Patent ID: 11904385
Assignee: SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD.
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A die casting machine comprising:
a holding furnace configured to hold molten metal;
a sleeve located outside the holding furnace, the sleeve connected to an inside of a mold, and the sleeve including a molten metal supply port;
a plunger configured to slide through the sleeve and including a plunger rod and a plunger tip fixed to a tip of the plunger rod;
a molten metal supply pipe configured to supply the molten metal into the sleeve the molten metal supply pipe being attachable to and detachable from the molten metal supply port;
a moving mechanism configured to detach the molten metal supply pipe from the molten metal supply port when the plunger is sliding; and
a first sensor facing a predetermined height between a lowermost portion and an uppermost portion of an inner surface of the sleeve and configured to detect that the molten metal in the sleeve reaches the predetermined height.