Molded product take-out apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Harmo
InventorToshifumi Asakura
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Abstract
A molded product take-out apparatus includes: a controller independent of a molding machine; a take-out robot for releases a molded product from a mold in the molding machine by a command from the controller; a temperature controller regulates the temperature of the mold; a material dryer dries material to be supplied to the molding machine; and a material conveyor supplies the dried material to the molding machine. The controller is network-connected to the take-out robot and the temperature controller and the material dryer and the material conveyor. The controller is configured to control a release operation of the take-out robot to differentiate a release place between when judging that a detection data to be within an allowable range and another case.
Claims2
A molded product take-out apparatus for a molding machine with a mold for molding a resin material, the molded product take-out apparatus comprising:
- a material dryer for drying the resin material by air, a material conveyer for conveying the resin material dried by the material dryer to a hopper of the molding machine, a temperature-controller for controlling a temperature of the mold, a take-out robot for taking out a product molded by the mold of the molding machine, and a controller, the material dryer having a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of the air,
- wherein the material dryer, the material conveyer, the temperature-controller, and the take-out robot are network-connected to the controller, the controller is electrically connected to the molding machine, and the molding machine is configured to send a mold opening limit signal to the controller,
- wherein the controller is configured such that when the controller receives the mold opening limit signal from the molding machine, the controller sends a request for temperature data sensed by the temperature sensor to the material dryer, so that the material dryer sends the temperature data to the controller,
- wherein when the controller receives the temperature data from the material dryer, the controller is configured to judge whether the temperature data received from the material dryer is within a predetermined allowable range therefor,
- wherein when the controller judges that the temperature data is within the allowable range, the controller is configured to send a request to the take-out robot to take out a molded product molded in the mold and place the molded product to a release place, and
- wherein when the controller judges that the temperature data is outside the allowable range, the controller is configured to send a request to the take-out robot to place the molded product to a place different from the release place.
A molded product take-out apparatus for a molding machine with a mold for molding a resin material, the molded product take-out apparatus comprising:
- a material dryer for drying the resin material, a material conveyer for conveying the resin material dried by the material dryer to a hopper of the molding machine, a temperature-controller for controlling a temperature of the mold of the molding machine by controlling a temperature of a medium passing through an inside of the mold a take-out robot for taking out a product molded by the mold of the molding machine, and a controller, the temperature-controller having a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the medium,
- wherein the material dryer, the material conveyer, the temperature-controller, and the take-out robot are network-connected to the controller, the controller is connected to the molding machine, and the molding machine is configured to send a mold opening limit signal to the controller,
- wherein the controller is configured such that when the controller receives the mold opening limit signal from the molding machine, the controller sends a request for temperature data sensed by the temperature sensor to the temperature-controller, so that the temperature-controller sends the temperature data to the controller,
- wherein when the controller receives the temperature data from the temperature-controller, the controller is configured to judge whether the temperature data received from the temperature-controller is within a predetermined allowable range therefor,
- wherein when the controller judges that the temperature data is within the allowable range, the controller is configured to send a-first request to the take-out robot to take out a molded product molded in the mold and place the molded product to a release place, and
- wherein when the controller judges that the temperature data is outside the allowable range, the controller sends a request to the take-out robot to place the molded product to a place different from the release place.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.