Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A HOLLOW SPRING MEMBER
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Application No.: US17696971Application Date: 2022-03-17
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Publication No.: US20220203800A1Publication Date: 2022-06-30
- Inventor: Masahiro UMEZAWA , Daisuke TAKEDA
- Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Priority: JP2016-068043 20160330
- Main IPC: B60G21/055
- IPC: B60G21/055 ; B60G11/14 ; F16F1/06 ; F16F1/14 ; F16F1/02 ; B60G21/045

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a hollow spring member having a hollow steel spring rod having terminal sealed portions at both ends thereof. Each terminal sealed portion has a rotationally symmetric shape in which an axis passing through a center of the spring rod is an axis of symmetry. Each terminal sealed portion has an end wall portion including an end face; an arc-shaped smoothly curved surface between an outer peripheral surface of the spring rod and the end face, and a hermetically closed distal-end-center closure portion on the axis passing through the center of the spring rod. The method includes forming each of the end portions of the spring rod by forming a chamfered portion on an inner or outer peripheral side of the end portion of a hollow wire, the end portion having an opening portion at a distal end, heating the end portion of the hollow wire having the chamfered portion, and spinning the heated end portion to be gathered toward the axis from the outer peripheral side by a jig. The end wall portion, which includes the distal-end-center closure portion, is formed by the distal end of the end portion being joined together on the axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US11701943B2 Method of manufacturing a hollow spring member Public/Granted day:2023-07-18
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