WO2007004241A1 - Procédé et installation de fabrication de composants faits de billettes thixotropes d’un alliage aluminium pour véhicules, et composants obtenus ainsi - Google Patents

Procédé et installation de fabrication de composants faits de billettes thixotropes d’un alliage aluminium pour véhicules, et composants obtenus ainsi Download PDF

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WO2007004241A1
WO2007004241A1 PCT/IT2005/000381 IT2005000381W WO2007004241A1 WO 2007004241 A1 WO2007004241 A1 WO 2007004241A1 IT 2005000381 W IT2005000381 W IT 2005000381W WO 2007004241 A1 WO2007004241 A1 WO 2007004241A1
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Albani Lucio Medolago
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D17/00—Pressure die casting or injection die casting, i.e. casting in which the metal is forced into a mould under high pressure
    • B22D17/007—Semi-solid pressure die casting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
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  • the present invention refers to a process and a plant for producing components made of an aluminium alloy for vehicles and white goods, to the material to be used for producing such components, and to the components obtained through the above-stated process, plant and material.
  • Object of the present invention is solving the above prior-art problems, by providing components made of an aluminium alloy for vehicles and white goods whose weight is very low and whose cost is much lower than the current one and that keep, and preferably highly improve, the quality characteristics of current products.
  • a further object of the present invention is providing a process and a plant that are adapted to realise components as mentioned above and that are such that the end product needs only reduced workings: this allows simplifying the production processes and highly reducing their costs, obviously at a benefit for the end product.
  • vehicle body elements such as internal bodywork, door panels, instrument-holding dashboard, framework for seats, framework for steering wheels and other internal vehicle parts ; internal door panels integrated with door drive moving functions ; structural and aesthetic elements of car body and/or motorbyke chassis , engine blocks and motorbyke components ; components for cars and motorbykes such as front and r ear car suspensions , engine supporting frame and o ther component parts ; vehicle engines ; a eronautical elements , such as wheels , seats and panels for aeroplanes ;
  • railway elements such as seats and panels for trains ; components of machines in the white goods sector, such as washing machines, dish washing machines, small white goods and the like.
  • F ⁇ g. 1 is a schematic view of the plant for producing components for vehicles of the invention; first of all, such plant comprises means 5 for heating the crop ends formed of thixotropic billets made of an aluminium alloy (as can be better seen below) , in which such billets are sized depending on the ratio between weight and size of the component to be realised.
  • the means 5 are fed by a loader 4 and heat the crop ends in a range of temperatures during which both solid phase and liquid phase coexist with a prevalence in the solid phase (more than 50%) , and in the preferrred embodiment of the invention are composed of heating furnaces 5, that in particular are electromagnetic induction furnaces 5 comprising modular stations that are able to be composed.
  • the induction heating furnace guarantees, in addition to keeping the temperature within very restricted tolerances, an energy induction into the billets, which guarantees that a perfect metallographic structure re-forms at an intermediate physical state between the solid state and the liquid state. Therefore, the temperature of the piece is detected by measuring the active power of tine induced energy in the material in a predetermined period of time.
  • the inventive plant further comprises means 9 for loading the heated crop ends in a vessel for further workings, that must have specific characteristics for products of the "Semi Solid Material"
  • the loading means 9 are composed of a first handling robot, that is an anthropomorphic robot equipped with a mechanical gripping hand adapted to handle the vessel in which "the billets are placed in order to be heated and transported.
  • the plant then comprises means 11 for forming a molding, which operate with injection steps that are specific of the S. S.M. process; in particular, such means 11 for forming are composed of a die-casting machine, that is equipped with a die 8 adapted to produce components in S. S -M.
  • the die 8 is lubricated by lubricating means 12 before every injection of metal through a detaching agent.
  • the die-casting machine 11 is equipped with an ⁇ njection unit controlled by a closed-loop system, that allows a real-time control of a first and a second injection steps and of a third gearing step.
  • the press with which the die-casting machine 11 is equipped has a very powerful injection system that is able to manage the injection step with a high dynarnicity, and a maximum increasing speed of the injection force according to the construction specifications. This is made possible by controlling the injection process through a closed-loop system that allows a real-time control. A high dynamicity is then realised not only as regards the speed, but also for acceleration. , braking and repeatability and programmability of th_e process.
  • the closed loop allows a programmability on at least ten injection variables with 0.1 m/s resolutions. Thie suitably- adjusted press injects the billet inside ttie recesses of the die 8.
  • the lubricating means 12 are composed of a lubricating robot equipped with a lubricating head adapted to spray water, air and a detaching agent onto the die 8; such operation can also be performed through a manual nozzle.
  • t:he plant of the invention further comprises means 13 fox extracting the molding, and means foar depositing the molding from the extracting means 13 onto a. conveyor belt 15, that are preferably composed of a second handling robot or of extracting means 13 of a manual type.
  • the means ffor depositing the molding are replaced by means 16 ffor previous Iy cooling the molding, and means for depositing the cooled molding onto a shearing die installed on a shearing" press 17 for shearring feedheads and/or riserrs, that are unloaded through unloading means 20.
  • the means 16 for previously cooling can be composed of a tank 16 containing heated and heat- adjusted water.
  • a station 26 is further provided for cleaning the vessel prepared when going out of "the furnace 5.
  • the inventive plant comprises means for controlling the quality of the obtained molding, before sending the molding to downstream mechanical worki ngs and/or an heat treatment.
  • Such means for controlling the quality of the obtained molding are composed of a device 27 for detecting the presence of the molding, a control pulpit 29, control panels 31 for the billet heater, process control panels 33, a control panel 35 of the extractor 13 and a control panel 37 of the conveyor 15 for the finished pieces .
  • the die 8 installed on the press for producing components can be equipped with one or more carriages fox defining possible channels of the components and is equipped with air vents.
  • the die 8 can be further equipped with shearing or tearing plates in order to remove the feeheacL from the molding, and with internal heat-adjusting channels.
  • the plant can be further equipped with units 25 for heat-adjusting the die 8 itself, that are composed of a modular system equipped with resistances or gas boilers for heating water or diathermic oil, and with pipings for flowing such water or oil from a pump of the unit insi_de the heat-adjusting channels of the die 8.
  • the above-described plant is adapted to realise the process for producing components for vehicles and white goods of the invention, which process comprises the steps of: providing thixotropic billets made of an aluminium alloy; sizing said billets depending on the ratio between weight and size of the component to be produced, thereby obtaining crop ends of material; heating the errop ends in a range of temperatures during which both solid phase and liquid phase coexist with a prevalence in the solid phase (more than 50%) in heating means 5 (of the modular induction furnaces t;ype) ; loading, through loading means 9, the heated crop ends in a vessel for further workings with machines with specific characteristics for products of the "Semi Soli_d Material" (S. S.
  • the process of the invention can be realised so that the step of depositing the molding is replaced by the steps of: previously cooling the molding in a tank 16 containing heated and heat-adjusted water; and depositing the cooled molding onto a shearing die installed on a shearing press 17 for shearing feedheads and/or risers.
  • Thiis material allows producing components in an aluminium alILoy for vehicles and white goods of the invention and is composed of an aluminium alloy having the following characteristics : centesimal chemical composition; and finely-divided, metallographic structure of "the globular type, that is a thixotropic structure.
  • the globular microstructure provides the billet with a h_igh fluidodynamic property even with high fractions of matter at a solid state. This allows performing the die-casting process at temperatures that are near the solidification one .
  • the main characteristic of the aluminium alloys that are die-cast with the thixotropic system consists (when they are in a partial solidification phase) in the dreastic reduction of the so-called “casting errors", "that are the macro- and micro-cavities from shrinking or gas.
  • the production cycle of a part produced with a thixotropic alloy can have different results according to the system being used for the mixing action and the degassing system used in the billet-production step.
  • the advantages of the die -casting with the S. S. M. process when producing components for vehicles are as follows: product with high metallurgic and mechanical performance characteristics; innovative solutions that are able to improve the reliability under operating conditions; high health of the part; reduction of scraps; reduction of mechanical workings; exceptional mechanical characteristics with a possible heat treatment:

