CONDUCTIVE POST-FURNACE HEATING OF SHEET FOR HOT FORMING

    公开(公告)号:US20220176434A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17594664

    申请日:2020-05-06

    摘要: A system for producing components by hot forming includes a conductive post-furnace heat station, a furnace, a computer system, and a press. The computer system comprises one or more physical processors operatively connected with the furnace in and the conductive post-furnace heat station. The one or more physical processors being programmed with computer program instructions which, when executed cause the computer system to control the furnace to heat the blank to a temperature that is below AC3 temperature; and control the conductive post-furnace heat station to heat a portion of the heated blank to a temperature above the AC3 temperature by thermal conduction. The press is constructed and arranged to receive the post-heated blank from the post-furnace heat station and to form the post-heated blank into the shape of the component.

    Method and system for cooling hot components

    公开(公告)号:US11261502B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US17253439

    申请日:2019-06-19

    发明人: Mats Olsson

    摘要: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for cooling an automobile component (20) by means of a gas, the apparatus comprising a cooling box (11) with a re-closeable opening (12) for receiving an automobile component (20) to be cooled, wherein at least one heat sink (13) is provided inside the cooling box (11) for cooling of the gas, and wherein the apparatus (10) includes at least one infra sound pulsator (2, 3) arranged to provide an infra sound into said cooling box (11) to improve heat exchange of the gas both with a cooling surface of the at least one heat sink (13), and with the automobile component (20). The invention also relates to a process for cooling an automobile component in such an apparatus.

    HOT-PRESS MOLDING METHOD AND HOT-PRESS MOLDED PRODUCT

    公开(公告)号:US20210340643A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17378898

    申请日:2021-07-19

    摘要: A hot-press molding method of the present disclosure includes a first heating process in which a steel plate is heated and the entire steel plate becomes austenite, a first cooling process in which a cooling rate of the steel plate after the first heating process is partially changed, a first region which is a part of the steel plate is transformed into martensite, and a second region other than the first region remains as austenite, a second heating process in which the entire steel plate is reheated and the first region becomes tempered martensite, and a second cooling process in which the entire steel plate after the second heating process is cooled. At least one of the first cooling process and the second cooling process is performed during a molding process in which the steel plate is press-molded on a molding die.

    METHOD FOR PARTIAL COLD DEFORMATION OF STEEL WITH HOMOGENEOUS THICKNESS

    公开(公告)号:US20210189518A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-24

    申请号:US16755313

    申请日:2018-10-10

    申请人: Outokumpu Oyj

    IPC分类号: C21D9/48 C21D8/02

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for partial hardening of a steel sheet by cold deformation, where the partial hardening of a steel is done by a cold deformation with a multi-step rolling and annealing process and in order to have a steel sheet with a homogeneous thickness steel sheet is used with at least two areas having different values in mechanical and/or physical properties in longitudinal direction of the material.