Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100044900 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD OF INJECTION MOLDING, AND INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE - There are provided an injection molding system, a computer program, a method of injection molding, and an injection molding machine capable of performing precise temperature control of a mold even when there is a delay in temperature increase of the mold in heat supply with a heating medium. The temperature control is performed so that temperatures of a fixed mold and a movable mold are maintained between an upper limit TU and a lower limit TL of a predetermined temperature range after start of injection of resin during an injection molding cycle. The temperature control of the fixed mold and the movable mold is performed only by switching ON/OFF supply of the heating medium, and cooling with a cooling medium is not performed. In a process of cooling the resin, the temperature control is performed so that the temperatures of the fixed mold and the movable mold are maintained between an upper limit TUa and a lower limit TLa of a temperature range effective for resin annealing by stop of supply of the cooling medium and the supply and stop of the heating medium. | 02-25-2010 |
20100227014 | MOLD CLAMPING DEVICE - In a mold clamping device including a fixed platen, a movable platen, a plurality of tie bars, and mold clamping half nuts, a pair of additional half members which is restricted in the axial direction of the tie bar and moves in an opening/closing direction of the half nuts relative to the mold clamping half nuts is further provided, and when the mold clamping half nuts are closed and mated with the screw or the ring groove of the tie bar, the additional half members are closed to hold the tie bar so that play at mated parts is removed or cancelled by fixation. | 09-09-2010 |
20110049762 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD - An injection molding machine is provided with a mold forming a cavity into which a resin is injected, a liquid supplying device which supplies a liquid continuously to an internal flow channel of the mold during a preparation period prior to injection of the resin and an injection period in which the resin after the preparation period is injected, an electricity supplying device which supplies electricity to an electric heater arranged on the mold at least during a part of the preparation period, thereby heating the mold, and a controller which carries out a predetermined procedure for making different a temperature of a liquid in the internal flow channel between the preparation period and the injection period. | 03-03-2011 |
20110115120 | MOLD TEMPERATURE CONTROL CIRCUIT OF INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISCHARGING HEATING MEDIUM - In a mold temperature control circuit of an injection molding device, such a molding cycle is repeated that, prior to injection of a resin, a heating-use medium is returned to molds and heated to a temperature suitable for resin injection, after injection of the resin, the heating-use medium is switched to a cooling-use medium, thereby the cooling-use medium is returned to the molds and cooling is conducted to give a temperature equal to or lower than a temperature at which the resin is solidified. In the mold temperature control circuit of the injection molding device, a junction piping is able to commonly use the respective supply pipings of the heating-use medium, the cooling-use medium and the scavenging compressed air to the molds and the respective discharge pipings thereof, and there is provided mold bypass piping coupling the supply-side junction piping of the heating medium with the discharge-side junction piping, a mold bypass on-off valve, a passed heating medium sensor, a mold-temperature adjusting control device which stores a mold temperature determination program and a passed heating medium determination program. | 05-19-2011 |
20110210461 | INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD - An injection molding device is provided with a mold, an injection unit equipped with an injection screw that is displaceably configured such that a molten resin is filled into a cavity by forward movement to perform plural injection operations including at least a filling operation and a pressure keeping operation by displacing the injection screw, a position sensor for detecting the position of the injection screw, a temperature sensor capable of measuring the temperature of the vicinity of the cavity of the mold, a temperature adjustment unit capable of adjusting the temperature of the mold by heating or cooling the mold, a control unit for controlling the displacement of the injection screw and the temperature of the mold and determining plural switching timings of the injection operations on the basis of the position of the screw, and a display unit for displaying an image. The control unit creates a temperature waveform of the vicinity of the cavity based on an input from the temperature sensor and displays a first correlation diagram showing the correlation between the temperature waveform and a predetermined variation corresponding to the change of the temperature waveform and showing at least part of the determined plural switching timings of the injection operations on the display unit. | 09-01-2011 |
20120034330 | INJECTION FOAM MOLDING MACHINE - An injection foam molding machine of the invention includes: a movable mold platen; a fixed mold platen; a mold fastening hydraulic cylinder that is provided at each of four corners of both mold platens; a tie bar that is driven by the hydraulic cylinder to fasten the molds; two sets of mold opening and closing actuators that drive the movable mold platen to move close to or away from the fixed mold platen; two sets of dedicated core back devices; and a control device that controls the two sets of mold opening and closing actuators and the two sets of dedicated core back devices, wherein the control device includes a dedicated core back program that simultaneously controls the two sets of mold opening and closing actuators and the two sets of dedicated core back devices during a foaming core back operation of moving the movable mold platen away from the fixed mold platen. | 02-09-2012 |
20120087999 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE FOR TWO-MATERIAL MOLDING - It is an object to prevent dies from interfering with each other when the dies are closed and effectively prevent overshoot of cavity temperature while efficiently performing heating of the dies. In an injection molding machine for two-material molding including two sets of a first injecting unit and a second injecting unit that respectively plasticize different resin materials and inject and fill the resin materials, prior to performing injection molding on the first injecting unit side on a secondary side, after injection molding on the second injecting unit side on a primary side, heating of the dies is started before 180-degree rotation of a rotary die plate is completed. After the start of heating, until the 180-degree rotation of the rotary die plate is completed, i.e., die closing is performed, die temperatures are maintained within a temperature range set higher than die temperatures during the heating start and lower than die temperatures during injection. | 04-12-2012 |
