Abstract: A hot runner molding manifold has a first half having flow grooves, a cover piece having flow grooves complementary to the flow grooves of the first half, and a second half securable to the first half and having a cavity for receiving the cover piece. The flow grooves of the first half and the cover piece form flow channels for distributing molten material from an inlet port to outlet ports. The cover piece is engaged with the first half, for example by welding, to reduce leakage of molten material out of the flow channels. Heater grooves in the first half, second half or both the first and second halves receive one or more heating elements for heating the flow channels.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tool (1a, 1b, 2)for injection moulding of an opening arrangement (20) of plastic in a hole in a packing material (9), the hole defining a hole edge (8) and the tool displaying a mould cavity (7) which surrounds the hole edge (8) together with a part of a first side (9a), as well as a part of a second side (9b) of the packing material in connection with the hole edge, the mould cavity (7) displaying an inlet (10) for molten plastic and, opposing the inlet, an end gap (11) for the extension of the packaging material (9) out of the tool, the inlet (10) displaying a deflection from a first flow direction (F1) in a flow gap (5) to a second flow direction (F2) into the mould cavity (7). According to the invention, the tool (1a, 1a) displays, at said inlet (10), a throttle lip (12) which projects in a direction which substantially coincides with said first flow direction (F1).

Abstract: A process for foaming around a peripheral edge area of a cover (10) for a motor vehicle roof, the cover being placed on or in a foaming tool and the foam mass (18) being fed into the foaming tool such that two foam mass fronts are formed which run around the peripheral edge in the peripheral direction and merge with one another or meet one another in the merging area at a side opposite that at which the foam was introduced. The foaming tool is made such that, in the merging area, the cross section of the foam mass is reduced on the side opposite the ventilation side (40) of the foaming tool that is vented relative to the areas (42, 142) which border the merging area in order to prevent inclusion of gas bubbles in the merging area. Furthermore, a cover for a motor vehicle roof is produced which has a foamed peripheral edge area in which two foam mass fronts, which are formed during the peripheral foaming in a foaming tool, merge with one another.

Abstract: A process for making a framed electrode by injection molding. The process comprises placing a flat piece of electrode material on a shrinkage-free under mold frame and attaching it thereto in a manner which substantially prevents the piece and the frame from moving relative to each other, over molding the resultant assembly by injecting a molten resin into an over molding cavity which contains the assembly, and allowing the resin to solidify. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: A cross member is arranged so as to extend in a width direction of a vehicle body. The cross member has both ends fixed to side framework structures of the vehicle body. The cross member includes a base frame extending in the width direction and reinforcing frame parts formed in integral with the base frame to cover the circumference of the base frame within its limited ranges in the width direction of the vehicle body. The base frame and the reinforcing frame parts are made from the same resinous material or plural resinous materials belonging to engineering plastic system.

Abstract: In a method for producing a bristle from thermoplastic polymers through injection molding, the molten polymer mass is injected under pressure into a bristle-molding channel of predetermined length having a predetermined cross-section along this length and the channel is vented during injection molding. To produce injection-molded bristles with excellent bending behavior, the magnitude of the injection pressure is adjusted in dependence on the cross-sectional extension of the bristle-molding channel such that a shear flow is generated with high core speed in the center of the molten polymer mass flow and large shearing effect due to wall friction of the molten polymer mass under distinct longitudinal orientation of the polymer molecules at least in the region of the molten polymer mass close to the wall, which is maintained along the channel wherein the channel is simultaneously vented along its length to support maintenance of the shear flow. A device for carrying out the method is also described.

