Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing as high as TS: 1780 MPa or more, and excellent resistance to resistance welding cracking by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 7.5 μm or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 95% or more, and at least 10 Nb-based and Ti-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.10 μm are present on average per 100 μm.sup.2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member within a range of 100 μm or less in the thickness direction from the surface of the member, and such that a B concentration in prior austenite grain boundaries is at least 3.0 times a B concentration at a position 5 nm away from the grain boundaries.

A pouch forming method and a pouch forming device are provided. In particular, the pouch forming method for forming an accommodation part that accommodates an electrode assembly in a pouch sheet includes a seating process of seating the pouch sheet on a top surface of a lower die in which a forming groove is formed in an upper portion thereof. In a vacuum elongation process, a lower portion of the pouch sheet, in which the accommodation part is formed, is elongated by vacuum, and in an accommodation part formation process, the portion of the pouch sheet, which is elongated by the vacuum, is pressed by a punch disposed above the pouch sheet in a direction in which the forming groove is formed to form the accommodation part.

An electromagnetic forming device for an aluminum tube member, the electromagnetic forming device including: a jig plate in which a support member that has a through hole has been fixed to a substrate; and a tube insertion mechanism that inserts a tube member into the through hole in the support member. The electromagnetic forming device also includes: a coil unit that has an electromagnetic-forming coil part; a coil movement mechanism that supports the coil unit; a current supply part that supplies current for electromagnetic forming to the electromagnetic-forming coil part; and a jig plate transport mechanism that transports the jig plate from a tube insertion stage ST1 to a tube expansion stage ST2.

Provided is a method for producing a workpiece made of nano-crystal soft magnetic material, capable of efficiently producing a workpiece. The method sandwiches at least one metal sheet made of amorphous soft magnetic material between a punch and a die and punches the workpiece from the metal sheet to produce the workpiece. The method heats the punch to a crystallization starting temperature or higher at which the amorphous soft magnetic material crystallizes into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. The method includes a step of punching the workpiece from the metal sheet while heating the metal sheet with the punch and a step of crystallizing the amorphous soft magnetic material of the workpiece into nano-crystal soft magnetic material by making the workpiece after punched absorbed on the punch.

A press-hardened steel assembly after hot stamping/hot forming including a core layer having a tensile strength of ≥about 1,800 megapascals to ≤about 2,200 megapascals and ≥about 90 volume % martensite, the core layer having a first thickness ≥about 40% to ≤about 96% of the thickness of the press-hardened steel assembly; and a first surface layer along a first surface of the core, the first surface layer having a tensile strength of ≥about 800 megapascals to ≤about 1,200 megapascals and ≥about 90 volume % martensite and bainite. The press-hardened steel assembly has a tensile strength of ≥about 1,600 megapascals to ≤about 2,000 megapascals and a VDA 238-100 bending angle of ≥about 50° to ≤about 80°.

A metal piece having at least two areas of lower mechanical strength than the body of the piece, said pieces being respectively arranged on one side and the other of a longitudinal central section (PM) of said piece and alternatively located in two locations separated longitudinally along the piece, the areas of lower mechanical strength than the body of the piece being formed by local control of the stamping temperature during a stamping process of the piece, notably a process comprising steps including heating the piece to a temperature range suitable for obtaining an austenitic stage, then stamping this piece in a stamping tool suitable for defining different temperatures in the different areas of the stamped piece, for example by virtue of the voids formed in the stamping tool or by local reheating of the stamping tool.

A punch hole forming method and a punch hole forming device that can suppress a decrease in the temperature of a workpiece due to a machining tool when a hole is formed by punching the workpiece using the machining tool. In the punch hole forming method, when a workpiece that is a plate-like member having a thickness of 0.01 mm or more and 1 mm or less is placed on a die, and a hole is formed by punching the workpiece in the thickness direction using a punch, the workpiece is kept at a temperature at which the workpiece can be punched at least during formation of the hole.

A pouch forming method and a pouch forming device are provided. In particular, the pouch forming method for forming an accommodation part that accommodates an electrode assembly in a pouch sheet includes a seating process of seating the pouch sheet on a top surface of a lower die in which a forming groove is formed in an upper portion thereof. In a vacuum elongation process, a lower portion of the pouch sheet, in which the accommodation part is formed, is elongated by vacuum, and in an accommodation part formation process, the portion of the pouch sheet, which is elongated by the vacuum, is pressed by a punch disposed above the pouch sheet in a direction in which the forming groove is formed to form the accommodation part.

A rolling-element bearing cage or a rolling-element bearing cage segment includes a first side ring or a first side ring segment formed from aluminum alloy AA2618, a second side ring or a second side ring segment formed from aluminum alloy AA2618, and at least one bridge formed from aluminum alloy AA2618, the at least one bridge connecting the first side ring to the second side ring or connecting the first side ring segment to the second side ring segment.

An automotive component is produced by hot forming and press hardening a hardenable steel alloy having a tensile strength of at least 1700 MPa. The hardenable steel alloy, in addition to a balance made up of iron and melting-related impurities, has the following alloy elements carbon, niobium, and titanium. The automotive component is coated by a thermal coating process.