Closed-loop control method and system for mold temperature in wheel casting process

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11980933-B2
Application number	US-202318198020-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2023
Priority date	Oct 10, 2022
Publication date	May 14, 2024
Grant date	May 14, 2024

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of aluminum wheel casting molds, and more particularly relates to a closed-loop control method and system for a mold temperature in a wheel casting process. The control method includes: step 1, acquiring data, that is, acquiring a plurality of mold position temperatures, and cooling pipeline opening and closing signals in a target wheel casting process according to a fixed frequency; step 2, storing, based on acquired mold opening and closing signals of casting equipment, the acquired data in a database in the form of a unique ID according to a single wheel casting process; step 3, calculating new process parameters based on the acquired plurality of position temperatures and time; and step 4, integrating the calculated process parameters, and issuing the process parameters to a PLC of a casting equipment to perform new casting. According to the invention, the temperature control parameters are calculated based on the acquired temperature data and time process to form the temperature control process of the casting process, which solves the technical problem of significant fluctuations in the quality of the low-pressure casting process of aluminum wheels and improves casting stability and yield.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A closed-loop control method for a mold temperature in a wheel casting process, comprising:
step 1, acquiring data including a plurality of mold position temperatures, and cooling pipeline opening and closing signals in the wheel casting process according to a fixed frequency;
step 2, storing, based on acquired mold opening and closing signals of casting equipment, the acquired data in a database in the form of a unique ID according to a single wheel casting process;
step 3, calculating new process parameters by a host computer system based on the acquired plurality of position temperatures and time; and
step 4, integrating the calculated new process parameters, and issuing the process parameters to a PLC of a casting equipment to perform new casting.

2. The closed-loop control method for the mold temperature in the wheel casting process according to claim 1 , characterized in that the plurality of mold position temperatures are acquired by thermocouples, placement positions of the thermocouples include a flange position of a top mold, a spoke middle position, a riser position of a bottom mold, a spoke-to-felloe transition position, an outer rim position of a side mold, and an inner rim position of the side mold; and one thermocouple is disposed at each position.

3. The closed-loop control method for the mold temperature in the wheel casting process according to claim 2 , characterized in that the step 3 comprises:
in a first step, splitting temperature data acquired by each of the thermocouples of a wheel according to a mold closing time and a mold opening time;
in a second step, allowing each thermocouple to correspond to a to-be-controlled cooling pipeline;
in a third step, calculating an average value of the temperatures of the thermocouple corresponding to an on and an off time of cooling of a selected cooling pipeline according to a time process, wherein the average value serves as a control parameter for the on and off of cooling in a temperature process; and
in a fourth step, calculating, according to the method of the third step, a temperature control parameter for the on and off of cooling, and a mold opening temperature, to finally form the temperature process.

4. The closed-loop control method for the mold temperature in the wheel casting process according to claim 3 , characterized in that each of the thermocouples is connected to a temperature acquisition module of a PLC of the casting equipment.

5. A closed-loop control system for a mold temperature in a wheel casting process, configured to employ the closed-loop control method for the mold temperature in the wheel casting process of claim 1 , and comprising:
a communication acquisition module, communicating with a PLC of casting equipment via industrial Ethernet;
a storage module, configured to store data acquired by the communication acquisition module; and
a processing module, configured to process data within the storage module; wherein
the communication acquisition module configured to acquire a plurality of mold position temperatures, cooling pipeline opening and closing signals, mold opening and closing signals of the casting equipment, and a casting process according to a fixed frequency, and records time, wherein the plurality of mold position temperatures comprise temperatures at a plurality of key hot spot positions or cold spot positions of a top mold, a bottom mold, and a side mold.

6. The closed-loop control system for the mold temperature in the wheel casting process according to claim 5 , characterized in that the storage module is configured to store the acquired data in a database in the form of a unique ID on the basis of the wheel casting process according to the acquired mold opening and closing signals of the casting equipment in order to search all data in the single wheel casting process.

7. The closed-loop control system for the mold temperature in the wheel casting process according to claim 6 , wherein the processing module calculates temperature control parameters based on the acquired temperature and time data, to form a temperature control process for control of the casting process.

Assignees

• Citic Dicastal Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xu Zuo
• Wang Ji
• Guo Shiwei
• Xu Shiwen
• Li Shide
• Li Xi
• Li Yiming
• Li Yangfan
• Wang Ning
• Dong Guojiang
• Bi Jiang

Classifications

• B22D21/04

  Casting aluminium or magnesium {(no material; see B22D21/007)} · CPC title

• B22D2/006

  for the temperature of the molten metal (measuring temperature in general G01K) · CPC title

• B22D17/32 Primary

  Controlling equipment · CPC title

• B22D18/08 Primary

  Controlling, supervising, e.g. for safety reasons (controlling or regulating in general G05) · CPC title

• B22D18/04

  Low pressure casting, i.e. making use of pressures up to a few bars to fill the mould · CPC title