Manufacturing method of hot forming mold for center pillar trim including cooling unit
11679530 · 2023-06-20
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
B23K20/002
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B29C33/302
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B29C33/3842
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23K20/02
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
Abstract
A manufacturing method of a hot forming mold of a center pillar including a cooling unit is provided. The method includes a step of preparing a material by dividing the material, a cooling channel processing step of processing cooling channels on a front surface and a rear surface within a contour line by center pillar design information input in advance to an NC processor and cooling channel design information, a solid phase diffusion bonding step, a mold material processing step of processing along the contour line by the center pillar design information input in advance through the NC processor to manufacture a mold material, and a thermal processing step of heating the mold material at a predetermined temperature.
Claims
1. A manufacturing method of a hot forming mold including a cooling unit, the manufacturing method comprising: a step of preparing a material by cutting a metal material to have a predetermined thickness to be divided into a plurality of divided materials; a cooling channel processing step of processing cooling channels on a front surface and a rear surface within a contour line L by mold design information which is input in advance to an NC processor and cooling channel design information, on a surface on which the plurality of divided materials is overlaid; a first insert step of interposing a first insert material along an outline of the cooling channel; a second insert step of interposing a second insert material in the contour line L along the contour line L; a temporary bonding step of heating the first insert material and the second insert material at a temperature at which the first insert material and the second insert material are melted to perform liquid phase diffusion bonding while maintaining a surface pressure of a bonded surface including the divided material and the first insert material and the second insert material after sequentially arranging the plurality of divided materials such that the cooling channels abut; a step of testing the contour line L of the divided material which is temporarily bonded and the cooling channel by ultrasound scanning; a solid phase diffusion bonding step of performing solid phase diffusion bonding after sequentially locating the plurality of divided materials such that the cooling channels abut to form an integrated material; a mold material processing step of processing the integrated material along the contour line L by the mold design information which is input in advance through the NC processor to manufacture a mold material; and a thermal processing step of heating the mold material at a predetermined temperature, wherein the divided material which is temporarily bonded in the liquid phase diffusion boding is formed as an integrated material in the solid phase diffusion bonding step.
2. The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein in the cooling channel processing step, a front cooling channel is symmetrical to a rear cooling channel.
3. The manufacturing method according to claim 2, further comprising: a through hole which connects the front cooling channel and the rear cooling channel.
4. The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the temporary bonding step includes: a step of sequentially arranging the plurality of divided materials such that the cooling channels abut; a surface pressure maintaining step of locating the located divided materials in a guide unit which is formed of a conductive material and has a pipe shape, locating a spiral coil unit which is formed of a conductive material and is located to enclose an outer circumferential direction of the guide unit, generating an induced current M by applying current E to the coil unit to magnetize the arranged divided materials to apply a predetermined surface pressure to the bonded surface of the divided material and the first insert material and the second insert material; and a liquid phase diffusion bonding step of heating the first insert material and the second insert material in a vacuum state at a temperature at which the first insert material and the second insert material are melted to perform the liquid phase diffusion bonding.
5. The manufacturing method according to claim 2, wherein the cooling channel includes: a first cooling section which is formed in an inner center direction of the contour line L; a second cooling section formed along the contour line L; a bridge section which connects the first cooling section and the second cooling section; and a finishing section formed at an end of the second cooling section, and a cooling water flowing along the cooling channel sequentially passes through the first cooling section, the bridge section, the second cooling section, and the finishing section.
6. The manufacturing method according to claim 5, wherein the cooling channel processing step further includes: a step of processing the cooling channel corresponding to the first cooling section and the second cooling section to have a semicircular cross-section, the cooling channel corresponding to the bridge section and the finishing section to have a rectangular cross-section, and forming a hydraulic control unit in each of the bridge section and the finishing section, the hydraulic control unit forming step includes: a step of preparing a control piece in which a first piece which is provided to have a rectangular plate shape and has one thermal expansion coefficient and a second piece having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of the first piece are bonded; a step of forming a control groove into which the control piece is inserted toward a wall surface of the cooling channel such that the control groove is formed in a direction forming an acute angle with the wall surface of the cooling channel; and a step of inserting a part of the control piece into the control groove such that the first piece is directed to the wall surface and the second piece is directed to the cooling channel, when a temperature of the mold material is high, the control piece is bent toward the cooling channel due to different thermal expansion coefficients of the first piece and the second piece and when the temperature of the mold material is low, the control piece returns to its original position, and when the mold material is at a high temperature, a pressure of the cooling water in the second cooling section is lowered due to the control piece.
