Patents by Inventor Keisuke Ban

Keisuke Ban has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20070227686
    Abstract: Deoxidation casting machine, in which a deoxidizing compound reacts with a molten metal so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal. The machine includes a casting die having a molten metal inlet, a cavity into which a molten metal is poured from the molten metal inlet and a feeder head provided between the molten metal inlet and the cavity. A rate of cooling the molten metal in the feeder head is lower than that in the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke BAN, Koichi OGIWARA
  • Patent number: 7273085
    Abstract: Deoxidation casting machine, in which a deoxidizing compound reacts with a molten metal so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal. The machine includes a casting die having a molten metal inlet, a cavity into which a molten metal is poured from the molten metal inlet and a feeder head provided between the molten metal inlet and the cavity. A rate of cooling the molten metal in the feeder head is lower than that in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 7104309
    Abstract: In the method of deoxidation casting, a disused metal left in a feeder head can be easily removed from a cast product, or the molten metal left in the feeder head can be removed from the cast product so as to easily finish the cast product. The method comprises the steps of: pouring a molten metal into a cavity of a casting die; and reacting a deoxidizing compound with the molten metal so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal. And the method is characterized in that rate of cooling the molten metal in a feeder head of the casting die is lower than that in the cavity, and that the molten metal in the feeder head, which is not solidified, is treated when the molten metal in the cavity is solidified so as to make an outline of a cast product correspond to that of a desired product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara, Sakuzo Nakatani, Akira Sunohara
  • Patent number: 6964293
    Abstract: The method of casting of the present invention is capable of making volume of a feeder head can be small and making cooling rate of the feeder head can be easily made lower than that of a cavity. The method is executed in a casting machine, which includes a casting die, in which the feeder head is provided between a metal inlet and the cavity and in which heat insulating of the feeder head is greater than that of the cavity so as to make cooling rate of the feeder head lower than that of the cavity. The method comprises the steps of: pouring a molten metal into the cavity; reacting the molten metal on a deoxidizing compound in the cavity so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal; and supplementing the molten metal in the feeder head to the cavity when the molten metal in the cavity is solidified and shrinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Akira Sunohara, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Koichi Ogiwara, Sakuzo Nakatani
  • Patent number: 6932142
    Abstract: A reduction casting method includes the steps of: pouring a molten metal into a cavity of a molding die; and performing casting while reducing an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal by allowing the molten metal and a reducing substance to come into contact with each other in the cavity. On this occasion, the molten metal is poured into the cavity in a state in which the molding die is forcibly cooled by a cooling device, thereby being rapidly cooled. Further, on this occasion, a solidification speed at which the molten metal is rapidly cooled is allowed to be 600° C./min or more. Still further, on this occasion, the molten metal is filled into the cavity in a filling time of from 1.0 second to 9.0 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Ban
  • Patent number: 6848496
    Abstract: A casting apparatus for performing a casting while an oxide film formed on a surface of a molten metal is reduced by allowing the molten metal and a reducing compound to be contacted with each other, includes: a molding die having a cavity for receiving the molten metal, a sprue from which the molten metal is poured and a feeder head portion arranged between the sprue and the cavity. A difference of heat insulation is partially provided between the feeder head portion and the cavity such that the molten metal filled in the cavity and the feeder head portion is sequentially solidified in a direction of from a terminal portion of the cavity to the feeder head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Akira Sunohara, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Koichi Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 6845808
    Abstract: A reduction casting method includes the steps of: allowing a metallic gas and a reactive gas to react with each other to generate a reducing compound; introducing the thus-generated reducing compound into a cavity of a molding die 11; and reducing an oxide film formed on a surface of a molten metal by the reducing compound to cast a cast product. The reduction casting method uses a non-reactive gas as a carrier gas when the metallic gas is introduced into the cavity, in which a flow quantity of the non-reactive gas is allowed to be from one sixth to twice that of the reactive gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Ban
  • Publication number: 20050000672
    Abstract: The method of casting of the present invention is capable of making volume of a feeder head can be small and making cooling rate of the feeder head can be easily made lower than that of a cavity. The method is executed in a casting machine, which includes a casting die, in which the feeder head is provided between a metal inlet and the cavity and in which heat insulating of the feeder head is greater than that of the cavity so as to make cooling rate of the feeder head lower than that of the cavity. The method comprises the steps of: pouring a molten metal into the cavity; reacting the molten metal on a deoxidizing compound in the cavity so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal; and supplementing the molten metal in the feeder head to the cavity when the molten metal in the cavity is solidified and shrinked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Akira Sunohara, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Koichi Ogiwara, Sakuzo Nakatani
  • Patent number: 6805191
    Abstract: A reduction casting method, in which a molten metal is poured into a cavity of a molding die and casting is performed while the oxide film formed on the surface of the molten metal is reduced by allowing the molten metal and the reducing compound to be contacted with each other in the cavity of the molding die, is characterized in that, at the time the molten metal is poured into the cavity, it is done while it is allowed to be in a turbulent flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara, Akira Sunohara
  • Patent number: 6802359
    Abstract: In a reduction casting method in which casting is performed while an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal is reduced, after an inside of a cavity of a molding die is allowed to be in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, a reducing substance having a stronger reducing property than a metal of the molten metal has is allowed to act on the molten metal whereupon casting is performed while the oxide film formed on the surface of the molten metal is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Ban
  • Patent number: 6752199
