Injection blow molding apparatus and injection blow molding method

Abstract

An injection blow molding apparatus includes: a male mold portion; a female mold portion; a gripping mold portion; an injection unit that injects a resin for molding a preform into inner surfaces of the female mold portion, the male mold portion, and the gripping mold portion; a blow unit that is released from the female mold portion and the male mold portion and blows air into the preform in a state in which the gripping mold portion has gripped the preform; and a control unit that releases the preform from the male mold portion before the preform is released from the female mold portion in a mold release process of releasing the preform from the female mold portion and the male mold portion.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.