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US 11,433,571 B2Granted
Movable mold insert adjuster
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsChien-Hua Chen, Jimmy Perez
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Abstract
A mold assembly may include a mold frame having an opening extending in a plane and a movable mold insert adjuster to move a mold insert having a slot forming protrusion within the plane within opening.
Claims15
A mold assembly comprising:
- a mold frame having an opening extending in a plane;
- and
- a movable mold insert adjuster having replaceable or interchangeable shims having different thicknesses to differently space internal sides of the opening and to move a mold insert having a slot forming protrusion within the plane within the opening.
A mold assembly comprising:
- a mold frame having an opening extending in a plane;
- and
- a movable mold insert adjuster to move a mold insert having a slot forming protrusion within the plane within the opening,
- wherein the movable mold insert adjuster comprises a first removable pin having a first diameter and mounted relative to the mold frame to retain the mold insert in place, the removable pin being interchangeable with a second removeable pin having a second diameter different than the first diameter.
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A mold assembly comprising:
- a mold frame having an opening extending in a plane;
- a movable mold insert adjuster to move a mold insert having a slot forming protrusion within the plane within the opening,
- wherein the movable mold insert adjuster comprises a pair of cooperating slidable wedges along a side of the opening and to be sandwiched between the mold frame and the mold insert.
A method comprising:
- positioning mold frame having an opening extending in a plane over a fluid ejection die having a fluid passage;
- moving a mold insert having a slot forming protrusion within the plane within the opening;
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- supplying mold material into the opening about the slot forming protrusion while opposite sides of the mold insert are positionally retained within the plane by a movable mold insert adjuster such that a slot forming protrusion of the mold insert overlies the fluid passage.
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A mold assembly comprising:
- a mold frame having a first opening extending in a first plane and a second opening spaced from the first opening and extending in a second plane coextensive with the first plane;
- a first mold insert within the first opening and having a first plurality of parallel slot forming protrusions;
- a second mold insert within the second opening and having a second plurality of parallel slot forming protrusions;
- a first movable mold insert adjuster to adjust a positioning of the first mold insert within the first opening and within the first plane;
- a second movable mold insert adjuster to adjust a positioning of the second mold insert within the second opening and within the second plane, independent of movement of the first mold insert;
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- a base connected to the mold frame, the base comprising a fluid ejection die retainer to retain a first fluid ejection die opposite the first mold insert and to retain a second fluid ejection die opposite the second mold insert.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.