Abstract: A method of designing and producing a mold for manufacturing an article having at least one surface coated by a coating. The method including evaluating the article design to determine the probable flow characteristics of the mold, an optimal flow of the coating composition, and an optimal location for the coating composition injector. A mold is designed and produced based on the evaluation.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for molding a part with at least one passage at least partially therethrough. Generally, the method includes injecting a molding material into a mold cavity having at least one pin disposed therein to form the passage. In preferred implementations, the injection of molding material can cause displacement of a movable support for the pin and allow molding material to surround the pin to form the passage. Additionally, or alternatively, preferred implementations can include the movable support, when extended into the mold cavity, guiding and ensuring proper alignment of a free end of the pin for capture within a recess defined by at least one portion of the mold. Still yet other preferred implementations can additionally or alternatively include the extended movable support straightening out the pin and/or inhibiting deflection of the pin, which can be caused by the injected molded material.

Abstract: A molding mold and a molding method are disclosed, for molding a flange configuration in which a flange of a reel hub portion can be maintained in a predetermined configuration. Also a tape cartridge is disclosed, which can securely prevent a tape-shaped recording medium from touching at the flange while the tape cartridge is being used.

Abstract: The flow of resin during the molding of composite articles is controlled by forming areas of immobilized resin during the infusion of resin into the fibrous body. The immobilized resin is formed using an immobilization agent that interacts with the infused resin to form a high viscosity resin barrier that is effective in blocking the flow of non-immobilized resin. The barriers of immobilized resin are located within the fibrous body so as to control the flow of non-immobilized resin during the molding process to prevent or least reduce resin depletion and to selectively block resin flow from the mold.

Abstract: Molding apparatus for rapid transfer of molten resin or pitch in an infiltration molding process. The apparatus includes e.g. an extruder (4) for melting and conveying a resin or pitch and a mold (10) arranged so that resin or pitch is conveyed to a mold insert cavity (19) within the mold. The mold insert contains an internal protrusion such as a locating ring (25) for positioning a porous body (1, 18) within the mold insert cavity in a position that brings about unidirectional flow of the molten resin or pitch through the porous body. Also, rapid resin or pitch infiltration molding process that includes injecting a high melting point, high viscosity, molten resin or pitch into the mold to effect a unidirectional impregnation of a heated preform via a pressure gradient in the mold.

Abstract: A molding die 1 is constituted by an upper die 1a and a lower die 1b which are made of a material transparent to an ultraviolet light, and has a cavity 3 constituted by grooves 2c, 2d, whereas a resin injection gate 4 and a resin exit gate 7 are provided so as to communicate with the cavity 3. A junction of an optical fiber 10 is inserted into the cavity 3. A UV-curable resin is injected into the cavity 3 surrounding an exposing portion of the glass optical fiber 11 from the resin injection gate 4 positioned at one of coating ends of the optical fiber 10, whereas a part thereof is discharged from the resin exit gate 7 positioned at the other coating end. The ultraviolet light is emitted through the lower die 1b so as to cure the resin, thereby forming a reinforcement resin coating. As a consequence, bubbles can be prevented from occurring due to the residual air within the reinforcement resin coating in the junction of the optical fiber 10.

Abstract: An inventive mold is adapted to adhere skin materials having a boundary portion and a resin to each other, and is provided with a resin blocking member which is so embedded as to extend substantially along the boundary portion of the skin materials placed in the mold, and a movable member for projecting the resin blocking member from a molding surface. If such a mold is used, a flow of the resin supplied into the mold can be controlled by projecting the resin blocking member to thereby control an arrival timing of the resin at the boundary portion. Thus, displacement of the boundary portion and wrinkling can be securely prevented from occurring.

Abstract: In a hot channel multiple injection molding die, the molding spaces (15) for the workpieces are each connected to two injection nozzles (9) and the injection nozzles (9) are each connected to two molding spaces (15). The injection nozzles (9) are arranged between the molding spaces (15). Therefore, a small overall height of the lower die part (1) is produced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection-molding nozzle system for injection-molding systems for plastic materials which is equipped with a needle sealing system and is suitable both for different cavities as well as for plastic materials of different viscosities, with the injection-molding nozzle comprising a temperable nozzle body with nozzle tip comprising an outlet opening and an inlet opening for the plastic mass, as well as a needle which is arranged in the nozzle body and is displaceable in an axially longitudinal manner and with an actuating apparatus for actuating the needle which is axially displaceable in the nozzle body in the longitudinal direction. The opening stroke of the needle which is axially displaceable in the longitudinal direction can be adjusted by way of a stroke limiter, and the needle tip comprises at least one notch for the pass-through of the injection-molding mass in its transitional region to the needle shaft.

