Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Toshihiro Tanaka

Tsuneo Yamada

Yoshio Kawashima

Masato Tomiku

Yuji Ashibe

Masaaki Yokoyama

Kozo Watanabe

Hisao Murakami

Hiroyuki Morimoto

Yuji Chiba

Shunji Ogata

Toyoshige Myojo

Tsutomu Kuno

A method of manufacturing three-dimensional parts using sheets of a thermoplastic resin high-performance fiber-reinforced composite material includes the steps of supplying the sheet of the high-performance resin-reinforced composite material which uses as a matrix a thermoplastic resin and in which reinforcing fiber is oriented, clamping an end portion of the sheet by a sheet clamping device, conveying the sheet to a heating/forming zone, heating the sheet to a predetermined temperature, clamping the sheet by upper and lower frames by driving cylinders, forming the three-dimensional part by operating a mold and thereby deep drawing the clamped sheet inwardly according to a stroke of the mold, and repeating the above-described series of steps continuously.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional parts from a fiber-reinforced

An apparatus for manufacturing three-dimensional parts using sheets of a thermoplastic resin high-performance fiber-reinforced composite material. The apparatus includes a sheet clamping device for clamping an end portion of the sheet and conveying the sheet to a heating/forming zone, a heater for heating the sheet to a predetermined temperature, upper and lower frames driven by cylinders for clamping the sheet and a male mold member for forming the three-dimensional part by deep drawing the clamped sheet inwardly through a stroke of the mold member.

Method of manufacturing three-dimensional parts using sheets of

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for feeding a material to a hot forging machine in a forging line in which a coiled material is uncoiled, straightened, fed intermittently by pinch rollers through a heating device, cut by a cutting device and then fed into a hot forging machine. The method has the steps of preparing a driving device which drives the pinch rollers mechanically independently from the hot forging machine; picking up the timing of forging conducted by the hot forging machine as an electric signal, and controlling the driving device in accordance with the electric signal.

Method of feeding material to hot forging machine

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Niihama, Japan

Toshihiro Tanaka