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US 2019/0100816 A1Published application
Mold, mold apparatus, and cooling method for workpiece
AssigneeAisin Aw Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkihiro SEKI, Nobuyuki NAITO, Yoichi JINZA, Hiroshi FUKUCHI, Kazuo HIKIDA, Ken TAKATA, Naruhiko NOMURA
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Abstract
In a mold, at least one of a lower mold and an upper mold includes a coolant supply passage through which a liquid coolant is supplied to an inner space of a recess, and the mold includes an air escape passage through which air in the inner space of the recess is discharged upward.
Claims13
A mold that cools a heated workpiece while pressing or restraining the workpiece, comprising:
- a lower mold in which a recess that stores a liquid coolant that cools the workpiece is provided on a molding surface and entirety of the workpiece is placed in an inner space of the recess;
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- an upper mold in which a protrusion corresponding to the recess of the lower mold is provided on a molding surface, wherein
- at least one of the lower mold and the upper mold includes a coolant supply passage through which the liquid coolant is supplied to the inner space of the recess,
- the mold comprising an air escape passage through which air in the inner space of the recess is discharged upward.
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A mold apparatus comprising:
- a mold including:
- a lower mold in which a recess that stores a liquid coolant that cools a workpiece is provided on a molding surface and entirety of the workpiece is placed in an inner space of the recess, and
- an upper mold in which a protrusion corresponding to the recess of the lower mold is provided on a molding surface, wherein
- at least one of the lower mold and the upper mold includes a coolant supply passage through which the liquid coolant is supplied into the recess,
- the mold including an air escape passage through which air in the inner space of the recess is discharged upward and that cools the workpiece, which has been heated, while pressing or restraining the workpiece;
- a pump that supplies the liquid coolant to the coolant supply passage of the mold;
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- a controller that controls the pump to supply the liquid coolant.
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A cooling method for a workpiece, comprising:
- placing entirety of the workpiece in an inner space of a recess provided on a molding surface of a lower mold;
- pressing or restraining the workpiece by a mold including the lower mold and an upper mold in which a protrusion corresponding to the recess of the lower mold is provided on a molding surface;
- supplying a liquid coolant to the inner space of the recess through a coolant supply passage provided in at least one of the lower mold and the upper mold by a pump and discharging air in the inner space of the recess upward through an air escape passage;
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- cooling the workpiece by immersing the entirety of the workpiece, which has been heated, in the liquid coolant that fills the recess.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.