| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 164154100 | CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OR ACTUATED BY MEANS SENSING OR MEASURING A CONDITION OR VARIABLE (I.E., AUTOMATIC CONTROL) | 18 |
| 20090145572 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOLTEN METAL BATH BUBBLING IN A METALLURGICAL VESSEL AND A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD - A device for control of bubbling of a metal bath in a ladle or in another similar metallurgical vessel including a bottom injector linked to a source of supply of pressurized stirring gas to be injected with aid of a pipe provided with a facility for adjusting flow rate, at least one vibration sensor mounted on the vessel itself or on a support frame, a signal processing unit processing a vibratory signal gathered by the sensor, and wherein the signal processing unit includes at least, and in successive order of processing of the vibratory signal, a high-pass analog filter, a digitizer, a digital filter calibrated on vibratory responses of the ladle, and a computer for computing a sliding temporal quadratic mean of RMS type. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20110253336 | APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS STRIP CASTING - An apparatus for continuously casting thin strip includes a caster having a pair of casting rolls having a nip there between capable of delivering cast strip downwardly from the nip and an first enclosure capable of forming a protective atmosphere into which the strip can be formed in loop to extend over a plurality of rollers into pinch rolls with the strip having a strain of less than 0.4%, which may be provided by a plurality of rollers at entry of the strip into the pinch rolls to carry the strip into the pinch rolls, with at least a first entry roller having a diameter between 200 and 650 millimeters and being below a majority of other rollers. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120067539 | Method and Apparatus for Manipulating Investment Casting Mold Handlers - An investment casting system includes a computer controlled mold transfer device movable between at least three stations, including a mold receiving station. A mold transfer station includes a mold suspended from a first horizontally extending arm of the mold transfer device engaging an intermediate transfer device to transfer the mold to the intermediate transfer device. A storage station has a storage rack receiving the mold following a material coating phase. A robot in communication with the intermediate transfer device is programmed to position the mold in any of multiple material coating stations during the material coating phase. The mold is accessible for removal from the system at any stage of completion by direction of a computer control system. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20140060770 | Robotic Storage and Retrieval Systems and Methods - A system for storage and retrieval of items includes a shelving rack configured to store the items. The shelving rack has a plurality of vertical levels. The system includes at least one robotic carriage operable to move horizontally. The robotic carriage includes an extendable arm that extends horizontally and vertically to lift the items from an input slot and to carry and place the items on the shelving rack. The robotic carriage is also operable to lift the items from the shelving rack and to carry and place the items on a workstation. The workstation is positioned in close proximity to the shelving rack. By locating the workstation in close proximity to the shelving rack, the items may be transferred from the shelving rack to the workstation without requiring conveyors and ram drives. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20180023169 | PRODUCTION LINE FOR PRODUCING NATIONAL-STANDARD MAGNESIUM ALLOY INGOTS ON THE BASIS OF MAGNESIUM ALLOY WASTE MATERIAL | 01-25-2018 |
| 164155100 | Control of feed material enroute to shaping area | 2 |
| 164155200 | Responsive to material level | 1 |
| 164449100 | In continuous casting apparatus | 1 |
| 20190143402 | METAL LEVEL OVERSHOOT OR UNDERSHOOT MITIGATION AT TRANSITION OF FLOW RATE DEMAND | 05-16-2019 |
| 164155600 | Responsive to thermal condition | 1 |
| 20140262112 | CENTRIFUGAL CASTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for centrifugal casting, in which transfer functions are developed relating the fluidity of molten metal, for example iron of varying composition, to casting machine movement for a particular mold in order to cast objects, for example pipe, having desired and uniform characteristics, including wall thickness. Fluidity is calculated for each pour of molten metal based on the measured pour temperature and measured liquidus arrest temperature. A drive system controlled by a programmable logic controller moves the casting machine in accordance with the output of the transfer functions based on the calculated fluidity. | 09-18-2014 |
| 164413000 | Control of product withdrawal means in continuous casting apparatus | 3 |
| 20090314455 | STRAND GUIDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GUIDING A METAL STRIP - The invention relates to a strand guiding device and a method for guiding a metal strip, in particular a metal strip that has not yet solidified right through, in a continuous casting installation. Known strand guiding devices comprise a segment frame and at least one pair of opposing guiding rollers, between which the metal strip is guided. At least one of the guiding rollers takes the form of at least two part-rollers | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100132908 | POSITION-CONTROLLED OR PRESSURE-CONTROLLED DEVICE FOR THE HYDRAULIC POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS - A device for the hydraulic positioning of structural component parts, in particular rollers of strand guide segments of a continuous casting installation, with hydraulic cylinders, each of which is divided into a cylinder space and an annular cylinder space by a piston having a piston rod. The cylinder spaces can be connected to a pressure source by control members. Hydraulic connection lines are reduced or components used are reduced. Either the annular cylinder space is acted upon by a pressure which is adjustable but which then remains constant, while the pressure applied to the piston in the cylinder space is position-controlled or pressure-controlled, or the cylinder space is acted upon by a pressure which is adjustable but which then remains constant, while the pressure applied to the piston in the annular cylinder space is position-controlled or pressure-controlled. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20120152486 | CAST STRIP WITHDRAWING APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS CASTING FACILITY - A cast strip withdrawing apparatus includes a plurality of pairs of rolls, and retains and withdraws a dummy bar via a fixed-side roll and pressure-side roll, which face each other, of each of these pairs of rolls. Each of the pressure-side rolls includes a fluid pressure cylinder imparting a dummy bar retaining pressure. A source pressure side fluid line supplying fluid pressure to these fluid pressure cylinders includes: a first pressure-reduction unit, a pressure drop detection unit, a line isolating unit installed on a source pressure side of the pressure drop detection unit, and a bypass unit. | 06-21-2012 |
