Nissan Motor Company Limited

Michiyoshi Shiraishi

Megumi Nakanose

Isao Sano

Tsuneo Kakimi

Light air plane

In regard to sheet metals of inferior formability as typified by titanium alloys, each end face of a blank is covered with a cover plate of a metal which surpasses the blank material in formability, and the covered blank is subjected to a usual shaping operation in which the steps of heating the blank and pressing the heated blank are cycled a plurality of times, so that the blank can be protected against contamination attributable to exposure of the hot blank to the atmosphere and hence saved from having a large margin in the thickness thereof. A lubricant layer is preferably formed between the blank and each cover plate for a further improvement on the formability.

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Tokyo, Japan

Michiyoshi Shiraishi