High-Productivity Green Machining for Variable Valve Timing Sprockets

摘要

With the increasing performance of variable valve timing (VVT) systems, there is a growing demand for powder metallurgical parts with more complicated geometries. On the other hand, high productivity is also required in the manufacturing process to respond to the increasing demand for VVT parts. Accordingly, we have applied green machining, which achieves both high formability and productivity. This technology allows green compacts to be machined “before sintering,” which makes it possible to process parts about nine times faster than conventional post-sintering machining and thus enables volume production.