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Method for producing press-hardened components for motor vehicles

US9822421B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VICTOCOR TECHNOLOGIES N.V. · BE

Inventors

Martin Pohl · Altenbeken, DE
Michael Wibbeke · Paderborn, DE
Wilfried Rostek · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 29, 2010
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 22, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC23C10/28
WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A method for making a vehicle body component includes forming a generally flat plate of unhardened, hot-formable sheet steel with a marginal shape which corresponds essentially to the developed configuration of the finished vehicle body component. The formed plate is hot-formed and hardened in a single press tool to define a sheet profile which corresponds to the configuration of the finished vehicle body component, and a surface coating is applied to the sheet profile.

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