This application claims benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0169104 filed on Dec. 17, 2019 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a radiant tube apparatus disposed in a heat treatment facility to perform a heat treatment of a heat treatment target material and a method for manufacturing the same.
Metal materials machined in various ways such as casting, forging, rolling, and extrusion are heat-treated at a specific temperature to realize a desired strength and crystal size, or pass through a heat treatment furnace maintained at a specific temperature for surface treatment.
While being heat-treated, metal materials such as strips and plates may be oxidized due to oxygen present in an annealing furnace. In order to suppress the formation of oxides, a heat treatment in an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen or argon or in a vacuum state is used. When heat treatment in an inert atmosphere or vacuum state is required, a heating element using electricity is sometimes used as a heat source, but a method of using heat generated when gas is burned with a burner is suitable for a low-cost heat treatment of mass products. Here, since the burner cannot be directly burned in an inert atmosphere without oxygen required for gas combustion, a radiant tube equipped with a burner is used.
Even in a normal atmospheric atmosphere, not an inert atmosphere, if a flame is directly sprayed, the strip may be unevenly heated and discolored, and thus, the flame generated by the burner circulates inside the radiant tube to heat the radiant tube and the strip is indirectly heated by radiant heat emitted from the heated radiant tube. The radiant tube may be manufactured by casting a tube shape using a casting method or by making a plate material have a tube shape and welding a curved tube and a straight tube to each other.
Meanwhile, there has been an attempt to increase thermal efficiency of the radiant tube by forming a negative electrode protrusion on a surface using a centrifugal casting method or by forming a pattern in a plurality of polygons on a surface of the radiant tube.
However, since a height of the negative electrode protrusion cannot exceed a thickness of the surface of the radiant tube, there is a limit to improving the thermal efficiency. In addition, a polygon forming the pattern is arranged to share one side with an adjacent polygon to limit a shape that may be implemented, and an intermittent pattern formation reduces the productivity of a continuous pattern that may be formed per unit time. In addition, when one pattern constituting the continuous pattern comes into contact with another pattern, a surface area emitting radiant heat is reduced as much as the contact area, so an increase in thermal efficiency is also limited, which is pointed out as a problem.
An object of the present invention is to provide a radiant tube apparatus in which a plurality of continuous patterns formed to be parallel with other patterns by a predetermined distance are printed on a surface of a radiant tube to increase a radiant heat emission surface area, and a method for manufacturing the same.
A radiant tube apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a tube having an internal pipe, wherein the tube has a first continuous pattern and a second continuous pattern extending side by side and spaced apart from each other at a predetermined distance on a surface, and, in each of the first continuous pattern and the second continuous pattern, a plurality of unit patterns having a predetermined height from the surface are connected to each other in a longitudinal direction.
The tube may include a plurality of straight pipe portions extending in a straight line; and a curved pipe portion coupled to an end of the straight pipe portion so that the plurality of straight pipe portions are positioned to be parallel.
In the first continuous pattern, a plurality of first unit patterns including one of a hypotenuse and a vertical side of a right-angled triangle may be connected to each other to form a zigzag shape, and, in the second continuous pattern, a plurality of second unit patterns formed of a straight line may be connected to each other to form a straight line.
In the first continuous pattern, a plurality of first unit patterns including two sides having a predetermined included angle may be connected in a longitudinal direction to form a sawtooth shape, and in the second continuous pattern, a plurality of second unit patterns formed as a straight line may be connected to each other to form a straight line.
In each of the first continuous pattern and the second continuous pattern, a plurality of unit patterns including one of the hypotenuse and a vertical side of a right-angled triangle may be connected to each other in a longitudinal direction to form a zigzag shape, and a center of the unit pattern constituting the second continuous pattern may be configured by moving in parallel by a predetermined distance in the longitudinal direction from the center of the unit pattern constituting the first continuous pattern.
In each of the first continuous pattern and the second continuous pattern, a plurality of unit patterns including two sides having a predetermined included angle may be connected in a longitudinal direction to form a sawtooth shape, and a center of the unit pattern constituting the second continuous pattern may be configured by moving in parallel by a predetermined distance in the longitudinal direction from the center of the unit pattern constituting the first continuous pattern.
In the first continuous pattern, a plurality of first unit patterns including three sides vertically connected to an inside and one side vertically connected to an outside may be connected in a longitudinal direction to form a concavo-convex shape, and in the second continuous pattern, a plurality of second unit patterns formed of straight lines may be connected in the longitudinal direction to form a straight line.
