METAL SLAB MANUFACTURING DEVICE THAT USES AN ELECTRON BEAM AND METAL SLAB MANUFACTURING METHOD USING SAME

• Main Authors: TADA, Osamu, TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro, ODA, Takashi, MIYAZAKI, Yoshimasa, TANAKA, Hisamune
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.03.2019
• Subjects: CASTING; CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES; CHEMISTRY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; METALLURGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS; PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS

An apparatus and method allows the width of high-melting temperature reactive metallic slabs produced in an electron beam melting furnace to be easily changed. The apparatus for production of the metallic slabs by the electron beam melting has a metal melting part and a metal extraction part mutually separated by an air tight valve; a metal melting part has a melting chamber, electron gun, hearth, a mold of variable wall distance, and an air tight valve; and the metal extraction part has a slab chamber, an extraction base, an extracting shaft, and an drive unit for extracting the metal slab. The method for production of the metallic slab using this apparatus has a step of pulling a previous metallic slab produced in the rectangular mold out of the rectangular mold, a step of moving the short mold wall(s) of the rectangular mold to change the width of the rectangular mold, and a step of producing a subsequent metallic slab.