Hot isostatic pressing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9561633-B2
Application number	US-201414888568-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 10, 2014
Priority date	Jul 12, 2013
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a hot isostatic pressing device (HIP) ( 1 ) that enables prompt cooling in a processing chamber. The HIP device ( 1 ) is provided with the following: gas impermeable casings ( 3, 4 ); a heating unit ( 7 ); a high-pressure container ( 2 ); a heat accumulator ( 43 ) provided below a processing chamber; and a cooling promotion flow path ( 44 ). The casings ( 3, 4 ) are disposed so as to form the following: a first circulation flow ( 41 ) in which a pressure medium gas passes through an inner flow path ( 22 ) and an outer flow path ( 12 ) and then returns to the inner flow path ( 22 ); and a second circulation flow ( 42 ) in which the pressure medium gas which has branched off from the first circulation flow ( 41 ) performs heat exchange with an object-of-processing (W) in the processing chamber and then is fed back to the first circulation flow ( 41 ). In the cooling promotion flow path ( 44 ), the pressure medium gas that is in the second circulation flow ( 42 ) and that has performed heat exchange with the object-of-processing (W) is guided to the heat accumulator ( 43 ) and cooled by the heat accumulator ( 43 ) before the pressure medium gas merges with the first circulation flow ( 41 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hot isostatic pressing device which includes a processing chamber to perform isostatic pressing processing to a workpiece by using pressure medium gas in the processing chamber, the hot isostatic pressing device comprising:
a gas impermeable casing arranged to surround the workpiece;
a heating unit provided inside the casing to form the processing chamber around the workpiece;
a high-pressure container housing the heating unit and the casing;
a heat accumulator provided below the processing chamber, the heat accumulator being thermally exchanged with the pressure medium gas to promote cooling of the pressure medium gas; and
a cooling promotion flow path formed in the casing,
wherein the casing is arranged to form a first circulation flow in which the pressure medium gas passes upward through an inner flow path in the casing, passes downward through an outer flow path between an inner circumferential surface of the high-pressure container and an outer circumferential surface of the casing, and then returns to the inner flow path and to form a second circulation flow in which the pressure medium gas that has diverged from the first circulation flow is thermally exchanged with the workpiece inside the processing chamber in the casing and then returns to the first circulation flow, and
wherein before the pressure medium gas of the second circulation flow thermally exchanged with the workpiece joins the pressure medium gas of the first circulation flow, the cooling promotion flow path guides the pressure medium gas of the second circulation flow to the heat accumulator to allow the pressure medium gas of the second circulation flow to be cooled by the heat accumulator.

2. The hot isostatic pressing device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat accumulator includes a porous structure internally provided with multiple pores.

3. The hot isostatic pressing device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat accumulator includes a multilayer structure having a plurality of metallic plates which are arranged to be spaced from one another.

4. The hot isostatic pressing device according to claim 1 , wherein the casing is configured to allow the pressure medium gas forming the first circulation flow and the pressure medium gas forming the second circulation flow to unite at a lower end of the inner flow path, the lower end being located below the processing chamber,
wherein the heat accumulator is provided in a vertical position between the processing chamber and the lower end of the inner flow path, and
wherein the pressure medium gas that has diverged from the second circulation flow is guided by the cooling promotion flow path to pass downward relative to the heat accumulator.

Assignees

• Kobe Steel Ltd

Inventors

• Nakai Tomomitsu
• Watanabe Katsumi
• Yoneda Makoto

Classifications

• F27B17/0083

  with means for circulating the atmosphere · CPC title

• F27D7/04

  Circulating atmospheres by mechanical means · CPC title

• F27B17/00

  Furnaces of a kind not covered by any of groups F27B1/00 - F27B15/00 (structural combinations of furnaces F27B19/02) · CPC title

• B30B11/002 Primary

  Isostatic press chambers; Press stands therefor · CPC title

• F27D9/00

  Cooling of furnaces or of charges therein (casings, linings, walls or roofs incorporating cooling arrangements F27D1/12) · CPC title