20120119403 | MOLDING METHOD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDING PRODUCT - The molding method is composed of a primary injection molding step for molding a transparent resin at a first mold ( | 05-17-2012 |
20120211921 | RESIN INJECTION MOLDING METHOD - The resin injection molding method of the present invention is a method for molding resins inside a cavity formed within a mold. The method comprises injecting resins into the cavity through a plurality of paths installed so as to be openable and closable and optionally maintaining the resin inside the cavity at a pressure; closing each of the plurality of paths such that the resins injected from each path converge, there being a time difference between when a first path and a second path of the plurality of paths are closed; and solidifying at least the resin which is injected from the path closed earliest with a crystallinity greater than or equal to a predetermined crystallinity degree. | 08-23-2012 |
20120241125 | INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISCHARGING HEAT MEDIUM FOR INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE - The injection molding device of the present invention is provided with a supply pipe which supplies a heat medium to a mold, a discharge pipe which discharges the heat medium from the mold, a mold temperature adjustor to which the supply pipe and the discharge pipe are connected to adjust the temperature of the mold, and a discharge rate adjusting unit which is provided with a variable flow control valve installed on the discharge pipe to adjust a flow rate of the heat medium, a discharge pipe variable flow control valve bypass pipe for bypassing the variable flow control valve and a discharge pipe bypass on-off valve installed on the bypass pipe to change a flow rate of the heat medium and which is installed at a position upstream from the mold temperature adjustor on the discharge pipe. | 09-27-2012 |
20120286451 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD, MOLDED-ARTICLE PRODUCING METHOD, AND INJECTION MOLDING APPARATUS - The injection molding method for injecting a resin into a cavity formed within a mold is provided with a heating step in which the temperature of a cavity surface forming the cavity of the mold is heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a heat distortion temperature of the resin and an injection step in which after the heating step, during a decrease in temperature of the cavity surface of the mold, the resin is injected into the cavity. | 11-15-2012 |
20130001817 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced composite material of the present invention includes: the step (a) of placing a non-woven fabric N made of a reinforcement fiber in a movable mold | 01-03-2013 |
20130072624 | MOLDED RESIN PRODUCT FOR VEHICLE STRUCTURAL MEMBER OR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL MEMBER - A molded resin product for a vehicle structural member or an aircraft structural member according to the present invention is formed by injection-molding of thermoplastic resin feedstock containing reinforcement fibers by using a screw provided at a leading end portion thereof with a mixer protruding in a radial direction. In the injection-molded product, the reinforcement fiber content ratio is greater than or equal to 20% by weight and the weight-average fiber length of the reinforcement fibers in an evaluation target area having a certain size is greater than or equal to 1 mm and less than or equal to 3 mm. | 03-21-2013 |
20130099421 | PLASTICIZING SCREW FOR INJECTION MOLDING AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD USING SAME - A plasticizing screw for injection molding according to the present invention is installed in an injection molding machine that performs injection molding by plasticizing thermoplastic resin feedstock containing reinforcement fibers, and includes a shaft, a main flight, and a sub-flight. The protrusion height of the main flight from the circumferential surface of the shaft is formed to be constant in at least an area in which the sub-flight is provided. The sub-flight includes a flat surface portion which is provided on the rear end side in a winding direction and in which a protrusion height from the circumferential surface of the shaft is lower than that of the main flight and is constant, and an inclined surface portion which is provided to extend continuously from a leading end in the winding direction of the flat surface portion and in which a protrusion height from the circumferential surface of the shaft gradually increases toward the leading end side in the winding direction and is less than the protrusion height of the main flight. | 04-25-2013 |
20130200552 | PLASTICIZING SCREW FOR INJECTION MOLDING AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD USING SAME - A plasticizing screw for injection molding according to the present invention is a plasticizing screw for injection molding that is installed in an injection molding machine which performs injection molding by plasticizing granular thermoplastic resin feedstock containing reinforcement fibers, and includes a shaft, a flight, and a mixer. The mixer is provided in plural stages in an axial direction, and the number of fins of the mixer of each stage increases toward a leading end side in the axial direction from a rear end side in the axial direction. Further, the protrusion height of each fin from the peripheral surface of the shaft is lower than the protrusion height of the flight from the peripheral surface of the shaft. | 08-08-2013 |
20130220459 | HYDRAULIC OIL STORAGE DEVICE AND INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE - A hydraulic oil storage device and an injection molding device are provided with a connection box that partitions a storage region of a sub-tank into a first region that includes a flow channel opening portion for a coupling tube and a second region other than the first region, in which the connection box is provided with an internal region communication portion that brings the first region and the second region into communication, and causes a pressure loss equal to the pressure loss of the coupling tube, or a pressure loss greater than that pressure loss, and a return tube is connected to the sub-tank so that the flow channel outlet faces the first region. | 08-29-2013 |