A process for the casting of metals and their alloys includes the steps of providing at least a mold equipped with a plurality of cooling nozzles, making a layer of coolant permeable materials covering the nozzles and maintaining the materials at desired temperatures, delivering a molten metal into the mold, supplying predetermined amount of coolant to each nozzles to contact the casting at desired rate, time, and duration to achieve an acceptable level of progressive solidification from the distal end of the casting towards the riser until the casting has reached desired temperatures.

The invention discloses a digital full-automatic die casting apparatus, comprising a longitudinal mounting plate, a mold arranged on a front surface of the longitudinal mounting plate, a mold locking device including a plurality of mold locking mechanisms surrounding the periphery of the mold, an injection device arranged on a back surface of the longitudinal mounting plate, and a PLC controller electrically connected to the mold locking device and the injection device respectively, wherein the mold locking mechanism comprises a mold locking fixed-point assembly arranged on the longitudinal mounting plate, and a hydraulic mold locking assembly connected to the mold locking fixed-point assembly; the mold locking fixed-point assembly comprises a fixed-point servo motor arranged on the longitudinal mounting plate and electrically connected to the PLC controller, a fixed-point screw connected to the mold, a nut screwed to the fixed-point screw, and a transmission structure connected between the fixed-point servo motor and the nut; and the hydraulic mold locking assembly acts on the nut. The digital full-automatic die casting apparatus provided by the invention has a high accuracy and smooth operation of each mechanism, and a high degree of automation, with high efficiency and high quality of cast products.

A diecasting tool system has a machine-related base plate, at least one set of contour-imparting mould components which in an assembled position on the base plate form a casting contour for an associated cast part to be cast, and a plurality of not contour-imparting tool receptacle module components. The base plate, the tool receptacle module components and the contour-imparting mould components are configured for releasably assembling the associated set of contour-imparting mould components and an assigned set of the tool receptacle module components on a fastening side of the base plate for casting the respective cast part. The base plate on the fastening side has a fastening grid of a plurality of fastening points which are disposed so as to be distributed in a regular or irregular pattern across a fastening region. The set of contour-imparting mould components conjointly with the assigned set of the tool receptacle module components is able to be assembled on the base plate in at least two different orientations, and/or a plurality of sets of contour-imparting mould components with a respectively assigned set of the tool receptacle module components are present for selective assembling on the base plate.

A cooling apparatus provided in a casting mold part formed with a cooler insertion hole in a die casting mold may include a cooler head including a coolant supply connector and a coolant exhaust connector, an internal pipe fixed to the cooler head to be fluidically-connected to the coolant supply connector, and integrally formed with a spiral protrusion over a predetermined range from a front end portion toward a rear end portion, and an external pipe fixed to the cooler head to be fluidically-connected to the coolant exhaust connector while holding a portion of a remaining range of the internal pipe, and configured to be coupled with an internal circumferential surface of the cooler insertion hole.

Provided is a testing machine for simulating a die casting cooling process, comprising a mold base, a stationary die, a moving die, a guide rod, an ejector rod, a mold clamping device, a point cooling device housing, a cooling water channel, a heating coil, a heating block and a heating bar; a point cooling unit consists of the point cooling device housing and the cooling water channel, a plurality of heating bars regularly arranged on the moving die constitute a pre-heating unit, a thermocouple is arranged at the point cooling unit, a temperature signal is connected to a controller, the heating coil and the heating block constitute an external heating unit, the point cooling unit is connected to a cooler, a cooling water tank, a filter and a water pump to constitute a cooling device, the controller and a ball valve constitute a control system.

A die casting system includes a die having a plurality of die elements that define a die cavity. A charge of material is received in the die cavity. The charge of material comprises a refractory metal intermetallic composite based material system. A die casting method includes casting a component from the refractory metal intermetallic composite based material system.

A diecasting tool system has a machine-related base plate, at least one set of contour-imparting mould components which in an assembled position on the base plate form a casting contour for an associated cast part to be cast, and a plurality of not contour-imparting tool receptacle module components. The base plate, the tool receptacle module components and the contour-imparting mould components are configured for releasably assembling the associated set of contour-imparting mould components and an assigned set of the tool receptacle module components on a fastening side of the base plate for casting the respective cast part. The base plate on the fastening side has a fastening grid of a plurality of fastening points which are disposed so as to be distributed in a regular or irregular pattern across a fastening region. The set of contour-imparting mould components conjointly with the assigned set of the tool receptacle module components is able to be assembled on the base plate in at least two different orientations, and/or a plurality of sets of contour-imparting mould components with a respectively assigned set of the tool receptacle module components are present for selective assembling on the base plate.

A thermal system for casting process includes a set of centralized infrastructure components. The centralized infrastructure components include a central fluid reservoir providing fluid to the entire system. A control system for the thermal system is configured to supply fluids to a plurality of fluid lines corresponding to a plurality of casting circuits at various temperatures. The control system generates fluids for a plurality of casting circuits at various temperatures by mixing a plurality of fluid sources at different ratios.

A casting insert includes a casting insert wall formed substantially of a liquid-phase-sintered refractory metal alloy, a cavity formed by the casting insert wall, and at least one cooling duct, which is different from the cavity and which is formed at least partly within the cavity and/or which is formed at least partly within the casting insert wall. The casting insert wall has a wall thickness which can be defined as a normal distance between a point of the casting insert wall which faces the cavity and a point on an outer surface of the casting insert wall. The wall thickness is, at least in sections, less than 25% of a diameter of the casting insert.

Provided is a testing machine for simulating a die casting cooling process, including a mold base, a stationary die, a moving die, a guide rod, an ejector rod, a mold clamping device, a point cooling device housing, a cooling water channel, a heating coil, a heating block and a heating bar; a point cooling unit includes the point cooling device housing and the cooling water channel, a plurality of heating bars regularly arranged on the moving die constitute a pre-heating unit, a thermocouple is arranged at the point cooling unit, a temperature signal is connected to a controller, the heating coil and the heating block constitute an external heating unit, the point cooling unit is connected to a cooler, a cooling water tank, a filter and a water pump to constitute a cooling device, the controller and a ball valve constitute a control system.