Abstract: A low melting point metal material is made to a thixotropic state in which liquid phases and solid phases coexists. In the thixotropic state of the low melting point metal material, a carbon nano material is kneaded with the low melting point metal material and forms a composite material. Thus obtained composite material is supplied to a metal molding machine and injected into a mold in a thixotropic state or a completely molten state of the metal so that the composite material fills the mold, thereby the composite material is molded to a composite metal product. With the above process, it is possible to injection mold the composite metal product to which the characteristics of the carbon nano material are applied.

Abstract: In a metal molding machine provided ed having a tilt to a clamping device with an injection unit which is constituted by a liquid metallic material reservoir in which a cylinder having a nozzle portion at the tip portion equipped with a heating device at the outer periphery and an injection plunger having advance or retreat freely in the inside, and the injection cylinder at the rear portion, the metallic material feeding to the above liquid metallic material reservoir is performed in liquid by melt to the temperature of above the liquidus temperature in a melting cylinder standing the liquid metallic material reservoir to liquid metallic material surface from a feeding pipe having a smaller diameter than the inner diameter of the cylinder. The melting and feeding of metallic material is performed at an atmosphere of an inert gas such as argon.

Abstract: Low-melting point metallic material is designed to be able to melt with an inclined melting cylinder installed in the condition of combining an injection member with an agitating member therein, and a molten metal is designed to be able to weigh and inject by a plunger, whereby molding accuracy and efficiency can be improved more than a die-cast. A injection mechanism 2 is constituted by a melting cylinder 11 which a weighing chamber 17 communicating with a nozzle member 15 is provided on the inside of the tip, agitating and injection means provided in the combined condition in the melting cylinder so as to rotate or, advance or retreat freely and a device driving agitating and injection means, which is arranged on an rear-end side of the melting cylinder. The injection mechanism 2 is provided obliquely in a manner that a nozzle member side is directed in a downward direction to a mold-clamping mechanism 1.

Abstract: A carbon nano material is mixed with a metal material in a powder state. A resultant mixed material is compressed by a hot press and molded to granules. The metal in the granules are melted, blended and thus obtained composite material is injected into and fill a mold to form a composite metal product comprising the carbon nano material and the metal material. With the above process, it is possible to injection mold said granules to obtain the composite metal product to which the characteristics of the carbon nano material are applied.

Abstract: A carbon nano material and a resin binder are plasticized and injection molded to form a preliminarily molded member. The preliminarily molded member is degreased by a heat treatment and made to a preliminarily molded porous member composed of the carbon nano material. The preliminarily molded porous member is inserted into a cavity of a product mold. A molten low melting point metal is injected into and fills the cavity. The preliminarily molded porous member is impregnated with the low melting point metal by injection pressure, thereby a composite metal product composed of the low melting point metal material integrally composited with the carbon nano material is molded. With the above arrangement, the characteristics of the carbon nano material are applied to the composite metal product to improve the functions thereof.

Abstract: An injection method and apparatus for melted metals are provided to transfer the metals, to melt them by external heat, and to meter and degas the metals by employing a reservoir to reserve metals in liquid phase. The injection apparatus includes a heating cylinder having a fore end portion which communicates with a nozzle member and of which internal diameter is made smaller to serve as a metering chamber, and an injection screw installed within the heating cylinder to be movable and rotational. A reservoir for reserving melted metals in liquid phase has an axis provided between the plunger and a feeding portion containing a screw flight around the axis. A projected portion for limiting the feeding of granular metals flowing to the reservoir and for preventing the metals in liquid phase from flowing backward during injection is provided on a boundary between the feeding portion and the reservoir.

Abstract: An injection molding screw prevents materials from being left and reduces friction by limiting the end position of the screw flight in relation to the position of the feeding opening in the heating cylinder. The screw is rotationally and movably provided in the heating cylinder having a nozzle at a tip end. Granular metals fed from a feeding opening at the rear of the heating cylinder are transferred forward by the screw rotation and melted. Melted metals are injected from the nozzle by forward movement of the screw. A rear end of the screw flight is positioned below the rear edge of the feeding opening at the rearmost position of the screw. At the foremost position of the screw, the rear end is positioned in front of the feeding opening to close the feeding opening by the rear portion of the axial portion of the screw axis.

