Mold apparatus
AssigneeSodick Co., Ltd.
InventorsShuji AIBA, Satoru INOUE, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Abstract
A mold apparatus includes first and second mold plates that constitute a cassette mold, a first base mold, a base intermediate mold for loading the first mold plate, a second base mold for loading the second mold plate, a base intermediate mold driving device for positioning and fixing the base intermediate mold at any position between the first and second base molds, and a controller for performing control to position and fix the base intermediate mold so that the first mold plate and the first base mold are in contact with each other when a molded product is taken out.
Claims9
A mold apparatus, comprising:
- a first base mold;
- a sprue bush provided in the first base mold and formed with at least a part of a sprue flow path to which a molding material is supplied;
- a first mold plate formed with a runner flow path through which the molding material supplied from the sprue flow path flows, a gate through which the molding material supplied from the runner flow path flows, and a part of a cavity space which is filled with the molding material supplied from the gate and in which a molded product is molded;
- a base intermediate mold loaded with the first mold plate;
- a second mold plate formed with a part of the cavity space;
- a second base mold loaded with the second mold plate and relatively moving in a mold opening/closing direction with respect to the first base mold;
- a base intermediate mold driving device positioning and fixing the base intermediate mold at any position between the first base mold and the second base mold;
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- a controller controlling the base intermediate mold driving device to position and fix the base intermediate mold so that the first mold plate and the first base mold are in contact with each other when the molded product is taken out.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.