Film forming mold, film forming method using mold, and film forming control system
AssigneeMitsuba Corporation
InventorsMotosuke Ishizawa, Takao Umezawa
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Abstract
When forming a film on a work, such as a lamp holder, the work is not set in a film-forming chamber as in the prior art, but a film is formed thereon by using a mold, thereby simplifying the film formation work. A movable mold is matched to a fixed mold in a state where a vacuum deposition apparatus, the film-forming element, is provided in the fixed mold and the work is supported in the movable mold. Next, film formation is carried out with the film-forming space in a vacuum state. Thereafter, the movable mold is opened, wherein the film formation work on the work surface using molds can be carried out with a series of processes.
Claims20
A molding and film-forming mold comprising:
- a first mold that includes a first mold surface for forming one surface of a first work and a second mold surface for forming one surface of a second work;
- a second mold that includes a first mold surface for forming another surface of the first work and a second mold surface for forming another surface of the second work, wherein:
- the second mold includes a third mold surface within which film-forming means is incorporated in order to form a film on the another surface of the first work that is supported by the first mold, and
- the first mold surface of the first mold supports the first work and the second mold surface of the second mold supports the second work when the first work and the second work are matched to each other after the film is formed on the another surface of the first work.
A molding and film-forming method using a mold, comprising, at least, the sequential steps of:
- work molding of a molded first work and a molded second work by matching a first mold surface of a first mold and a first mold surface of a second mold and by matching a second mold surface of the first mold and a second mold surface of the second mold;
- work removing such that the molded first work is left on the first mold surface of the first mold while the molded first work is removed from the first mold surface of the second mold, and the molded second work is left on the second mold surface of the second mold while the molded second work is removed from the second mold surface of the first mold;
- mold matching the first mold surface of the first mold onto which the molded first work is left and a third mold surface of the second mold within which film-forming means to form a film on the molded first work is incorporated, the third mold surface of the second mold being different than the first mold surface and the second mold surface of the second mold;
- film-forming for forming the film on the molded first work in a state of the mold matching;
- opening the first mold and the second mold;
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- work adhering of the molded first work with the formed film and the molded second work by matching the first mold surface of the first mold and the second mold surface of the second mold in a state where the molded first work is left on the first mold surface of the first mold and the molded second work is left on the second mold surface of the second mold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.