Injection molding system having a dynamic mixer
AssigneeHusky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
InventorsJohn Robert Galt, Stephen Daniel Ferenc, Darrin Albert MacLeod
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Abstract
A dynamic mixer and associated injection molding system for mixing a melt flow. The injection molding system includes: a hot runner assembly having a plurality of splits; an injection unit that delivers a melt flow to the plurality of splits in the hot runner assembly via a melt channel; and a dynamic mixer incorporated into the melt channel upstream from the plurality of splits, wherein the dynamic mixer includes a rotor assembly configured to be rotationally driven by the melt flow, and wherein the rotor assembly is further configured to mix the melt flow passing through the melt channel.
Claims31
An injection molding system, comprising:
- an injection unit that delivers a melt flow to a plurality of splits in a hot runner assembly via a melt channel;
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- a dynamic mixer incorporated into the melt channel, wherein the dynamic mixer includes a rotor assembly configured to be rotationally driven by the melt flow, and wherein the dynamic mixer is further configured to mix the melt flow passing through the melt channel.
A nozzle assembly, comprising:
- a machine nozzle adaptor body;
- a machine nozzle tip;
- a melt channel passing through the machine nozzle adaptor body and machine nozzle tip configured to deliver a melt flow;
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- a dynamic mixer incorporated into the melt channel, wherein the dynamic mixer comprises a rotor assembly configured to be rotationally driven by the melt flow, and wherein the dynamic mixer is further configured to mix the melt flow passing through the melt channel.
A device, configured for incorporation into a melt channel of an injection molding system upstream from a plurality of splits associated with a hot runner assembly, wherein the device comprises a rotor assembly configured to be rotationally driven by a melt flow, and wherein the rotor assembly is further configured to mix the melt flow passing through the melt channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.