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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Rudolf Gruber, Uxbridge, CA;
Inventor:
Rudolf Gruber, Uxbridge, CA;
Assignee:
Multimatic Inc., Markham, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 21/11 (2006.01); B23K 26/28 (2014.01); B23K 26/38 (2014.01); B23K 101/00 (2006.01); B23K 101/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/28 (2013.01); B23K 26/38 (2013.01); B62D 21/11 (2013.01); B23K 2101/006 (2018.08); B23K 2101/045 (2018.08); Y10T 29/49893 (2015.01); Y10T 428/12354 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method is provided which forms a closed section hollow structural element by performing the following steps which include press forming an upper sheet metal component configured with two primary parallel downstanding interface flanges; press forming a lower sheet metal component configured with two primary parallel upstanding interface flanges; complementarily trimming the downstanding interface flanges and the upstanding interface flanges using five-axis laser cutting; and butt welding the interface flanges of the upper and lower sheet metal components to one another to form a continuous hollow structural element of variable cross section.