EP0313985A2 - Procédé de fabrication d'un arbre à cames - Google Patents

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EP0313985A2
EP0313985A2 EP88117466A EP88117466A EP0313985A2 EP 0313985 A2 EP0313985 A2 EP 0313985A2 EP 88117466 A EP88117466 A EP 88117466A EP 88117466 A EP88117466 A EP 88117466A EP 0313985 A2 EP0313985 A2 EP 0313985A2
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camshaft
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Hans A. Dipl.-Ing. Härle
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Schwaebische Huettenwerke Automotive GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21K—MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS
    • B21K1/00—Making machine elements
    • B21K1/06—Making machine elements axles or shafts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21K—MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS
    • B21K1/00—Making machine elements
    • B21K1/06—Making machine elements axles or shafts
    • B21K1/08—Making machine elements axles or shafts crankshafts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21J—FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J5/00—Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing; Special equipment or accessories therefor
    • B21J5/06—Methods for forging, hammering, or pressing; Special equipment or accessories therefor for performing particular operations
    • B21J5/12—Forming profiles on internal or external surfaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21J—FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J9/00—Forging presses
    • B21J9/02—Special design or construction
    • B21J9/06—Swaging presses; Upsetting presses
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21K—MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS
    • B21K1/00—Making machine elements
    • B21K1/06—Making machine elements axles or shafts
    • B21K1/063—Making machine elements axles or shafts hollow
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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    • Y10S72/00—Metal deforming
    • Y10S72/713—Method of making vehicle power transmitting shaft
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
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    • Y10T29/49229—Prime mover or fluid pump making
    • Y10T29/49286—Crankshaft making
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/49288—Connecting rod making
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/49293—Camshaft making
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to a method for producing a camshaft from a tube, which is provided with bearing points and with cams, or from a blank, which has a cam shape, and a camshaft produced thereafter, wherein in the tube or the blank by rotary hammering or Round kneading by means of tool segments which at least partially surround the blank and exert the radial compressive forces thereon and thereby change the shape and the cross section of the blank, the shape of the camshaft with the cams and the bearing points is molded.
  • Camshafts are generally made from a workpiece together with the bearings and those on a base body arranged cams, for example, by casting or forging. This production is followed by a relatively time-consuming and costly processing. The camshaft must be ground, the cams hardened and the camshaft must be balanced at the end. In addition to the high expenditure, it is also disadvantageous that a camshaft of this type consists of full material and is therefore relatively heavy. However, the automotive industry is increasingly demanding lighter camshafts.
  • DE-OS 35 28 464 describes a method for producing a camshaft, a tube with an outer circumference equal to or greater than that of the bearing sections and / or the cams being used and being deformed by round hammers.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of providing a method of the type mentioned at the outset with which the problems mentioned above do not occur, in particular after the camshafts of great strength and high dimensional accuracy can be produced with little effort.
  • this object is achieved in that a blank in the form of a cam in a first step in the region of the bearing points of the camshaft is deformed by lubrication the or hammering is brought into an at least approximately circular shape, and that, in a second step, both the bearing points and the other areas of the camshaft are then hammered or kneaded by tool elements which at least partially surround the blank and the radial compressive forces on it exercise while changing its shape and cross-section, the shape of the camshaft is molded with the cams and the bearings.
  • One of the essential features of the invention now consists in that the preforming can then be used to carry out a much more uniform kneading or round hammering in the area of the bearing points.
  • the hammer tools can attack practically over the entire circumference, so that there are no deflections or one-sided loading. It is essential that the preforming from the blank in the area of the bearing points at least approximately achieves a circular cross section.
  • This preforming can be carried out in any manner, the preforming generally being carried out in order to facilitate and improve the deformation in the warm state.
  • the preforming so that the diameter obtained is slightly larger than the final diameter of the bearings.
