinforceme... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6732562 | Apparatus and method for drawing continuous fiber An apparatus and method is disclosed for drawing continuous metallic wire having a first diameter to a metallic fiber having a reduced second diameter. A feed mechanism moves the wire at a first linear velocity. A laser beam heats a region of the wire to an elevated... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6622540 | Method and apparatus for flexible manufacturing a discrete curved product from feed stock An apparatus for manufacturing a discrete curved product from a feed stock includes a source of heat that is adapted to impose a focused beam of light on at least one surface of a work piece to cause the surface of the work piece to expand and thereby mov... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6615633 | Metal plateness controlling method and device The present invention provides a method to control the flatness of a metal sheet or plate by effectively preventing waviness from occurring at the edge portions of the sheet or plate when it is cooled to the room temperature after completing hot rolling, ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6539765 | Rotary forging and quenching apparatus and method A rotary forging and quenching apparatus and method forms and rapidly cools an axial-symmetric object from a spin formable material. The process uses a preheated billet which is clamped between opposed fixture mandrels which have a circumferential die sha... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6422797 | Binding element for binding a stack of documents comprised of loose sheets The present invention relates to a binding element for binding a stack of documents comprised of loose sheets, having a spine piece and two side pieces, the side pieces being arranged essentially perpendicular to the spine piece. The binding element is ma... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6334350 | Automatic machine for the formation of ship's curved hull-pieces This invention relates to an automatic machine to form curved plates (100) of ship's hull-pieces in a shipbuilding process. This automatic machine has the following devices, ajig table (10) to support steel plates, a heating device (21) including a torch ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6223573 | Method for precision temperature controlled hot forming Methods and apparatus for operating a press, such as a forge or trim press, are directed at activating a ram in a press having a lower die and an upper die connected to a ram by heating a workpiece to a first temperature above an impact temperature. The w... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6185977 | Method for the production of a sheet metal part by forming A process of forming a sheet of metal having varying material thickness corresponding to selected strength and/or stiffness requirements generally consisting of varying the degree of heat applied during drawing of the metal to correspondingly vary the elo... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6138491 | Apparatus and method for low heat transfer rate chill down during forging The invention includes methods and apparatus for forging and may be applied to trim processes using trim presses. Included are methods and apparatus for forging a gas turbine engine blade forging from a pre-formed workpiece having in serial relationship r... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6079245 | Device and method for straightening out damaged metal and plastic elements The invention concerns a device and a method for straightening out damaged metal and plastic elements. The device for straightening out a deformed element is characterized in that it comprises means for exerting pressure (3) on the deformed element (2), m... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6059904 | Isothermal and high retained strain forging of Ni-base superalloys A method combining isothermal and high retained strain forging is described for Ni-base superalloys, particularly those which comprise a mixture of γ and γ' phases, and most particularly those which contain at least about 40 percent by volume of γ'. Th... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5979209 | Method of forming a torsion bar with hexagonal heads To make a metal torsion bar having an elongate central body connected to two hexagonal end heads via shoulders, the ends of a torsion bar blank are initially upset while hot so as to form the shoulders of the torsion bar together with cylindrical head bla... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5755128 | Method and apparatus for isothermally rolling strip product The present invention provides a hot reversing rolling mill for isothermally reducing a metal strip product. The mill includes a hot reversing mill stand with a pair of coilers positioned on opposite sides of the mill stand. At least one heater is positio... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5719374 | Method of bending metal objects with an energy beam A method for bending metal objects along a straight bending line comprises a local heating of a selected strip of a metal object with an impinging broad energy beam. Thereupon, the selected strip is cooled by means of a cooling stream of a liquid. The coo... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5713130 | Partially thick-walled elongated metallic member and methods of making and connecting the same A method of and an apparatus for manufacturing an elongated metallic member (1) having at least one thickened wall area defined at a portion thereof. That portion of the elongated metallic member (1) is heated to a plasticizable temperature to form a heat... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5711175 | Heat shields for roller tables A roller table provides a hot material path and heat insulating panels are disposed below that path, between successive rollers of the table. The panels are displaceable between a raised, operative position close to the hot material path and a lower, inop... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5516479 | Method of and apparatus for bending plastic pipes The invention relates to a method for bending plastic pipes in which a plastic pipe section is heated at the bending point. The feature of the invention is that the pipe section (4) is first heated in a water bath at about 80° C. and then laid around one... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5306365 | Apparatus and method for tapered heating of metal billet Apparatus and process are disclosed for providing, and continuously monitoring and controlling, a tapered temperature profile in solid metal first heated to a specified initial temperature. Temperatures are monitored at a plurality of locations along the ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5257522 | Process of hot forging at ultrahigh temperature A process of hot forging a steel at an ultrahigh temperature, comprising the steps of: heating a steel containing less than 1 wt % carbon in an atmosphere substantially composed of a non-oxidizing gas at a high heating rate sufficient for suppressing the ... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5235838 | Method and apparatus for truing or straightening out of true work pieces In a straightening or truing operation for straightening out of true work pieces the characteristic fatigue strength or an increased fatigue strength achieved in a previous strengthening operation of the work piece to be straightened, is maintained. This ... | 08/17/1993 |
