2049results about "Forging press drives" patented technology

A system and process for stamping parts having tolerances below 1000 nanometers. The inventive system and process is particularly suited for producing optoelectronic parts. The system includes a stamping press and one or a progression of stamping stations for supporting a punch and die. The stamping stations are designed to maintain substantial alignment of the punch and die with minimal moving components. The stamping station includes a shaft for rigidly guiding the punch to the die. The stamping press is capable of providing the punch with the necessary force to perform the stamping operations. The system includes an interface system for interfacing the force of the press with the punch, while simultaneously structurally decoupling the press from the punch. The system also includes a locating sub-plate, for locating the stamping station in alignment relative to each other, and means for in-line machine stock material before entry into the stamping stations.

An adjustable hydraulic press with movable upper and lower units is composed of vertical columns, upper transverse beam, primary slide block, the slide block for pressing edge, bench, floating bench, lower transverse beam, the primary and secondary cylinders fixed to upper transverse beam, and a push-up cylinder fixed to lower transverse beam for driving said floating bench.

A roll-flanging tool, including a bearing structure having a connector, by which the tool can be connected via a connection plane to an actuator which can be moved spatially. A first arm and a second arm are spread apart from each other and connected to each other in a connection portion which includes the connector. A first flanging roller is mounted on an end of the first arm which faces away from the connection plane, such that it can be rotated about a first rotational axis which extends along the first arm and pierces the connection plane. A second flanging roller is mounted on an end of the second arm which faces away from the connection plane, such that it can be rotated about a second rotational axis. The first rotational axis intersects or crosses a perpendicular dropped onto the second rotational axis, in or on the roll-flanging tool.

A hydraulic pressing unit includes a hydraulic pump, supply and hydraulic chambers, moving and stationary parts, a restoring spring, and a return valve provided within or attached to a housing. The moving part is displaced from a starting position into a pressing position as a result of filling the hydraulic chamber with a hydraulic medium from the supply chamber by using the hydraulic pump. The return valve is automatically displaced into an open position as a result of a hydraulic pressure corresponding to the pressing position, and the restoring spring moves the moving part. A piston acts on the flow of the hydraulic medium and lowers the pressure such that the return valve is displaced into the closed position.

A low swage load fastening system is provided for installing swage-type fasteners to secure a plurality of workpieces together. The fastener includes a pin member having an elongated pin shank to be located in aligned openings in the workpieces. An enlarged head at one end of the pin engages one side of the workpieces. A grooved pin portion extends past an opposite side of the workpieces. A collar includes a shank portion adapted to be swaged into the pin lock grooves in response to a relative axial swage load applied by an installation tool. As one aspect of the system, the collar is as-headed and does not require thermal processing yet provides an optimum balance of reduced collar shank wall thickness and increased hardness, whereby the swage load is minimized. A low swage load thread form for the lock grooves of the pin is also provided, a reduced diameter, relatively short pull portion pin extension, installation tool improvements, and an associated method of use are also disclosed.

The invention relates to a high performance and energy-saving double-acting hydrostatic press driven by a servo motor. The invention retains the rapid liquid-filling and direction control circuits in the common hydrostatic press, but uses a controllable hydraulic source composed of an AC servo motor and a quantitative oil pump to replace an uncontrollable hydraulic source driven by a common induction motor and combine with various sensors, and realizes the energy-saving pressure, position and speed control of the system under the control and regulation of the electrical motor; displacement sensors are added in a main cylinder and an auxiliary cylinder, a pressure sensor is added in the oil inlet line of the main cylinder, thus realizing the closed-loop control of position, speed and pressure; and a proportional relief valve is added at the oil outlet of the auxiliary cylinder, thus realizing variable blank holder force floating blank-holding of the auxiliary cylinder, wherein the electrical motor is the high-power AC servo motor, the electrical motor is connected with a controller, and the flow control and the volume velocity-governing and pressure-regulating of the main oil line can be realized by controlling the speed of the electrical motor. The invention completely uses the advantages of the high-power AC servo motor such as high efficiency, controllable performance, adjustable performance and good reliability to realize the optimization of process parameters, improve the hydrostatic press performance and reduce the energy consumption.

A pressing tool for connecting pipe-shaped work pieces wherein the pressing tool has a fork-shaped receiver and a clamping tool interchangeably held in the receiver by a connecting bolt. The pressing tool has two clamping jaws which can be moved toward each other. A drive motor operates the clamping tool. The connecting bolt can be pushed through bores in the fork-shaped receiver and in the clamping tool, for maintaining the clamping tool in an exchangeable position within the fork-shaped receiver. A contactless electronic tracing device is arranged in the fork-shaped receiver, which determines a relative position of the clamping jaws in relation to the fork-shaped receiver. The contactless electronic tracing device also passes a signal to either an optical warning device or an acoustical warning device.

A hydraulic rescue tool (10) is comprised of a hydraulic thrust apparatus (20) consisting of a hydraulic cylinder body (24) having slots (28) within a hollow end and interlocking ears (36) protruding from the slots. A gland (38) is interfaced between the ears, with the gland and ears connected to the cylinder hollow end with threaded fasteners (98). A connecting link (50) is attached to each interlocking ear and a quick disconnect implement unit (22) is attached to each link and to a piston rod (30) within the cylinder body (24). Six dissimilar embodiments of implement units, each having quick disconnect capabilities and different vehicle structure separating utility are attached to the hydraulic thrust apparatus (20).

A guided keeper assembly and method for metal forming dies includes a base having a mounting face, a connector portion and a central aperture. A guide pin has a cylindrical center portion closely received in the central aperture of the base for reciprocation, an enlarged first end with an alignment member, and an outwardly opening circumferential groove. A retainer ring is removably mounted in and protrudes radially outwardly of the groove to securely, yet detachably, retain the base on the guide pin between the enlarged head and the retainer ring in an assembled condition to facilitate transport and mounting of the guided keeper assembly.

The present invention discloses an adjustable hydraulic press with both upper and lower double action, specially suitable for the cylindrical gear formed by stamping or expanding, closed forging and the metal cold forming or metal hot forming of punching, finishing, flanging and drawing of sheet materials. The press comprises four columns, an upper beam, a main slide block, a hold down slide block, a fixing worktable, a floating worktable and a lower beam. The hydraulic chamber of master cylinder fixed in the upper beam communicates to the hydraulic chamber of the auxiliary cylinder, the plunger of master cylinder is connected to the main slide block and drives it. The hydraulic chamber of gas-liquid power accumulator fixed in the main slide block communicates to the hydraulic chamber of hold down cylinder, the plunger of hold down cylinder is connected to the hold down slide block and drives it. The plunger of ejecting cylinder fixed in the lower beam is connected to the floating worktable and drives it. The hydraulic press of the invention simplifies the hydraulic system of the existing hydraulic, improves utilization rate of energy, production efficiency and working accuracy of workpiece.

A self-contained die cushion assembly for use in a stretch-forming process involving heated tooling. A lower plate is mounted below an upper plate that undergoes different thermal expansion than the lower plate. Guidance devices are mounted between the upper and lower plates and include a guide post, a bearing sleeve circumscribing the guide post, and a cylinder circumscribing the bearing sleeve. The guide post is mounted in fixed relation to the upper plate, and the cylinder is mounted in laterally translatable relation to the lower plate to accommodate lateral relative displacement between the upper and lower plates due to different thermal expansion thereof, thereby preventing binding of the guidance devices.

The invention relates to a pair of pressing jaws for hydraulic or electric pressing tools for pressing fittings onto pipes or for the press connection of electric cables, the two pressing jaws being disposed for rotation about a common axis and each pressing jaw forming a bearing eye for this purpose. In order to configure a pair of pressing jaws of the type in question in a more functionally advantageous manner, it is proposed that each pressing jaw forms two bearing eyes with coaxial bearing openings, and the bearing eyes are disposed in an interengaging manner in the assembled state.

A die cushion controlling apparatus for controlling an operation of a cushion pad, which comprises a pad drive mechanism for driving to raise or lower the cushion pad while applying an upward energizing force, a load measuring unit for measuring a load generated in the cushion pad, a time detecting unit for detecting a generating time and a vanishing time of the load, and a control unit for controlling the pad drive mechanism so that a load measured value measured by the load measuring unit follows a preset load pattern during a period from when the time detecting unit detects the generating time of the load until when the time detecting unit detects the vanishing time of the load.

A die cushion apparatus of a press machine in which a discharge opening of a fluid hydraulic pump / motor is directly connected to a pressure chamber on a cushion pressure production side of a fluid hydraulic cylinder and the torque of a rotating shaft of the fluid hydraulic pump / motor is controlled by an electric motor to control a pressure (die cushion pressure) of the pressure chamber on the cushion pressure production side. It is therefore possible to control the die cushion pressure with excellent responsiveness with respect to a die cushion pressure command and prevent occurrence of a surge pressure. The die cushion apparatus also has excellent energy efficiency since energy required for a die cushioning action that a cushion pad receives when effecting die cushioning of a press machine is regenerated as electrical energy through the fluid hydraulic cylinder, fluid hydraulic pump / motor, and electric motor.