In each of the first continuous pattern and the second continuous pattern, a plurality of unit patterns including three sides vertically connected to an inside and one side vertically connected to an outside may be connected in a longitudinal direction to form a concavo-convex shape.
In the first continuous pattern, a plurality of first unit patterns including three sides vertically connected to an inside and one side vertically connected to an outside may be connected in a longitudinal direction to form a concavo-convex shape, and, in the second continuous pattern, a plurality of second unit patterns having three sides vertically connected to the inside may be positioned to enter a convex inside of the first unit pattern at a predetermined interval and may be intermittently arranged to be formed in the longitudinal direction.
In the first continuous pattern, a plurality of first unit patterns including three sides vertically connected to an inside and one side vertically connected to an outside may be connected in a longitudinal direction to form a concavo-convex shape, and in the second continuous pattern, a plurality of second unit patterns including a first straight line and a second straight line vertically coupled to the first straight line may be positioned to enter the convex inside of the first unit pattern at a predetermined interval and connected to be formed in the longitudinal direction.
In a method for manufacturing a radiant tube apparatus according to another feature of the present invention, a radiant tube apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 10 is manufactured by printing a first continuous pattern and a second continuous pattern extending side by side and spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval on a surface of a tube having an internal pipe through a three-dimensional modeling method.
In a method for manufacturing a radiant tube apparatus according to another feature of the present invention, a radiant tube apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 10 is manufactured by welding a first continuous pattern and a second continuous pattern extending side by side and spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval on a surface of a tube having an internal pipe through any one method among a cold metal transfer (CMT), a tungsten inert gas (TIG), and a metal inert gas (MIG).
The radiant tube apparatus capable of improving heat treatment efficiency in an annealing furnace by improving radiant heat efficiency, and the method for manufacturing the same are provided.
Hereinafter, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like numbers refer to like elements throughout although the exemplary embodiments are different, and a redundant description thereof is omitted. In the following description, usage of suffixes such as ‘module’, ‘part’ or ‘unit’ used for referring to elements is given merely to facilitate explanation of the present invention, without having any significant meaning by itself. In describing the present invention, if a detailed explanation for a related known function or construction is considered to unnecessarily divert the gist of the present invention, such explanation has been omitted but would be understood by those skilled in the art. The accompanying drawings of the present invention aim to facilitate understanding of the present invention and should not be construed as limited to the accompanying drawings. Also, the present invention is not limited to a specific disclosed form, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and substitutions without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention.
It will be understood that, although the terms first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another.
It is to be understood that when one element is referred to as being “connected to” or “coupled to” another element, it may be connected directly to or coupled directly to another element or be connected to or coupled to another element, having the other element intervening therebetween. Meanwhile, it is to be understood that when one element is referred to as being “connected directly to” or “coupled directly to” another element, it may be connected to or coupled to another element without the other element intervening therebetween.
It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” or “have” used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, components, parts, or a combination thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, numerals, steps, operations, components, parts, or a combination thereof.
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The tube 110 may include a plurality of straight pipe portions 111a and 111b: 111 extending in a straight line and a curved pipe portion 113 coupled to ends of the plurality of straight pipe portions 111a and 111b: 111 so that the plurality of straight pipe portions 111a and 111b: 111 are arranged to be parallel to each other to have a U shape. For example, the tube 110 may be formed to have a U shape or a W shape depending on a size and heating temperature of the strip S, but is not limited thereto.
The tube 110 includes a plurality of continuous patterns formed on an outer surface thereof. In this case, a surface area for emitting radiant heat increases, thereby increasing radiant heat efficiency. As a height of the continuous pattern increases, the surface area increases, thereby increasing the radiant heat efficiency, but the height may be set to an optimal height depending on a location where the radiant tube apparatus 100 is installed or a distance from other adjacent devices.
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Each of the first continuous pattern 300 and the second continuous pattern 400 may be formed by connecting a plurality of unit patterns having a predetermined height from an outer surface of the tube 110 in a longitudinal direction. For example, the continuous pattern may be printed through a 3D additive manufacturing method (hereinafter, “3D printing”) such as a directed energy deposition (DED) method, an overlay welding method using cold metal transfer (CMT), tungsten inert gas (TIG), metal inert gas (MIG), etc.
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Although the exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains are also provided.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2019-0169104 | Dec 2019 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/KR2020/016828 | 11/25/2020 | WO |