Holed ingot improving a line productivity
AssigneeArcelorMittal
InventorsEmmanuel Dechassey, Woudhouh Memni, Patrice Vicente-Hernandez
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Abstract
An ingot, having a volume between 0.15 m3 and 0.80 m3 and a surface area to volume ratio between 10 m−1 and 18 m−1, made of at least one metal, having longitudinal faces extending between two end faces and including at least one hole extending from one of the longitudinal faces, the maximum distance between any point of the hole periphery, to its closest longitudinal face, noted MaxL, the at least one hole being configured such that said maximum distance MaxL is smaller than the minimal distance, noted MinE, between any point of the hole periphery and its closest end face.
Claims8
An ingot having a volume between 0.15 m3 and 0.80 m3 and a surface area to volume ratio between 10 m−1 and 18 m−1, made of at least one metal selected from a group consisting of zinc, silicon, magnesium, aluminum and mixtures thereof, and comprising:
- two end faces;
- longitudinal faces extending between the two end faces, the longitudinal faces including a first and a second longitudinal face;
- and
- at least one hole extending from the first longitudinal faces to the second longitudinal face, the hole having a hole periphery, a maximum distance between any point of the hole periphery, to a closest of the longitudinal faces being defined as MaxL, the at least one hole being configured such that MaxL is smaller than a minimal distance, defined as MinE, between any point of the hole periphery and a closest of the two end faces;
- wherein the ingot is a parallelepiped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.