The invention mainly discloses a multidirectional numerical control hydraulic press for metal plasticity forming. A vertical main working cylinder, two horizontal cylinders and a push-out cylinder are mounted on a stress frame; a punching cylinder is combined inside the vertical main working cylinder stroking downwards, the two horizontal cylinders are a left horizontal cylinder and a right horizontal cylinder both of which stroke in the opposite directions, and each horizontal cylinder is combined with a quick-speed cylinder; the push-out cylinder is positioned below the vertical main working cylinder and adopts an inverted cylinder acting structure; and all cylinder bodies are controlled by a hydraulic control system. In the invention, an oil pump is used for direct driving, numerical control closed loop servo control is achieved, and meanwhile, axial loading and transverse loading are performed at the same time, so as to form high-precision parts with branch shaped or cavity-like complex structures in different directions.

A pressing tool apparatus with a clamping pincer and a sensory mechanism that permits a measurement of a displacement which the piston covers with the closure procedure of the clamping pincer. With the first closure of the clamping pincer, without a pressing, there results a nominal displacement value which is realized by a displacement sensor and a ring magnet. Electronics in the housing store a measured nominal value and compares it to subsequent closure procedures with a pressing, accounting for programmable tolerance values. Pressings within a permitted range or outside the range are suitably displayed.

A rod manipulator including power-base and various assemblies, interchangeably attaching to the base. The power-base is composed of a pneumatic cylinder and piston which affects the function of various assemblies. The piston moves the central component of an assembly toward the fixed portion of that assembly. A bending assembly containing mobile pivots around which a surgical metal rod can be bent. A cutting assembly containing blades in central and fixed portions between which a surgical metal rod can be cut. The distal end of the cut rod is retained by replaceable, sterilizable, eject-grips during and immediately after the cutting operation. The general object of the invention is to provide an improved surgical rod cutter and surgical rod bender, capable of performing both tasks with one power source, requires one-person operation, eliminates the need for significant muscular forces and eliminates the opportunity for an unsafe projectile in the operating room.

A screw press which can ensure the positional precision of the ram when the rotation amount of the press motor does not directly translate into the position of the ram because there is other machinery, such as a decelerator and the like, present between the motor (servo motor) and the screw mechanism, has a construction in which a position detection sensor, which detects the position of the ram, is provided, and the position of the ram is controlled by the output from this sensor.

Apparatus and a method for establishing setup parameters for use in a machine. In one embodiment a tooling component is removably mountable to a host machine. The tooling component includes a memory that contains information defining setup parameters for the host machine for use with the tooling component. A controller associated with the host machine reads the information from the memory and configures the host machine based on the information read from the memory. In another embodiment, an information carrying tag, is associated with the tooling component. The information carrying tag is read and the identifying information obtained from the tag is used by a controller to select a set of setup parameters from one or more sets of setup parameters stored in a storage device accessible by the controller. A mechanism is provided to precisely position the adapter on the base plate for the host machine to minimize variations in production using the setup parameters derived from the stored information.

The die changing apparatus for a plate reduction press machine, comprises an upper die support holder 28a and a lower die support holder 28b that are arranged vertically on opposite sides of a transfer line, and support holder guide rails 31 installed on the upper die support holder and extending substantially horizontally in the lateral direction of the transfer line, and an upper die 29a and a lower die 29b are mounted on the upper and lower die support holders, respectively using the rollers onto the dies, fixing devices 30 that fix the upper and lower dies on the upper and lower die support holders, respectively, die fastening members 38 which are placed on each side of the upper and lower dies, opposite each other in such a manner that they can be fastened to both dies, and a die changing mechanism that can move one of the die fastening members in a direction perpendicular to the transfer line.

Narrow aerial and die-mount cams, each having a cam adapter, a driver and a slide sandwiched between the cam adapter and driver. The narrow aerial cam slide has an elongate primary portion that has a T-shaped cross-section and has a primary bearing surface, and the cam adapter has a rectangular recess. An elongate keeper plate having a longitudinal slot is secured to each side of the cam adapter adjacent the rectangular recess to slidably retain the primary portion of the slide within the longitudinal slots and the rectangular recess. The primary bearing surface and a pair of intermediate bearing surfaces formed in the slide below the primary portion slidably support the keeper plates and thus the cam adapter. The driver slidably supports the slide. The narrow die-mount cam is basically an inverted version of the aerial cam.

A mechanical transducer induces liquid cavitation, causing pressure waves in a liquid which are applied against a metal surface to afford localized elastic and plastic tensile microstrain. The pressure waves alter the surface tensile stresses in the treated metal by reducing the tensile stresses or forming surface compressive stresses. A boot is provided about the operating face of the transducer for confining a liquid through which compression waves are generated and applied to the metal surface, the boot sealing about the transducer and the surface undergoing treatment.

Method of forming depressions (e.g. dimples) in a sheet material to form a textured surface thereon involves pressing one or more tool tips into a metallic or non-metallic sheet material while the sheet material is supported by a support layer that is relatively softer (e.g. having a lower Young's modulus) than the sheet material so as to allow plastic deformation and reduce pile-up of raised displaced material of the sheet material at the edges of the depressions.

A guided keeper assembly and method for metal forming dies includes a base having a flat mounting face and at least one marginal fastener aperture to detachably mount the base to an associated die shoe, as well as a central guide aperture. The assembly also includes a guide pin having a central portion closely received in the central guide aperture of the base for precisely guiding reciprocal motion between the die pad and an associated die shoe. The guide pin has an enlarged head at a first end thereof which abuts the mounting face of the base to positively limit travel between the die shoe and the die pad, and a shoulder at the opposite or second end thereof with an alignment mechanism that precisely locates the second end of the guide pin on the die pad. A first fastener extends through the marginal fastener aperture in the base to securely, yet detachably, connect the same with the die shoe. A second fastener securely, yet detachably, connects the second end of the guide pin with the die pad.

The invention discloses an electric screw press, belongs to forging forming equipment, solves the problem that a slider is long and has a small travel in the conventional electric screw press, and is used for producing clay bricks, refractory bricks, common die forgings and precision die forgings. The electric screw press comprises a press body, a main gear, a nut, a screw, a slider body, an ejection cylinder, a left motor, a right motor, a front brake cylinder and a rear brake cylinder; and a left piston cylinder and a right piston cylinder which are bilaterally symmetrical are fixed in the press body. The nut and the main gear are tightened and rotate under the drive of the left and right motors; and the screw and the slider body are connected into a whole and driven by the nut to linearly move vertically, the screw can extend out of the upper end face of the main gear, the length of the slider body is consistent with or is even less than the height of a slider of a friction screw press with the same nominal pressure and body dimensions, the travel of the slider body can be increased by more than 100mm, the hammering energy of the slider body is correspondingly increased, and the application range can be widened obviously.

A pivotal jawarm for a compression tool has opposite sides, a pivot pin opening therethrough, longitudinally opposite ends on longitudinally opposite sides of the opening, and inner and outer edges between the ends and on laterally opposite sides of the opening. A stress concentrator comprising aligned recesses in the opposite sides of the jawarm extends from the inner edge toward the pivot pin opening and provides a failure point at the inner edge for consistently initiating a fatigue crack at the failure point and fracture of the jawarm from the failure point to the pivot pin opening.

A hemming machine of the type having a base, a nest for supporting a sheet metal part to be hemmed, and at least one die is disclosed in which the nest supporting the part to be hemmed is vertically displaced against the dies in order to form the hem. The improvement includes at least three elongated and external shafts wherein each shaft has one end rotatably mounted to the base so that the shafts are spaced apart and parallel with each other. A nut threadably engages each shaft, and these nuts are swivelly secured to the nest which permits a small amount of angular and radial deflection of the nut and shafts during movement of the nest from its lower to its upper position. An electric servo-motor is associated with each threaded shaft to rotatably drive the shafts substantially in unison with each other during the travel approach phase, and then allows in final a slight disynchronization of them, to insure an equalization of the hemming effort applied on each edge of the part, in both pre-hemming and hemming operations.

A slide drive apparatus and a slide drive method for a pressing machine capable of enhancing positioning precision at the time of adjustment of die height, and responding to pressing work at high stroke per minute. For this purpose, the drive apparatus includes a slide (4), a servo motor (21) for controlling slide motion, a mechanical power transmission mechanism (3, 5, 6) for converting rotational power of the servo motor for controlling slide motion into reciprocating motion of the slide, and a servo motor (31) for adjusting die height, which performs die height adjustment of the slide by a position control.