Abstract: A holder integrated type base board made of synthetic resin integrally molded with a plurality of holders for inserting LEDs on a front face side of a base board main body and a mold therefore. The mold includes a first mold for molding a back face side of the base board main body and a second mold opposed to the first mold for molding the front face side of the base body main body. In addition, the mold includes a holder molding cavity provided at the second mold which is constituted by an insert die capable of being inserted into and detached from the second mold main body. When it is necessary to correct a position of a portion of the holder in a trially fabricated base board, a position of an LED inserting hole in the base board can simply be corrected by drawing the insert die for molding the holder from the mold main body and interchanging the insert die with a new insert die. As such, an entire first mold does not have to be reproduced.

Abstract: During injection molding of a plastic product having a base wall and a sidewall, alignment of the mold parts that shape the mold cavity is maintained by conducting injected plastic material through a sequence of variable-opening throttles in a base-wall-section flow guide of the mold cavity. The openings of the throttles vary in response to variations in the thickness of a region of the sidewall section into which injected plastic material is conducted from the base-wall-section flow guide so that upon an increase in the thickness of such region the openings of the throttles in the base-wall-section flow guide decrease and so that upon a decrease in the thickness of such region the openings of the throttles in the base-wall-section flow guide increase.

Abstract: A vacuum brake booster having a vacuum chamber and a working chamber, which are separated from one another by a movable wall, and a control valve is described. The control valve has a control valve housing (10), which is coupled workingly to the movable wall and which, for achieving a pressure difference at the movable wall, is capable of controlling the supply of atmospheric pressure or above-atmospheric pressure to the working chamber in dependence upon the displacement of an input element of the vacuum brake booster. The control valve housing (10) comprises an outer sleeve (12) and an inner sleeve (48), which is disposed radially at the inside of and coaxially with the outer sleeve (12) and is connected by a plurality of webs (58, 62) to the outer sleeve (12).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor mounting board includes providing a base member and linear conductive members formed of metallic wires. The conductive members are constructed so that they extend linearly between a semiconductor element-mounting face and a circuit board-mounting face of a base member, and are integrally molded within the base member. For this purpose, a resin material for forming the base member is injected into a mold wherein the conductive members are linearly arranged beforehand.

Abstract: A lead screw for a linear actuator, which has a metal pipe having a helical projection resin-molded on its outer surface, and a ball for a pivot bearing welded to a distal end of the metal pipe, is disclosed together with a method of manufacturing the same. With the lead screw according to this invention, a slight positional deviation from the origin, which is caused at a high ambient temperature by thermal expansion of a resin material filled up in the metal pipe, can be prevented reliably. Linear movement upon rotation of a stepping motor can take place with high precision.

Abstract: Plant for forming predetermined quantities of synthetic material comprising a rotary turntable carrying on its periphery a plurality of dispensing devices, and means for feeding the material in the molten state to said dispensing devices; the plant also comprises a fixed part directly connected to the molten material feed, a rotary sealed joint connecting said fixed part to the rotary turntable, operating means for interacting with the dispensing devices positioned on the rotary turntable to operate them in the sense of opening and closing them in response to the rotations of the turntable, and means for rotating the turntable.

