EP0341211A2 - Procédé de pliage de tôle - Google Patents

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EP0341211A2
EP0341211A2 EP89810322A EP89810322A EP0341211A2 EP 0341211 A2 EP0341211 A2 EP 0341211A2 EP 89810322 A EP89810322 A EP 89810322A EP 89810322 A EP89810322 A EP 89810322A EP 0341211 A2 EP0341211 A2 EP 0341211A2
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Vaclav Zbornik
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D5/00—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves
    • B21D5/02—Bending sheet metal along straight lines, e.g. to form simple curves on press brakes without making use of clamping means

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  • the present invention relates to a method for bending sheet metal with the aid of a bending device which has a bending punch and a die with an adjustable bottom, into which die the bending punch penetrates, depending on the desired bending angle, until the sheet is driven onto the die bottom, the theoretical Bending angle with constant die opening is determined by the relative position of the die bottom to the die opening.
  • the desired angle could theoretically be set simply and repeatably.
  • deviations in the bending angle occur.
  • this has to do with the fact that the theoretical, sharp edge, which is the working edge of the bending element, never arises in the sheet metal process pels corresponds, but there are roundings during bending, which significantly influence the bending angle.
  • the two sheet metal legs spring back somewhat as soon as the sheet metal is released from the bending pressure. The size of the springback also depends on the sheet thickness and the material quality, so that the actual final bending angle can never be predicted theoretically with precision.
  • the object of the invention is such a sheet metal bending ver drive easier to design and still achieve a further increased accuracy with regard to the resulting final bending angle.
  • the proposed procedure has the features summarized in claim 1.
  • angle measurements during the bending process are used to determine the correct height of the die base. It is possible with the aid of the proposed method to set the floor to the correct penetration depth on the basis of the determined angle differences during the bending process, the actual setpoint angle being exactly maintained at the end of the bending process.
  • This process is significantly simpler than the known process and represents a major step forward.
  • a bending device For bending sheet metal pieces, a bending device is used, which is known per se and consists of a bending punch and a die with an adjustable bottom, into which the bending punch penetrates more or less depending on the bending angle.
  • the theoretical bending angle is given by the position of the die bottom relative to the die opening while the die opening remains the same.
  • a bending punch 1 is provided, which works together with the fixed bending die 2, which has an adjustable base 3.
  • To bend the sheet 4 the same is pressed against the adjustable base 3 along an edge 5 with the aid of the bending die 1.
  • the angle W formed is determined by the position of the edge 5 with respect to the contact edges 6 of the die 2.
  • the penetration depth of the bending die 1 is designated E in FIG. 1.
  • the bending angle W is from Verrun radius of the bending edge. 2 schematically shows how the angle W changes.
  • the sheet metal piece 4a has (theoretically) a very sharp edge in the form of a line, while the sheet metal piece 4b has a rounded bending edge. It can be clearly seen that the angle which the two legs of the sheet metal piece 4a enclose is somewhat larger than the angle enclosed by the legs of the sheet metal piece 4b. The following generally applies (with unchanged die setting): The larger the rounding radius of the bending edge, the smaller the resulting bending angle.
  • Fig. 3 the springback behavior of a bent plate 4 is shown, greatly exaggerated. It is clearly evident that the sheet metal, relieved of the bending force exerted by the punch 1, springs back somewhat with its two legs, so that the bending angle when the sheet is relieved (punch 1 withdrawn) is somewhat larger than the theoretical bending angle in the situation, when the punch presses the sheet 4 completely against the die bottom.
  • the springback rate depends on the sheet thickness and the material of the sheet and can hardly be predicted with the required accuracy.
  • curve 8 The practical bending curve of a piece of sheet metal is shown in FIG. 4 by curve 8, which indicates the relationship between the penetration depth E and the angle W.