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L’invention concerne une installation et un procédé de fabrication de composants faits d'un alliage aluminium pour véhicules et de produits blancs, comprenant les phases suivantes : fourniture de billettes thixotropes faites d'un alliage aluminium ; obtention d’extrémités rognées de matériau en dimensionnant les billettes ; chauffage des extrémités rognées dans une fourchette de températures pendant quoi la phase solide et la phase liquide coexistent avec une prévalence en phase solide (plus de 50%) dans les fours de chauffage (5) ; chargement des extrémités rognées chauffées dans une machine de coulage par extrusion (11) pour produits du type 'Matériau semi-solide' ; formation d‘un moulage avec la machine de coulage par extrusion (11) ; extraction du moulage ; déposition du moulage sur une courroie de convoyeur (15) ; et contrôle de la qualité du moulage obtenu, puis envoi aux ateliers mécaniques et/ou pour un traitement thermique ; en variante, refroidissement au préalable du moulage dans un réservoir (16) ; et déposition du moulage refroidi sur une filière de cisaillement pour cisailler les têtes d’injection et/ou les colonnes montantes.
PCT/IT2005/000381 2005-07-05 2005-07-05 Procédé et installation de fabrication de composants faits de billettes thixotropes d’un alliage aluminium pour véhicules, et composants obtenus ainsi WO2007004241A1 (fr)

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