IP Library Granted Patent US 12,330,191
Granted Patent B2
US 12,330,191 · App. 17/312,668 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Alien substance removing apparatus and electrical steel sheet manufacturing facility having thereof

Inventors: Seong-Cheol Hong (Pohang-si, KR); Ki-Young Min (Pohang-si, KR); Se-Min Park (Pohang-si, KR); Dong-Geun Kim (Pohang-si, KR); Oho-Cheal Kwon (Pohang-si, KR); Chang-Ho Kim (Pohang-si, KR); Sang-Uk Ha (Pohang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
B08B1/30B08B1/12B08B1/165B08B15/02B23K26/16B23K26/36B23K26/364C21D10/005
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Patent No.
US 12,330,191
App. No.
17/312,668
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An alien substance removing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a hood unit provided adjacent to an electrical steel sheet and for collecting an alien substance generated in the electrical steel sheet by laser irradiation; and a scraping unit coupled to the hood unit and scraping and removing the alien substance attached to one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet.

Claims (32)

1. A foreign object removing apparatus, comprising:

a hood unit configured to collect a foreign object generated from an electrical steel sheet by laser irradiation; and

a scraping unit coupled to the hood unit, and configured to scrape and remove the foreign object attached to one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet,

wherein the scraping unit comprises:

an expansion and contraction driving unit coupled to the one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet; and

a scraper unit coupled to an end portion of a rod member of the expansion and contraction driving unit, wherein the rod member is expandable and contractable, and the scraper unit is configured to reciprocate in close contact with the one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet,

wherein the hood unit comprises:

a cooling block member disposed on the electrical steel sheet, the cooling block member including:

a slit hole through which the irradiated laser passes; and

a cooling passage through which a cooling fluid flows and to which the scraping unit is coupled on the one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet, and

in order that the rod member is disposed away from the slit hole and the scraper unit is evenly disposed on the cooling block member, the rod member of the expansion and contraction driving unit is coupled to the scraper body of the scraper unit at a position adjacent to a side end portion of the cooling block member.

2. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the scraper unit comprises:

a scraper body coupled to the rod member; and

a plurality of contact tab units provided on the scraper body, and formed to protrude to contact the one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet, the plurality of contact tab units being formed to be spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals.

3. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein at least one of the plurality of contact tab units includes unevenness portions, in a direction intersecting an expansion and contraction direction of the rod member, the unevenness portions being in contact with the one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet.

4. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the expansion and contraction driving unit comprises:

a driving cylinder fixedly coupled to the one surface of the hood unit facing the electrical steel sheet, wherein the rod member is connected to the driving cylinder and is expandable and contractable; and

a rod cleaner coupled to the driving cylinder, wherein the rod member is connected to pass through the rod cleaner to remove foreign objects attached to the rod member.

5. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the rod cleaner comprises;

a pair of support bar members having one end portion coupled to the driving cylinder, and disposed adjacent to both sides of the rod member; and

a support block member coupled to the other end portion of the pair of support bar members, and having a through-hole through which the rod member reciprocates.

6. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the support block member includes a toothed portion that is in contact with the rod member and is disposed on an inner surface of the through-hole.

7. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the support block member includes a brush that is in contact with the rod member and is disposed on an inner surface of the through-hole.

8. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the rod cleaner comprises a scrub member having one end portion coupled to the support block member portion, adjacent to the through-hole and the other end portion provided in a form of a trumpet, in contact with the rod member.

9. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the hood unit further comprises

a dust collecting member coupled to the cooling block member to surround the cooling block member and collecting a foreign object generated from the electrical steel sheet, and

wherein the cooling block member has a cooling passage through which a cooling fluid flows.

10. An electrical steel sheet manufacturing facility, comprising:

a laser room provided on a moving path of an electrical steel sheet;

a laser device provided inside the laser room, and forming a groove on a surface of the electrical steel sheet by irradiating a laser; and

a foreign object removing apparatus according to claim 1 provided inside the laser room, and disposed between the electrical steel sheet and the laser device.

11. The foreign object removing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the position at which the rod member of the expansion and contraction driving unit is coupled to the scraper body of the scraper unit is closer to the side end portion of the cooling block member than to the slit hole of the cooling block member.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
To: POSCO CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 061777/0937 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 28, 2022
From: POSCO
To: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 061561/0730 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2021
From: HONG, SEONG-CHEOL; MIN, KI-YOUNG; PARK, SE-MIN; KIM, DONG-GEUN; KWON, OHO-CHEAL; KIM, CHANG-HO; HA, SANG-UK
To: POSCO
Reel/Frame 056502/0965 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0160645 · Dec 13, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220048136A1 · Feb 17, 2022
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