Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Keishi Okunaka

Sen Tao

Daisuke Yamamoto

Izuru Hori

Yuichi Nagai

Shinji Ago

Yoshihiro Kageyama

Kota Kobayashi

Tadashi Tobita

Akira Kodama

Kenji Shiobara

Hirotatsu Koda

Kouki Mizutani

Keizo Yamashita

Noriyuki Honda

Tsutomu Yokota

Satoru Matsuo

A panel assembly includes an outer member and an inner member, which overlap each other and jointly have an edge that includes a distal end portion of the outer member and a distal end portion projecting from an end of the inner member. The distal end portions are fastened together by sheet metal seaming. Boundary regions of the inner member between the distal end portion, which is seamed, and the end, which is not seamed, have respective clearances defined in the end, and which are spaced away from a seaming range in which the distal end portions are seamed.

Panel assembly and method of forming same

A panel member for an automobile includes a hem portion roll-fastened in a state of overlapping an outer panel and an inner panel. At the hem portion of the panel member, the outer panel and the inner panel are roll-fastened in a state that a front end face of the outer panel and a front end face of the inner panel are respectively rolled-in by the inner panel and the outer panel.

Panel fastening method and panel member for automobile

A bulging apparatus has a heating station, a tube expanding station, a preforming station, and a main forming station. A straight tube as a workpiece is gripped by first holding mechanisms or second holding mechanisms, and delivered between the stations as the first holding mechanisms or second holding mechanisms are displaced. During a preforming process and a main holding process, both the first holding mechanisms and second holding mechanisms can be lifted and lowered vertically and can be moved horizontally.

Bulging method and apparatus

A device for machining the flange part of a wheel arch, wherein a machining mechanism includes, as general-purpose drive parts, first to third cylinders, and the work bending mold for bending the flange part of the wheel arch, work receiving mold, and work guide of the machining mechanism are replaceable with those of the other types. When a dedicated mold is replaced according to the shape of a work, the entire part of the machining mechanism must not be replaced, but merely the work bending mold, work receiving mold and work guide may be replaced with those of the other types.

Method and device for machining flange part of wheel arch

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Tochigi, Japan

Keishi Okunaka