Hitachi, Ltd.

Akihide Watanabe

Tatsuo Natori

Takashi Shimaguchi

Toshihiro Yamada

Tadakatsu Nakajima

Shigeo Ohashi

Heikichi Kuwahara

Kenichi Kasai

Susumu Hioki

Keiichi Koike

Hideo Nakae

Motohiro Satoh

Satomi Kobayashi

Kensuke Kanekatsu

Flexible cooling paths are connected to semiconductor elements which are heated members. A cooling apparatus comprises cooling blocks connected to cooling blocks, coolant flow paths through which the coolant flows, coolant branching mechanisms provided in the coolant flow paths and connecting mechanism for connecting the branching mechanism and the cooling blocks through O-rings. A part of coolant flowing through the cooling flow paths is introduced into the cooling blocks for the respective heated chips in order.

Semiconductor cooling apparatus

In a method for forming a cast article by slip casting through casting of a slip of powders of ceramics, etc. as disporsed in a solvent such as water, etc. into a solvent-absorbable, porous casting mold of gypsum, etc., the casting mold as made is heated to considerably lower the strength of the casting mold in a shape-maintainable range, the slip is cast into the cavity of the casting mold and after solidification of the slip into a green body the casting mold is removed to obtain a defect-free green body. The casting mold can be removed with much ease.

Method for forming cast article by slip casting

In a casting method comprising casting a slip containing water or an organic solvent as the medium into a mold and removing the mold after solidification of the slip, use of a mold formed with an organic binder soluble in the medium of the slip allows the slip to quickly solidify and afford a green body due to absorption of the medium in the slip by the mold. In this case, the mold softens with loss of the binding power thereof simultaneously with the absorption of the medium. Therefore, no cracks appear at all in the green body, and removal of the mold is very easy.

Slip casting method

A cast article having a complicated shape of the appearance and the hollow can be obtained by forming a coating film on the surface of a pattern from a solvent-insoluble material to prepare a mold pattern, filling and hardening a molding material around the mold pattern, dissolving the pattern with a solvent, and removing the residue of dissolution and the coating film outside the mold.

Process for preparing mold

In a forming method and a mold wherein a slip is cast into the mold and wherein the mold is removed after hardening of the slip, the mold is patterned by the use of a water-soluble binder. The mold absorbs a water content in the slip to soften and to become easy of removal, while the slip has the water content absorbed to harden promptly. Therefore, the forming method and the mold are especially suited to produce a cast article of complicated shape.

Slip casting forming method and mold

A slip casting mold consisting essentially of a gypsum mold, which contains a water-insoluble organic material, more particularly, a water-insoluble vegetable material such as cellulose, or which further contains glue in addition to the water-insoluble organic material. Since the strength of the casting mold is reduced markedly by heating, a cast article requiring a core (or master mold) having complex shape can be obtained extremely easily.

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Akihide Watanabe