An energy-dissipating cover for covering a component sensitive to mechanical impulse includes a sheet of selected ferrous or aluminum alloy, the sheet having a top surface, a bottom surface, an outer perimeter, an overall area within the outer perimeter and a nominal thickness of no more than 2.5 mm. The sheet is configured for connection with one or more external structures at a plurality of connection points within the outer perimeter, wherein the overall area comprises a plurality of supported areas and at least one unsupported area. Embossments are formed within the at least one unsupported area and extend outward from the bottom surface. The embossments are shaped, sized and arranged so as to limit orthogonal deflection of the sheet from a mechanical impulse directed normal to the bottom surface of the sheet at the plurality of embossments.

An expanded metal produced by repeated penetration of a movable cutting die including teeth into a metal sheet that is run through an expansion device in a feed direction, the expanded metal including a plurality of loops, wherein the loops include bars that envelop loop openings and that are connected in nodes, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening length measured in the feed direction along a line from a node center to node another center of two nodes that are arranged behind one another in the feed direction, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening width that is measured transversal to the feed direction along a line from a node center to a node center of two nodes that are arranged adjacent to each other transversal to the feed direction.

An expanded metal produced by repeated penetration of a movable cutting die including teeth into a metal sheet that is run through an expansion device in a feed direction, the expanded metal including a plurality of loops, wherein the loops include bars that envelop loop openings and that are connected in nodes, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening length measured in the feed direction along a line from a node center to node another center of two nodes that are arranged behind one another in the feed direction, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening width that is measured transversal to the feed direction along a line from a node center to a node center of two nodes that are arranged adjacent to each other transversal to the feed direction

An energy-dissipating cover for covering a component sensitive to mechanical impulse includes a sheet of selected ferrous or aluminum alloy, the sheet having a top surface, a bottom surface, an outer perimeter, an overall area within the outer perimeter and a nominal thickness of no more than 2.5 mm. The sheet is configured for connection with one or more external structures at a plurality of connection points within the outer perimeter, wherein the overall area comprises a plurality of supported areas and at least one unsupported area. Embossments are formed within the at least one unsupported area and extend outward from the bottom surface. The embossments are shaped, sized and arranged so as to limit orthogonal deflection of the sheet from a mechanical impulse directed normal to the bottom surface of the sheet at the plurality of embossments.

A method of forming a plurality of embossments in a sheet of metal includes: (i) placing the sheet onto a first surface of a die having a plurality of embossment cavities thereon, wherein the sheet has a bottom surface in contact with the first surface of the die and a top surface having an ablative coating formed thereon; and (ii) directing a laser beam at the ablative coating at one or more loci on the top surface of the sheet which correspond to the plurality of embossment cavities on the first surface of the die, so as to locally ablate the ablative coating at the one or more loci and turn the ablative coating at the one or more loci into plasma, thereby causing a plasma pressure shock wave at each of the one or more loci which presses the sheet into the embossment cavities to form the embossments.

A box-shaped protective cover that covers an upper structural portion of a body of a vibrating compactor is manufactured by executing a cutting process for fashioning a single metal plate into a shape including a first planar portion, a second planar portion, an intermediate portion, and a plurality of side flaps, a bending process for bending or curving the side flaps and the intermediate portion, and a welding process for welding a side flap of the first planar portion to a side flap of the second planar portion.

A box-shaped protective cover that covers an upper structural portion of a body of a vibrating compactor is manufactured by executing a cutting process for fashioning a single metal plate into a shape including a first planar portion, a second planar portion, an intermediate portion, and a plurality of side flaps, a bending process for bending or curving the side flaps and the intermediate portion, and a welding process for welding a side flap of the first planar portion to a side flap of the second planar portion.

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.

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.

There is provided a cooker hood and a method of manufacturing the cooker hood. The cooker hood comprises a roof (20) and sides (10, 12, 14, 16) that descend from the roof. The method comprises providing a first metal sheet (100) that forms the sides of the cooker hood, the first metal sheet having upper and lower lengthwise edges opposite from one another; providing a second metal sheet (200) that forms the roof of the cooker hood, the second metal sheet having peripheral edges; folding the first metal sheet across the width of the first metal sheet to define differing ones of the sides of the cooker hood, and subsequently joining the upper lengthwise edge of the first metal sheet to the peripheral edges of the second metal sheet.