Mold cooling device, cast manufacturing system, and cast manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12397343-B2
Application number	US-202318363342-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2023
Priority date	Mar 1, 2021
Publication date	Aug 26, 2025
Grant date	Aug 26, 2025

Abstract

A cooling device (21) includes radiation thermometers (51 to 55), a plurality of nozzle parts, a plurality of electromagnetic valves (V1 to V5), and a control device (60). The radiation thermometers detect pre-cooling temperatures that are temperatures at a plurality of places on the mold before cooling water is sprayed from the plurality of nozzle parts to the mold. The control device individually sets a cooling time to each of the plurality of places on the mold based on a deviation between the pre-cooling temperature at the place on the mold and a target temperature and controls the electromagnetic valves based on the cooling times individually set to the plurality of respective places on the mold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mold cooling device configured to cool a cylindrical mold used for centrifugal casting, the mold cooling device comprising:
a temperature detection unit configured to detect temperatures at a plurality of respective places on the mold;
a plurality of spraying units disposed alongside one another in a direction parallel to a central axis of the mold and configured to spray a cooling medium to the mold;
a plurality of switching units configured to switch spraying states of the cooling medium from the plurality of spraying units; and
a control unit configured to control the plurality of switching units, wherein
the temperature detection unit detects pre-cooling temperatures that are temperatures at the plurality of respective places on the mold before the cooling medium is sprayed from the plurality of spraying units to the mold, and
when a cooling time is a time from a time point at which the cooling medium is sprayed from the spraying units to a time point at which spraying of the cooling medium is stopped, the control unit individually sets the cooling time to each of the plurality of places on the mold based on a deviation between a pre-cooling temperature detected at a place on the mold by the temperature detection unit and a target temperature and controls the plurality of switching units based on cooling times individually set to the plurality of respective places on the mold.

2. The mold cooling device according to claim 1 , further comprising a cooling medium supplying tube that supplies the cooling medium to the plurality of spraying units, wherein
the cooling medium supplying tube includes
a main pipe through which the cooling medium flows, and
a plurality of bifurcation pipes bifurcated from the main pipe and supplying the cooling medium to the plurality of respective spraying units, and

the plurality of switching units are provided at the plurality of respective bifurcation pipes.

3. The mold cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein
the temperature detection unit further detects post-cooling temperatures that are temperatures at the plurality of respective places on the mold after the cooling medium is sprayed from the plurality of spraying units to the mold, and
the control unit sets correction parameters based on a post-cooling temperature detected at the plurality of respective places on the mold by the temperature detection unit and corrects the cooling times individually set to the plurality of respective places on the mold with the correction parameters.

4. The mold cooling device according to claim 3 , wherein
when the post-cooling temperature at a predetermined place among the plurality of places on the mold is higher than a predetermined temperature range determined based on the target temperature, the control unit sets the correction parameters so that the cooling time corresponding to the predetermined place is corrected to be longer, and
when the post-cooling temperature at the predetermined place on the mold is lower than the predetermined temperature range, the control unit sets the correction parameters so that the cooling time corresponding to the predetermined place is corrected to be shorter.

5. A cast manufacturing system configured to manufacture a cylindrical cast by using a centrifugal casting method, the cast manufacturing system comprising:
a cooling device configured to cool the mold;
a lining device configured to apply mold wash to the cooled mold;
a molten metal pouring device configured to pour molten metal into the mold to which the mold wash is applied;
a conveyance device configured to convey the mold; and
a control device configured to control the conveyance device, wherein
the cooling device according to claim 4 is used as the cooling device,
a lower limit temperature threshold value is set as a temperature lower than a lower limit value of the predetermined temperature range, and an upper limit temperature threshold value is set as a temperature higher than an upper limit value of the predetermined temperature range,
when the post-cooling temperature at each of the plurality of places on the mold is equal to or higher than the lower limit temperature threshold value and equal to or lower than the upper limit temperature threshold value, the control device of the conveyance device conveys the mold to the lining device by using the conveyance device, and
when the post-cooling temperature at any of the plurality of places on the mold is lower than the lower limit temperature threshold value or when the post-cooling temperature at any of the plurality of places on the mold is higher than the upper limit temperature threshold value, the control device of the conveyance device detects temperature anomaly of the mold.

6. A cast manufacturing method of manufacturing a cylindrical cast by using a centrifugal casting method, the cast manufacturing method comprising:
a cooling process of cooling a mold;
a lining process of applying mold wash to the cooled mold; and
a molten metal pouring process of pouring molten metal into the mold to which the mold wash is applied, wherein
the cooling process is performed by using the cooling device according to claim 4 ,
a lower limit temperature threshold value is set as a temperature lower than a lower limit value of the predetermined temperature range, and an upper limit temperature threshold value is set as a temperature higher than an upper limit value of the predetermined temperature range, and
processes performed after the cooling process is completed include;
a conveyance process of conveying the mold to the lining process when the post-cooling temperature each of the plurality of places on the mold is equal to or higher than the lower limit temperature threshold value and equal to or lower than the upper limit temperature threshold value, and
an anomaly detection process of detecting temperature anomaly of the mold when the post-cooling temperature at any of the plurality of places on the mold is lower than the lower limit temperature threshold value or when the post-cooling temperature at any of the plurality of places on the mold is higher than the upper limit temperature threshold value.

Assignees

• Tpr Co Ltd
• Tpr Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Aizawa Hideki
• Igarashi Atsushi

Classifications

• B22D13/12 Primary

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

• B22D30/00

  Cooling castings, not restricted to casting processes covered by a single main group (accessories for cooling cast stock in continuous casting of metals B22D11/124; controlling or regulating processes or operations for cooling cast stock or mould in continuous casting of metals B22D11/22; chill casting B22D15/00) · CPC title

• B22D13/105 Primary

  Cooling for moulds or cores · CPC title

• B22D13/10

  Accessories for centrifugal casting apparatus, e.g. moulds, linings therefor, means for feeding molten metal, cleansing moulds, removing castings (making or lining moulds B22C) · CPC title

• B22C9/06

  Permanent moulds for shaped castings (moulds for ingots B22D7/06) · CPC title