DEVICE OF CLEANING MOLD AND METHOD OF CLEANING MOLD USING THE SAME

• Main Authors: SUZUKI KENJI, OKANO HIROYUKI, SUDO OSAMU, FUKADA NOBUO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.09.2010
• Subjects: CASTING; CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES; FOUNDRY MOULDING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of efficiently separating and removing deposits formed at an inner surface of a metal melting mold, removing the deposits in a state allowing a stress to be adjusted to an adequate one preventing the mold from being damaged, and precisely determining an end point where the deposits are removed, and also to provide a method using the same. SOLUTION: A device of cleaning the mold is configured of a robot arm: an arm turning means; an arm expansion means; a drive part arranged at the tip part of the robot arm; and a scraping jig mounted at the drive part. The scraping jig is freely movable in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction on the inner surface of the mold by the drive of the robot arm. The arm turning means and the arm expansion means are remotely operated using the device of cleaning the mold and the robot arm is made to operate inside the mold so that a solid material remained at the inner surface of a water-cooling copper mold is separated and removed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT