US 12,276,641 B2
Method for predicting springback amount and method for bending deformed reinforcing bar
Masahiro Sasada, Kyotanabe (JP); Ikuho Matsukuma, Kyotanabe (JP); and Satoshi Higaki, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to THE DOSHISHA, Kyoto (JP); and TOYO KENSETSU KOHKI CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by THE DOSHISHA, Kyoto (JP); and TOYO KENSETSU KOHKI CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/931,849.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-152602 (JP), filed on Sep. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0086958 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 3/20 (2006.01); G01N 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 3/20 (2013.01) [G01N 3/06 (2013.01); G01N 2203/0023 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
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1. A method for predicting a springback amount associated with a target bending angle during a bending process of a deformed reinforcing bar to the target bending angle by using a reinforcing bar bending device including a fulcrum member configuring a fulcrum in the bending process and an effort member rotated around the fulcrum member, the method comprising:
supplying the deformed reinforcing bar to the reinforcing bar bending device;
bending the deformed reinforcing bar by rotating the effort member to a predetermined bending angle, and subsequently measuring a first bending angle of the deformed reinforcing bar in state of releasing a bending force of the effort member on the deformed reinforcing bar;
further bending deformed reinforcing bar from which the bending force of the effort member has been released to another bending angle, and subsequently measuring a second bending angle of the deformed reinforcing bar in a state of releasing the bending force of the effort member on the deformed reinforcing bar; and
predicting the springback amount associated with the target bending angle based on the first bending angle and the second bending angle,
wherein the another bending angle is greater than the predetermined bending angle,
the deformed reinforcing bar has a cross-sectional shape in which a first portion of an outer circumference of the deformed reinforcing bar is formed higher than a second portion of the outer circumference of the deformed reinforcing bar,
the first portion of the outer circumference of the deformed reinforcing bar includes a rib that extends in a longitudinal direction of the deformed reinforcing bar, and
supplying the deformed reinforcing bar to the reinforcing bar bending device includes positioning the deformed reinforcing bar on a reference surface portion of the reinforcing bar bending device such that the rib is oriented in a predetermined orientation to the reference surface portion, the reference surface portion forming a reference plane that determines a bending direction during bending of the deformed reinforcing bar.