# US 11,440,085 B2 · Mold equipment and continuous casting method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,440,085 B2 - Document ID: US11440085B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/043,573 - Filed: 2019-06-19 - Published: 2021-01-28 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2018-07-17 - Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation - Applicants: Nippon Steel Corporation - Inventors: Nobuhiro Okada; Shintaro Oga; Yuichi Tsukaguchi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11440085B2 ## CPC - B22D 11/115: by using magnetic fields - B22D 11/11: Treating the molten metal - B22D 11/16: Controlling or regulating processes or operations - B22D 11/18: for pouring (B22D11/20 takes precedence) - B22D 11/04: into open-ended moulds (B22D11/06, B22D11/07 take precedence; plants for continuous casting, e.g. for upwardly drawing the strand B22D11/14) - B22D 11/122: {using magnetic fields} - B22D: CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES (shaping of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29C; metallurgical processing, selection of substances to be added to metal C21, C22) ## Abstract This mold equipment is mold equipment provided with a mold, an electromagnetic brake device, and a control device. An immersion nozzle is provided with a pair of discharge holes of molten metal, the electromagnetic brake device is provided with an iron core including a pair of teeth and coils wound around the respective teeth, the coils on one side are connected in series in a first circuit, the coils on the other side are connected in series in a second circuit, and the control device is able to independently control voltage and current applied to each of the first and second circuits for each circuit, detects a drift of a discharge flow between the pair of discharge holes on the basis of the voltage applied to the coils in the first circuit and the voltage applied to the coils in the second circuit, and controls the current flowing through the first circuit and the current flowing through the second circuit on the basis of a detection result. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A mold equipment comprising: a mold for continuous casting at a speed exceeding 1.6 m/min.; an electromagnetic brake device that applies an electromagnetic force in a direction to brake a discharge flow to the discharge flow of molten metal from an immersion nozzle into the mold; a control device that includes a processor configured to control a power supply to the electromagnetic brake device; and an electromagnetic stirring device that applies an electromagnetic force for generating a swirling flow in a horizontal plane to the molten metal in the mold, the electromagnetic stirring device being installed above the electromagnetic brake device, wherein the immersion nozzle is provided with a pair of discharge holes of the molten metal on both sides in a mold long side direction of the mold, the electromagnetic brake device is installed on an outer side surface of each of a pair of long side mold plates in the mold, and is provided with an iron core including a pair of teeth provided so as to face the long side mold plate on both sides of the immersion nozzle in the mold long side direction, and coils wound around the respective teeth, the coils on one side in the mold long side direction of electromagnetic brake devices are connected in series in a first circuit, the coils on another side in the mold long side direction of the electromagnetic brake devices are connected in series in a second circuit, the processor is further configured to independently control voltage and current applied to each of the first and second circuits for each circuit, detect a drift of the discharge flow between the pair of discharge holes on the basis of the voltage applied to the coils in the first circuit and the voltage applied to the coils in the second circuit, and control the current flowing through the first circuit and the current flowing through the second circuit on the basis of the detection result, and an electromagnetic force generating device is provided with the electromagnetic stirring device and the electromagnetic brake device, the electromagnetic stirring core and the electromagnetic brake core being configured such that the height H1 of the electromagnetic stirring core and the height H2 of the electromagnetic brake core satisfy expression (8) 0.43≤H1/H2 Expression (8), and the electromagnetic stirring core is arranged at a height position facing the discharge hole of the immersion nozzle, and the electromagnetic brake core is arranged below the discharge hole of the immersion nozzle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The mold equipment according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to detect the drift on the basis of a difference between an electromotive force generated in the first circuit due to a change over time in a flow state of the discharge flow from the discharge hole on one side in the mold long side direction and an electromotive force generated in the second circuit due to a change over time in a flow state of the discharge flow from the discharge hole on the other side in the mold long side direction, and control, in a case of detecting the drift, the current flowing through the first circuit and the current flowing through the second circuit such that the difference between the electromotive force generated in the first circuit and the electromotive force generated in the second circuit becomes small. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The mold equipment according to claim 2, further comprising: an electromagnetic stirring device that applies an electromagnetic force for generating a swirling flow in a horizontal plane to the molten metal in the mold, the electromagnetic stirring device installed above the electromagnetic brake device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The mold equipment according to claim 1, further comprising: an electromagnetic stirring device that applies an electromagnetic force for generating a swirling flow in a horizontal plane to the molten metal in the mold, the electromagnetic stirring device installed above the electromagnetic brake device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The mold equipment according to claim 1, wherein the discharge holes of the immersion nozzle are provided so as to be inclined downward from an inner peripheral surface side to an outer peripheral surface side of the immersion nozzle.