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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1997
Helmut Augustin, Hamburg, DE;
Henning Bloecker, Stelle, DE;
Kai-Uwe Dudziak, Stelle, DE;
Uwe Hardtke, Neu Wulmstorf, DE;
Carsten Rogowski, Hamburg, DE;
DaimlerChrylser AG, , DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a process and apparatus for manufacturing hollow sections with cross-sectional expansions in end portions thereof. A hollow blank is widened and calibrated by internal high pressure forming by means of a forming tool receiving it, and, after the calibration, is separated in the area of the widening while forming two hollow sections with cross-sectionally widened ends facing one another in the separated position. In order manufacture from a hollow blank hollow sections with the lowest possible reject rate and therefore in a reliable process, which are cross-sectionally widened on the end side by means of high degree for forming, the blank is widened while the forming tool is open and is simultaneously upset to form a rotationally symmetrical bulging hollow section by means of a pressure force which is axially directed from the outside to at least one of the two blank ends.