Abstract: A co-injection nozzle pin (20) having downstream and upstream ends. The nozzle pin has therein a central bore (30) including an upstream end (32) adapted to communicate with a first material and a downstream end (34) exiting at the downstream end of the pin. The nozzle pin also has an outer surface (36) including a first portion (38) having a diameter D1, a second portion (40) having a diameter D2, wherein D2 is less than D1 and the first portion is rearward of the second portion. The pin further includes a channel (46) spiralling around the outer surface and being adapted to communicate with a second material. The channel (46) includes a first segment (52) defined in the first portion (38) of the outer surface and increasing in depth as it travels in a downstream direction and a second segment (54) defined in the second portion (40) of the outer surface and decreasing in depth as it travels in a downstream direction.

Abstract: A female member of a snap fastener with tape comprising a female button made of synthetic resin which is integrally molded on front and back faces of the tape so as to hold a peripheral edge of an attachment hole of the tape having at least one attachment hole and which has an engaging opening to be engaged with a male button at a substantially center portion of the female button. The female button has at least one mold hole extending in a front and back direction of the tape, and at least one portion of the tape extends to an inside of the female button across the mold hole. At least one cut-out recessed in a diameter direction of the female button is defined in a portion of an inner peripheral engaging face of the engaging opening, and a gate burr is formed at a bottom face of the cut-out.

Abstract: A method of co-extruding a plurality of plastic material flowing streams into a mold cavity produces a molded product. Inner and outer streams of covering plastic materials are combined with at least one interior stream that is to serve as an interior core of a resulting molded plastic product. The combined streams are forced to flow along annular flow paths, with the annular interior stream encased within the inner and outer annular covering plastic material stream layers. The flows of the interior stream and the inner and outer streams are controlled so that: the interior stream has a flow velocity that is greater than an average velocity of the combined stream, and the interior stream does not flow along or across a zero-velocity-gradient streamline of the combined streams.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously processing fiber into an elastomeric component uses an expanding die (11, 11a) for orienting fibers in other than the processing direction of the extrusion. In one embodiment, an injection mold (50) is used with the expanding die (11), and in another embodiment, an extruder (30) is used with expanding die (11a). Processing parameters may be alteredto control the direction of orientation of fibers (20) in the elastomer component. Orientation of fibers (20) in an extrudate (17) is dependent on the processing speed viscosity of the elastomer, pressure of extrusion, the length l1 and l2 and height h1 and h2 of gate (12) and expansion cavity (14), respectively, of the expansion die (11, 11a).

Abstract: A mold for use in a reaction injection molding method and system to make a reinforced polymeric article having reduced surface defects includes a novel gating system. The mold includes a pair of mold sections which define a closed, article-forming cavity, an injection aperture, and an after-mixer which helps to form a plurality of flow paths which extend downstream from the injection aperture toward the article-forming cavity to further mix a curable, multi-component, reaction fluid mixture including a filler. The flow paths are also at least partially defined by an elongated film gate and an elongated runner which extends along and is in fluid communication with the film gate along substantially the entire length of the film gate. The runner has a closed end and an open end into which a fluid mixture for the article flows for distribution by the runner into the film gate.

Abstract: Molded articles or substrates having an in-mold coating thereon are disclosed. The in-mold coated substrates are produced by a method wherein the flow of the in-mold composition onto the substrate can be selectively controlled. The molded articles can be preferentially coated in desired or predetermined areas with in-mold coating compositions by controlling the thickness or depth of various sections of the substrate.

Abstract: An improved truck bed toolbox lid and a method of producing the same. The truck bed toolbox lid includes an outer metallic sheet layer comprising a generally rectangular top sheet member, a longitudinal front edge member, two lateral edge members and a longitudinal rear edge member. A metallic liner sheet member is disposed inside the top sheet member in edge contact abutment with beveled inside edges of the front and rear longitudinal edge members and the lateral edge members to create an internal cavity in which the liner is by stitch welding. One or more injection ports are provided through the liner sheet member through which a self-expanding and self-curing, relatively high-density, foam is injected. The stitch welded edge contacts leave non-welded, gas permeable junctions along the wedged cavity periphery at a funneled apex of the edge contacted boundary which facilitate expansion of the foam toward the outermost edges of the cavity.

