Abstract: A die casting system including a first die having a first cavity-forming surface, a second die having a second cavity-forming surface and is configured to move with respect to the first die along a first axis, and one or more sliding dies that each have a third cavity-forming surface configured to move with respect to and engage with the first die and the second die. The die casting system further including one or more auxiliary die elements removably coupled to the second die and each having a fourth cavity-forming surface. The one or more auxiliary die elements each extending from the second die in a direction perpendicular to the first axis. The die casting system further including a die cavity for forming a metal part between the first, second, third, and fourth cavity-forming surfaces.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a module case having a predetermined accommodation space; a plurality of battery cells accommodated in the module case; a plurality of bus bar members provided at an upper side of the plurality of battery cells to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells; a support plate disposed between the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of bus bar members to support the plurality of bus bar members; and a foam member filled in a space between the plurality of battery cells at a bottom portion of the support plate.

Abstract: A method for firing a ceramic core includes: placing the core in a setter, the setter having a plurality of protruding setter posts between second legs of the core and with distal ends supporting first legs of the core; and firing the core in the setter to harden the core. During the firing, the setter posts maintain a predetermined minimum separation between the first legs and the second legs.

Abstract: Continuous casting apparatus, comprising a mold and a crystallizer for the continuous casting of a metal product. The mold is provided with primary cooling means using a cooling fluid and associated with the walls of the crystallizer. A plurality of cooling members is installed downstream of the mold to perform a secondary cooling of the product, said cooling members comprising a plurality of delivery nozzles configured to deliver a liquid for cooling the product.

Abstract: A data mining-based method for real-time production quality prediction of aluminum alloy casting, includes: (1) based on mold flow analysis results, installing sensors on a casting mold; wherein the sensors include at least one temperature sensor, at least one pressure sensor, at least one contact sensor, and a multi-functional gas sensor; (2) during casting production, real-time collecting temperatures, pressures, and contact times of the aluminum liquid at a plurality of locations of the casting mold, and pressure, composition, humidity, and temperature of gas in a mold cavity, by the installed sensors, for constructing an aluminum alloy casting process parameter set; and (3) inputting the process parameter set to a production quality prediction model; wherein the production quality prediction model is used to judge whether the production quality is qualified, which is obtained by mining a relationship between history casting process parameters and casting quality data.

Abstract: This nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a non-aqueous electrolyte and an electrode assembly formed by layering a positive electrode and a negative electrode layered via a separator. The positive electrode has a positive electrode core and a positive electrode mix layer containing a positive electrode active substance. The median diameter (D50) of the positive electrode active substance in terms of volume is 5.0 to 7.0 ?m, the BET specific surface area of the positive electrode active substance is 2.00 to 3.00 m2/g, the TAP density of the positive electrode active substance is 1.30 to 1.70 g/cm3, and the density of the positive electrode mix layer is 2.3 to 2.5 g/cm3.

Abstract: A cutting position control device according to an embodiment includes an arithmetic processing circuit that receives an input of first data relating to a production schedule and material information of a material to be produced, uses the first data to calculate a first cutting position of a first cutter for a first slab cast by continuous casting equipment, generates a first parameter for setting the first cutting position for a control program introduced to a process control device, and determines whether or not to use a second cutter to further cut a second slab of a second length cut from the first slab based on the first parameter by comparing the second length and a first length set to be from a front end of the first slab to the first cutting position, wherein the second cutter is located downstream of the first cutter.

Abstract: A measuring device according to one aspect is used to measure a loss on ignition of foundry sand. This measuring device includes a container configured to accommodate foundry sand, the container having a discharge port for discharging the foundry sand to a discharge position, a heating device configured to heat the foundry sand in the container, a conveying device configured to convey the foundry sand discharged from the discharge port from the discharge position to a measurement position, a balance configured to measure the weight of the foundry sand disposed at the measurement position, and a furnace configured to heat the foundry sand.

Abstract: A scum adsorbing member provided in a twin roll continuous casting device to produce a slab by supplying a molten metal to a molten metal storage section formed by a pair of rotatable cooling rolls and a pair of side weirs, and forming and growing a solidified shell on each circumferential surface of the pair of cooling rolls, so that a part of the scum adsorbing member is immersed in the molten metal storage section includes a refractory containing a refractory metal oxide, wherein the scum adsorbing member has 15% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less of pores.

Abstract: A method of optimizing strength in an improved mold for a cast component. The method may include the steps of evaluating a flaw in an existing mold, adding external reinforcement features to a design of the improved mold, manufacturing the improved mold in an additive manufacturing process, and casting the cast component in the improved mold.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a golf club head with one or more stiffening members proximate the face, and particularly solid rods or a plate with one or more cutouts, is disclosed herein. One method includes the steps of preparing a wax mold of a golf club head including a plate stiffening member with excess material, casting the golf club head, and machining away the excess material. Another method includes the steps of casting a golf club body, providing a plate stiffening member, providing a face component such as a face cup, tack welding the plate stiffening member and the face component to the golf club body, and welding these parts together.

