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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2013
Hino Motors, Ltd., Hino-shi, JP;
Takashi Ishimori, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Okano, Tokyo, JP;
HINO MOTORS, LTD., Hino-shi, JP;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing a flat pipewith concave-convex shapes on inner and outer surfaces includes making incisions with an expanded shape of the flat pipein a metal thin platesuch that intermediate portions(middle portions) in the expanded shape of the flat pipewidthwise of the expanded shape are left uncut from the thin plate, machining the concave-convex shapes in a range of the expanded shape of the flat pipeand raising the expanded shape of the flat pipefrom the thin plateas cut-and-raised pieceswith the uncut intermediate portionsin between, closing tips of the cut-and-raised piecestogether to form an overall shape of the flat pipe, and separating the uncut intermediate portionsfrom the thin plateto obtain the flat pipe