7. The manufacturing method according to claim 6, wherein in the step of inserting a part of the control piece into the control groove such that the first piece is directed to the wall surface and the second piece is directed to the cooling channel, a carbon sheet is formed on a circumferential surface of the control piece which is inserted into the control groove to prevent the diffusion bonding of the control piece.
8. The manufacturing method according to claim 5, wherein the first cooling section and the second cooling section are processed to have a predetermined first diameter d1 and the bridge section is processed to have a second diameter d2 which is relatively smaller than the first diameter d1 so that a speed of the cooling water which passes through a section having the second diameter d2 is relatively faster than a speed of the cooling water which passes through a section having the first diameter d1.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) The above and other aspects, features and other advantages of the present disclosure will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
(16) The present disclosure will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the disclosure are shown so that the present disclosure may be easily implemented by those skilled in the art. However, the present disclosure can be realized in various different forms, and is not limited to the exemplary embodiments described herein. Further, in order to clearly disclose the present disclosure, parts which are not related to the present disclosure are omitted and in the drawings, like reference numerals denote like components.
(17) Objects and effects of the present disclosure may be naturally understood or more clearly understood by the following description but the objects and the effects of the present disclosure are not limited only by the following description.
(18) The objects, features, and advantageous of the present disclosure will become more apparent trough the following detailed description. In the following description, a detailed explanation of known related functions and constitutions may be omitted so as to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the subject matter of the present disclosure. Hereinafter, an exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
(19) Referring to
(20) <1—Divided Material Preparing Step (S100)>
(21) Referring to
(22) <2—Cooling Channel Processing Step (S200)>
(23) Referring to
(24) In the cooling channel 100 processing step, on divided materials 20 located at both ends among the plurality of divided materials 20, only one of a front cooling channel 100a and a rear cooling channel 100 is processed and on each of the remaining divided materials 20 other than the edge divided materials 20, a front cooling channel 100a is processed on a front surface and a rear cooling channel 100b is processed on a rear surface.
(25) In the cooling channel 100 processing step, with respect to one divided material 20, the front cooling channel 100a of one divided material 20 is processed to be symmetrical to have the same shape as the rear cooling channel 100b of the divided material 20 which is in contact therewith at the front side and the rear cooling channel 100b of the one divided material is processed to be symmetrical to have the same shape as the front cooling channel 100a of the divided material which is in contact therewith at the rear side. As described above, when the cooling channels 100 are symmetrically processed, if the materials are combined as an integrated material 30 by a subsequent process, the outlines of the cooling channels 100 match to each other so that the water tightness is increased, which increases cooling efficiency.
(26) Further, the cooling channel 100 processing step may further include a through-hole 150 processing step. The through hole 150 is a configuration which connects the front cooling channel 100a and the rear cooling channel 100b and may be located/implemented in various forms by pre-designed cooling channel 100 design information. In addition to the through hole 150, a supply line through which cooling water is supplied to the cooling channel 100 from the outside and a discharge line through which cooling water is discharged may also be designed in various forms by the cooling channel 100 design information in consideration of the cooling efficiency, like the through hole 150.
(27) <3—Solid Phase Diffusion Bonding Step (S300)>
(28) Referring to
(29) The solid phase diffusion bonding step is a step of forming an integrated material 30 by pressurizing the plurality of divided materials 20 at a required temperature (1000° C. to 1100° C.) for a predetermined time by a predetermined pressure to form a single body.
(30) The solid phase diffusion bonding is a method of pressurizing at a temperature below a melting point and a pressure to minimize plastic deformation to move and diffuse atoms. To be more specific, the solid phase diffusion bonding refers to a method of applying heat and a pressure to the same type or different types of materials within an elastic deformation range and bonding the materials in a solid phase using diffusion of atoms generated on a bonded surface. This method has a characteristic in that diffusion phenomenon of the atoms in a vacuum is used so that there is no defect such as solidification cracks and pores and a physical property equivalent to a base material can be ensured, and bonding with a material having a different property is also allowed.
