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Article: German Inventors Develop Flat Metal Blank Formation Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- December 9, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- Helmut Michel of Esslingen, Germany, Wulf Radtke of Planegg, Germany, and Johannes Hegels of Munich, Germany, have developed a flat metal blank of metal. The patent has been assigned to MT Aerospace AG, Augsburg, Germany.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a vacuum-assisted method and a device for forming an essentially flat blank of metal into a thin-walled, shell-type body, especially for performing the method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, that has a supporting structure forming a mold chamber that holds the blank during increasing deformation into the thin-walled, shell-body, ...