Nippon Steel Corporation

Arcelor France

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Arcelormittal

Patrick Duroux

Noriyuki Suzuki

Takuya Kuwayama

A press-forming device has a punch (), a die () which relatively moves with respect to the punch (), a strain amount measuring means () which is provided inside a member to be controlled and measures a strain amount of the aforesaid member to be controlled which occurs in accordance with press-forming, when at least one of the punch () and the die () is made the aforesaid member to be controlled, and a strain amount control means () which is provided in the aforesaid member to be controlled and controls the strain amount of the aforesaid member to be controlled which occurs in accordance with press-forming. The strain amount control means () controls a drive amount of the aforesaid member to be controlled so that the strain amount measured by the strain amount measuring means () is in a predetermined range during forming. Thereby, reduction in a surface strain, improvement in shape fixability or the like of a press formed product can be achieved.

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Compiegne, France

Patrick Duroux