  • the final diameter of the bearing points is then produced very precisely during the subsequent round hammering or round kneading.
  • the cams are made exactly to size, the displaced material being included either in the wall thickness or in the length of the camshaft, and a combination is also possible.
  • Partial heating in the area of the bearing points to be preformed may be sufficient.
  • Forging presses or forging hammers can be used.
  • the blank in the form of a cam can be made from a tube, which is converted into the shape of a cam by pressing.
  • a blank with an outer diameter that is somewhat larger than the largest diameter or cross section of the finished camshaft will be used. This applies in particular to the cam area.
  • the diameter ratios and the shaping forces are coordinated with one another in such a way that, in addition to a hollow tube with hollow bearing points, the cams remain at least partially hollow inside.
  • the cams will be kneaded all in one plane or in an alignment during the round kneading, after which the camshaft is then subjected to a twisting process in a third step in order to turn the cams into the desired positions.
  • camshaft produced according to the invention has less effects with regard to mass imbalance.
  • the camshaft is relatively stiff and torsion-resistant. It has been found that material reinforcement is achieved by kneading or hammering, particularly in those areas which are particularly important or particularly stressed.
  • Another great advantage of the round kneading according to the invention is that the shape of the camshaft can be more easily adapted to the requirements placed on it.
  • the sides of the cams can be provided with better transitions to the camshaft.
  • at the method according to the invention did not intervene in the fiber course.
  • a blank in the form of a cam serves as the starting material.
  • the blank in this form can e.g. be made from a tube with a circular cross-section, e.g. has been converted into the cam shape by pressing. Both a seamless and a welded tube can be used as the tube.
  • a blank which has been produced in any manner and which has a cam shape right from the start can be used as the tube.
  • the blank is now pre-shaped in the form of a cam at the points at which the bearing points of the camshaft are arranged or into which they are to be molded. Possibly. due to only partial heating in this area, the cam shape is converted into a circular diameter shape at the bearing points by two-part drop hammers. This deformation can also be achieved by hot forging.
  • the hammer stroke required for the forming of the workpiece 9 results from an elevation on a rolling path 5 of the hammer plunger 4.
  • a roller cage 6 is freely rotatable between the hammer shaft 1 and an outer retaining ring 8.
  • Pressure rollers 7 are mounted in receiving holes in the roller cage 6.
  • the hammer plungers 4 roll with their rolling path 5 on the pressure rollers 7 and thus transmit a relative movement to the roller cage 6 in the same direction of rotation, but correspondingly slower than the hammer shaft itself.
  • a pressure pulse radially inwards which is transmitted as a forming force to the hammer tools 2 and thus to the workpiece.
  • the retaining ring 8 can rotate, the hammer shaft 1 either standing still or being driven at the same speed or in opposite directions at a slow speed.
  • the type and design of the tool depend on the application and the type of workpiece to be machined, which in the present case is a camshaft.
  • FIG. 2 shows the preformed blank, in the interior of which a mandrel 10 can be arranged if required.
  • the workpiece is inserted between the hammer tools 2 in the axial direction.
  • FIG. 3 a side view of a camshaft (partially) shown.
  • the cam shape is formed in the region of the bearing points 13 in a first step, namely up to to a diameter that is slightly larger than the final diameter of the bearing points.
  • the enlarged diameter is shown by the dashed lines 14 and 15.
  • the solid lines of the camshaft represent the end diameter or end cross-sections. If the blank 9 in the shape of a cam has a slightly larger diameter than the largest diameter or cross-section of the finished camshaft, the two dashed lines 11 and 12 are possibly somewhat outside the cams 16, which in this case are kneaded to the final diameter in the solid line.
  • a preforming in the specified sense can, if necessary, also be carried out for parts of the camshaft which are located between bearing points 13 and cams 16 and which should likewise have a round cross section in the final state.

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EP88117466A 1987-10-28 1988-10-20 Procédé de fabrication d'un arbre à cames Expired - Lifetime EP0313985B1 (fr)

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AT88117466T ATE86897T1 (de) 1987-10-28 1988-10-20 Verfahren zur herstellung einer nockenwelle.

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DE19873736453 DE3736453A1 (de) 1987-10-28 1987-10-28 Verfahren zur herstellung einer nockenwelle
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JP (1) JPH01148434A (fr)
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EP0313985B1 (fr) 1993-03-17
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US5040294A (en) 1991-08-20
EP0313985A3 (en) 1990-08-16
JPH01148434A (ja) 1989-06-09
ATE86897T1 (de) 1993-04-15
DE3879371D1 (de) 1993-04-22
DE3736453A1 (de) 1989-05-11

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