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.

A punching method includes: punching out a plurality of electrical steel sheets in a stacked state by a mold, wherein sheet thicknesses of the electrical steel sheets are set to be 0.35 mm or less, a Vickers hardness (test force 1 kg) of the sheets is set to be 150 to 400, and an average crystal grain size of the sheets is set to be 50 to 250 m, a clearance of the mold is set to be 7% or more of a minimum sheet thickness of the sheet thicknesses of the electrical steel sheets and equal to or lower than 7% of a total sheet thickness of the electrical steel sheets, and a pressure that a sheet presser of the mold applies to the electrical steel sheets is set to be 0.10 MPa or more.

Provided is a process of making an aluminum bottle, the process including: obtaining sheet aluminum, the sheet aluminum having a difference between ultimate tensile strength and yield strength between 3.31 thousand pounds per square inch (ksi) and 8.0 ksi, and the sheet aluminum having a yield strength between 33.1 ksi and 42 ksi; cutting a blank from the sheet aluminum; plastically deforming the blank into a cup with three or fewer drawing steps; and necking the cup to form an aluminum bottle with a neck.

A method of manufacturing a component of an automotive vehicle frame comprises welding a reinforcement element to a blank comprised of ultra high strength steel and then heating in a furnace the blank and reinforcement element to at least a predetermined temperature. Once the blank and reinforcement element are heated to at least the predetermined temperature, the method comprises transferring the heated blank to a forming tool, forming with the forming tool the blank and reinforcement element into a desired shape for the vehicle frame component, and cooling or allowing the formed component to cool until it reaches a predetermined state.

The manufacturing method includes a first step in which a pad holding state is established and a second step in which pad draw forming is performed after the first step is completed. In the pad holding state, (a) a part of a blank 15 to be formed into a top plate 21 is held between a pad 13 and a punch 11, and a part of the blank 15 to be formed into a flange 25 is held between a die 14 and a blank holder 12, (b) in a specific press directional cross section of a part of the blank 15 to be formed into a first part, the position of the contacting surface of the blank holder 12 that makes contact with the blank 15 in the direction of pressing is located toward the punch 11 in the direction of arrangement of the pad 13 and the punch 11, compared with the position of the contacting surface of the pad 13 that makes contact with the blank 15 in the direction of pressing, (c) a vertically-reversing cross-sectional angle is more than 0 and equal to or less than 80, and (d) in a press directional cross section that is different from the specific press directional cross section, the position of the contacting surface of the pad 13 that makes contact with the blank 15 in the direction of the pressing is located toward the pad 13 in the direction of the arrangement, compared with the position of the contacting surface of the blank holder 12 that makes contact with the blank 15 in the direction of pressing.

A method for producing a lightweight sheet-metal component with varying wall thicknesses includes extruding a lightweight metal to form a profile with a non-planar profile cross section, wherein the wall thicknesses of the profile cross section differ from one another in at least two regions, cutting the profile to length into profile pieces, widening the profile pieces, and forming the flattened profile piece into a three-dimensional shaped sheet-metal component, wherein the sheet-metal component has at least two regions with wall thicknesses that are different from one another.

A structural member of an integral shaped article using steel sheet having a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more improved in formability, produced using a die or blank holder provided with a space at least at part of a position contacting a blank at the time of pressing it. The structural member comprises a top sheet part including at least one recessed part at an outside edge part in a plan view, a first vertical wall part extending bent from a part or all of an outside edge part including the recessed part in the top sheet part, a first flange part extending bent from an edge of the first vertical wall part at an opposite side to the top sheet part, and a second vertical wall part extending bent from an edge of the top sheet part different from the outside edge part including the recessed part, and at least one projecting part on the top sheet part, the first vertical wall part, or the first flange part.

A method for warm forming an aluminum beam, such as an aluminum component for a vehicle, includes providing an extruded aluminum beam with a hollow cross-sectional shape. A portion of a forming die is heated to a desired temperature, so as to heat a portion of the aluminum beam in the die to a temperature below the artificial aging temperature of the aluminum beam. The heated aluminum beam is deformed to a desired shape with the die in a direction transverse to a length of the aluminum beam.

A method for forming a component utilizing ultra-high strength steel and components formed by the method. The method includes the step of providing a flat blank of ultra-high strength 22MnB5 steel. The next step of the method is cold forming the flat blank into an unfinished shape of a component while the blank is in an unhardened state. Then, heating the unfinished shape of the component and generating a spline form thereon. The method proceeds by forming a finished shape of the component using a quenching die resulting in a fine-grained martensitic component material structure and enabling net shape processing to establish final geometric dimensions of the component.

Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing of 1780 MPa or more, excellent delayed fracture resistance, and high cross tensile strength after resistance spot welding by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 8 m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and at least 10 cementite grains having a grain size of 0.05 m or more are present on average per 200 m.sup.2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member, and such that at least 10 Ti-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.10 m are present on average per 100 m.sup.2 of the cross section parallel to the thickness direction of the member in a range of 100 m in the thickness direction from a surface of the member.