Abstract: An enhanced catheter introducer and method for making the same are disclosed. The catheter introducer may have a splittable sleeve assembly configured to be inserted into a blood vessel with a cannula. The cannula may then be removed, and a catheter may be inserted into the sleeve assembly. The sleeve assembly may be removed from the catheter by pulling handles of the sleeve assembly in different directions to split the sleeve assembly into two pieces. The sleeve assembly may have failure zones that enable the sleeve assembly to be easily split; the failure zones may take the form of thinned regions running along the length of the sleeve assembly. The sleeve assembly may be injection molded with a single step by injecting flows of molten plastic into a cavity of a mold such that the flows converge into an even distribution about the circumference of the sleeve. The mold may have a core pin designed to fit into the cavity.

Abstract: An injection molding method and device, wherein, in order to minimize dimension errors of molded products, molten resin is injected from a nozzle (23) retaining therein pre-pressurized molten resin such as plastic into the cavity (3) via an annular gate (24).

Abstract: An air passage switching system includes a switching door that is disposed rotatably in a case to open and close an air passage of the case. The switching door includes a door body, a rotation shaft provided in the door body, and a seal member made of an elastomer and adhering to an outer peripheral portion of the door body. The seal member contacts on a sealing surface of the case when the switching door closes the air passage. A plurality of recess portions are formed on the outer peripheral portion of the door body to be arranged in an outer peripheral direction. Thus, adhesion between the door body and the seal member can be strengthened.

Abstract: In a rear holder-attached connector (1), a relatively-thick protective rib (10) with a width (B) projects outwardly from opposite sides of a housing (2), and is disposed between upper and lower terminal receiving chambers (3). This width (B) is larger than a width of rear holders (20a, 20b), and this rib (10) protects the rear holders (20a, 20b) so that these rear holders, provisionally retained on the housing (2) within a metal-mold assembly, will not be discharged from the metal-mold assembly to drop, and will not be disengaged from the housing even upon contact with another housing. The provision of the protective rib (10) also serves to provide a good flow of a resin poured from the rear side of the housing (2) during the molding operation, and therefore thin partition walls, forming the terminal receiving chambers (3), can be positively molded, thereby enhancing the yield of the molded housings.

Abstract: The invention concerns the production of articles comprising at least a rigid element (1) and at least an element (2) made of a thermoplastic material obtained by moulding. The rigid element (1) has a profiled transverse section defining a concave space, wherein is positioned at least partly an element made of thermoplastic material.

Abstract: In an injection mold comprising a cavity and a gate for feeding a molding material into the cavity, the molding material fed from the gate into the cavity is divided into two streams that flow through the cavity and then meet at a confluent point so that the molding material portions are joined together along a joint plane. Two air vent gates are spaced apart from the confluent point so as to provide a larger area of the joint plane. Articles having a good outer appearance and improved strength at the material joint can be consistently manufactured to a high precision.

Abstract: A molding method for resin long body to make a thin long body of resin. Molten resin is supplied to a spaced portion of a mold through a thin film gate after a resin well of enlarged hollow ring is filled with the molten resin through plural pin runners in advance.

Abstract: During injection molding of a plastic product having a base wall and a sidewall, alignment of the mold parts that shape the mold cavity is maintained by conducting injected plastic material through a sequence of variable-opening throttles in a base-wall-section flow guide of the mold cavity. The openings of the throttles vary in response to variations in the thickness of a region of the sidewall section into which injected plastic material is conducted from the base-wall-section flow guide so that upon an increase in the thickness of such region the openings of the throttles in the base-wall-section flow guide decrease and so that upon a decrease in the thickness of such region the openings of the throttles in the base-wall-section flow guide increase.

