Safety steering column assembly for automobiles
    1.
    发明授权
    Safety steering column assembly for automobiles 失效
    汽车安全转向柱总成

    公开(公告)号:US4325268A

    公开(公告)日:1982-04-20

    申请号:US131351

    申请日:1980-03-18

    IPC分类号: B62D1/19 F16F7/12 B62D1/18

    CPC分类号: F16F7/123 B62D1/192

    摘要: A safety steering column assembly for automobiles comprising a steering shaft of variable axial length for connecting a steering wheel with a steering gear mechanism. A portion of the steering shaft adjacent the steering wheel is surrounded by a guide and support tube in which a bearing for turnably supporting the steering shaft is mounted. The guide and support tube, in turn, is surrounded by a corrugated tube serving as an impact absorber in which the corrugations of the tube are compressed into a block to reduce the axial length thereof. The stiffness of the corrugations of the corrugated tube varies along the length of the latter and the end of the corrugated tube distance from the steering wheel is fixedly attached to the guide and support tube, whereas the other end adjacent the steering wheel is releasably attached by means of a bracket to a portion of the body of the automobile so that upon impact on the steering wheel, for instance when during an accident the body of the driver hits the steering wheel, the corrugated tube is stressed in tension, whereby the compressed corrugations of different stiffness are gradually extended to provide a gradually increasing impact absorbing force.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于汽车的安全转向柱组件,包括用于将方向盘与舵机机构连接的可变轴向长度的转向轴。 靠近方向盘的转向轴的一部分被引导和支撑管围绕,其中安装有用于可转动地支撑转向轴的轴承。 引导和支撑管又由用作冲击吸收器的波纹管围绕,其中管的波纹被压缩成块以减小其轴向长度。 波纹管的波纹的刚度沿着后者的长度变化,并且波纹管的距离方向盘的距离的端部被固定地附接到引导和支撑管,而与方向盘相邻的另一端可释放地附接于 例如当汽车主体碰到方向盘时,例如当事故中碰到方向盘时,托架的一部分到汽车车身的一部分的装置,波纹管受到张力的应力,从而压缩的波纹 不同刚度逐渐延伸,提供逐渐增加的冲击吸收力。

    Method and apparatus for the production of exhaust pipes for automotive
vehicles
    2.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for the production of exhaust pipes for automotive vehicles 失效
    用于生产汽车排气管的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4563802A

    公开(公告)日:1986-01-14

    申请号:US147255

    申请日:1980-05-06

    摘要: A method for the continuous production of exhaust pipes for automotive vehicles comprises the steps of continuously withdrawing an elongated substantially flat metal strip from a coil and subsequently bending and forming the moving strip into a longitudinally slitted tube strand. The opposite faces of the slitted pipe strand are then welded together and subsequently the pipe strand, while still moving, is severed into pipe sections of predetermined length and the pipe sections are then transferred to at least one bending apparatus for bending the pipe sections into exhaust pipes with predetermined bends; and an apparatus for carrying out the above method.

    摘要翻译: 用于连续生产用于机动车辆的排气管的方法包括以下步骤:从线圈连续取出细长的基本上平坦的金属带,随后将移动的条弯曲并形成纵向切割的管束。 然后将缝合管股的相对面焊接在一起,随后在仍然运动的情况下,管束被切割成预定长度的管段,然后将管段转移到至少一个弯曲装置,以将管段弯曲成排气 具有预定弯头的管道; 以及用于执行上述方法的装置。

    Apparatus for producing a corrugated tube
    3.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for producing a corrugated tube 失效
    波纹管制造装置

    公开(公告)号:US4319471A

    公开(公告)日:1982-03-16

    申请号:US162041

    申请日:1980-06-20

    摘要: Apparatus for forming a corrugated tube from a smooth walled starting tube comprises a pair of receiving mandrels aligned spaced from each other along a preferably vertical axis and movable toward and away from each other to be engaged in opposite end portions of a starting tube. The halves of split corrugation forming discs and the halves of an end member above the uppermost of the discs, coupled together for limited movement in axial direction, are respectively carried and guided for movement in axial direction by a pair of clamping jaws tiltable between an open position permitting to align a starting tube with the mandrels and a closed position closing the split discs and the split end member and fluid tightly clamping opposite end portions of the starting tube located about said mandrels respectively between one of the mandrels and the closed end member and between the other mandrel and the clamping jaws. A channel for introducing pressure fluid into the interior of the starting tube leads through the other mandrel, while a ventilating channel in which a ventilating valve is arranged serves to discharge air from the starting tube during introduction of pressure fluid thereinto. A fluid operated cylinder and piston unit cooperates with the end member and the receiving mandrel engaged thereby for moving both elements in axial direction towards the other mandrel to thereby offset the starting tube and to deform the same into a corrugated tube.

