Method for manufacture of a physical quantity detector

• US 7,708,051 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2007
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nagano Keiki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nagano Keiki Company Limited, YKK Corporation
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Tadashi, Nagasaka, Hiroshi, Ofune, Hitoshi, Katsumi, Tetsuya, Yoshida, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kerns; Kevin P
• Application Number:
  US11/657,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20070181222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: 164/113, 164/312, 164/137, 164/342
• US Class Current: 164/113
• CPC Class Codes: B22D 15/02 of cylinders, pistons, bearing shells or like thin-walled objects
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 9/0051 using variations in ohmic resistance

Abstract

A physical quantity detector, such as a pressure sensor and a load sensor, includes a cylindrical part of which one end is closed with a strain generating part and a sensor part formed on the strain generating part. The cylindrical part is produced by melting an alloying material having a composition capable of yielding an amorphous alloy, injecting the resultant molten alloy into a metal mold, and cooling the molten alloy in the metal mold to confer amorphousness on the alloy. The metal mold includes a split mold having at least two split parts for forming a cavity and an insert pin to be inserted into the cavity so as to define the inner configuration of the cylindrical part, or further an insert core to be inserted into the mold so as to form the surface of the cavity corresponding to the surface of the strain generating part.

Claims

1. A method for the manufacture of a physical quantity detector comprising a cylindrical part of which one end is closed with a strain generating part and a sensor part formed on the strain generating part, characterized in that said cylindrical part is produced by melting an alloying material having a composition capable of yielding an amorphous alloy, injecting the resultant molten alloy into a metal mold, and cooling the molten alloy in the metal mold to confer amorphousness on the alloy, wherein said metal mold comprises a split mold having at least two split parts for forming a cavity, an insert core to be inserted into the mold so as to form a surface of the cavity corresponding to an outside surface of the strain generating part, and an insert pin to be inserted into the cavity so as to define the inner configuration of said cylindrical part, and wherein the surface of said cavity corresponding to the outside surface of the strain generating part is formed in a flat surface by a surface of said insert core having a surface area larger than a surface area of the outside surface of said strain generating part.

2. The method set forth in claim 1, wherein said metal mold has a temperature set in the range of from 100°

C. to 350°

C.

3. A method for the manufacture of a physical quantity detector comprising a cylindrical part of which one end is closed with a strain generating part and a sensor part formed on the strain generating part, characterized in that said cylindrical part is produced by melting an alloying material having a composition capable of yielding an amorphous alloy, injecting the resultant molten alloy into a metal mold, and cooling the molten alloy in the metal mold to confer amorphousness on the alloy wherein said metal mold is composed of a split mold having at least two split parts for forming a cavity and an insert pin to be inserted into the cavity so as to define the inner configuration of said cylindrical part, wherein the cavity is formed so that a parting face of the mold corresponds to an outside surface of the strain generating part, and wherein the surface of said cavity corresponding to the outside surface of the strain generating part is formed in a flat surface by said parting face of the mold having a surface area larger than a surface area of the outside surface of said strain generating part.

4. The method set forth in claim 3, wherein said metal mold has a temperature set in the range of from 100°

C. to 350°

C.