Abstract: A metal mold 110 is prepared, which has a gate 120, a cavity 134 in which a virtual curve L1 is formed, which forms at least a welding target part of a laser beam transmitting member along the virtual curve L1, and in which a filling terminal wall 134b is formed along a curve L2 parallel to the virtual curve L1, and a throttle part 132b for reducing the flow of a resin flowing from the gate 120 toward the cavity 134, which is connected to the cavity 134, and whose connection boundary B1 is formed along a curve L3 parallel to the virtual curve L1. Then, a resin is injected into the gate 120 and a crystalline laser beam transmitting member is molded out of the injected resin using the metal mold 110.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seal ring which can be prevented from being broken by an expansion and a shock applied thereto when the seal ring is fitted on a rotary shaft and does not have a configurative disadvantage such as a burr. Therefore no post-processing is required. The present invention also provides materials of the seal ring and a method of manufacturing the seal ring. The seal ring is made of resin and having two abutments confronting each other and a gate mark formed in an injection molding operation.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tool (1a, 1b, 2) for injection moulding of an opening arrangement (20) of plastic in a hole in a packaging material (9), the hole defining a hole edge (8) and the tool displaying a mould cavity (7) which surrounds the hole edge (8) together with a part of a first side (9a), as well as a part of a second side (9b) of the packaging material in connection with the hole edge, the mould cavity (7) displaying an inlet (10) for molten plastic and, opposing the inlet, an end gap (11) for the extension of the packaging material (9) out of the tool, the inlet (10) displaying a deflection from a first flow direction (F1) in a flow gap (5) to a second flow direction (F2) into the mould cavity (7). According to the invention, the tool (1a, 1b) displays, at said inlet (10), a throttle lip (12) which projects in a direction which substantially coincides with said first flow direction (F1).

Abstract: A molding device and method utilizes a cavity including fast and second parts for molding an article having one or more convex portions and a gate for injecting mold resin into the cavity. The gate in turn includes one or more gate sides for injecting resin into a concave portion of one part and a gate base for injecting resin into a second of the parts in which no concave portions are located, both resin injections occurring simultaneously and substantially encapsulating a semiconductor element to form a molded article having a convex lens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection-molding nozzle system for injection-molding systems for plastic materials which is equipped with a needle sealing system and is suitable both for different cavities as well as for plastic materials of different viscosities, with the injection-molding nozzle comprising a temperable nozzle body with nozzle tip comprising an outlet opening and an inlet opening for the plastic mass, as well as a needle which is arranged in the nozzle body and is displaceable in an axially longitudinal manner and with an actuating apparatus for actuating the needle which is axially displaceable in the nozzle body in the longitudinal direction. The opening stroke of the needle which is axially displaceable in the longitudinal direction can be adjusted by way of a stroke limiter, and the needle tip comprises at least one notch for the pass-through of the injection-molding mass in its transitional region to the needle shaft.

Abstract: A core structure (10) is disclosed for making a preform with an integral hollow handle. The core structure includes an elongate body (12) from which two retractable elements (26, 28) protrude. The mechanism for retracting and extending the elements (26, 28) is within the body (12) and is operated by members (32, 34) which protrude from one end of the body (12). The preform produced by the core structure, and the bottle blown from the preform, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method for manufacturing an outer tube of an injector having a barrel portion having an excellent circularity, while preventing generation of distortion or warp. A molten resin is injected into a cavity 17 of a metal mold 11 including: a fixed mold 13 having a hole portion 12 having a shape along the outer shape of the injector outer tube 1; a movable mold 14 closing the hole portion 12; and a core 15 inserted into the hole portion 12. A cylindrical vacant portion is provided communicating with a flange forming portion 20 of the hole portion 12. The molten resin R is injected from a sprue 22 and a runner 23 via a submarine gate 24 into the cylindrical vacant portion 21 and the molten resin R is introduced into the cavity 17. The cylindrical vacant portion 21 has a push pin 25. When the molten resin has become half-molten state, the resin in the cylindrical vacant portion is introduced with pressure into the cavity 17 by the push pin 25.

