Patent · US Active

Structural component

US7546755B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by

5References

6Claims

0Family size

Assignee

BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH · DE

Inventor

Wilhelm Arns · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 11, 2007
Grant date	Jun 16, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 4, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC21D2221/00
WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Elongated structural components having regions of different thicknesses, especially for use in automobile bodies, are produced by flexible rolling metal strip so as to form along a length thereof rolled-strip segments of different wall thickness. The sheet bars are cut from the rolled strip and have regions of different wall thickness. Each sheet bar is reshaped in at least one hot-forming tool in at least one hot-forming state and the reshaped sheet bar is then rapidly cooled in the hot-forming tool of the last reshaping stage.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.