    摘要翻译: 用于从光滑的起始管形成波纹管的装置包括一对接收心轴,其沿着优选的垂直轴线彼此间隔开并且可相对于彼此移动并相互移动以与起动管的相对端部接合。 分开的波纹形成盘的一半和在最上面的盘的最上面的端部构件的半部分被联接在一起以在轴向方向上有限的运动分别被承载和引导以便在轴向方向上移动, 允许将起动管与心轴对准的位置以及关闭分离盘和分离端部构件的闭合位置,并且流体紧密夹紧位于一个心轴和闭合端部构件之间的围绕所述心轴的起始管的相对端部,以及 在另一个心轴和夹爪之间。 用于将压力流体引入到起动管的内部的通道引导通过另一个心轴,而设置有通气阀的通风通道用于在将压力流体引入其中时从起始管排出空气。 流体操作的气缸和活塞单元与端部构件和接收心轴配合,从而将两个元件沿轴向移动到另一个心轴,从而偏移起始管并使其变形成波纹管。

    Tube bending machine with axially movable inner core
    4.
    发明授权
    Tube bending machine with axially movable inner core 失效
    弯管机具有轴向可动内芯

    公开(公告)号:US4331015A

    公开(公告)日:1982-05-25

    申请号:US126832

    申请日:1980-03-03

    IPC分类号: B21D9/07 B21D9/05

    CPC分类号: B21D9/073

    摘要: A tube bending machine comprises a tube bending mechanism per se for bending a front portion of a tube inserted therein and fluid operated units for moving a mandrel in axial direction into the tube to be bent and for withdrawing the mandrel through a rear end of the tube after bending. A tube magazine is located to one side of the bending mechanism and a tube depositing station for receiving the bent tube is located at the other side thereof. A gripping and transfer apparatus is provided which includes two transversely spaced grippers on opposite ends of an arm movable in vertical direction, preferably by a fluid-operated cylinder-and-piston unit, and the whole gripping and transfer apparatus is movable on a horizontal guide rail with the grippers on the arms spaced from each other in such a manner that when the gripper and transfer apparatus is in the region of one end of the rail one of the grippers can grip a tube at a receiving station of the magazine and the other gripper a finished bent tube in the bending mechanism, while when the gripper and transfer mechanism is in the region of the other end of the guide rail the one gripper can place the one tube into the bending mechanism, while the other gripper places the finished bent tube onto the depositing station.

    摘要翻译: 管弯曲机包括管弯曲机构本身,用于弯曲插入其中的管的前部,以及流体操作单元,用于将心轴沿轴向移动到待弯曲的管中并且用于通过管的后端抽出心轴 弯曲后。 管筒位于弯曲机构的一侧,并且用于接收弯管的管沉积站位于其另一侧。 提供了一种夹持和传送装置,其包括在臂的相对端上的两个横向间隔开的夹持器,臂可以在垂直方向上移动,优选地由流体操作的缸 - 活塞单元,并且整个夹持和传送装置可在水平导向件 导轨,其中手臂上的夹具以彼此间隔开的方式使得当夹具和传送装置处于轨道的一端的区域中时,夹具之一可以夹持在盒的接收站处的管,而另一个 在弯曲机构中抓住成品的弯曲管,而当夹持器和传送机构在导轨的另一端的区域中时,一个夹具可以将一个管放置在弯曲机构中,而另一个夹持器将完成的弯曲 管到沉积站。

    Method series production of an outer column of a safety steering column
for automotive vehicles
    5.
    发明授权
    Method series production of an outer column of a safety steering column for automotive vehicles 失效
    方法系列生产汽车安全转向柱的外柱