Abstract: An injection apparatus for transferring melted metals is capable of metering and degassing the melted metal in a reservoir to reserve metals in the liquid phase for injection. The injection apparatus includes a heating cylinder having a metering chamber. An injection screw is movably and rotationally installed within the heating cylinder. A tip end of the injection screw forms a plunger insertable into the metering chamber with a clearance for sliding. The reservoir includes an axial portion free of screw flights between the plunger and a feeding portion that has a screw flight around its axis. A projected portion for limiting the feeding of granular metals flowing to the reservoir and for preventing the metals in liquid phase from flowing backward during injection is provided on a boundary between the feeding portion and the reservoir.

Abstract: An injection molding method of a metal material in a liquid phase state, by which the material can be transferred, metered, and deaerated smoothly by operating the movement and rotation of the screw. After injection, retraction resistance made of the metal material that went into a clearance between the heating cylinder and screw flights is removed in advance by rotating the screw for a set number of times at a forward position. Then, the metal material in the liquid phase state is accumulated in a front chamber by forcing the screw to retract for a set distance, and applying a back pressure to the screw rotating at a retraction position, thereby starting transfer of the metal material. Subsequently, the rotation of the screw is stopped, whereupon the accumulation is completed. Then, the accumulated metal material is pressed by moving the screw forward.

Abstract: A method of metering a metal material in a liquid phase in molding injection provides accurate and reliable transfer of the metal material. A heating cylinder housing a rotatable and axially movable screw, is inclined with its head pointing downward, so that the metal material in the liquid phase state flows down into a front chamber due to self-weight. At the forward position after injection, the screw is forced to retract to a set position, whereby a predetermined quantity of a liquid phase material primarily stored on the periphery of the head portion of the screw is accumulated by suction due to a negative pressure in the front chamber of the heating cylinder. Further, a constant quantity of the liquid phase material can be metered each time in the front chamber by stopping and then rotating the screw at a retraction position.

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to prevent sludge from flowing into a measuring chamber by partitioning the inside of a melt cylinder into a melt stirring part and a molten metal flow passage part, and to stabilize supply of the metallic material and measurement of the molten metal. A nozzle member 14 of which the inside of the rear part is formed into a measuring chamber 13 is attached to the tip of a melt cylinder 11. The end face of the opening periphery of the measuring chamber 13 of the nozzle member 14 faced to the inside of the melt cylinder is projectingly formed into a ring-shaped bearing 14b. A hollow stirring shaft 16 provided with stirring blades 15 on the outer periphery is supported by the bearing 14b and a bearing member 21 in the rear end of the melt cylinder so as to be freely rotatable with a suction port 25 bored in the side wall of the tip part.

Abstract: The invention has an object to permit to make the accumulation amount and the temperature of molten metal in the metal material molding machine constant, by performing material supply and melting taking the accumulation amount as reference during the molding operation. The supply apparatus 11 and the agitation means 29 of metal material at the moment of operation starting are controlled to be inactive until the temperature of the melting vessel attains a predetermined value and to start operating when the predetermined temperature is attained, allowing to supply and agitate the metal material. The supply and the agitation of metal material after the predetermined temperature is attained, are performed while gradually supplying and agitating the metal material until metal material of at least 6 times or more of the maximum injection volume is accumulated in melt state.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to prevent oxidation during the metal melting, by suspending both heating and supply of metal material under the monitoring by measuring the oxygen concentration in the inactive gas atmosphere. A oxidation prevent method of melting metal material by a melting vessel 1 comprising inside a rotatable agitation member 8, having a weighing chamber 4 communicating with a nozzle member 2, and an injection member 9 advanceably and retractably inserting an extremity injection plunger 12 passing through the agitation member 8 in the weighing chamber 4, and the melting vessel being installed on a slant with the nozzle member 2 downside. The space area over the melted metal surface 15a of the melting vessel 1 is made into inactive gas atmosphere. The oxygen concentration in this space area is measured and monitored.

Abstract: Upward variations of a molten metal level in a container for melting metallic material shall be carried out by detecting variations of a liquid level inside a detector connected to a gas-pipeline, wherein a rise in the pipeline pressure causes the liquid level to move down. Communication is established by means of a gas-pipeline 13 for inert gas between that portion of a container for melting metallic material which is above a molten metal surface 15a and that portion of a detector 16 comprising a transparent tubular container 18 which is above a liquid surface 17a. Variations of the liquid level 17a inside the detector 16 due to a rise in the pressure inside the above-mentioned gas-pipeline 13 are detected as upward variations of the level of the molten metal surface.

