Abstract:
A method of making a face mask including the steps of providing a plurality of lengths of Grade 2, commercially pure titanium wire, having a diameter of from about 0.21 to about 0.24 inches; forming each length at room temperature to a desired bend angle by bending the member at room temperature using rotary bending apparatus to a first bend angle that is from about 1.25 to about 1.35 times greater than the desired bend angle; and welding each of the thus formed lengths to at least one other of the lengths in an ambient, oxygen containing environment.
Abstract:
An angle detecting head provided with an emitter and a pair of receivers is rocked, and a bent surface of a workpiece bent by a punch and a die of a bending machine is irradiated with a measurement light from the emitter, a reflected light is received by the pair of receivers, and a bending angle of the workpiece is obtained from a peak value of the light received by the respective receivers. The angle detecting head is movable parallel to the die, is movable in a direction close to and away from the workpiece, and is movable in a direction in which the die is raised/lowered. The angle detecting head is positioned in an optimum angle measurement position of the workpiece and the bending angle is measured. Moreover, the bending machine presses the workpiece to the vicinity of a target angle, measures the bending angle of the workpiece during final pressing, removes pressure to bring the workpiece to an unloaded state, measures the bending angle of the workpiece, and obtains and stores a difference between the final pressing angle measured value and the unloaded angle measured value as a spring-back amount.
Abstract:
A numerical control device for a bending machine includes a keyboard, a memory and a processor. The memory stores one or more groups of data, each containing bending conditions, a bend angle and at least one penetration depth. The memory further stores program instructions for searching whether data input with the keyboard is stored in the memory, in a same group of data, and that sends a signal to the bending machine so that the bending machine peforms bending according to the penetration depth included in the group of data. The processor that executes said program instructions.
Abstract:
In bending a workpiece (W), a position of the workpiece W relatively pressed down by a punch (P) is directly detected by a plurality of position detection means (RDC1, RDC2 and RDC3) provided in a V-groove (11) of a die, and a bending speed calculation section obtains a bending speed from a change in this position. If bending speeds at position of the respective position detection means differ, a uniform speed arithmetic operation section calculates a bending speed to make the bending speeds at the positions of all of the position detection means uniform, and a driving shaft instruction section controls driving shafts (7L, 7R) to bend the workpiece at the uniform bending speed.
Abstract:
A method of making a face mask including the steps of providing a plurality of lengths of Grade 2, commercially pure titanium wire, having a diameter of from about 0.21 to about 0.24 inches; forming each length at room temperature to a desired bend angle by bending the member at room temperature using rotary bending apparatus to a first bend angle that is from about 1.25 to about 1.35 times greater than the desired bend angle; and welding each of the thus formed lengths to at least one other of the lengths in an ambient, oxygen containing environment.
Abstract:
For the manufacture of a ring part out of a flat sheet-metal part to form a lid for a lid of a can. A hot-sealable coating is provided on one side of the sheet-metal part which is then shaped into a cylindrical tube with the coating being on the inside. The axially extending edges of the tube are joined together to form a butt-joint and the inside surface thereof pressed against a cooling plate. A butt-joint welding seam is then created by means of a laser jet. The tube is separated into equal length tube sections and each is conically enlarged at one end. The other end of each tube section is bent radially inwardly to form a bearing surface for a tear-off foil. By flanging the conically enlarged end, an annular flange is created to receive a body of a can.
Abstract:
A press-bending machine to bend metal sheets, having improved features in the respective press-bending with measuring and control system operating on at least four points of the bending angle, of the type in which the press-bending machine has: an upper vertically reciprocal elongated bending punch; a lower static elongated bending matrix with at least a longitudinal bending groove; feeler means to measure the respective bending movement of the metal sheet in bending inside said bending groove, to control by data process logic unit the bending parameters of bending process in said bending machine, said feeler means operating with at least four bending detection points, characterized in that all said detecting points are conceived in such a way to be divided in two sets of bend detecting points, one to one side and one to the other side and in a symmetrical way divided in number and position respective to the vertical plane passing along the respective sheet bending line corresponding with the bending corner of the resulting bent sheet.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method are provided for integrating an intelligent manufacturing system with an expert sheet metal planning and bending system. The intelligent manufacturing system manages and distributes part design and manufacturing information throughout the locations of a production facility. The expert planning system includes a plurality of expert modules for proposing a bending plan, including bend sequence and tooling selections, and robot motion planning and repositioning. Through the various features and aspects of the present invention, an operator can selectively modify and adapt these integrated systems for particular bend applications, including robot-based and human assisted bending operations.
Abstract:
In a press bending arrangement for an aluminum profile, especially for manufacturing the equator profile for an LNG-tank, the press is connected to control and measuring devices in such a manner, that the reflection of the workpiece is taken into account both in bending the profile and in determining the bending control based on measurements being made.
Abstract:
For starting bending of a workpiece, a provisional drive end for a ram is computed from information such as processing conditions for the workpiece input through a processing (condition input section and the relationship between the target bending angle for the workpiece and the springback angle of the workpiece stored in a springback data section. The ram is driven to the provisional drive end and then the bending angle of the workpiece is measured thereat by an angle measuring unit. Thereafter, a final drive end for the ram is obtained from (i) the measured bending angle, (ii) the relationship between the bending angle of the workpiece and the amount of driving the ram stored in a bending angle vs. driving amount data section, and (iii) the relationship between the target bending angle for the workpiece and the springback angle of the workpiece stored in a springback data section. The ram is driven to the final drive end thus obtained to complete the bending operation.