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US 12,305,246 · App. 17/436,272 · Granted May 20, 2025

Needle-peening method

Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shiozaki (Tokyo, JP); Naoki Yamaguchi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
C21D7/06
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Patent No.
US 12,305,246
App. No.
17/436,272
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A needle-peening method of peening a weld toe of a welded joint for welding and joining two pieces of sheet metal using a peening pin includes vibrating one or a plurality of the peening pins in a center axis direction; rotating the one peening pin about a single rotation axis parallel to the center axis while the center axis of the one peening pin is offset from the rotation axis, when using the one peening pin; rotating the plurality of the peening pins about the rotation axis, when using the plurality of the peening pins; and moving the one or plurality of the peening pins along the welding direction to peen the weld toe, wherein a radius of curvature of a cross section perpendicular to a welding direction at a distal end part of the peening pin is equal to or larger than 0.05 mm and smaller than 1.00 mm.

Claims (10)

1. A needle-peening method of peening a weld toe of a welded joint for welding and joining two pieces of sheet metal by using a plurality of peening pins,

the method comprising:

vibrating the plurality of the peening pins in a center axis direction, wherein center axes of each of the plurality of the peening pins is parallel to each other;

rotating the plurality of the peening pins about one rotation axis parallel to the center axes of the plurality of the peening pins while at least one of the plurality of the peening pins is rotated about an offset rotation axis; and

moving the plurality of the peening pins along a welding direction to peen the weld toe, wherein

a radius of curvature of a cross section perpendicular to the welding direction at a distal end part of each of the plurality of the peening pins is equal to or larger than 0.05 mm and smaller than 1.00 mm.

2. The needle-peening method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the peening pins are arranged in a radial direction centered on the rotation axis.

3. The needle-peening method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the peening pins are arranged in a circumferential direction centered on the rotation axis.

4. The needle-peening method according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of the peening pins are arranged in a circumferential direction centered on the rotation axis.

5. The needle-peening method according to claim 1 , wherein a portion toward a weld bead side and a base metal side from the weld toe as a center is peened at the moving.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2021
From: SHIOZAKI, TSUYOSHI; YAMAGUCHI, NAOKI
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057382/0371 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-042366 · Mar 8, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220177988A1 · Jun 9, 2022
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