US 4,126,292 AGranted

Mold die

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsJun-Ichi Saeki, Aizo Kaneda, Keizo Otsuki

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Abstract

A mold die including two or more cavities shaped to profile the configuration of mold products, a pot serving as a lead-in portion for resin of a tablet-form, or a sprue serving as a lead-in portion for molten resin, a runner leading to the pot or sprue, and gates branching from the runner and leading to respective cavities, the aforesaid gates having given convergent slopes at their exits to the cavities. The cross-sectional area of the runner is progressively decreased in the direction away from the pot or sprue, and the convergent slopes of the gates are progressively increased in the direction away from the pot or sprue, in a manner that the sum of a pressure drop in a runner portion and a pressure drop in a gate portion may be made equal for each of the cavities, thereby minimizing a difference in timing of resin to arrive respective cavities, and rendering the velocity of resin flowing into respective cavities equal to one another.

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Dependent claims

A mold die comprising:

a plurality of cavities;
a pot or sprue for supplying a molten resin therefrom;
a runner connected at one end thereof to said pot or sprue and extending therefrom toward said cavities so that the cavities are provided along the runner for introducing resin from said pot or sprue to said cavities;
and
a plurality of gates branching from said runner and connected to respective cavities, each of said gates having an inlet communicating with the runner and an exit communicating with an associated cavity, and convergent sloping portions extending between the inlet and exit of the respective gates, each of the exits of each of the gates being of the same size and cross-sectional configuration;
said convergent sloping portions of the respective gates having an increasing inclination with an increase in distance of the corresponding cavities from the pot or sprue such that with the increasing inclination and the exits of the same size and cross-sectional configuration the sum of a pressure drop in said runner and a pressure drop in each gate is maintained substantially equal for the respective cavities.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.