The present invention provides a high quality material for ring rolling. The material includes radially outer and inner peripheral surfaces. In the material, a center of gravity on a half section is located so as to be closer to the outer peripheral surface in contact with a main roll than a center of the half section in a thickness direction, a shape of the half section includes a height reducing portion having a height from a center line dividing the half section into halves in a height direction, this height is gradually reduced toward the inner peripheral surface in contact with a mandrel roll, and the shape is formed in a substantially linear symmetry such that the center line is a symmetric axis. A height of the inner peripheral surface is from 20% to 50% of a maximum height of the material.

The present invention relates to methods of working sheet metal, and sheet metal working apparatus for performing such methods. Such methods include steps of providing a sheet metal workpiece having first and second surfaces opposed to each other and at least one edge, bending the workpiece to form at least a first sidewall portion defined between the edge and a basal region, the first sidewall portion thereby defining a curved fold region in the sheet metal workpiece adjacent the first sidewall portion. Following this, first anvil tool and a first forming tool are provided for contact with and constraint of the first and second surfaces of the sheet metal workpiece respectively. The forming tool and/or the anvil tool are then progressively slid along the curved fold region to cause shear material transfer in the curved fold region to further deform the curved fold region. Such methods can allow for formation of components of similar shape as made at present by deep drawing methods, but with less wastage of the starting material.

An arrangement for connecting different parts includes two vehicle components. The vehicle body components include a first vehicle body component taking the form of a sheet metal component with a joining flange and being connected at this joining flange to the second vehicle body component via a welded connection. The joining flange on the first vehicle body component has a turned-over rim and is thereby formed with a doubled sheet metal thickness.

A roller hemming apparatus is disclosed. A roller hemming apparatus for hemming an outer panel with respect to an inner panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a tool body mounted at a front end of an arm of a robot, a pre-hemming roller mounted to a front side of a mounting block, which is disposed at a lower portion of the tool body, through a first mounting bracket, a main hemming roller mounted to a rear side of the mounting block through a second mounting bracket, and at least one heater mounted at a lateral side of the mounting block and configured to heat a flange portion of the outer panel.

A device (10) for flanging a tube end has a receiving unit for the workpiece (12) to be flanged and at least one tool holder (30). Provision is furthermore made for at least one flanging roller (34), which is fastened to the tool holder (30) by way of a spindle (32). The flanging roller (34) can rotate about an axis of rotation (36) along the longitudinal axis of the spindle (32). The longitudinal axis (22) of the receiving unit (20) and the axis of rotation (36) of the flanging roller (34) are oriented at an angle relative to one another.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for forming flange of circular duct, and the apparatus for forming flange of circular duct according to the present disclosure includes a forming jig that is disposed to surround an outer circumference of a lower end portion of a duct, and that has a forming groove on a surface facing the duct; a support that supports a lower end of the duct below the forming jig; a height adjustor that adjusts height of the support; and a forming unit that hits an inner circumference of the lower end portion of the duct to form a flange having a shape corresponding to the forming groove of the forming jig on the lower end portion of the duct, wherein the forming groove includes a first forming surface formed on the surface facing the duct, and a second forming surface additionally extended from a distal end portion of the first forming surface, and the height adjustor is configured to adjust a relative position of the support with respect to the forming jig such that the flange is formed only on the first forming surface or formed on the first forming surface and the second forming surface.

A hemming device wherein a processing tool is equipped with a base part moved by a robot, a processing unit having a hemming roller and a guide roller, and a floating mechanism that is attached to the base part and elastically supports the processing unit with six degrees of freedom.

A robot system includes an end effector, a robot arm, and a controller. The end effector includes a pressure roller and a linear motion mechanism. The linear motion mechanism is configured to move the pressure roller with respect to a pressed surface. The robot arm is configured to support the end effector. The controller is configured to control the linear motion mechanism to move the pressure roller to make a pressing force of the pressure roller against the pressed surface approximately uniform.

A smart active control hemming device is provided. The device includes a robot arm and a hemming roller unit that is disposed at a front end portion of the robot arm. The hemming roller unit includes a plurality of hemming rollers, a control motor that is driven with an electric motor to adjust a hemming pressure or position of at least one of the hemming rollers, and a pressure detection sensor that detects a hemming pressure of the hemming roller in which a hemming pressure is adjusted by the control motor.

Disclosed are an integrally formed fan guard and its manufacturing method. The fan guard includes a top side and a circumferential side around the outer periphery of the top side, and the top and circumferential sides are formed by a metal plate by a single or multiple stamping and extrusion method. An air hole is formed by stamping at the top side or both of the top and circumferential sides for flowing air, and a central through hole is formed at the center position of the top side. In the manufacturing method, the fan guard is formed by stamping or extruding a steel plate directly by stamping and extrusion equipments. The invention does not require a high welding skill, and the fan guard so manufactured has the advantages of high efficiency, consistency, and pass rate, and thus reducing the production cost significantly.