Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Ronald H Hasenbusch

Raymond Edward Kalisz

Charles Alan Rocco

Harold P Sears

Jeffery N Conley

Venkat Nara

Bradley D Guthrie

James Todd Kloeb

Alan Lawrence Jacobson

Paul Harrison

Bernie Gerard Marchetti

Larry Edward Ellis

A system and method of making a part. The part may cast in a die. A gripper assembly may be provided that has a gripper and a spray nozzle that provides a fluid. The part may be quenched with a fluid when the part is in the die.

System and method of making a cast part

A mold package for casting a wheel assembly includes a sand printed drag mold having a cavity with a chill support chamber and a metal chill received in the support chamber. The mold package further includes at least one sand printed mold insert received in the cavity of the sand printed drag mold and a sand printed cope mold coupled to the sand printed drag mold such that a casting cavity for the wheel assembly is created by the exterior inner surfaces of the cope mold, the drag mold and the at least one insert.

Sand printed mold package for casting a wheel assembly having directional solidification features

A mold core package for forming a molding tool includes a plurality of stacked particulate layers having a binding agent. The plurality of stacked particulate layers form sacrificial walls defining a mold cavity. A sacrificial displacement line and a sacrificial displacement body extend from the mold core package and are adapted to displace a molten material applied to the mold core package.

Molding tool with conformal portions and method of making the same

A mold core package for forming a molding tool includes a plurality of stacked particulate layers having a binding agent. The plurality of stacked particulate layers form sacrificial walls. An elongate sacrificial displacement line extends through the mold core package adjacent a forming surface of the mold core package. A mold cavity is defined by the stacked particulate layers.

Mold core for forming a molding tool

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Ronald H Hasenbusch