Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080197521 | METHOD OF INDICATING AN OPEN/CLOSE STATE OF A CHECK VALVE OF AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - A method of indicating an open/close state of a check valve of an injection molding machine simply and more accurately. The method detects screw rotational force during injection and displays in wave form on the screen of a display device changes in detected rotational force. An open/close state of the check valve can be indicated based on the waveform pattern displayed on the display screen because the screw rotational force waveform pattern changes when the check valve closes. From the fact that the screw rotational force waveform pattern changes when the check valve closes, the open/close state of the check valve can be indicated from the displayed waveform. | 08-21-2008 |
20080305199 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CLOSURE OF CHECK RING - Torques and resin pressures applied to a screw are detected during the forward movement of the screw and coefficients of correlation between the detected torques and resin pressures are calculated. When the check ring is open, the flight of the screw receives resin pressure, and the screw torque increases proportionally to the resin pressure due to resin backflow, so the coefficients of correlation between the screw torques and the resin pressures are higher than a reference value. When the check ring closes, the flight of the screw no longer receive resin pressure, so the screw torque decreases and the coefficients of correlation become lower than the reference value. The check ring is determined to be closed when the coefficients of correlation become lower than the reference value. | 12-11-2008 |
20080305202 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - An injection molding machine estimates a check valve wear amount, making it possible to predict a check valve use limit. At start of injection, the check valve is at a position advanced a stroke S | 12-11-2008 |
20090022838 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - When a screw equipped with a check ring is moved forward, torque acting on the screw is detected, and whether the check ring is closed is determined on the basis of the detected torque. The screw is rotated in reverse when the check ring is determined not to be closed, and the reverse rotation of the screw is stopped when the check ring is determined to be closed. The reverse rotation of the screw is thereby controlled so that the screw is rotated in reverse by an optimal amount for reliably closing the check ring. | 01-22-2009 |
20090022839 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE WHICH CARRIES OUT CONTROLLING OF CLOSING OPERATION OF A CHECK RING - While a check ring of a screw of an injection molding machine is in open state, an absolute value (|Δ resin pressure / Δ rotation amount |) of a variation of a resin pressure per unit variation of the screw reverse rotation becomes greater than a predetermined reference value. However, after the check ring is closed, |Δ resin pressure / Δ rotation amount | becomes equal to or less than the reference value. From this, detecting if the |Δ resin pressure / Δ rotation amount | during reverse rotation of the screw, it is possible to determine that the check ring is closed or not. As a result, it is possible to obtain a screw reverse rotation amount which is optimal for reliably closing the check ring. | 01-22-2009 |
20090026646 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A REVERSE ROTATION AMOUNT OF A REVERSE ROTATION PROCESS IN AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - When a resin passage of a check ring is opened, resin backflow occurs during time when an injection screw is moved forward, and a reverse rotational force is applied to the screw by resin backflow. On the other hand, when the resin passage is closed, there is no resin backflow and the reverse rotational force applied to the screw is greatly reduced. Consequently, after completion of metering process and before injection process, the screw is moved forward after the screw has been rotated in reverse a predetermined amount to prevent resin backflow. At this time, a maximum value of the reverse rotational force applied to the screw is detected. Until the detected maximum reverse rotational force reaches a reference value or less, the reverse rotation amount is increased sequentially and respective molding cycles are carried out. When the detected maximum reverse rotational force reaches the reference value or less (passage closure), the reverse rotation amount at this time is set as the reverse rotation amount for the reverse rotation process. By means of this operation, an optimal reverse rotation amount can be adjusted automatically. | 01-29-2009 |
20120040038 | MOLDING MATERIAL FEED SCREW USED IN MOLDING MATERIAL SUPPLY DEVICE OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - A notched region in which the outer periphery of a screw flight is cut out is provided in a molding material feed screw. A wedge-shaped portion is formed by both a front wall surface of the screw flight and a wall surface of the boundary where the outer periphery of the screw flight is cut out. As a result of rotation of the molding material feed screw, since the wedge-shaped portion advances while pushing aside resin pellets located in the front thereof in two lateral directions of the front wall surface of the screw flight and the wall surface of the boundary where the outer diameter of the screw flight is cut out, entrapment of the resin pellets between the edge of a material supply port of a molding material supply device and the outer periphery of the screw flight is avoided as much as possible. | 02-16-2012 |
