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A Review of Recent Patents on Metal Precision Plastic Forming Technology

Author(s): Huaqiang Gao, Tingliang Zhang and Baocheng Xie*

Volume 17, Issue 2, 2023

Published on: 30 June, 2022

Article ID: e120522204663 Pages: 15

DOI: 10.2174/1872212116666220512123630

Price: $65

Abstract

Background: Precision plastic forming technology has become an important development direction of advanced manufacturing technology because of its remarkable characteristics of high yield, high quality, and low consumption. Compared with traditional forming technology, it not only improves the utilization rate of metal materials, but also strengthens the dimensional accuracy of the workpiece. Therefore, the development trend of metal plastic precision forming technology has been paid increasing attention.

Objective: To meet the increasing requirement of processing quality and processing efficiency in the metal precision plastic forming technology, metal cold precision plastic forming technology, metal warm precision plastic forming technology, metal thermal precision plastic forming technology and metal composite precision plastic forming technology is being improved continuously.

Methods: This paper reviews the current various representative patents related to metal cold precision plastic forming technology, metal warm precision plastic forming technology, metal thermal precision plastic forming technology, and metal composite precision plastic forming technology.

Results: Through investigating a large number of patents on metal precision plastic forming, metal cold precision plastic forming technology, metal warm precision plastic forming technology, metal thermal precision plastic forming technology and metal composite precision plastic forming technology are discussed.

Conclusion: The optimization of metal precision plastic forming is conducive to increasing processing efficiency and processing quality. More relevant patents will be invented in the future.

Keywords: Plastic precision forming, processing efficiency, processing quality, thermoplastic forming, cold plastic forming, warm plastic forming.

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