    公开(公告)号:US4301959A

    公开(公告)日:1981-11-24

    申请号:US102941

    申请日:1979-12-12

    摘要: A method for series production of an outer column for a safety steering column for motor vehicles in which a first tubular blank is stepwise moved to a plurality of working stations in which the blank is deformed respectively punched to form a substantially smooth-walled protecting tube of the outer column. A second tubular blank is simultaneously moved to a working station in which it is transformed into a corrugated tube and subsequently the two tubes are fed against each other so that end portions of the tube overlap and the overlapping tubes are then welded together in a main welding station. Thereafter at least one pressed metal part is welded to one of the tubes at an auxiliary welding station. At least one control station is coordinated with at least one working station for the first tubular blank and at least one additional control station is coordinated with at least one of the welding stations for checking the work performed by the at least one working and the at least one welding station. After ascertaining of a faulty part in one of the control stations; at least operation of all working and welding stations upstream of the one control station is stopped under simultaneous arresting the part in the upstream working and welding station. Resuming of operation of the working and welding station is then permitted only after removing of the faulty part.

    摘要翻译: 一种串联生产用于机动车辆的安全转向柱的外柱的方法,其中第一管状坯料逐步移动到多个加工站,其中坯料变形分别被冲压以形成基本上平滑的保护管 外栏。 第二管状坯料同时移动到工作站,在工作台中将其转变成波纹管,随后将两个管彼此进给,使得管的端部重叠,并且重叠的管然后在主焊接中焊接在一起 站。 此后,至少一个压制金属部件在辅助焊接站处焊接到一个管。 至少一个控制站与用于第一管状坯料的至少一个工作站协调,并且至少一个附加控制站与至少一个焊接站协调,用于检查由至少一个工作和至少一个工作执行的工作 一个焊接站。 确定其中一个控制站的故障部件; 至少在一个控制站上游的所有工作和焊接站的操作停止在上游工作和焊接站的同时停止部件。 只有在拆除了故障部件之后才允许恢复工作和焊接站的操作。

    Apparatus for producing a tube with successive corrugations of different
radial extensions and spacings

    公开(公告)号:US4267718A

    公开(公告)日:1981-05-19

    申请号:US51213

    申请日:1979-06-22

    IPC分类号: B21D15/06

    CPC分类号: B21D15/06

    摘要: Apparatus for producing a tube with successive corrugations of different configuration from a tubular blank of uniform diameter mainly comprises a central pin having a shaft portion fixed only at one end to a stationary support and having at the other end a radially enlarged head portion cooperating with radially inwardly movable clamping and forming jaws to clamp a portion of a tubular blank therebetween. The apparatus includes further a tubular member guided on the shaft portion of the central pin and movable in axial direction by hydraulically operated members cooperating therewith. The tubular member supports the blank on the inner surface of the latter and cooperates with a plurality of clamping fingers arranged axially spaced from the head portion about the outer periphery of the blank and being movable by a hydraulically operated clamping piston between a clamping and a releasing position, whereby between the head portion, one end of the tubular member and the clamped portion of the blank an annular expansion space is formed into which fluid under pressure is fed, to cause outward bulging of the blank between the clamped portion thereof. The above-mentioned hydraulically operated members comprise an upsetting cylinder connected at one end to the other end of the tubular member and including a radially enlarged portion in which the clamping piston is housed, and a corrugation cylinder cooperating with the upsetting cylinder for moving the latter between a rest position and an advanced position. In order to adjust the upsetting stroke and therewith the radial extension of the corrugations to be formed, a pair of annular discs are turnably, but axially immovably mounted on opposite ends of the corrugation cylinder and having a plurality of circumferentially displaced axial projections of different axial lengths which can be respectively brought into alignment with abutment members provided on the enlarged portion of the upsetting cylinder and the support.

