Producing a metal component with a casting-and-forming tool
AssigneeMubea Carbo Tech GmbH
InventorWerner Hubauer
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Abstract
A metal component is produced using a casting-and-forming tool by casting a melt of a metal alloy into the casting-and-forming tool, wherein the melt is poured from above into a base part or reservoir of the casting-and-forming tool at a first pressure, applying pressure to the melt between the base part and an upper part while the melt is solidifying to a component, wherein the solidifying melt is pressurized at a second pressure, which is larger than the first pressure, when the melt is at least partly, i.e., mostly solidified to form a component compressing the component by relative movement of the base part to the upper part so as to compress the component with a third pressure, which is higher than the second pressure.
Claims16
1-15. (canceled)
A method of producing a metal component, comprising:
- casting a melt of a metal alloy in a casting-and-forming tool, wherein the melt is poured from above the tool into at least one of a base part and a reservoir of the tool at a first pressure;
- applying pressure to the melt between the base part and an upper part of the tool while the melt is solidifying, wherein the solidifying melt is pressurized with a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure;
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- when the melt is at least partly solidified to form a component, compressing the component by moving at least one of the base part and the upper part relative to the other one of the base part and the upper part, wherein the component is compressed with a third pressure that is higher than the second pressure.
A device for producing a metal component, comprising:
- a casting-and-forming tool with a base part and an upper part;
- a dosing unit arranged for filling a melt of a metal alloy from above the tool into at least one of the base part and a reservoir of the tool;
- a positioning member arranged to hold the base part and the upper part at a defined position relative to each other at least during casting of a metal alloy;
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- a force application mechanism arranged to produce a relative movement between the base part and the upper part, such that the component, which is at least partially solidified, is deformable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.