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Huirui powder feeder reaches a new level: Helping laser metal additive manufacturing move from “0-1” to “1-N”

November 29, 2023

Arthur Shaw

We at Huirui have always attached great importance to the research and development of powder feeders, and continue to iterate and update to optimize product performance and user experience. At the same time, Huirui maintains close cooperation with well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, universities, and scientific research institutions, actively listens to user feedback and suggestions, and constantly introduces new products to enhance the technological content and market competitiveness of its products. Huirui believes that only by continuously pursuing excellence and innovation can we provide customers with safer, more stable, and more efficient powder-feeding solutions to meet the needs and challenges of different industries.

Huirui independently develops a series of powder feeder equipment, including gravity powder feeding and carrier air powder feeding. Carrier gas-type powder feeding is divided into various specifications such as single barrel, double barrel, four-barrel, and five barrel. It can be equipped with optional functions such as carrier airflow closed-loop control, dynamic weighing closed-loop control, protective gas control, powder mixing, and powder preheating. In addition, in addition to the conventional configuration, our 5L barrels can also be equipped with functions such as uninterrupted powder addition and gas replacement. Huirui powder feeders are widely used in spraying, laser cladding, 3D printing, and other fields. Its long-distance powder feeding is stable, high-precision, and can extend the service life of consumables.

Features

  • High powder feeding accuracy: Huirui uses a stepper motor/servo motor carrier gas powder feeder, and the powder feeding accuracy error is ≦±1%.
  • Synchronization operation: It can be integrated with other master control devices to complete synchronization operation.
  • Various options: Various carrier gas volume configurations can be adjusted to meet different user needs.
  • Stable powder feeding: Stable powder feeding over long distances ensures cladding accuracy.
  • Applicable to a variety of working conditions: 5L or larger capacity powder barrels can meet customers’ long-term and large-area operations, and the unique design ensures consistent cladding thickness at different powder levels.
  • Powder feeding method: Double buckets or more powder buckets can feed powder individually or at the same time, allowing online powder mixing.
  • Intuitive understanding: Using a transparent powder bucket and a see-through window, the powder can be visualized.
  • Human-computer interaction: The parameters of the human-computer interaction interface can be set visually, making adjustment and control convenient and fast.

Product advantages

  • High reliability: Rational design, high-precision processing, and rigorous testing allow it to operate stably and reliably under complex working conditions over long distances and long periods of time.
  • Unique design: The Huirui single-cylinder powder feeder has a unique design, which has little effect on the processing thickness when the powder bucket is fully loaded or the material level is low.
  • Top-grade consumables: The consumables are made of the world’s top materials and have a longer service life.
  • Good performance: The air-tightness of the carrier gas powder feeder is reliable, which can ensure that the powder feeding distance can reach 15m or more, and the powder feeding is more stable.
  • Leading technology: Huirui’s dynamic weighing powder feeder is currently the only powder feeder of this type in China, filling a gap in the domestic market.

Huirui’s new powder feeder
Improvements in craftsmanship compared to older models

  • Strong adaptability: The powder bucket of Huirui’s new powder feeder can adapt to almost all irregular powders on the market.
  • Easy to operate: The new powder feeder is equipped with a powder bucket cover, making the powder-adding device easier and faster.
  • Good durability: The new powder feeder has improved the plug of the mixing device, making the plug more convenient and durable.
  • Stable powder feeding and high precision: The stability and precision of powder feeding of the new powder feeder are further improved.
  • Powder bucket replacement: The powder bucket is replaced and dismantled more conveniently and quickly.
  • Efficiency improvement: The service life of the powder tray/powder block is increased by 200%.
  • Comprehensive update: The new powder feeder better eliminates powder clogging, powder jam, and powder overflow.
  • Powder mixing: The new powder feeder adopts a turning and stirring method to make the powder mix better and more fully.

Huirui’s new continuous powder adding device
Improvements in craftsmanship over older models

1. Online non-stop powder adding: The new non-stop powder-adding device adopts a double-layer design, which does not affect the operation when adding powder.

2. Low material level warning: When the powder is lower than the low material level, an early warning report signal is output to the outside to replenish the powder in time without the need for real-time monitoring by manpower.

3. Intelligent gas replacement: A new gas replacement valve can fully replace and clean inert gas with oxygen and other gases in the barrel, effectively reducing powder oxidation.

4. Significantly increase the amount of powder added: The new continuous powder-adding device significantly increases the amount of powder added, for example, it can replenish 30kg of powder (iron-based) at one time.

5. Rich functional configuration: The new continuous powder-adding device can be equipped with stirring and heating functions.

As a leading domestic provider of metal additive manufacturing equipment and technical services, Huirui has been committed to the development of industrial-grade laser metal additive manufacturing technology. The company’s independently developed core technologies such as various types of laser cladding additive manufacturing equipment and components, processes, and application software are at the leading level in the industry.

Huirui powder feeder series products are the core products in the company’s product line and are favored by users such as universities, scientific research institutes, and enterprises. This product can transport powdered materials efficiently, stably, and accurately, providing users with a better user experience.