    Tube bending apparatus with elongated inner mandrel
    7.
    发明授权
    Tube bending apparatus with elongated inner mandrel 失效
    具有细长内心轴的管弯曲装置

    公开(公告)号:US4331016A

    公开(公告)日:1982-05-25

    申请号:US126833

    申请日:1980-03-03

    IPC分类号: B21D9/07 B21D9/05

    CPC分类号: B21D9/073

    摘要: A tube bending apparatus comprises an elongated mandrel having a length at least three times the length of a tube to be bent in the apparatus. A first mandrel holder is arranged at the rear end of the mandrel and a second mandrel holder is forwardly spaced from said first by a distance slightly greater than the length of a tube. Each of the mandrel holders comprises a pair of clamping jaws and a fluid operated cylinder-and-piston unit connected to each clamping jaw for alternatingly moving the clamping jaws of the first and the second mandrel holder between a closed position engaging the mandrel and an open position permitting a tube about the mandrel to be moved in axial direction by a plurality of transport rollers into an axially movable slide provided with a clamping collet so that a tube clamped in the region of the rear end thereof by the clamping collet is during forward movement of the slide moved into a bending mechanism arranged in the region of the front end of the mandrel and bent during operation of the bending mechanism. The bent tube is pushed out in forward direction from the mandrel while the collet is open as a second tube located between the second mandrel holder and the slide is moved into the latter to be clamped by the collet and a third tube located between the mandrel holders is transported between the slide and the second mandrel holder while the latter is opened and the first mandrel holder is closed.

    摘要翻译: 管弯曲装置包括细长心轴,其长度至少是设备中待弯曲的管的长度的三倍。 第一心轴保持器设置在心轴的后端,并且第二心轴保持器与所述第一心轴保持器向前间隔开稍微大于管的长度的距离。 每个心轴保持器包括一对夹爪和连接到每个夹爪的流体操作的气缸和活塞单元,用于交替地将第一和第二心轴夹持器的夹爪移动到与心轴接合的闭合位置和开口 允许围绕心轴的管通过多个输送辊在轴向方向上移动到设置有夹紧夹头的可轴向移动的滑动件中,使得通过夹紧夹头夹紧在其后端的区域中的管在向前运动期间 的滑动件移动到布置在心轴的前端区域中的弯曲机构中,并且在弯曲机构的操作期间弯曲。 当夹头打开时,弯曲的管被向前推动,而夹头位于第二心轴保持器之间的第二管,并且滑动件移动到第二管中,以被夹头夹住,并且第三管位于心轴保持器 在滑动件和第二心轴保持器之间运输,同时第二心轴保持器打开并且第一心轴保持器关闭。

    Apparatus for producing a tube with successive corrugations
    8.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for producing a tube with successive corrugations 失效
    用于生产具有连续波纹的管的装置

    公开(公告)号:US4237713A

    公开(公告)日:1980-12-09

    申请号:US40275

    申请日:1979-05-18

    IPC分类号: B21D15/06

    CPC分类号: B21D15/06 Y10S297/90

    摘要: Apparatus for producing a tube with successive corrugations from a tubular blank of constant diameter comprises a central pin having a shaft portion fixed only at one end to a stationary support and having at the other end a radially enlarged head portion cooperating with radially inwardly moving clamping and forming jaws to clamp a portion of a tubular blank therebetween. The apparatus includes further a tubular member guided on the shaft portion of the central pin and movable in axial direction by hydraulically operated members connected thereto. The tubular member supporting a blank on the inner surface thereof and cooperating with a plurality of clamping fingers arranged axially spaced from said head portion about the outer circumference of the blank and movable by a hydraulically operated clamping piston between a clamping and a releasing position, whereby between the head portion, one end of the tubular member and the clamped portions of the blank an annular expansion chamber is formed into which fluid under pressure may be fed through bores in the central pin.

    摘要翻译: 用于生产具有恒定直径的管状坯料的连续波纹的管的设备包括中心销,所述中心销具有仅在一端固定到固定支撑件的轴部,并且在另一端具有与径向向内移动的夹紧配合的径向扩大的头部, 形成夹爪以夹紧管状坯料的一部分。 该装置还包括在中心销的轴部分上被引导并且在与其连接的液压操作构件在轴向上可移动的管状构件。 所述管状构件在其内表面上支撑坯件并与多个夹紧指状件配合,多个夹紧指状物布置成与所述头部部分围绕坯件的外周轴向间隔开并且通过液压操作的夹紧活塞在夹紧和释放位置之间移动,由此 在头部之间,管状构件的一端和坯件的夹紧部分之间形成有环形膨胀室,在该环形膨胀室中形成压力下的流体可通过中心销中的孔进料。