Measuring device and method of physical property measuring

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11458533-B2
Application number	US-202017009792-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2020
Priority date	Sep 4, 2019
Publication date	Oct 4, 2022
Grant date	Oct 4, 2022

Abstract

A measuring device includes a furnace, a draining vessel, a loader and a computing system for physical properties. The draining vessel with molten metal fluid is in the furnace. The loader accumulates the molten metal fluid from the draining vessel. The computing system includes a recording unit, transform unit, computing unit and processor. The recording unit records the vessel information. By the assumed physical parameters and the vessel information, the transform unit transforms a weight of the molten metal fluid in the loader into a first length criterion, and the computing unit simulates the flowing of the molten metal fluid to have a second length criterion. The processor minimizes the difference of the first and the second length criterion by changing the assumed physical parameters. The physical properties of the molten metal fluid are determined when the difference is minimized.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A measuring device for measuring physical properties of a molten metal fluid comprising:
a furnace having a chamber;
a draining vessel located in the chamber and having an opening, wherein the draining vessel is configured to accommodate the molten metal fluid;
a loader aligned with the opening to accumulate the molten metal fluid from the draining vessel during a time period; and
a computing system for providing the physical properties, wherein the computing system comprises:
a recording unit recording a vessel information of the draining vessel;
a transform unit configured to transform a weight of the molten metal fluid accumulated in the loader during the time period into a first length criterion;
a computing unit configured to simulate flowing of the molten metal fluid to have a second length criterion by assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid and the vessel information; and
a processor configured to minimize a difference function of the first and the second length criterions by changing the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid, wherein current physical parameters of the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid are determined as the physical properties of the molten metal fluid when the difference function is minimized.

2. The measuring device of claim 1 , wherein the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid comprises a density, a viscosity and a surface tension.

3. The measuring device of claim 1 , wherein the vessel information comprises a cross-section area of the draining vessel, a cross-section area of the opening and a length of the opening.

4. The measuring device of claim 1 , wherein the computing unit is a computational fluid dynamics unit, the computational fluid dynamics unit provides the second length criterion by a computational fluid dynamics algorithm.

5. The measuring device of claim 1 , wherein the first and second length criterions are a first height head and a second height head respectively, the first and second height head are functions of time, the first height head is a liquid level transformed by the weight of the molten metal fluid in the draining vessel, the second height head is another liquid level of the molten metal fluid in the draining vessel, and the second height head is simulated by the computing unit.

6. The measuring device of claim 1 , further comprising a weight measuring device, wherein the loader is disposed on the weight measuring device, the loader and the weight measuring device are located out of the chamber, the chamber comprises a channel, and the opening is aligned with the loader by the channel.

7. The measuring device of claim 6 , wherein a heat insulation plate is located between the weight measuring device and the loader.

8. A method of physical property measuring comprising:
providing a draining vessel and recording a vessel information of the draining vessel;
placing metal to be measured in the draining vessel;
heating the metal to be measured to melt it into molten metal fluid;
making the molten metal fluid flow out of the draining vessel and be accumulated in a loader during a time period to obtain a weight of the molten metal fluid;
providing an assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid;
transforming the weight of the molten metal fluid in the loader into a first length criterion in the draining vessel by a transform unit according to the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid and the vessel information;
simulating flowing of the molten metal fluid by the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid to have a second length criterion in the draining vessel by a computing unit according to the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid and the vessel information;
computing a difference function formed by the difference of the first and second length criterions; and
minimizing the difference function by a processor, wherein current physical parameters of the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid are selected as physical properties of the molten metal fluid when the difference function is minimized.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first and second length criterions are a first height head and a second height head respectively, the first and second height head are functions of time, the first height head is a liquid level transformed by the weight of the molten metal fluid in the draining vessel, the second height head is another liquid level of the molten metal fluid in the draining vessel, and the second height head is simulated by the computing unit.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the assumed physical parameters of the molten metal fluid comprising a density, a viscosity and a surface tension, wherein the method further comprises:
dividing the time period into first, second and third time periods sequentially and computing corresponding first, second and third difference functions of the difference function according to the first and second height heads, wherein the first time period precedes the second time period, and the second time period precedes the third time period; and
the operation of minimizing the difference function by the processor further comprise:
minimizing the first difference function to select the density of the molten metal fluid;
minimizing the second difference function to select the viscosity of the molten metal fluid; and
minimizing the third difference function to select the surface tension of the molten metal fluid.

Assignees

• Univ Nat Central

Inventors

• Chung Chih-Ang
• Lee Ya-Huan
• Chuang Tsung-Han
• Chiang Tsung-Hsuan
• Yen Chih-Shan
• Ho Jeng-Rong
• Jang Jason Shian-Ching

Classifications

• G01N2013/0225

  of liquid metals or solder · CPC title

• G01N11/04

  through a restricted passage, e.g. tube, aperture · CPC title

• G01N2013/0283

  methods of calculating surface tension · CPC title

• G01N9/32

  by using flow properties of fluids, e.g. flow through tubes or apertures · CPC title

• B22D2/008 Primary

  for the viscosity of the molten metal (measuring viscosity in general G01N11/00) · CPC title