(31) By doing this, when the plurality of divided materials 20 is solid-phase diffusion bonded, the plurality of divided materials 20 may form a rectangular parallelepiped integrated material 30 which is integrated as one body by the diffusion of the atoms as a solid-phase single body, by the plastic deformation.
(32) That is, the solid-phase diffusion bonded rectangular parallelepiped integrated material 30 has an outer surface having a shape of a body which is not processed at all, like the rectangular parallelepiped material which is initially prepared in the material preparing step, but a plurality of cooling channels 100 and through holes 150 is formed therein.
(33) <4—Mold Material Processing Step (S400)>
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(35) <5—Thermal Processing Step (S500)>
(36) The thermal processing step is a process of heating the mold material 40 at a predetermined temperature (1000° C. to 1100° C.) for a predetermined time to be thermally processed so that the mold material 40 may have a higher rigidity by performing the thermal processing. As an additional example, for more precise processing prior to the thermal processing step, additional processing is further performed on the mold material 40 with a regular dimension and then the finishing is performed by the thermal processing.
(37) A single mold material which is manufactured by the above-described processes is used alone or as illustrated in
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(39) To be more specific, the manufacturing method of a hot forming mold of a center pillar including a cooling unit according to a second exemplary embodiment includes a divided material 20 preparing step, a cooling channel 100 processing step, a solid phase diffusion bonding step, a mold material 40 processing step, and a thermal processing step and further include a temporary coupling step and a test step between the cooling channel 100 processing step and the solid phase diffusion bonding step.
(40) <1—Divided Material Preparing Step (S100)>
(41) This step is the same as the divided material 20 preparing step (S100) of the first exemplary embodiment.
(42) <2—Cooling Channel Processing Step (S200)>
(43) This step is the same as the cooling channel 100 processing step (S200) of the first exemplary embodiment.
(44) <3 Temporary Coupling Step (S250)>
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(46) <3-1 First Insert Step (S251)>
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(48) <3-2 Second Insert Step (S252)>
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(50) <3-3 Temporary Bonding Step (S253)>
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(52) The 3-3 temporary bonding step may be configured by an arrangement step, a surface pressure maintaining step, and a liquid phase diffusion bonding step in detail as follows.
(53) <3-3-1 Arranging Step (S2531)>
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(55) <3-3-2 Surface Pressure Maintaining Step (S2532)>
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(57) <3-3-3 Liquid Phase Diffusion Bonding Step (S2533)>
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(59) <3-4 Test Step (S254)>
(60) The test step is a step of examining the contour line L of the temporarily bonded divided material 20 and the cooling channel 100 by ultrasound scanning to screen defective liquid phase diffusion bonding. The contour line L and the outline of the cooling channel 100 are temporarily bonded in the liquid phase diffusion bonding step so that the contour line and the outline are examined to screen the defect and when there is a defectively bonded part, it is used as source data to adjust a direction or a magnitude of a pressure applied in the subsequent solid phase diffusion step. However, the test step may be omitted if necessary. If a skill level of an operator who performs the liquid phase diffusion bonding step is high so that a defect rate is low, the solid phase diffusion bonding step may be performed on the temporarily bonded divided material 20 as it is.
(61) <4 Solid Phase Diffusion Bonding Step (S300)>
(62) This step is the same as the solid phase diffusion bonding step of the first exemplary embodiment but is a process of press-fitting by adjusting a magnitude or a direction of a pressure to be applied based on the data tested in the test step S254 and solid-phase diffusion bonding the remaining parts which are not coupled in the temporary coupling step.
(63) <5-Mold Material Processing Step (S400)>
(64) This step is the same as the mold material 40 processing step of the first exemplary embodiment.
(65) <6-Thermal Processing Step (S500)>
(66) This step is the same as the thermal processing step of the first exemplary embodiment.
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(69) As described above, the cooling channel 100 is desirable to allow a cooling water flowing along the cooling channel 100 to sequentially pass through the first cooling section 101, the bridge section 103, the second cooling section 102, and the finishing section 104.
