METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CASTING MOLTEN METAL, AND CAST PIECE

摘要

A method and an apparatus for continuously casting a molten metal, adapted to apply to a molten metal vibration generated by a shifting magnetic field which improves an equiaxed crystal ratio, and which can further refine an equiaxed crystal, without causing a surface discontinuity ascribed to powder inclusion to occur; and a cast piece, characterized by a casting process for manufacturing a cast piece, comprising injecting a molten metal into a casting mold while applying an electromagnetic force from an electromagnetic coil, which is provided in the vicinity of the casting mold, to the molten metal, to solidify the same, wherein a shifting magnetic field generated by a magnetic coil provided in the vicinity of a molten metal pool in the casting mold is applied to the molten metal which is being withdrawn in the downward direction as it is completely solidified, or cool-solidified in the casting mold, to a degree within a range not exceeding an absolute value of a predetermined velocity of flow, by subject the molten metal to a high and low accelerations and combining direction vectors of the same direction of high and low accelerations or direction vectors of an opposite direction thereof, to vibrate the molten metal.