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US 9,623,596 B2Granted
Injection molding system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorTatsuhiro Uchiyama
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Abstract
Types of molded articles carried by a carrier are identified and the molded articles are sorted based on image-related information for the molded articles molded based on set operating conditions for injection molding machines and molded article images acquired by an image acquisition unit. It is thus possible to narrow down candidate images in processing in a molded article identification unit, thereby making it possible to construct an injection molding system that has excellent production efficiency with a reduced load on processing in the molded article identification unit.
Claims7
An injection molding system comprising:
- a plurality of injection molding machines that produce molded articles based on preset operating conditions;
- a carrier that carries the molded articles;
- a storage section that stores, for each molded article type, a set of the operating conditions for the injection molding machines and image-related information for the molded articles that are associated with the operating conditions and are molded in accordance with the operating conditions;
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- a molded article sorting section that sorts the molded articles, the molded article sorting section including
- an image acquisition unit that acquires images of the molded articles carried by the carrier,
- a molded article identification unit that generates identification information for identifying types of the molded articles carried by the carrier in accordance with the molded article images acquired by the image acquisition unit and the image-related information for the molded articles stored in the storage section, and
- a molded article sorting unit that sorts the carried molded articles based on the identification information generated by the molded article identification unit.
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