IP Library Granted Patent US 10,577,027
Granted Patent B2
US 10,577,027 · App. 16/326,152 · Granted Mar 3, 2020

Automobile body press-molded component and method for producing same

Inventor: Yasuhiro Ito (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
B62D25/2009B21D19/08B21D22/02B21D22/21B21D47/04B21D53/88B21D51/52B62D25/20
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Patent No.
US 10,577,027
App. No.
16/326,152
Granted
Mar 3, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A member has a transverse cross section that includes a top sheet, upper ridgelines, vertical walls, lower ridgelines, and floor flanges and includes, on at least one end portions in the extending directions of the upper ridgelines, a top sheet flange via a top sheet ridgeline and vertical wall flanges via vertical wall ridgelines, in which the vertical wall flange and the floor flange are continuous. In end portions of the upper ridgelines and the lower ridgelines, the sum totalΣR of the radii of curvature of corner portions of the vertical walls and the sum totalΣL of the widths of the top sheet and the vertical walls in an end portion of the member have the relation ofΣR/ΣL≤0.13.

Claims (19)

1. A member comprising:

a top sheet;

two facing vertical walls provided on both sides of the top sheet via upper ridgelines;

a top sheet flange extending on an outside of the member via a top sheet ridgeline of the top sheet existing on a side of an end portion of the member;

two vertical wall flanges each extending on the outside of the member via a vertical wall ridgeline of the vertical wall extending on the side of the end portion of the member; and

two floor flanges each of which is adjacent to the vertical wall flange and extends on the outside of the member via a lower ridgeline that extends on an end portion of the vertical wall different from an end portion of the vertical wall on the side of the end portion of the member,

wherein the vertical wall flange and the floor flange adjacent to an end portion of the vertical wall flange are continuous with each other, and

in the end portion of the member, a sum totalΣR of radii of curvature of angles of the vertical walls each between the lower ridgeline and the vertical wall ridgeline and a sum totalΣL of widths of the top sheet and the vertical walls in the end portion of the member have a relation ofΣR/ΣL≤0.13.

2. The member according to claim 1 ,

wherein the radius of curvature of the angle of the vertical wall between the lower ridgeline and the vertical wall ridgeline is less than or equal to 20 mm.

3. The member according to claim 1 ,

wherein the top sheet flange and the vertical wall flange are continuous.

4. The member according to claim 1 ,

wherein the vertical wall is a triangle, and

the floor flange serves also as the vertical wall flange.

5. A method for producing a press-molded product, the method being for producing the member according to claim 1 ,

the method comprising:

a first step of molding, in a shrink flange manner, at least parts of floor flanges and parts of vertical wall flanges continuous to the floor flanges, in at least two places of a blank; and

a second step of, following the first step, molding, in a stretch flange manner, a top sheet flange and remaining parts of the vertical wall flanges continuous to the top sheet flange, in at least two places between the at least two places of the blank in the first step.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 1, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049924/0315 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 4, 2019
From: ITO, YASUHIRO
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048491/0548 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-160722 · Aug 18, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190185070A1 · Jun 20, 2019
Cited By (3)
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