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AssigneeLkr Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH
InventorSimon FRANK
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An installation and method for casting metal casting material. The installation includes a melt-pool container providing casting material in a liquid state, a casting device forcing casting material into a casting die, and a dosing container, which is movable from the melt-pool container to the casting device and embodied as a dosing pipette to deliver a dosable amount of casting material from the melt-pool container into a receiving space. The dosing container is coupled to an evacuation device in order to evacuate the receiving space to a negative pressure for receiving the amount of casting material into the receiving space. A conditioning station has an induction unit, wherein, before delivery of casting material to the casting device via the dosing container, the dosing container in movable to the conditioning station to electromagnetically stir the casting material using the induction unit for converting the casting material into a thixotropic state.
A casting installation for casting metal casting material, wherein the casting installation comprises a melt-pool container for providing casting material in a liquid state, a casting device, embodied for forcing casting material into a casting die of the casting device, and a dosing container which can be moved from the melt-pool container to the casting device and which, in particular, is embodied as a dosing pipette, in order to use the dosing container to take up a dosable amount of casting material from the melt-pool container into a receiving space of the dosing container and deliver it to the casting device, wherein the dosing container is coupled to an evacuation device of the casting installation, in order to use the evacuation device to evacuate the receiving space to form a negative pressure in the receiving space for the purpose of receiving the amount of casting material into the receiving space, wherein the casting installation comprises a conditioning station having an induction unit, wherein, before delivery of casting material to the casting device using the dosing container, it is possible, in particular as a matter of choice, to move the dosing container to the conditioning station, in order to electromagnetically stir the casting material using the induction unit for the purpose of converting the casting material into a thixotropic state.
A method for casting metal casting material, wherein a dosing container, in particular a dosing pipette, is used to take up a dosed amount of casting material into a receiving space of the dosing container from a melt-pool container with liquid casting material or casting material in a solid state is fed into the receiving space, after which the dosing container is moved from the melt-pool container to a casting device, and casting material from the receiving space is delivered to the casting device, in order to use the casting device to force the casting material delivered to the casting device into a casting die of the casting device, wherein during a taking-up of liquid casting material using the dosing container, the receiving space is evacuated using an evacuation device so that a negative pressure is formed in the receiving space for the purpose of receiving the amount of casting material into the receiving space, wherein, before the delivery of the casting material to the casting device, the dosing container is moved to a conditioning station having an induction unit, after which the casting material in the receiving space is electromagnetically stirred with the induction unit in order to convert the casting material into a thixotropic state.
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