Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a casting having no casting defects such as shrinkage cavity, etc. without using a riser by adhering a solid cooling medium to the thick walled part of a pattern corresponding to the thick walled part of the casting and charging a molten metal therein in this state. CONSTITUTION:A solid cooling medium of an iron chiller 10, etc. is attached by using an adhesive agent 9, etc. to the thick walled part 8 in the product part 1 of a pattern. A separately manufactured casting plan part 2 is attached thereto by an adhesive agent to manufacture the pattern. Such pattern is embedded in mold sand 6 which is a heat resistant granular material in a molding flask 5 and finally a pouring bush 7 is provided. A melt of an Al alloy, etc. is cast into the mold through the bush 7, and the mold is knocked out upon solidification, then the casting is subjected to a post treatment such as gate breaking. The casting having no defects such as shrinkage cavity, etc. in the thick walled part is obtd. by said investment casting method.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To manufacture a molded article with fine external appearance at low cost by a method wherein a cavity is vacuumized by sucking the air in the cavity and expandable thermoplastic resin particles are filled in the cavity by the suction force. CONSTITUTION:A cavity 3 is formed by closing a mold. Expandable resin particles are charged in a hopper and then fed in a pipe 10 by opening a stopper 11. Simultaneously, a suction apparatus is put into operation to produce negative pressure in the cavity 3 in order to suck the expandable resin particles, which is supplied into the pipe 10 by a predetermined amount, from the pipe 10 and to fill them in the cavity 3. Because pipes 8 and venting grooves 7 are fitted to thin parts 5, the complete filling of particles to which is regarded as specially difficult conventionally, and to the corners of the cavity 3 in order to suck the air in the cavity 3 therethrough, no filling failure of resin particles occurs, resulting in producing no rejected part.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To prevent the casting defect, such as misrun, cold shut, etc., caused by temp. drop of molten metal even in thin part by melting an expendable pattern by heating means before pouring the molten metal. CONSTITUTION:After packing heat resistant granular material 2 in the molding flask 1, compressed air is flowed from an air introducing hole 8, and then, the air is become to fine bubbles from upper part of a filter 7 to disperse and raise up, and the granular material 2 is made to floating state. Under this condition, the expendable pattern 3 integrated product part 32 with casting plan part 31 is laid into the granular material 2, so that the product part 32 is positioned between fixed plates 6, and the mold 1 is vibrated by a vibrator in order to increase the mold strength. Next, just before pouring the molten metal, the product part 32 of expendable pattern 3 is melted by heating a heater 4. In succession, the molten metal is poured into the portion of the pattern 3 and the solidification of molten metal is started and at the same time of reaching to binary eutectic temp., the compressed air is injected from an air nozzle 5. After completely solidifying, the compressed air is again introduced from the air introducing hole 8 to make the granular material 2 the floating state and take out the finished casting.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a titled equipment for improving the casting quality and the productivity by providing a molding set robot, automatic carrying conveyor line of a casting frame, a pressure reducing system for holding the inside of the casting frame in a pressure-reduced state, a charging robot, a fetching robot of a casting, a casting frame inverting device, and a sand cooling device. CONSTITUTION:A casting frame 15 is transferred by an automatic carrying conveyor line by fluidizing the sand 17 in the casting frame 15 by a pressure flow mechanism containing a pressure valve 15b, a pressure system 18 and a pressure pipeline 19, and in this state, by embedding a disappearing model consisting of a design part 10a and a product part 10b by a molding set robot 4. When the casting frame is being transferred, the inside of the casting frame is evacuated to a prescribed degree of pressure reduction for a prescribed time by a pressure reducing mechanism, and by synchronizing with said line 5, a charging robot 7 executes charging to the casting frame 15. When it is coagulated, a fetching robot 8 fetches a casting by synchronizing with the line 5, and the casting frame 15 is transferred further and inverted by a casting frame inverting device, and cooled by a sand 17 cooling device by recovering the sand 17.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To improve reinforcing strength and permit to effect foam molding by one kind of forming material by a method wherein the forming material at a position in an expandable resin molded product, whereat a strength is requested, is pressed and compressed locally by a pressurizing means attached to a forming mold to increase the filling density of the position. CONSTITUTION: A cavity mold 1 and a core mold 5 are aligned and clamped, a piston is retreated by supplying compressed air to the compressed air intake port 15a of a cylinder 15 and a filling hole 13 is opened after the tip end of the piston is brought to the same plane as the end surface of a guide bush 14. Successively, the forming material M, constituting of polystylene resin particles prefoamed to 50 times, is loaded into a molding space 9 and a loading hole 13 from the introducing port 12b of a loader 10. The piston 16 is advanced successively by supplying compressed air to the compressed air introducing port 15b of the cylinder 15 and the forming material M is pushed to the forming surface 3a of the cavity section 3 to compress it. Heating medium, such as steam, hot air or the like, is supplied to the spaces A, B from the supplying port 2a of a box frame 2 and the supplying port 6a of the box frame 6. The forming material M is heated and foamed while the particles are fused mutually. COPYRIGHT: (C)1986,JPO&Japio
