Shooting pot plunger control
AssigneeHusky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
InventorsManon Danielle BELZILE, Patrice Fabien DEZON-GAILLARD, James Osborne PLUMPTON
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of adjusting a motion profile of a shooting pot plunger for use in a molding system, the shooting pot plunger slidably movable within a shooting pot cavity, the method comprising: sensing a characteristic at a predetermined location in an injection circuit of the molding system; determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of a threshold range; adjusting the motion profile of the shooting pot plunger to account for determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of the threshold range; and storing the adjusted motion profile in a memory.
Claims31
A method (400) of adjusting a motion profile of a shooting pot plunger for use in a molding system, the shooting pot plunger slidably movable within a shooting pot cavity, the method comprising:
- sensing (402) a characteristic at a predetermined location in an injection circuit of the molding system;
- determining (404) that the sensed characteristic is outside of a threshold range;
- adjusting (406) the motion profile of the shooting pot plunger to account for determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of the threshold range;
- and
- storing (408) the adjusted motion profile in a memory.
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
A shooting pot controller system (110) for adjusting a motion profile of a shooting pot plunger for use in a molding system comprising:
- a controller (152) for controlling the operation of the shooting pot plunger in a shooting pot cavity in accordance with the motion profile;
- a sensor (150) for sensing a characteristic at a predetermined location in an injection circuit of the molding system, the sensor in communication with the shooting pot controller;
- and
- a database (154) in communication with the shooting pot controller, the database for storing a mapping between sensed characteristics and motion profile adjustments.
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
(canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.