Japan, Feb. 27 -- TOUNETSU CO LTD has got intellectual property rights for 'TAPPING METHOD AND TAPPING FACILITY.' Other related details are as follows:

Application Number: JP,2024-067001

Category (FI): B22D18/04@U,B22D45/00@B,B22D17/30@E

Stage: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tapping method and a tapping facility which can tap a large amount of molten metal.SOLUTION: A tapping facility has: a tapping chamber 16 for tapping molten metal MM; a molten metal holding chamber 13 for holding the molten metal; an adjustment part 4 for permitting or shutting off movement of the molten metal from the molten metal holding chamber to the tapping chamber, between the molten metal holding chamber and the tapping chamber; a tapping passage 3 used to tap the molten metal in the tapping chamber to outside; and a gas supply part 16A capable of supplying gas from outside of the tapping chamber. A tapping method has: (1) a moving step of performing at least one of moving the molten metal in the molten metal holding chamber by natural flow down by a level difference in a molten metal surface of the molten metal between the molten metal holding chamber and the tapping chamber, into the tapping chamber, and having a pressurization part 13A capable of supplying gas from outside of the molten metal holding chamber, and moving the molten metal MM in the molten metal holding chamber into the tapping chamber by pressurization of the gas from the pressurization part; and (2) a tapping step of tapping the molten metal in the tapping chamber to a target part through inside the tapping passage, by pressurization of the gas from the gas supply part.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 (Grant)

Filing Date: April 17, 2024

Publication Date: Oct. 29, 2025

The original document can be viewed at: https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/p0100

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