Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Koyama

Michiharu Hasegawa

Toshihiro Miyauchi

Yasuhiro Shimamura

Naoji Yamamoto

Noriyuki Miyazaki

Kenji Sugai

Masahito Hasuike

Satoshi Mitsuyose

Takefumi Mizuhori

Fumitaka Miyagawa

Daisuke Noro

Hiroaki Yoshikawa

Hiroaki Tohyama

A tool holder is provided with a main body, a taper cone, a working portion, a coolant flow passage, and an adjuster. The taper cone includes a taper portion and movable in an axial direction of the main body. The working portion is mounted on an outer peripheral portion of the main body and includes a taper bottom surface which engages with the taper portion. The taper bottom surface is movable in a radial direction of the main body based on a movement of the taper cone in the axial direction. A coolant flows through the coolant flow passage such that a part of the coolant presses and moves the taper cone in the axial direction and another part of the coolant flows out to an outside so as to adjust a pressing force. The adjuster is fitted into a hole penetrating the main body and includes a coolant flow-out hole for adjusting a flow-out of the coolant.

Tool holder

A method of the surface treatment of a mold for casting, which comprises subjecting a cavity surface of a fixed mold made by the use of a SCM420 material to first shot peening, a sulfurizing-nitriding treatment and second shot peening. The resulting cavity surface of the fixed mold exhibits a high hardness of 700 or higher in terms of Vickers hardness due to the presence of a sulfurized and nitrided layer, and further has a compression residual stress of more than 1200 Mpa and a largest height, which is a surface roughness value defined by JIS standard, of 8 &#x3bc;m or less.

Mold for casting and method of surface treatment thereof

A mold for casting primarily of SMC420, wherein a cavity forming portion comprising maraging steel, which has the toughness and the resistance to heat shock superior to those of SMC420, is provided in a vertical wall heading for a cavity surface from a molten metal inlet and a portion nearest to the molten metal inlet in the cavity surface, which are portions suffering relatively large heat shock in the contact with a molten metal. Also provided is a method for providing the cavity forming portion, which comprises filling a concave portion of the mold with a molten metal prepared by melting a welding rod by arc welding, in other words, carrying out an overlaying welding, and then cooling and solidifying the molten metal.

Mold for casting and method for manufacture thereof

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Tochigi-ken, Japan

Hiroaki Koyama