A casting device is provided with: a positioning member that is provided to a base and comes into contact with an upper mold and a slide member to define the positions of the upper mold and the slide member at the time of mold clamping; and a restraining force-applying mechanism for applying a restraining force to the slide member in a direction opposite a pressing force acting on the positioning member from the slide member at the time of mold clamping of the slide member.

The present invention provides a method for making internal passages for use in investment casting processes, especially for gas turbine components such as blades or vanes. The apparatus comprises a first mold cavity having grooves formed therein, a second mold cavity having a shape complementary to the final casting design and ceramic cores. Each groove of the first mold cavity has a depth equal to a radius of certain number of ceramic cores which correspond to cooling channels. The ceramic cores are placed in the first mold cavity and fugitive wax is injected for temporary positioning of the cores. Two fugitive wax segments are formed about the cores. The fugitive segments locate the ceramic cores in the second mold cavity, and wax is injected about the cores and locating segments to form a pattern for investment casting process.

An internal combustion engine piston includes a crown surface including a low thermal conductivity part lower in thermal conductivity than a base material. The low thermal conductivity part includes a porous member made of a glass material lower in thermal conductivity than the base material, and impregnated with the base material. A first material is interposed at least partly between the porous member and the base material in the low thermal conductivity part, wherein the first material is water-soluble, and has a higher melting point than the porous member.

A molding method of a sand mold including a hardened layer in a predetermined thickness range from an outer layer part, includes: forming a cavity and a filling opening of a die so that a dimension, which is a largest dimension between two intersections of straight lines passing through a section of a boundary portion between the cavity and the filling opening of the die, with respect to an outside line of the section, is less than a predetermined ratio with respect to a thickness dimension of that part of a product portion of the sand mold from which a blowing opening molded in the filling opening projects, the product portion being formed by the cavity of the die; and filling foamed sand into the cavity from the filling opening of the die.

The present disclosure generally relates to partial integrated core-shell investment casting molds that can be assembled into complete molds. Each section of the partial mold may contain both a portion of a core and portion of a shell. Each section can then be assembled into a mold for casting of a metal part. The partial integrated core-shell investment casting molds and the complete molds may be provided with filament structures corresponding to cooling hole patterns on the surface of the turbine blade or the stator vane, which provides a leaching pathway for the core portion after metal casting. The invention also relates to core filaments that can be used to supplement the leaching pathway, for example in a core tip portion of the mold.

A pendulum crankshaft for an internal combustion engine includes a pendulum crankshaft having pendulum crank rolling path inserts that are cast into the component during the casting process. The rolling path inserts are positioned in a mold prior to casting. By including the rolling path inserts in the component during the molding process, the need to press the rolling path insert into the component after the component is cast is thus avoided, thereby eliminating the resulting stresses that would otherwise result. Machining and subsequent heat treatment are unnecessary. The component can be one or both of the crankshaft pendulum and the pendulum carrier. The rolling path may be formed from a metal such as sintered powdered metal. The flowable material may be a metal such as iron. The resulting component is free of stress regions, such as on the carrier strap, that normally result from methods that involve press-fitting the rolling path insert into the component.

A method for producing a casting core for manufacturing cylinder heads including the following steps: producing at least one core component, by a constructive method, with a contour for the formation of internal contours of a first cylinder head producing at least one further core component, by a constructive method, with a contour for the formation of internal contours of a further cylinder head; producing at least one sprue core component for feeding the molten mass during the casting method; and joining the two core components to the sprue core component in an opposing orientation.

Provided is a method for casting a turbine blade including a blade root, a blade extending in the radial direction from the blade root, and a hollow chamber that passes through the turbine blade in the radial direction from the blade root up to the free end of the blade, wherein the method is carried out using a casting molding defining an outer surface of the turbine blade and using a core accommodated in the casting mold and aligned with positioning means, wherein at least one second core is accommodated in the molding part and aligned with positioning means, wherein the first core and the second core are spaced at a distance from one another and behind one another in the radial direction in the casting mold in such a way that a gap is formed between said cores.

A method of manufacturing a bucket by casting includes determining a volumetric capacity of the bucket. A modular mold assembly is configured by selecting a cope box and a drag box from multiple cope boxes and drag boxes based on the volumetric capacity of the bucket. Further, a first core is selected from multiple first cores based on the volumetric capacity of the bucket. The cope box, the first core, a second core, and the drag box are assembled such that the cope box, the first core, the second core, and the drag box together define a bucket-shaped mold cavity. A volume of the mold cavity depends on the selection of the cope box, the first core, and the drag box. A molten material is poured in the mold cavity and the cast bucket is removed after solidification of the molten material from the modular mold assembly.

A method of forming a component having an internal passage defined therein includes positioning a jacketed core with respect to a mold. The jacketed core includes a hollow structure formed from a first material, an inner core disposed within the hollow structure, and a core channel that extends from at least a first end of the inner core through at least a portion of inner core. The method also includes introducing a component material in a molten state into a cavity of the mold, such that the component material in the molten state at least partially absorbs the first material from the jacketed core within the cavity. The method further includes cooling the component material in the cavity to form the component. The inner core defines the internal passage within the component.