A method for producing an internally structured slide bearing bushing involves the following steps: a) providing a slide bearing bushing with at least one bearing region which is formed as a hollow cylinder with an internal surface and which has an external diameter and an internal diameter, b) providing an external tool with a through-opening, c) providing an internal tool which has an integral cylindrical operating region with an external surface with a structure, d) inserting the internal tool into the bearing region of the slide bearing bushing, e) introducing the slide bearing bushing and the internal tool into the conical widened portion of the through-opening of the external tool, f) pressing the slide bearing bushing into the through-opening of the external tool, g) removing the slide bearing bushing from the through-opening of the external tool, and h) radially widening the slide bearing bushing.

A method for producing an internally structured slide bearing bushing involves the following steps: a) providing a slide bearing bushing with at least one bearing region which is formed as a hollow cylinder with an internal surface and which has an external diameter and an internal diameter, b) providing an external tool with a through-opening, c) providing an internal tool which has an integral cylindrical operating region with an external surface with a structure, d) inserting the internal tool into the bearing region of the slide bearing bushing, e) introducing the slide bearing bushing and the internal tool into the conical widened portion of the through-opening of the external tool, f) pressing the slide bearing bushing into the through-opening of the external tool, g) removing the slide bearing bushing from the through-opening of the external tool, and h) radially widening the slide bearing bushing.

Microneedle arrays, methods for fabricating microneedle arrays, medical devices, and methods for operating medical devices are provided. A method for fabricating a microneedle array includes providing a sheet blank of material. Further, the method includes stamping the sheet blank of material with a progression of dies, wherein the material is displaced into the microneedle array. A medical device includes a microneedle array, a base member having a first surface supporting the microneedle array and a second surface, and a flexible wall enclosing a chamber between the flexible wall and the second surface of the base member. The flexible wall is biased toward an extended configuration enclosing a first volume in the chamber. Further, the flexible wall is movable to a depressed configuration enclosing a second volume in the chamber less than the first volume.

A shaping tool for connecting to a shaping device for deforming a portion of a workpiece. The shaping tool includes a clamping device having multiple clamping segments and a compressing head having a depression on one end for forming a portion of the workpiece. The compression head and the clamping device being integrally connected to each other, circumferentially, as a wholly exchangeable single tool unit and being axially movable relative to each other. The compression head additionally, on an opposing side from the depression, an attachment feature for connecting the single tool unit to a shaping piston of a shaping device.

An embossing die includes a recess into which a component can be introduced for embossing and an embossing bead protruding into the recess and contacting the component. The recess has a side wall that extends at least partially conically or concavely in an embossing direction.

A tubular element for a gas pressure container of an airbag system of a motor vehicle, wherein the tubular element (10) consists of a material which, in addition to iron and impurities due to melting, comprises the following alloying elements in the ranges indicated in percent by weight: TABLE-US-00001 C 0.05-0.2% Si 0.9% Mn 0.2-2.0% Cr 0.05-2% Mo <0.5% Ni <1.0% Nb 0.005-0.10% Al <0.07% Ti <0.035% and B <0.004%.

A tubular element for a gas pressure container of an airbag system of a motor vehicle, wherein the tubular element (10) consists of a material which, in addition to iron and impurities due to melting, comprises the following alloying elements in the ranges indicated in percent by weight: TABLE-US-00001 C 0.05-0.2% Si 0.9% Mn 0.2-2.0% Cr 0.05-2% Mo <0.5% Ni <1.0% Nb 0.005-0.10% Al <0.07% Ti <0.035% and B <0.004%.

A side wall of a pipe is clamped by a first die and a second die to thereby clamp the pipe. The first die and the second die are made to approach each other while an end of the pipe is pressed toward the first die by the third die along a longitudinal direction of the pipe, to thereby form a spool between the first die and the second die. In a state where the spool is clamped by the first die and the second die, the third die is separated from the pipe along the longitudinal direction of the pipe so as to separate the second die and the third die from each other. Clamping of the pipe is released such that the first die and the second die separate from the side wall of the pipe, to thereby unclamp the pipe.

The invention relates to a method for producing a cable tray component which is made of metal and designed, for example, as a cable tray (1) or cable tray cover and has a sequence of beads (5) along its longitudinal extent, which beads are stamped into the workpiece (14) used to form the cable tray component (1) by means of a stamping process, wherein, for the process of bead stamping, the workpiece (14) is clamped in a hold-down element (N) adjacent to or in the transition to a bead (5) to be created. A special feature according to a first embodiment of the method is that the workpiece (14) is held in the hold-down element (N) by a form fit which acts in the radial direction towards the bead (5) to be created and is produced by at least one form-fitting edge (16, 17) pressed into the surface of the workpiece (14), as a result of which at least one indentation following the shape of the bead (5) is introduced into the material of the workpiece (14) by the hold-down element (N) before the bead (5) is formed. According to another embodiment of the method, to create the bead, following its outline geometry, the workpiece in the bead edge region is reduced in terms of its material thickness in the direction of the bead to be created, over a portion extending in the radial direction towards the bead to be created, by at least one stamping bulge located on the hold-down element, and is thus lengthened in the direction of the bead to be formed. The invention also relates to bead presses for producing a cable tray component which is made of metal and has a sequence of beads along its longitudinal extent using this method, and a cable tray component produced therewith.

The invention relates to a method for producing a cable tray component which is made of metal and designed, for example, as a cable tray (1) or cable tray cover and has a sequence of beads (5) along its longitudinal extent, which beads are stamped into the workpiece (14) used to form the cable tray component (1) by means of a stamping process, wherein, for the process of bead stamping, the workpiece (14) is clamped in a hold-down element (N) adjacent to or in the transition to a bead (5) to be created. A special feature according to a first embodiment of the method is that the workpiece (14) is held in the hold-down element (N) by a form fit which acts in the radial direction towards the bead (5) to be created and is produced by at least one form-fitting edge (16, 17) pressed into the surface of the workpiece (14), as a result of which at least one indentation following the shape of the bead (5) is introduced into the material of the workpiece (14) by the hold-down element (N) before the bead (5) is formed. According to another embodiment of the method, to create the bead, following its outline geometry, the workpiece in the bead edge region is reduced in terms of its material thickness in the direction of the bead to be created, over a portion extending in the radial direction towards the bead to be created, by at least one stamping bulge located on the hold-down element, and is thus lengthened in the direction of the bead to be formed. The invention also relates to bead presses for producing a cable tray component which is made of metal and has a sequence of beads along its longitudinal extent using this method, and a cable tray component produced therewith.