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Patent 1 is exclusively Licensed to DeepForm by Cambridge Enterprise, and is the base patent protecting the folding-shearing concept, and which overlaps with each of Patents 2-8.

It protects the concept of folding regions of the part, collecting material in a ‘beak-shape’, and subsequently shearing this material to create the required part.

Covers the innnovative steps to implement the ‘folding-shearing’ concept in a press tool.

Patent 3 expands the applicability of patent 2 by introducing sideplates that control for wrinkling and is full DeepForm owned.

Protects a technique for creating parts with flanges by partially completing the shear operation and ‘unfolding’.

Covers modifications to the shape of the ‘beak’ which enable better control of the thickening, creating a better product/enabling sharper features to be formed. 

Covers technology to form parts with flanges in a subsequent operation – key to enabling exploitation on many automative (car and truck) parts.

Covers using a ‘horizontally’ oriented beak to enable ‘stretch’ features to be made. Material is redistributed by the beak, avoiding excessive thinning or ultimately splitting.

Will cover production of parts with long radii or curves as seen from above, and will have applications beyond automative inclluding beverage cans. The approach has been tested in physical trials at the University of Cambridge.