US 5,178,805 AGranted

Method of controlling injection speed selecting points of injection molder

AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.

InventorAkira Yokota

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Abstract

The invention relates to a method of controlling the injection speed selecting points of an injection molder, or more specifically to a method of controlling the injection speed selecting points of an injection molder injecting plasticized synthetic resin from the cylinder into a mold cavity at speed varied in multiple steps in each injection process. The objective is to control the injection molder so as to mold a product with constant surface quality in each injection process for continuous molding production. For this purpose, appropriate injection speed selecting points are determined for each injection process so as to ensure that a constant weight of plasticized synthetic resin is injected at each selected speed, and the injection speed selecting points of the injection molder is controlled accordingly.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A method of controlling injection speed selecting points of an injection molder which injects plasticized synthetic resin from a cylinder into a cavity of a mold at a speed varied in multiple steps in each injection process, comprising the steps of:

(a) preliminarily obtaining a formula for a relation among the resin pressure value, specific volume value and temperature of plasticized synthetic resin, as a characteristic equation for the plasticized synthetic resin;
(b) detecting the resin pressure and screw positional values immediately before injection under a reference injecting condition, and the resin pressure value with the screw at each injection speed selecting point;
(c) detecting the resin pressure and screw positional values immediately before injection under a changed injecting condition;
(d) determining the injection speed selecting points for the changed injecting condition, through operations on the basis of the obtained formula for the relation among the resin pressure value, specific volume value and temperature of the resin as well as the detected resin pressure and screw positional values immediately before injection under the reference injecting condition and the detected resin pressure and screw positional values immediately before injection under the changed injecting condition;
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(e) changing the injection speed when the screw has been moved from the position immediately before injection to each determined injection speed selecting point for the changed injecting condition.

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(a) preliminarily obtaining a formula for a relation among the resin pressure value, specific volume value and temperature of plasticized synthetic resin, as a characteristic equation for the plasticized synthetic resin;
(b) detecting the resin pressure and screw positional values immediately before injection under a reference injecting condition, and the weight of the plasticized resin injected into the cavity of the mold at each injection speed selecting point;
(c) detecting the screw positional values immediately before injection under a changed injecting condition;
(d) determining the injection speed selecting points for the changed injecting condition, through operations on the basis of the obtained formula for the relation among the resin pressure valve, specific volume value and temperature of the resin as well as the screw positional values immediately before injection under the reference injecting condition, the detected weight of the plasticized synthetic resin injected into the cavity of the mold by the screw moving from the position immediately before injection to each injection speed selecting point for the reference injecting, and the screw positional values immediately before injection under the changed injecting condition;
and
(e) changing the injection speed when the screw has been moved from the position immediately before injection to each determined injection speed selecting point for the changed injecting condition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.