Injection molding system with conveyor devices to insert or eject molds
AssigneesCanon Virginia, Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc.
InventorsKoki Kodaira, Yuichi Yanahara, Yohei Minatoya, Kenta Inaba
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Abstract
An injection molding system includes a conveyor apparatus that moves a mold, and an injection molding apparatus that performs, using an injection cylinder and a screw, injection molding with the mold, wherein the improvement of the injection molding system includes at least one structure located in proximity to at least a part of the conveyor apparatus, wherein the at least one structure includes at least one element that is moveable, and wherein, when the screw is removed from the injection cylinder, the at least one element is in a position to prevent the at least one element from contacting the screw.
Claims8
An injection molding system comprising:
- a conveyor apparatus configured to move a mold;
- and
- an injection molding apparatus configured to perform, using an injection cylinder and a screw, injection molding with the mold,
- wherein the improvement of the injection molding system comprises:
- a change mechanism configured to rotate the injection cylinder and the screw between a first direction in which the injection molding apparatus is capable of injecting resin to the mold and a second direction in which the injection molding apparatus is not capable of injecting resin to the mold;
- and
- at least one structure located in proximity to at least a part of the conveyor apparatus,
- wherein the at least one structure is at least one wall,
- wherein the at least one structure includes a door as at least one element that is moveable,
- wherein a first state of the door is where the door is opened and a second state of the door is where the door is closed,
- wherein the screw is removable from the injection cylinder in a state where the direction of the injection cylinder and the screw is the second direction and the door as the at least one element is moved to a position to prevent the at least one element from contacting the screw, which includes the first state of the door, and
- wherein the screw and the injection cylinder are configured such that, as part of the removal of the screw from the injection cylinder, the screw is moved to a position where a part of the screw is inside the injection cylinder while a part of the screw overlaps the conveyor apparatus when viewed in a vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.