| 164154200 | Responsive to position or spatial dimension | 3 |
| 20120285650 | FLASKLESS MOLDING EQUIPMENT FOR MOLDING A MOLD - This invention relates to flaskless molding equipment for molding a mold that provides support for quickly restoring the stopped equipment to a normal operation. The control circuit (sequencer | 11-15-2012 |
| 164154500 | Continuous casting | 2 |
| 20110155342 | STRAND GUIDING APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS CASTING EQUIPMENT - A strand guiding apparatus includes a plurality of pairs of rollers arranged along a moving direction of a strand, a plurality of drive motors for generating driving forces to drive the pairs of rollers, a plurality of worm reducers for transmitting the driving forces of the drive motors to the pairs of rollers while reducing the rotational speed of the drive motors, each worm reducer having a worm extending in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the corresponding roller, and operable to transmit a load occurring at the roller to the corresponding drive motor, and a control unit for controlling the respective rotational speeds of the rollers and/or the respective driving forces of the drive motors based on the load to the drive motors. The reliable control for drive rollers can be attained to have a proper rotational speed without causing a reduction in surface quality and chatter in a strand guiding apparatus for continuous casting equipment using worm reducers. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120285651 | STRIP CASTING APPARATUS WITH INDEPENDENT DELIVERY NOZZLE AND SIDE DAM ACTUATORS - An apparatus for casting metal strip includes a pair of counter-rotatable casting rolls having casting surfaces laterally positioned to form a nip therebetween through which cast strip can be cast, and on which a casting pool of molten metal can be formed supported on the casting surfaces above the nip, a pair of molten metal delivery nozzles disposed above the nip and capable of discharging molten metal to form the casting pool supported on the casting rolls, a pair of side dams adjacent ends of the pair of casting rolls capable of confining the casting pool, a pair of delivery nozzle actuators capable of positioning the delivery nozzles independently of the side dams and a pair of side dam actuators capable of positioning the side dams independently of the delivery nozzles during casting, and a control system capable of controlling desired distance between the delivery nozzles and the side dams. | 11-15-2012 |
| 164154600 | Responsive to thermal condition | 4 |
| 20080289791 | Feed Back Unit, Feed System and Control Device for a Pressure Die-Casting Machine - A feed block unit for a hot-runner feed system of a pressure die-casting machine includes a block body in which is incorporated at least one melt-conveying channel running out of the block body by way of a sprue orifice close to the gate, and a heating system, integrated into the block body, for the at least one melt-conveying channel. The feed block unit is designed as a structural unit which is insertable independently into a respective casting mould, and/or the heating system integrated therein includes at least a first heating device for supply channel heating and a second heating device, which can be controlled independently of the first heating device, for sprue channel heating. With this modular hot-runner feed system, individual temperature profiles can be predetermined and set for the respective feed block unit. A control device authorizes a mould-filling operating to take place dependent on whether temperatures detected in the hot-runner feed system lie within predeterminable setpoint temperature ranges. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20100012287 | APPARATUS FOR CAST-PRODUCT PRODUCTION LINE - To provide an apparatus for cast-product production line that can separate cast product and casting sand without ever using a jumbolized casting-mold disassembling device, and additionally that can intend the downsizing of mold-disassembling unit. An apparatus for cast-product production line has the following jointly: a kneader | 01-21-2010 |
| 20120145352 | Feed Block Unit, Feed System and Control Device for a Pressure Die-Casting Machine - A feed block unit for a hot-runner feed system of a pressure die-casting machine includes a block body in which is incorporated at least one melt-conveying channel running out of the block body by way of a sprue orifice close to the gate, and a heating system, integrated into the block body, for the at least one melt-conveying channel. The feed block unit is designed as a structural unit which is insertable independently into a respective casting mould, and/or the heating system integrated therein includes at least a first heating device for supply channel heating and a second heating device, which can be controlled independently of the first heating device, for sprue channel heating. With this modular hot-runner feed system, individual temperature profiles can be predetermined and set for the respective feed block unit. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20150343530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING CASTINGS - A control system for a casting process includes a sensor positioned to monitor a property of a cast product during the casting process and provide a corresponding sensing signal. The control system also includes a processing circuit configured to generate a real-time model of the cast product based on the corresponding sensing signal and determine a control variable using the real-time model of the cast product. The control variable relates to a real-time modification of the cast product. | 12-03-2015 |
| 164154800 | Responsive to pressure | 1 |
| 20130255902 | QUALITY MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND DIE-CAST MOLDING MACHINE - A quality management device and a die-cast molding machine capable of suitably inspecting quality in relation to the amount of blowholes of a die-cast product which is cast according to a PF die casting method are provided. A quality management device | 10-03-2013 |
