| 摘要 |
<p>PCT No. PCT/EP95/04438 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 20, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 20, 1998 PCT Filed Nov. 10, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO 96/15378 PCT Pub. Date May 23, 1996A self-drilling and thread-forming screw comprises a threaded shank, a drilling section arranged in front of the shank and having a uniform diameter, and a thread-free flow-forming section widening conically between the drilling section and the shank. The drilling section has two chip grooves which run diametrically opposite one another, are bounded by flute edges and cutting edges, and end in a drilling tip with the cutting edges running together at the tip. The diameter formed by the cutting edges is smaller than a minor diameter of the threaded shank, and the largest diameter of the flow-forming section corresponds to the minor diameter of the shank and includes a symmetrical polygonal cross-section with rounded-off corners in a region adjoining the shank. The chip grooves also extend from the cutting edges over a substantial part of the flow-forming section, the flute edges run in the direction of the shank tangentially into the rounded-off corners, a transition region is provided between the drilling and flow-forming sections, and bead-shaped prominences are formed on the drilling section remote from the chip grooves. The prominences form an increasing cross-sectional extent as they merge continuously in the transition region into the rounded-off corners diametrically opposite one another, such that this extent is equal to the diameter formed by the cutting edges in the transition region and is greater than the diameter formed by the cutting edges in the flow-forming section..</p> |
