Method and treatment device for the cooling of highly heated metal components

US6434949B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Peter Botzler · Radeberg, DE
• Carsten Deus · Dresden, DE
• Lutz Wolkers · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 20, 2002
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C21D1/767
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method for cooling metal components highly heated in a chamber includes effecting a uniform cooling of an entire metal component. The metal component has regions each with a given mass, some of the regions having a larger mass than others of the regions. Housings are provided around regions with the relatively larger masses. The regions are subjected to the inert cooling gas in a controlled manner to a differing extent based upon the mass size. The housings are individually subjected separately with the inert cooling gas. A treatment device for cooling metal components includes a reservoir for holding inert cooling gas and a chamber for receiving a metal component to be cooled. The chamber is connected to the reservoir and has a housing for each of the regions with the larger mass. Each of the housing has an inlet orifice separately connected to the reservoir.