Method for manufacturing high strength flake graphite cast iron for an engine body and flake graphite cast iron for an engine body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9708694-B2
Application number	US-201214368184-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2012
Priority date	Dec 23, 2011
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a flake graphite cast iron simultaneously having high strength, good machinability, and fluidity, to a method for manufacturing same, and to an engine body comprising the flake graphite cast iron for an internal combustion engine and, more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a flake graphite cast iron, for an engine cylinder block and head having improved castability, a low possibility of the occurrence of chill due to ferroalloy, stable tensile strength and yield strength, and good machinability by adding a trace of strontium in a cast iron including carbon (C), silicon (Si), manganese (Mn), sulfur (S), and phosphorus (P), which are five elements of the cast iron, molybdenum (Mo), a high strengthening additive, and copper (Cu) while controlling the ratio (S/Sr) of the sulfur (S) content to the strontium (Sr) content in the cast ion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a high-strength flake graphite cast iron for an engine body, the method comprising:
(i) manufacturing molten cast iron that consists of 3.2 to 3.5% of carbon (C), 1.9 to 2.3% of silicon (Si), 0.62 to 0.9% of manganese (Mn), 0.06 to 0.1% of sulfur (S), 0.06% or less of phosphorous (P), 0.6 to 0.8% of copper (Cu), 0.15 to 0.25% of molybdenum (Mo), and a remainder of iron (Fe) and other unavoidable impurities with respect to a total weight %;
(ii) adding 0.001 to 0.005% of strontium (Sr) to the melted molten cast iron based on a total weight of the molten cast iron, wherein a ratio (S/Sr) of the content of the sulfur (S) to the content of the strontium (Sr) is adjusted into a range of 16 to 98; and
(iii) tapping the molten cast iron in a ladle to put the tapped molten cast iron in a casting mold, wherein a chill depth of a wedge test piece manufactured using the flake graphite cast iron is 3 mm or less.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the molten cast iron of the step (i) is manufactured by adding 0.6 to 0.8% of copper (Cu) and 0.15 to 0.25% of molybdenum (Mo) to molten cast iron manufactured by melting a cast iron material that consists of 3.2 to 3.5% of carbon (C), 1.9 to 2.3% of silicon (Si), 0.62 to 0.9% of manganese (Mn), 0.06 to 0.1% of sulfur (S), 0.06% or less of phosphorous (P), and a remainder of iron (Fe) and other unavoidable impurities with respect to a total weight % in a blast furnace.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein Fe-Si-based inoculant is added in the step (iii) of tapping the molten cast iron in the ladle.

4. A flake graphite cast iron for an engine body which consists of 3.2 to 3.5% of carbon (C), 1.9 to 2.3% of silicon (Si), 0.62 to 0.9% of manganese (Mn), 0.06 to 0.1% of sulfur (S), 0.06% or less of phosphorous (P), 0.6 to 0.8% of copper (Cu), 0.15 to 0.25% of molybdenum (Mo), 0.001 to 0.005% of strontium (Sr), and a remainder of iron (Fe) and other unavoidable impurities that satisfies 100% with respect to a total weight %, and simultaneously satisfies a chemical composition wherein a ratio (S/Sr) of the content of the sulfur (S) to the content of the strontium (Sr) is in a range of 16 to 98, wherein a chill depth of a wedge test piece is 3 mm or less.

5. The flake graphite cast iron of claim 4 , wherein tensile strength is 300 to 350 MPa.

6. The flake graphite cast iron of claim 4 , wherein a Brinell hardness value (BHW) is 200 to 230.

7. The flake graphite cast iron of claim 4 , wherein a length of a spiral of a fluidity test piece is 730 mm or more.

8. The flake graphite cast iron of claim 4 , wherein carbon equivalent (CE) is in a range of 3.80 to 4.27.

9. An engine body for an internal combustion engine which includes an engine cylinder block or an engine cylinder head which is made of the flake graphite cast iron of claim 4 , or both of the engine cylinder block and the engine cylinder head.

10. The engine body for an internal combustion engine of claim 9 ,
wherein the engine cylinder block or the engine cylinder head has a thin walled part having a cross-section thickness of 5 mm or less and a thick walled part having a cross-section thickness of more than 5 mm, and
a graphite type of the thin walled part is a A+B type.

Assignees

• Doosan Infracore Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jung Ki Hwan
• Shim Dong Seob
• Yang Sik
• Hwang Jae Hyoung

Classifications

• C22C33/04

  by melting · CPC title

• F02F7/0024

  Casings for larger engines · CPC title

• B22D25/02

  by its peculiarity of shape; of works of art {(cylinders, pistons B22D15/02)} · CPC title

• C22C37/10

  containing aluminium or silicon · CPC title

• F02F7/0021

  Construction · CPC title