    Abstract: A reduction casting method, in which a molten metal is poured into a cavity of a molding die and casting is performed while the oxide film formed on the surface of the molten metal is reduced by allowing the molten metal and the reducing compound to be contacted with each other in the cavity of the molding die, is characterized in that, at the time the molten metal is poured into the cavity, it is done while it is allowed to be in a turbulent flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara, Akira Sunohara
  • Publication number: 20040108091
    Abstract: A casting apparatus for performing a casting while an oxide film formed on a surface of a molten metal is reduced by allowing the molten metal and a reducing compound to be contacted with each other, includes: a molding die having a cavity for receiving the molten metal, a sprue from which the molten metal is poured and a feeder head portion arranged between the sprue and the cavity. A difference of heat insulation is partially provided between the feeder head portion and the cavity such that the molten metal filled in the cavity and the feeder head portion is sequentially solidified in a direction of from a terminal portion of the cavity to the feeder head portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Akira Sunohara, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Koichi Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 6745817
    Abstract: A casting apparatus for performing a casting while an oxide film formed on a surface of a molten metal is reduced by allowing the molten metal and a reducing compound to be contacted with each other, includes: a molding die having a cavity for receiving the molten metal, a sprue from which the molten metal is poured and a feeder head portion arranged between the sprue and the cavity. A difference of heat insulation is partially provided between the feeder head portion and the cavity such that the molten metal filled in the cavity and the feeder head portion is sequentially solidified in a direction of from a terminal portion of the cavity to the feeder head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Akira Sunohara, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Koichi Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 6745816
    Abstract: The method of casting of the present invention is capable of making volume of a feeder head can be small and making cooling rate of the feeder head can be easily made lower than that of a cavity. The method is executed in a casting machine, which includes a casting die, in which the feeder head is provided between a metal inlet and the cavity and in which heat insulating of the feeder head is greater than that of the cavity so as to make cooling rate of the feeder head lower than that of the cavity. The method comprises the steps of: pouring a molten metal into the cavity; reacting the molten metal on a deoxidizing compound in the cavity so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal; and supplementing the molten metal in the feeder head to the cavity when the molten metal in the cavity is solidified and shrinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Akira Sunohara, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Koichi Ogiwara, Sakuzo Nakatani
  • Patent number: 6725900
    Abstract: In the method of deoxidation casting, a disused metal left in a feeder head can be easily removed from a cast product, or the molten metal left in the feeder head can be removed from the cast product so as to easily finish the cast product. The method comprises the steps of: pouring a molten metal into a cavity of a casting die; and reacting a deoxidizing compound with the molten metal so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal. And the method is characterized in that rate of cooling the molten metal in a feeder head of the casting die is lower than that in the cavity, and that the molten metal in the feeder head, which is not solidified, is treated when the molten metal in the cavity is solidified so as to make an outline of a cast product correspond to that of a desired product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara, Sakuzo Nakatani, Akira Sunohara
  • Patent number: 6722417
    Abstract: The method of deoxidation casting is capable of deoxidizing the oxide film formed on the surface of the molten metal, improving wettability to inner faces of a cavity of a casting die, and casting high quality products with high casting efficiency. The method of deoxidation casting includes the steps of reacting a deoxidizing compound, which is made by reacting a metallic gas on a reactive gas, on a molten metal; and deoxidizing an oxide film on a surface of the molten metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20040035545
    Abstract: In the method of deoxidation casting, a disused metal left in a feeder head can be easily removed from a cast product, or the molten metal left in the feeder head can be removed from the cast product so as to easily finish the cast product. The method comprises the steps of: pouring a molten metal into a cavity of a casting die; and reacting a deoxidizing compound with the molten metal so as to deoxidize an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal. And the method is characterized in that rate of cooling the molten metal in a feeder head of the casting die is lower than that in the cavity, and that the molten metal in the feeder head, which is not solidified, is treated when the molten metal in the cavity is solidified so as to make an outline of a cast product correspond to that of a desired product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara, Sakuzo Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20040020626
    Abstract: A reduction casting method, in which a molten metal is poured into a cavity of a molding die and casting is performed while the oxide film formed on the surface of the molten metal is reduced by allowing the molten metal and the reducing compound to be contacted with each other in the cavity of the molding die, is characterized in that, at the time the molten metal is poured into the cavity, it is done while it is allowed to be in a turbulent flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Keisuke Ban, Koichi Ogiwara, Akira Sunohara
  • Publication number: 20030217827
    Abstract: A reduction casting method includes the steps of: allowing a metallic gas and a reactive gas to react with each other to generate a reducing compound; introducing the thus-generated reducing compound into a cavity of a molding die 11; and reducing an oxide film formed on a surface of a molten metal by the reducing compound to cast a cast product. The reduction casting method uses a non-reactive gas as a carrier gas when the metallic gas is introduced into the cavity, in which a flow quantity of the non-reactive gas is allowed to be from one sixth to twice that of the reactive gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventor: Keisuke Ban
  • Publication number: 20030173050
    Abstract: A reduction casting method includes the steps of: pouring a molten metal into a cavity of a molding die; and performing casting while reducing an oxide film formed on a surface of the molten metal by allowing the molten metal and a reducing substance to come into contact with each other in the cavity. On this occasion, the molten metal is poured into the cavity in a state in which the molding die is forcibly cooled by a cooling device, thereby being rapidly cooled. Further, on this occasion, a solidification speed at which the molten metal is rapidly cooled is allowed to be 600° C./min or more. Still further, on this occasion, the molten metal is filled into the cavity in a filling time of from 1.0 second to 9.0 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventor: Keisuke Ban