Material testing device and testing method thereby

• US 5,394,753 A
• Filed: 10/20/1992
• Issued: 03/07/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Moriyoshi, Akihiro
• Original Assignee: Moriyoshi, Akihiro
• Inventors: Moriyoshi, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): RAEVIS, ROBERT R
• Application Number:
  US07/963,982
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 73/818-823, 73/825-828, 73/830-835, 73/837, 73/849, 73/851, 73/853, 73/854
• US Class Current: 73/818
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2203/0035 Spring
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2203/0041 Human or animal power
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2203/0073 Fatigue
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2203/0098 Tests specified by its name, e.g. Charpy, Brinnel, Mullen
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2203/0222 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/18 Performing tests at high or low temperatures
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/20 by applying steady bending forces G01N3/26, G01N3/28 take precedence

Abstract

A testing device which makes structure of equipment simple, achieves dwarfing and lightening and can improve precision of measurement of tested material. And method to implement test of strength of fracture, fracture temperature, strain at fracture, viscosity and stress relaxation (relaxation modulus) and so on of test piece handily.

Claims

1. A material testing device, comprising:

first and second relatively displaceable members;

a test piece attachment device provided between common ends of said first and second members, the test piece bending in response to the relative displacement of said first and the second members;

drive means oriented between said first and second members for displacing said first and second members relative to one another and from a position between ends of said first and the second members remote from said common ends;

said drive means being composed of a support member operatively connected to the remote end of said first member and includes a guide means thereon, a pressure plate operatively connected to the remote end of said second member and includes a pair of guide members guided by said guide means, and a sliding member arranged between said support member and said pressure plate and is guided by said guide members, said support member being in a form of a planar U with a rotation axle extending between two opposing sides of the U, the rotation axle being provided with a tapered portion arranged centrally between said opposing sides, a male screw portion being formed between the tapered portion and one end of the rotation axle, and a handle to turn the rotation axle so as to cause movement of the tapered portion back and forth; and

detection means positioned at least one of between said drive means and said first member and between said drive means and said second member for detecting a load applied to the test piece.

2. A material testing device in claim 1, wherein said first and second members are, respectively, an outside cylinder and an inside cylinder arranged coaxially and spaced from one another.

3. A material testing device in claim 1, wherein said test piece attachment includes a pair of clips installed between each common end of said first and second members.

4. A material testing device in claim 1, wherein a servo-motor is provided and is connected to another end of said rotation axle, and wherein said handle is connected to one end of said rotation axle through a claw causing engagement of said handle to said rotation axle when said servo-motor is not operated, said rotation axle extending so that an axis thereof intersects the relative movement direction of the first and second members.

5. A material testing device in claim 1, wherein said detection means includes a load cell.

6. A material testing device in claim 1, wherein at least one of said first and second members is provided with a detachable means for facilitating a placement on and a removal from a vessel which contains said test piece.