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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2019
Applicant:

Temper Ip, Llc, Rockford, MI (US);

Inventor:

William C. Dykstra, Rockford, MI (US);

Assignee:

TEMPER IP, LLC, Rockford, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 22/02 (2006.01); B21D 26/02 (2011.01); B21D 37/16 (2006.01); B21D 35/00 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 22/022 (2013.01); B21D 26/02 (2013.01); B21D 35/006 (2013.01); B21D 37/16 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12);
Abstract

A component forming tool for forming a component from a blank includes a die forming shell for forming the component from the blank. A first shell portion of the die forming shell is located on a first set of support elements and a second shell portion is located on a second set of support elements. The tool includes at least one induction heating coil for induction heating of a workpiece disposed within a cavity formed by the first and second shell portions. The first set of support elements include multi-material support elements having at least two layers of different materials and the second set of support elements include multi-material support elements having at least two layers of different materials.


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