Abstract: An assembly for producing a molding, made of removable material, of a turbomachine blade, includes an injection mold for the removable material in which a first core element and a second core element are mounted in a predetermined molding position, wherein the first and second core elements extend in a first direction. The mold includes a first face for molding a pressure-side face of the blade and a second face for molding a suction-side face of the blade and arranged facing the first face in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Retaining members hold the cores in position in the injection mold.

Abstract: A process for casting castings in which a casting mold is provided, the casting mold is enclosed in a housing, forming a filling space between at least one inner surface section of the housing and an associated outer surface section of the casting mold, the filling space is filled with a pourable filling material having a bulk density that allows gas to flow through the filling material after the filling of the filling space, and a metal melt is poured into the casting mold. The casting mold radiates heat as a result of the heat input caused by the metal melt, and as a result of the heat input caused by the metal melt, the binder begins to evaporate and burn, no longer binding the molding material, and the casting mold disintegrates into fragments. The filling material has a temperature of less than 100° C. when filled into the filling space.

Abstract: A casting core assembly has: a first ceramic piece including a projecting post; a second ceramic piece including a socket; and a ceramic filler material between the post and the socket. In transverse section at at least one location one of the post and socket has a configuration of: three circumferentially offset radial peaks of a peak radius (RPMAX, RSMAX); and three radial troughs of a trough radius (RPMIN, RSMIN) not more than 98.0% of the peak radius.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing graphene aluminum casting where special sand boxes are used together with vacuum evacuation to harden dry sand between two pieces of EVA film, thereby producing an upper mold box and a lower mold box for aluminum casting. The molten aluminum used to cast a graphene aluminum casting is evenly mixed with graphene powder, so there is a certain proportion of graphene inside the graphene aluminum casting. And because there is a thin layer of graphene powder on the surface of one of the EVA films, these graphene powder will adhere to the surface of the graphene aluminum casting without falling off.

Abstract: What is described is a process for producing an article for use in the foundry industry selected from molds, cores, feeder elements and molding material mixtures, and includes the following steps: (S1) producing or providing a binder system with the following components in three spatially separate vessels: a component (A) particulate amorphous silicon dioxide, a first liquid component (B) waterglass, and a second liquid component (C) aluminate ions dissolved in an aqueous phase, (S2) contacting a mold base material (D) and constituents of all the components (A), (B) and (C) of the binder system in predetermined ratios in one or more steps, so as to result in a molding material mixture in which the aluminate ions and the particulate amorphous silicon dioxide are mixed wholly or partly into the waterglass, wherein steps (S1) and (S2) are conducted in a facility for producing molding material mixtures. Also described are a corresponding molding material mixture and apparatuses and uses.

Abstract: A casting roller or belt for a revolving chill mould of a strip casting system is provided for the manufacture of an aluminium alloy strip. The strip casting system for manufacturing the aluminium alloy strip includes at least one such revolving chill mould with a casting gap. In the casting roller or belt of the strip casting system, adhesion to the casting roller or belt is avoided during strip casting, and a low-segregation and crack-free aluminium alloy strip can be produced under industrial conditions. This is achieved by utilizing a specific surface structure of the casting roller or belt in which a roughness value Sa is more than 5 ?m and an average peak count RPc (0.5 ?m) is less than 42 cm?1.

Abstract: A hybrid core driving device of an embodiment includes: a cylinder tube; a first cover member at one end of the cylinder tube; a second cover member at the other end thereof; a rod in the cylinder tube, having a connecting portion at one end to be connectable to a core and an annular flange on the side of the second cover member, and penetrating the first cover member; a nut fixed to the rod; a screw shaft penetrating the second cover member and the nut and provided to be insertable into the rod; a motor rotating the screw shaft; a piston in the cylinder tube, allowing the rod to penetrate therethrough, and slidable with respect to the cylinder tube and the rod; and a connection portion connectable to a pipe supplying a hydraulic liquid to a region surrounded by the cylinder tube, the first cover member, and the piston.

Abstract: A casting mold shaping device is provided, comprising a turntable-type carrier plate replacement device; a molding flask carry-in/out device for carrying in a molding flask to a molding space forming position provided in the carrier plate replacement device and carrying out the molded molding flask; a molding flask carrier plate stacking device for stacking the molding flask which as been carried in and each carrier plate to form a molding space; a casting sand filling device for filling the molding space with the casting sands; a molding station provided so as to be adjacent to the molding space forming position and including a casting sand pressing device for pressing the casting sands to make a mold; and a molding flask carrier plate moving device for moving the carrier plate and the molding flask in stacking state from the molding space forming position to the molding station.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal matrix composite by compounding a matrix material and a reinforcing material. The metal matrix composite has a near-net shape with high dimensional accuracy and a high reinforcing material volume ratio (Vf %). The matrix material is a pure metal or an alloy, and the reinforcing material includes ceramic particles, graphite particles, and/or metal particles, and the reinforcing material is different from the matrix material. The method includes molding a reinforcing material-molded or filled body having a near-net shape and pores, in a metal mold having a cavity corresponding to the near-net shape, pre-heating the mold including the reinforcing material-molded or filled body, placing the mold in an outer shell metal mold, casting a molten matrix material into the pores of the reinforcing material-molded or filled body, thereby obtaining the metal matrix composite. The method uses the same mold throughout the entire process.