Injection mold with an electronic data storage including a counter
AssigneeOtto Männer Innovation GmbH
InventorHans Peter Männer
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Abstract
In an injection mold comprising a stationary and a movable mold half for opening and closing the injection mold, an electronic data storage with a counter for detecting and retrievably recording the number of injection molding procedures and the number of closing movements of the mold halves in the data storage is provided and the data storage is removably mounted on the injection mold and, furthermore, a sensor is provided for recording the mounting state of the data storage and also a time recording element for determining any time period for which the data storage was removed from the data storage.
Claims16
An injection mold (1) comprising at least two mold halves (2,3) of which at least one is movable relative to the other for opening and closing the injection mold (1), said injection mold including an electronic data storage (4) with a counter (8) for detecting and retrievably recording one of the number of injection molding procedures and the number of closing movements of the mold halves in the data storage (4), said data storage being removably mounted on said injection mold, a sensor (6) in communication with said data storage for recording the mounting state of said data storage (4) and a time recording element for determining the time period over which the data storage (4) was removed from the injection mold (1).
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