Benteler-automobiltechnik Gmbh

Benteler Maschinenbau Gmbh

Georg Frost

Martin Schroeter

Markus Kettler

Karsten Bake

Mathias Lohberg

Christian Handing

Andreas Hitz

Jochem Grewe

Rodscha Drabon

Frank Rabe

Martin Hesselmann

Ludger Gehringhoff

Andreas Schiller

Martin Holzweissig

Henning Von Watzdorf

Andreas Frehn

Oliver Luetkemeyer

Gero Muellers

Max Niesse

Peter Summerauer

Thomas Guenther

Rainer Lapsien

Josef Koester

Christoph Steins

Martin Schröter

Ruediger Erhardt

Christoph Nitschke

Anton Frank

Werner Morgenroth

Herr Günter Fortmeier

Pohl Martin

A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which extends longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, wherein the component body has deformation zones which are spatially distributed in the longitudinal direction and are formed in the component body of sheet metal material. At least two locally distributed and spaced-apart deformation zones have different tensile strengths configured to influence a deformation course of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.

Vehicle component for a vehicle

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.

Automotive component with enhanced strength

A motor vehicle component and a method of manufacturing thereof is disclosed having at least regionally high-strength and at the same time ductile properties, including providing a sheet metal blank composed of a hardenable steel alloy with at least 0.25% carbon fraction, at least partially heating the sheet metal blank to above austenitizing temperature, in less than 20 seconds, hot-forming and press-hardening the sheet metal blank, in the process, setting a tensile strength Rm of greater than 1800 MPa and an elongation at break A20 of greater than 6%.

Motor vehicle component and a method of manufacturing thereof

The invention relates to a motor vehicle component, in particular a B pillar and similar shaped components. The motor vehicle componenthas a shaped, in particular hot-formed or cold-formed, base memberof sheet steel. The base memberhas a surface portionwhich is provided with holes. According to the invention, the surface portionhas a tensile strength Rm greater than or equal to (&#x2265;) 1250 MPa. A hole patternwhich comprises at least three holesforms a deformation influence zonein the surface portion. The surface portion of the holesin the surface portionis between 7% and 60% and the holeshave a diameter d of up to 30p mm.

Motor vehicle component

Battery carrier for an electric motor vehicle, having a trough formed by a base and a peripheral frame coupled to the base, wherein the frame is formed from extruded hollow profiles and a cover is arranged on the frame. In the installation position, the frame has a web protruding in each case in relation to its upper side and/or lower side in such a manner that a defined gap with respect to the base and/or with respect to the cover is produced, with a sealant and/or adhesive being incorporated.

Battery carrier with a peripheral frame and adhesive gap set in a defined manner

A vehicle component for a vehicle has a component body which is formed from a core material. The component body has a localized deformation zone which extends flat in the core material, and the deformation zone has a locally variable tensile strength according to a predetermined tensile strength profile configured to influence a deformation profile of the component body upon a force acting on the component body.

A hot-formed metal sheet has a tensile strength Rm&#x3e;1300 megapascal (MPa) and includes an opening which is produced by high-speed punching at a speed of a punch of more than 6 m/s in the absence of a counter holder of a contour matching a contour of the punch, with a smooth cut proportion of the cutting surface of the opening amounting to more than 50%.

Hot-formed metal sheet and method of producing an opening in such a metal sheet

A hot-forming line and a method for operating the hot-forming line is disclosed having a temperature-control station and a hot-forming and press-hardening tool. A linear conveyor system for conveying the metal blank or the formed steel-sheet products, respectively, through the hot-forming line is provided.

Hot-forming line for manufacturing hot-formed and press-hardened steel-sheet products, and method for operating said hot-forming line

A heat treatment furnace and a method for heat treatment of a steel sheet blank is disclosed having at least one furnace chamber and a transport system for conveying the steel sheet blanks through the furnace chamber. A preheating chamber, a metallurgical bonding path and a cooling chamber, wherein the steel sheet blank can be heated in the preheating chamber to a temperature of above 200&#xb0; C. A method for the production of a hot-formed and press-quenched motor-vehicle part is also disclosed.

Heat treatment furnace and method for heat treatment of a pre-coated steel sheet blank and method for production of a motor vehicle part

A method for producing a motor vehicle component from a lightweight metal alloy is disclosed including extruding a profile having at least two wall thicknesses that are mutually dissimilar in the cross section, rolling the extruded profile in portions in the extrusion direction. The rollers in the roller spacing thereof are variable. Cutting-to-length the extruded and in portions rolled profile so as to form a semi-finished product, and forming the semi-finished product so as to form the motor vehicle component.

Method for producing a motor vehicle component

The present invention relates to a temperature adjustment station for the contact heating of a blank and to a method for operating the temperature adjustment station. According to the invention, the contact pressure exerted on the blank is regulated or controlled in the temperature adjustment station such that linear expansion of the blank does not have a negative effect on the contact plate itself.

Temperature adjustment station and method for operating the temperature adjustment station

Motor vehicle hybrid structural part, comprising a main structural partand at least one reinforcement patch the main structural partbeing embodied as a sheet-metal structural part made of a steel alloy or light metal alloy and the reinforcement patch being made of light metal, which is characterized in that the reinforcement patch is an extruded structural part with at least two wall thicknesses differing from one another in cross section.

Motor vehicle hybrid structural part

The present invention relates to a press-forming tool having a top die and a bottom die, which can be moved toward one another, forming a forming cavity between the top die and the bottom die when the press-forming tool is closed, wherein a die clamping plate is arranged on a press ram and/or on a press table, wherein a top die or bottom die, which can be moved relative to the die clamping plate, is supported on said plate while incorporating at least one resilient adjusting element.

Press-forming tool with tolerance compensation

The present invention relates to a longitudinal beam for a motor vehicle, having a body, of hollow cross section and extending in the longitudinal direction, with a front connection for a cross-member and a rear connection to a motor vehicle body, said longitudinal beam being characterized in that the longitudinal beam is produced from a multi-layer steel having a homogeneous wall thickness as a hot-formed and press-hardened component and has at least one reinforcement patch, wherein the multi-layer steel has a central layer and at least one outer layer made of a ferritic stainless steel alloy.

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Steinheim, Germany

Georg Frost