  • curve 8 In addition to the thickness tolerance of the curve 8 exert an influence on the course of the curve the yield strength, the modulus of elasticity and the hardening behavior of the piece of sheet metal.
  • this practical bending curve 8 of the sheet metal piece is first determined by bending a sample sheet metal piece of a certain thickness and with a certain material quality in a series of tests. A large number of value pairs E / W are recorded, displayed in the form of a curve and saved as a reference curve for the above-mentioned, specific material quality and thickness.
  • the position of the adjustable die base 3 and thus the depth of penetration is set to a value E s which, according to the stored comparison curve 8, should result in the desired angle W s . Then the bending process is started and continued continuously.
  • E5 the effective bending angle W5 is measured and compared with the bending angle W6, which results from the comparison curve 8.
  • the difference W5-W6 shows that the effective bending angle W5 is larger than the theoretically expected bending angle W6.
  • the same procedure is used for the penetration depths E3 and E1:
  • the effective bending angle W3 or W1 is measured and in each case with the assigned bending angle W4 or W2 the curve 8 compared.
  • Based on the determined angle differences W5-W6, W3-W4 and W1-W2 it can be seen that there is a deviating from the comparison curve 8 bending curve 9 for the sheet metal just processed, which is shown in dashed lines in Fig. 4.
  • the course of this curve 9 shows that the actual angle is greater than the expected angle with the same penetration depth. For this reason, the position of the adjustable bottom 3 of the die 2 must be corrected because the target angle will not be reached at the penetration depth E s according to the comparison curve 8, but only at the corrected penetration depth E k .
  • the corrected penetration depth E k ie the corrected position of the bottom 3 of the die, can be determined and set immediately.
  • this can be done, for example, by adding a piece of the curve 8 from the angle W 1 to the previous, practically determined bending curve 9.
  • the die bottom 3 is set to the new value E k of the penetration depth; all of this takes place while the bending process continues. By the end of the bending process, the actual target angle W s will be reached exactly.
  • this extrapolation of the bending curve 9 takes place on the basis of the known bending curve 8, of course, in a computer-aided control device in which the curve 8 is also stored.
  • the extrapolation is readily permissible, since in practice the deviation of curve 9 from curve 8 is very small and is greatly exaggerated in the drawing for reasons of clarity.
  • the theoretically resulting inaccuracy due to extrapolation of curve 9 on the basis of curve 8 is so small that it can easily be neglected.
  • a further embodiment of the proposed method can consist in that, in addition to the theoretical bending curve, the size and the curve of the force practically required for the deformation of the sheet metal piece are determined on a sample sheet of the same thickness and the same quality and are stored as a function of the penetration depth or the deformation angle. It has been shown that with the same depth of penetration of the punch 1, even when using the same die with the same support edges, the angle does not remain the same, but changes as a result of manufacturing tolerances of the sheet, since one sheet has less force and the other sheet more force needed for bending.
  • the bending die 1 is made in two parts and consists of an upper part 1a and a lower part 1b, a measuring device 10 being accommodated between the two parts.
  • This measuring device can be designed, for example, as an electrical load cell and is used to measure the pressure exerted by the stamp 1 on the piece of sheet metal 4. The measured values are registered and processed in a computer which can act on the adjusting device of the die base.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Bending Of Plates, Rods, And Pipes (AREA)
  • Shaping Of Tube Ends By Bending Or Straightening (AREA)
EP89810322A 1988-05-03 1989-04-28 Procédé de pliage de tôle Expired - Lifetime EP0341211B1 (fr)

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AT0114088A AT389829B (de) 1988-05-03 1988-05-03 Verfahren zum biegen von blechstuecken mit hilfe einer biegeeinrichtung

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DE58904039D1 (de) 1993-05-19
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JPH02142620A (ja) 1990-05-31
ATA114088A (de) 1989-07-15
EP0341211B1 (fr) 1993-04-14
JP2556994B2 (ja) 1996-11-27
ES2039935T3 (es) 1993-10-01
AT389829B (de) 1990-02-12
US4962654A (en) 1990-10-16

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