CASTING FURNACE FOR SOLIDIFICATION RESTRUCTURING (FSR)

    公开(公告)号:US20240316626A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18610230

    申请日:2024-03-19

    申请人: Rajeev Naik

    发明人: Rajeev Naik

    IPC分类号: B22D45/00 B22D27/04

    CPC分类号: B22D45/00 B22D27/045

    摘要: A casting furnace for manufacture of metal and/or ceramic components at high production rate is disclosed. The casting furnace comprises a melting chamber, a dual zone mold heating chamber and a dual zone mold cooling chamber. The melting chamber provides a source of molten alloy or ceramics with adequate superheat. The dual zone mold heating chamber includes an independently controlled primary heating zone and the secondary heating zone. The primary heating zone raises the mold temperature adequately to impart high gradient solidification conditions. The secondary heating zone assists the primary heating zone to minimize overheating of the majority of the mold. The dual zone mold cooling chamber comprises a primary cooling chamber and a secondary cooling chamber. The primary cooling chamber speeds up solidification in order to prevent defect formation and refine microstructure. The secondary cooling chamber slows down the cooling of castings to reduce residual stresses build up and minimize elemental segregation through augmenting solid-state diffusion of lower melting elements.

    Casting shell with grain selector support

    公开(公告)号:US12076784B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US18371732

    申请日:2023-09-22

    申请人: RTX Corporation

    IPC分类号: B22D27/04 B22C9/06

    CPC分类号: B22D27/045 B22C9/065

    摘要: A casting shell has: a part cavity shaped for casting the part; a starter/selector cavity below and connected to the part cavity; a connector cavity between the starter/selector cavity and the part cavity; and a support cavity. The support cavity has: a post section; a first linking section linking the post section to the starter section of the starter/selector cavity; and a second linking section linking the post section to the connector cavity, the second linking section having a portion descending from the post section toward the connector cavity.

    Supergravity directional solidification melting furnace equipment

    公开(公告)号:US11951540B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-09

    申请号:US17606455

    申请日:2020-02-27

    IPC分类号: B22D27/04 B22D46/00 H05B3/03

    CPC分类号: B22D27/045 B22D46/00 H05B3/03

    摘要: Provided is a supergravity directional solidification melting furnace equipment, including a supergravity test chamber and, mounted in the supergravity test chamber, a high-temperature heating subsystem, a crucible, and an air-cooling system. The supergravity test chamber is mounted with a wiring electrode and a cooling air valve device. The high-temperature heating subsystem is fixed in the supergravity test chamber. The crucible and the air cooling system are provided in the high-temperature heating subsystem. The high-temperature heating subsystem includes upper, middle, and lower furnaces, a mullite insulating layer, upper and lower heating cavity outer bodies, upper and lower heating furnace pipes, and a crucible support base. A high-temperature heating cavity is divided into upper and lower parts, is provided therein with a spiral groove, and is fitted with a heating element. The crucible support base is provided therein with a vent pipe channel into which a cooling air is introduced. The crucible and the air cooling system include air inlet and exhaust pipes, a cooling base, a cooling rate adjustment ring, the crucible, and an exhaust cover.

    Arcuate Seed Casting Method
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240075522A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18387200

    申请日:2023-11-06

    申请人: RTX Corporation

    IPC分类号: B22D27/04 B22D21/02 C30B11/14

    摘要: A casting method includes: forming a seed, the seed having a first end and a second end, the forming including bending a seed precursor; placing the seed second end in contact or spaced facing relation with a chill plate; contacting the first end with molten material; and cooling and solidifying the molten material so that a crystalline structure of the seed propagates into the solidifying material. The forming further included reducing a thickness of the seed proximate the first end relative to a thickness of the seed proximate the second end.

    UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION DEVICE, UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION METHOD, UNIDIRECTIONALLY SOLIDIFIED CASTING, AND UNIDIRECTIONALLY SOLIDIFIED INGOT

    公开(公告)号:US20240051018A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18277800

    申请日:2022-02-03

    申请人: EBIS CORPORATION

    发明人: Yoshio EBISU

    IPC分类号: B22D27/04 B22D27/02 B22D27/00

    摘要: This invention is concerned with the production of directionally solidified castings or ingots to eliminate casting defects such as macrosegregation and misoriented grain defects that occur in the blades for jet engines and industrial gas turbines. The mechanism of the occurrence of the above casting defects was clarified by the computer simulation system developed by this inventor, and it was found that, by strongly cooling the solid phase region and applying an axial static magnetic field, the heat pulses at the solidification interface due to convection of the liquid phase can be suppressed, and harmful lateral liquid flow in the solid-liquid coexisting phase can be suppressed by the synergistic effect of these two measures. This eliminates casting defects such as macrosegregation and misoriented grain defects, also refines the microstructure to produce high-quality products with excellent mechanical properties (creep strength). Regarding the strength of the static magnetic field, it was found that there is a range where the macrosegregation becomes minimum in a relatively low magnetic field range. This makes it possible to keep the required magnetic strength low, which significantly reduces the price of expensive superconducting coils. In addition, productivity can be improved by increasing the withdrawal speed.