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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2006
Applicants:
Shirou Fujimura, Kariya, JP;
Kouhei Ushida, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Shirou Fujimura, Kariya, JP;
Kouhei Ushida, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 31/00 (2006.01); B21D 43/28 (2006.01); B21D 22/00 (2006.01); B21J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods are taught for manufacturing a work having a peripheral flange by pressing a sheet material may include half die cutting the material so as to simultaneously form inner and outer circumferential surface of the peripheral flange while the peripheral flange is simultaneously subjected to isostatic pressures that are directed from the flange inner surface to the flange outer surface or from the flange outer surface to the flange inner surface.