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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29423 ; 291875 ; 2942 / ; 29DI / ;
Abstract
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.