Patents Assigned to Specialty Metals Processing Consortium
  • Apparatus to control the total energy flux into the top ingot surface during vacuum arc remelting processes
    Patent number: 10422584
    Abstract: A Vacuum Arc Remelting controller apparatus wherein process control is accomplished primarily through control of pool power. Pool power being defined as the total energy flux into a top ingot surface of the VAR ingot. The controller apparatus of the present invention comprises a controller computer that transmits commands to the host furnace through an ethernet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Specialty Metals Processing Consortium
    Inventors: Rodney L. Williamson, David K. Melgaard, Joseph J. Beaman