(70) <A—Hydraulic Control Unit Forming Step>
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(72) At this time, the cooling channel 100 corresponding to the first cooling section 101 and the second cooling section 102 is processed to have a semicircular cross-section so that divided materials 20 which are opposite to each other are combined to have a circular cross-section. Further, the cooling channel 100 corresponding to the bridge section 103 and the finishing section 104 is processed to have a rectangular cross-section so that divided materials 20 are combined to have a quadrangular cross-section. At this time, the rectangular cross-section size is set in consideration of a flow rate in the section having a circular cross-section so that a flow rate of a cooling water in the section having a rectangular cross-section is equal to a flow rate in the section having a circular cross-section. The cross-section is formed to have a quadrangular shape to prevent a control piece from being bonded to the divided material 20 after a control piece installing process to be described below.
(73) The hydraulic control unit 400 forming step may include a control piece 410 preparing step, a control groove 420 forming step, and a control piece 410 interposing step.
(74) <A1—Control Piece Preparing Step (S210)>
(75) Referring to
(76) <A2—Control Groove Forming Step (S220)>
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(78) <A3—Control Piece Interposing Step (S230)>
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(81) Further, during the molding task or after completing the molding task, the control piece 410 is positioned to its original position due to the lowered temperature (room temperature) to return the pressure of the cooling channel 100 to be uniformized.
(82) When the control piece 410 is formed as described above, the control piece 410 varies to increase a cooling efficiency of the second cooling section 102 at a time when rapid cooling is required, and the pressure of the second cooling section 102 is returned at a time when the cooling is completed so that a high efficient cooling system which may minimize a stress to be applied to the cooling channel 100 may be used.
(83) In the meantime, referring to
(84) As described above, the cooling channel 100 is desirable to allow a cooling water flowing along the cooling channel 100 to sequentially pass through the first cooling section 101, the bridge section 103, the second cooling section 102, and the finishing section 104.
(85) In the meantime, in the cooling channel 100 according to the fourth exemplary embodiment, a width (diameter) of the cooling channels may vary in each cooling channel to control a movement speed of the cooling water which passes through the corresponding section. With this configuration, in a section which requires intensive cooling, the cooling water moving speed is relatively lowered and in the section which relatively does not require the intensive cooling, the cooling water moving speed is relatively increased.
(86) To be more specific, the first cooling section 101 and the second cooling section 102 which require relatively slow cooling water movement and high cooling efficiency are processed to have a predetermined first diameter d1 (size) and the bridge section 103 which requires relatively fast cooling water movement may be processed to have a second diameter d2 which is relatively smaller than the first diameter d1.
(87) In the meantime, when the cooling channel is designed or processed as described above, the cooling water which passes through the first cooling section 101 and the second cooling section 102 which require relatively intensive cooling has a higher flow rate per section with the same length as compared with the bridge section 103 and the corresponding section passing speed is relatively slower than that of the bridge section 103. Therefore, sufficient heat exchange may be allowed.
(88) In the meantime, in the bridge section 103, the cooling water (and/or refrigerant) may have a relatively fast velocity of flow due to the narrow width of the cooling channel so that the cooling water quickly passes through the corresponding section so that unnecessary heat exchange with the surrounding is minimized so that unnecessary increase of the cooling water temperature may be prevented.
(89) Moreover, the time when the cooling water passes through the cooling channel is entirely shortened so that the product productivity per unit time is increased in accordance with the shortened process time so that improvement of the process economics may be expected.
(90) In the meantime, one mold material 40 manufactured according to the above-described exemplary embodiment may be solely used and in the case of the center pillar having a relatively long length, as illustrated in
(91) While the preferred exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure have been described for illustrative purposes, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, and additions may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined in the appended claims. Various substitutions, modifications, and changes can be made within the scope without departing from the technical spirit of the present disclosure by those skilled in the art, and as a result, the present disclosure is not limited to the aforementioned embodiments and the accompanying drawings. In the above-described exemplary system, although the methods have been described based on a flowchart as a series of steps or blocks, the present disclosure is not limited to the order of the steps and some steps may be generated in a different order from the above-described step or simultaneously. Further, those skilled in the art may appreciate that the steps shown in the flowchart is not exclusive, but another step may be included and one or more steps of the flowchart may be omitted without affecting the scope of the present disclosure.