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new method for forming a structural member which is different from a forming method by casting. SOLUTION: A material 4 to be formed is arranged on the projectingly provided part 1b of a lower die 1 and an upper die 3 is lowered to a position where it comes into contact with the material 4 to be formed. Next, the material 4 to be formed is softened or half melted by generating frictional heat between the material 4 to be formed and the lower die 1 by rotating the upper die 3 and also moving it while downward adding a prescribed load. When the material to be formed which is softened or sintered is filled in the cavity, the rotation of the upper die 3 is stopped and the material 4 to be formed is hardened or solidified by increasing the load. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PURPOSE:To prevent the separation of a cast iron liner by sticking an aluminum alloy layer onto the outer periphery of an aluminum coated steel plate through cast-forming process to form the cylindrical part of a brake drum, and fixing a frictional face between a brake shoe and the brake drum to the inner periphery of the steel plate through the cast-forming process. CONSTITUTION:The cylindrical part 12 of a brake drum 10 is cast-formed of aluminum alloy on the outside of a cylindrical steel plate 62 having an aluminum coated layer 66 on its outer periphery. In addition to that, a cast iron liner 64 opposite to the frictional member 40 of a brake shoe 26 is sticked to the inner periphery of the steel plate 62 by a cast-forming process. Thus since the cast iron liner 64, the steel plate 62, the aluminum coated layer 66 and an aluminum alloy layer 68 are mutually sticked in order, their sticking strength is high to make the occurrence of shear fracture difficult, and the reliability and durability of the brake drum can therefore be improved.
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PURPOSE:To obtain a specified fluid condition automatically without dispersion by introducing compressed air to a molding material to fluidize the material and controlling the change in the fluid condition thereof according to the detection signal by a strain gage of a detecting member. CONSTITUTION:The compressed air flows through the pores of a bottom plate 2 into the upper chamber of a molding flask 1 and fluidizes the molding material 3 when the compressed air is supplied from a pipeline 10 into the lower chamber of the molding flask 1. The strain gage 5 does not output an voltage signal when the fluid condition at this time corresponds to a set value. However, if the fluid states varies and devices from the set value, the deflection quantity of the detecting member 4 changes and the strain gage 5 outputs the voltage signal. The signal is amplified by a power amplifier 8 and is then inputted to an electro-pneumatic proportional valve 9. Since the proportional valve 9 controls the pressure of the compressed air according to the voltage signal, the fluid state attains the specified state corresponding to the set value.
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PURPOSE:To make the promotion of lightweightness attainable as well as to improve productivity ever so high, by forming a plastic mode in advance, while casting a crankshaft bearing cap part by means of a full-mold foundry. CONSTITUTION:Each crankshaft bearing cap part is first formed with a plastic model 10. At this stage, each plastic model 10 is easily formable into complex form without any consideration of a die releasing direction. Therefore, this plastic model is easily formable into such a fog form as abstracting unnecessary thickness while keeping the strength required. This plastic model is replaced with a metal by means of a full-mold process so that the crankshaft bearing cap part 12 replaced with a substitution metal is unnecessary to consider a split mold in time of casting, thus productivity is raised so high and, what is more, it is formable into an optimum light weight structure. Since a horizontal beam 11 is also formed with a separate single part in advance, geometrical form machining is made performable, thereby constituting to improvements in the promotion of lightweightness and productivity.
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PURPOSE:To perform molding in a vacuum investment casting method with a good filling characteristic by providing pressuring and evacuating means in the bottom of a molding flask, using the molding flask having two mounting surfaces having an obtuse angle relative with each other and tilting and oscillating the flask. CONSTITUTION:A pressurizing means 5 and an evacuating means 6 are provided in the bottom of a molding flask 1 having a flat hexagonal columnar shape, etc. The flask 1 is fixed by the 1st mounting surface 7 to an oscillating table 8. Non-binding sand 3 is charged into the flask 1 and the sand 3 is fluidized by the means 5. A consumable pattern 4 consisting of a product part 9 and a casting plan part 10 is embedded in said sand. The opening of the flask 1 is covered with a combustible resin film 11, etc. and the inside of the flask is evacuated and solidifed by the means 6. The flask 1 is tilted in this state and is again fixed to the table 8 by the 2nd mounting surface 12 so that the flask 1 is oscillated by the same. The flask 1 is returned to the home position and while the evacuating state is maintained molten Al or the like is cast into the flask through a sprue 13. The mold is knocked out upon solidification. The casting having good dimensional accuracy without any casting defect is obtd. by such method.