20130095199 | METERING CONTROLLER FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - During metering, a screw is retreated to a preset metering completion position while it is being forwardly rotated. Pilot injection is performed such that the screw is reversely rotated and advanced so that a resin pressure reaches a predetermined compression pressure, during a time period between the end of the metering and the start of injection. The screw reverse rotation is continued before the screw advance is started for the pilot injection. In this way, a check valve can be closed at a relatively low pressure such that precision metering can be achieved. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095200 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - A reference physical quantity and a current physical quantity are successively compared with each other in association with an elapsed time during which a moving part operates or an operating position of the moving part, and a deviation of the physical quantity is determined. An average of absolute values of the determined deviations of the physical quantities is calculated, and a threshold corresponding to the elapsed time during which the moving part operates or the operating position of the moving part is calculated such that the threshold increases as the calculated absolute value increases. Abnormality is detected if the calculated threshold is exceeded by the determined deviation of the physical quantity. | 04-18-2013 |
20130156875 | ABNORMALITY DETECTOR FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - A movable unit in an injection molding machine is started to operate and the current physical quantity and the current time (or current position of the movable unit) are detected. The current physical quantity is stored as a reference physical quantity in association with the elapsed time of operation of the movable unit (or position of the movable unit). A deviation of the current physical quantity from the reference physical quantity is calculated and stored, a distribution index value is then calculated from the physical quantity deviations in the first to n-th cycles, and a threshold value is determined from the distribution index value. When the deviation exceeds the threshold value, alarm processing is performed. | 06-20-2013 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080199551 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - An injection molding machine capable of accurately detecting a rotational force exerted on a screw by resin backflow to easily evaluate states of resin backflow and closure of a check valve. In a state where the screw is stopped axially and rotationally after metering is finished, a load exerted on the screw in the rotational direction is detected. This load is a rotational force exerted on the screw from resin remaining between flights of the screw (resistance torque component). During injection, a load T exerted on the screw in the direction of rotation is detected, and the resistance torque component is subtracted from the detected load T to obtain a backflow torque component generated by resin flowing back through the check valve. By simultaneously displaying waveforms of backflow torque components in a plurality of molding cycles to be overlapped, stability of closure of the check valve is readily evaluated. | 08-21-2008 |
20080305200 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - Suck back is started and a gradient of pressure (an amount of change in resin pressure while a screw or a plunger moves backward by a certain amount) is detected. Whether or not an absolute value of the detected gradient of the pressure is smaller than a reference value set in advance is determined, and it is determined that the reduction of the resin pressure has been completed when the absolute value becomes smaller than the reference value. A screw position at the time of the completion of the pressure reduction is stored and a screw movement amount from a suck back start position to a pressure reduction completion position is displayed on a screen. | 12-11-2008 |
20080305201 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE HAVING SCREW EQUIPPED WITH CHECK RING AND INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - When the screw moves forward, resin backflow occurs. The backflow acts on the screw, applying torque to the screw. During forward movement of the screw, screw torque is produced as shown in FIG. | 12-11-2008 |
20140120193 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE HAVING TIE-BAR BALANCE ADJUSTMENT FUNCTION - An injection molding machine has a die-height adjustment system. External screws formed individually on four tie-bars and die-height adjusting nuts threadedly engaged therewith are configured to be rotated independently with one another. In processes prior to mold clamping, the die-height adjusting nuts are rotated so that movable and stationary platen surfaces maintain a desired parallelism. During mold clamping, the die-height adjusting nuts are rotated so that clamping forces produced by the tie-bars are in a desired balance. | 05-01-2014 |