Abstract: A mold runner for a runner or sprue type injection molding apparatus. The mold runner allows the passage of a substrate material from an injection source into a mold cavity and contains a containment shroud which utilizes the relative incompressibility of the substrate material in the containment shroud which prevents an in-mold coating, which is injected into the mold cavity in a subsequent step, from flowing into the injection substrate source thereby contaminating the same.

Abstract: A vehicle interior member with an air bag includes an air bag door portion that can be made to be invisible and of improved construction. The vehicle member includes a skin molded to a substrate. The skin includes a tear line formed by a diagonal cut portion. In the vicinity of a lateral tear line of the skin side tear line, a projecting portion is provided on a lower mold to form a groove portion of the substrate along the diagonal cut portion so as to intercept a flow of a resin from the cutting direction of the diagonal cut portion. Therefore, as the resin flows in a reverse direction to the cutting direction of the diagonal cut portion at an opening portion thereof, a flow of the resin into a PP foam layer of a three-layer skin through the opening portion of the diagonal cut portion can be suppressed. This prevents the PP foam layer from being melted and damaged.

Abstract: An injection manifold has a main runner provided with a supply inlet intermediate opposite ends of the runner. A number of branches intersect with the runner along its length so as to be disposed at unequal distances from the inlet. In order to achieve more simultaneous delivery, uniform fill rate, and identity of temperature of hot melt across all cavities of a multi-cavity set to achieve more uniform cooling of the preforms, restrictor pin assemblies are provided in association with certain of the branches to adjustably constrict the space available for melt flow from the runner into the branch. In a preferred form each restrictor pin assembly includes a pin aligned axially with the branch and passing transversely through the runner, the pin being adjustable between a fully extended, maximum constriction position in which the tip of the pin is located within the branch and a fully retracted, open position in which the tip is withdrawn out of the branch and is spaced below the opening of the branch.

Abstract: A pressure detecting apparatus is composed of a first case insert-molded with connector pins, and a second case made of metal. The first case and the second case are assembled together to form a pressure detection chamber hermetically sealed with an O-shaped ring sandwiched between seal surfaces of the two cases. The first case is formed by using a molding die that has a gate for injecting resin approximately in parallel with a seal correspondence surface for forming the seal surface of the first case.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing various drink containers is disclosed. Each drink container has a shell and an image-carrying sheet molded into the shell. In some embodiments, the image-carrying sheet is a sheet of lenticular lens material. Various illustrative dies used to manufacture the various illustrative drink containers is also disclosed.

Abstract: A tear portion is formed at a substantially center portion in a longitudinal direction and at both end portions in a lateral direction of an air bag door portion of an instrument panel so as to be formed in an H shape in a plan view. In the air bag door portion, protrusions are protruded downward at positions at both sides in a longitudinal direction of an automotive vehicle having therebetween a center portion of the tear portion, these protrusions being integrally formed with the air bag door portion. Accordingly, it is structured such that during expansion of the air bag body, the expanding air bag body abuts lower surfaces of the protrusions, so as to press the protrusions upward. Therefore, even in a case wherein the air bag door portion and the main body portion of the trim member for the automotive vehicle are formed of the same resin, a quality of an outer appearance is not deteriorated, and a break force of a break portion of the air bag door portion is reduced to a desired value.

Abstract: A mold flow pin that is a cylindrical element and includes first and second ends. The first end is attached to an ejector plate of an injection mold. The second end of the cylindrical element is disposed near a gate opening of a mold cavity. The second end includes flow modifying geometry formed on the cylindrical element. The flow geometry is designed to increase a mass of plastic material near the gate opening. The geometry also reduces the injection pressure of the plastic material and increases a flow rate of plastic material into the mold cavity when compared with conventional injection molding gate orifices.