Casting method for forming screw hole on inclined plane of casting, and casting integrated with insert having screw thread

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11219944-B2
Application number	US-202016841071-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2020
Priority date	Jan 15, 2020
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

A casting method for forming a fastening part on an inclined plane of a casting may include mounting a plug unit including a casting plug and a screw thread insert combined with the casting plug on a movable mold or a fixed mold; performing casting by moving and combining the movable mold with the fixed mold and injecting a molten metal into a cavity formed between the movable mold and the fixed mold; performing mold opening after the casting; and separating the casting plug from the screw thread insert, wherein when the plug unit is mounted on the mold, the screw thread insert is deployed in the cavity, and a mold plane on which the casting plug is mounted forms an inclined plane having an acute angle against a horizontal plane that is parallel to a movement direction of the movable mold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A casting method for forming a fastening part on an inclined plane of a casting, comprising:
mounting a plug unit including a casting plug and a screw thread insert combined with the casting plug on a movable mold or a fixed mold;
performing casting by moving and combining the movable mold with the fixed mold and injecting a molten metal into a cavity formed between the movable mold and the fixed mold;
performing mold opening after the casting; and
separating the casting plug from the screw thread insert,
wherein when the plug unit is mounted on the mold, the screw thread insert is deployed in the cavity, and a mold plane on which the casting plug is mounted forms an inclined plane having an acute angle against a horizontal plane that is parallel to a movement direction of the movable mold.

2. The casting method of claim 1 , wherein the screw thread insert is integrally combined with the casting.

3. The casting method of claim 1 , wherein the casting plug comprises:
a truncated cone shaped plug body part; and
a plug screw part projecting from a bottom plane of the plug body part and having male screw threads formed thereon,
wherein the screw thread insert has female screw threads formed thereon corresponding to the male screw threads of the plug screw part, and the screw thread insert is combined with the plug screw part.

4. The casting method of claim 3 , wherein an angle of a side plane of the plug body part based on a height direction of the plug body part is greater than or equal to 30°.

5. The casting method of claim 4 , wherein the angle of the side plane of the plug body part based on the height direction of the plug body part is in a range of 30° to 35°.

6. The casting method of claim 3 , wherein an angle of a side plane of the plug body part based on a height direction of the plug body part is greater than or equal to: 90°−(the acute angle of the inclined plane)°.

7. The casting method of claim 6 , wherein the angle of the side plane of the plug body part based on the height direction of the plug body part is in a range of 90°−(the acute angle of the inclined plane)° to 90°−(the acute angle of the inclined plane)°+5°.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp
• Jinhap Bollhoff Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Cheol-Ung
• Lee Yoon-Ki
• Kim Jin-Yong
• An Jae-Young
• Jang Woo-Seok

Classifications

• B22D17/002 Primary

  using movable moulds (for plastics B29C45/04) · CPC title

• B22D19/0072

  for making objects with integrated channels · CPC title

• B22D19/009 Primary

  for casting objects the members of which can be separated afterwards · CPC title

• B22D19/00 Primary

  Casting in, on, or around objects which form part of the product (B22D23/04 takes precedence; alumino-thermic welding B23K23/00; coating by casting molten material on the substrate C23C6/00) · CPC title

• B22C9/10

  Cores; Manufacture or installation of cores {(breaker cores B22C9/084)} · CPC title