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to prevent sludge from flowing into a measuring chamber by partitioning the inside of a melt cylinder into a melt stirring part and a molten metal flow passage part, and to stabilize supply of the metallic material and measurement of the molten metal. A nozzle member 14 of which the inside of the rear part is formed into a measuring chamber 13 is attached to the tip of a melt cylinder 11. The end face of the opening periphery of the measuring chamber 13 of the nozzle member 14 faced to the inside of the melt cylinder is projectingly formed into a ring-shaped bearing 14b. A hollow stirring shaft 16 provided with stirring blades 15 on the outer periphery is supported by the bearing 14b and a bearing member 21 in the rear end of the melt cylinder so as to be freely rotatable with a suction port 25 bored in the side wall of the tip part.

Abstract: An injection apparatus for melted metals is provided to be capable of transferring the metals, melting them by the external heat, metering and degassing by employing a reservoir to reserve metals in liquid phase for the injection screw. The injection apparatus comprises a heating cylinder having a fore end portion which communicates with a nozzle member and of which internal diameter is made smaller to serve as a metering chamber, and an injection screw installed within the heating cylinder to be movable and rotational. A tip end of the injection screw is formed in a plunger having a diameter that can insert into the metering chamber with keeping a clearance for sliding. A reservoir, for reserving melted metals in liquid phase, consisting of an axis is provided between the plunger and a feeding portion containing screw flight around the axis.

Abstract: The invention has an object to permit to mold metal molds having a thixothropic structure by melting, agitating and weighing, injection molten metal in a melting vessel by combining separately functioning agitation means and injection means. The invention consists in supply granular metal material in a fusion vessel 11 having a weighing chamber 17 by a cylinder of required length communicating with a nozzle port at the extremity section, including rotatively an agitation means 21 inside, and wherein an injection means 22 whose extremity section is formed into an injection plunger 30 is inserted advanceably and retractably into the center section of this agitation means 21. The metal material is heat melted by an external heat. The molten metal material is accumulated in the fusion vessel by homogenizing by the agitation means 21.

Abstract: The invention has an object to permit to make the accumulation amount and the temperature of molten metal in the metal material molding machine constant, by performing material supply and melting taking the accumulation amount as reference during the molding operation. The supply apparatus 11 and the agitation means 29 of metal material at the moment of operation starting are controlled to be inactive until the temperature of the melting vessel attains a predetermined value and to start operating when the predetermined temperature is attained, allowing to supply and agitate the metal material. The supply and the agitation of metal material after the predetermined temperature is attained, are performed while gradually supplying and agitating the metal material until metal material of at least 6 times or more of the maximum injection volume is accumulated in melt state.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to prevent oxidation during the metal melting, by suspending both heating and supply of metal material under the monitoring by measuring the oxygen concentration in the inactive gas atmosphere. A oxidation prevent method of melting metal material by a melting vessel 1 comprising inside a rotatable agitation member 8,having a weighing chamber 4 communicating with a nozzle member 2, and an injection member 9 advanceably and retractably inserting an extremity injection plunger 12 passing through the agitation member 8 in the weighing chamber 4, and the melting vessel being installed on a slant with the nozzle member 2 downside. The space area over the melted metal surface 15a of the melting vessel 1 is made into inactive gas atmosphere. The oxygen concentration in this space area is measured and monitored.

Abstract: There is provided an injection apparatus comprised of a heating cylinder which is closed by a front end member having a nozzle. The apparatus is further comprised of a plasticating screw in the heating cylinder in a freely rotating and reciprocating manner, and a plunger connected to the front end of the screw. The plunger has a conical front end in which flow channels are formed. The front end member has a measuring chamber formed therein at an internal central location thereof. The measuring chamber has a predetermined length and an internal diameter which is reduced by 8 to 15% with respect to an internal diameter of the heating cylinder. The diameter of the injection plunger is set almost equal to the diameter of the measuring chamber, whereby the injection plunger is inserted into the measuring chamber in a freely reciprocating manner.