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US 11,774,061 B2Granted
Injection molded component
AssigneeSignify Holding B.V.
InventorsHexi Qin, Yuhang Liu
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Abstract
An injection molded component has a functional portion and a quality control portion. The quality control portion comprises a set of protrusions which are adapted to distort visibly in response to injection molding shrinkage, thereby to enable visual quality control inspection.
Claims14
An injection molded component, comprising:
- a functional portion;
- and
- a quality control portion,
- wherein the quality control portion comprises at least one protrusion which is adapted to distort visibly in response to injection molding shrinkage, thereby to enable visual quality control inspection;
- wherein the at least one protrusion comprises a set of protrusions of different susceptibility to deformation in response to injection molding shrinkage.
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An injection molding method, comprising using an injection mold to form a component having:
- a functional portion;
- and
- a quality control portion,
- wherein the quality control portion comprises at least one protrusion which is adapted to distort visibly in response to injection molding shrinkage, thereby to enable visual quality control inspection;
- wherein the at least one protrusion comprises a set of protrusions of different susceptibility to deformation in response to injection molding shrinkage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.