IP Library Granted Patent US 7,117,704
Granted Patent B2
US 7,117,704 · App. 10/915,459 · Granted Oct 10, 2006

Impact extrusion molded article, and impact extrusion molding method, and an impact extrusion molding apparatus

Assignee: Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp.
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Patent No.
US 7,117,704
App. No.
10/915,459
Granted
Oct 10, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

An impact extrusion molded article that is molded while the metal-flow from a bottom of a slug set in a dice toward the side of the molded product article is suppressed; an impact extrusion molding method for manufacturing the impact extrusion molded article, and an impact extrusion molding apparatus used for the impact extrusion molding method, are provided.

Claims (13)

1. An impact extrusion molding method characterized by extruding a protrusion to be formed on the bottom of a semifinished product, which is being molded halfway alone molding process, in an equal direction to the progress direction of a punch when a cylindrical product is impact extrusion molded using a punch and a dice, and which protrusion is being molded while suppressing the metal-flow from the bottom of a slug set in the dice toward the side of the molded product article,

wherein a convex portion, for forming an annular groove in the inner surface of the bottom of the molded product article, is provided on the top end of said punch, and

wherein, when a protrusion extruded into the hole in the bottom of the said dice is cut around a portion of the annular groove formed in the inner surface of the bottom of the molded product article, a cut region is discharged from within the dice.

2. The impact extrusion molding method according to claim 1 , wherein a hole going through the bottom of the dice is opened, when a pressing force of said punch reaches a predetermined value or more, and/or said punch is lowered to a predetermined position by pressurizing, by the punch, a slug set in said dice while closing the hole.

3. An impact extrusion molding apparatus comprising

a punch;

a dice, having a hole going through the bottom of the dice;

an opening and closing means, for opening and closing the hole by raising and lowering said hole; and

a rod on the upper end of which the opening and closing means is provided,

wherein said opening and closing means is controlled for back pressure in the direction opposite to said punch that is applied to the opening and closing means, to close said hole, at least when a slug set in said dice starts to be pressurized by the punch, and so that said back pressure is relieved from the opening and closing means, when a pressing force of said punch reaches a predetermined value or more, and/or said punch is lowered to a predetermined position, and wherein the rod is adapted to slide a distance that gives minimum volume suppressing metal-flow from a bottom of slug set in a dice toward a side of a molded product article, and

wherein a convex portion, for forming an annular groove in the inner surface of the bottom of the molded product article, is provided on the top end of said punch, and

said impact extrusion molding apparatus comprising a mechanism to discharge a cut region from within the dice, when a protrusion extruded into the hole in the bottom of the said dice is cut around a portion of the annular groove provided in the inner surface of the bottom of the molded product article.

4. The impact extrusion molding apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein said opening and closing means is attached to the top end of the rod raised and lowered in the hole in the bottom of said dice, and said back pressure is applied and relieved on and from the opening and closing means through said rod.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ASSIGNEE ADDRESS Recorded Mar 30, 2007
From: FURUKAWA-SKY ALUMINUM CORP.
To: FURUKAWA-SKY ALUMINUM CORP.
Reel/Frame 019094/0275 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2004
From: OGURA, KEN-ICHI; UENO, SEIZO; HOSOKAWA, TOSHIYUKI; EDA, YOSHIYA
To: FURUKAWA-SKY ALUMINUM CORP.
Reel/Frame 015682/0137 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2002-038877 · Feb 15, 2002 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP030144700 · Feb 12, 2003
Related Publication 20050005665A1 · Jan 13, 2005