Cooling Means For Female Mold Patents (Class 425/552)
  • Patent number: 11975474
    Abstract: A blow molding tool (1) for a blow molding machine (1). The blow molding tool (1) comprises at least one first blow mold half (2) and one second blow mold half (3). The first blow mold half (2) has a baseplate (4) and a molding body (5). At least one mold cavity (6) with an inner wall (51) is arranged in the molding body (5). At least one region (511) of the inner wall (51) of the mold cavity (6) comprises, in the associated section of the molding body (5), separate temperature control channels (54) for controlling the temperature of the region (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Johann Künz, Thomas Bohle, Andre Eyrich
  • Patent number: 10899054
    Abstract: An injection mold includes an upper mold core, an upper mold plate, a sprue bushing and an upper mold fixing plate. The sprue bushing is completely accommodated in the upper mold plate and the upper mold core, the sprue bushing defining a runner therein. The sprue bushing includes a mounting part and an extending part extending from the mounting part, the mounting part is received in the upper mold plate, the extending part is disposed through the upper mold core, and the runner runs through the mounting part and the extending part. The upper mold fixing plate is piled on and fixed to the upper mold plate, the upper mold fixing plate is provided with a through hole communicated with the runner, the upper mold fixing plate includes a flange extending inwardly from a side wall of the through hole, the flange abuts against the mounting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Nanchang O-film Precision Optical Product Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gangqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9007670
    Abstract: Disclosed are injection moldings, an injection-molding apparatus and a method thereof. The injection-molding apparatus comprises: a cavity mold having a cavity; a core mold having a core surface to form a molding space for injection moldings when being joined to the cavity mold; a heating unit for heating the cavity mold or the core mold; a cooling unit for cooling the cavity mold or the core mold; and a patterning stamp having a micrometer or nanometer sized pattern and provided on an inner surface of the molding space. According to the injection-molding apparatus, a micrometer or nanometer sized pattern is formed on a surface of injection moldings so as to have a super-hydrophobic characteristic and an optical characteristic, and a micrometer or nanometer sized pattern of a complex structure can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun-Woo Jun, Young-Bae Kim, Chang-Il Jung, Seok-Jae Jeong, Hyung-Pyo Yoon
  • Patent number: 9004892
    Abstract: An optical lens mold includes a mold body, a magnetic fluid, a plurality of thermocouples, a plurality of electromagnets, a controlling unit and a power source. The mold body defines a plurality of injection chambers and a cooling channel surrounding the plurality of injection chambers. The magnetic fluid contains magnetic particles and flows in the cooling channel. The thermocouples are capable of sensing temperatures of the plurality of injection chambers correspondingly. The electromagnets are positioned above the cooling channel corresponding to the plurality of thermocouples. The plurality of thermocouples and the plurality of electromagnets are connected to the controlling unit via the power source, the controlling unit is capable of the comparing the standard temperature value with temperature values sensed by the plurality of thermocouples, and maintaining the temperature of the plurality of injection chambers in a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Chun Wang
  • Publication number: 20150076737
    Abstract: An injection molding apparatus includes a stationary mold and a movable mold, and heats and cools at least one of the stationary mold and the movable mold when forming a molded product by injecting resin into a cavity formed by the stationary mold and the movable mold. The at least one mold to be heated and cooled is separable into a first mold member and a second mold member. When heating the at least one mold, the first mold member and the second mold member are separated from each other so that a space into which thermal fluid is to be injected is formed between the first mold member and the second mold member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Koki Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20150064303
    Abstract: An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system that is an evaporative cooling system or a cooling system including a hazardous, dangerous, or expensive cooling fluid. The simplified cooling system has a cooling fluid channel that is confined to a mold support plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ralph Edwin NEUFARTH, Niall D. ROBINSON, Rainer SCHARRENBERG, Robert Lawrence PROSISE, Charles John BERG, JR.
  • Patent number: 8926303
    Abstract: A valve assembly for use with a part handling assembly of an injection molding machine includes a housing having a first tooling port for fluid communication with a first set of receivers on the part handling apparatus and a second tooling port for fluid communication with a second set of receivers on the part handling apparatus. First and second vacuum channels extend through the housing and are provided with respective first and second vacuum closure members to provide selective fluid communication between a vacuum source and the first and second tooling ports, respectively. First and second pressure channels extend through the housing and are provided with respective first and second pressure closure members to provide selective fluid communication between a pressurized fluid source and the first and second tooling ports, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Athena Automation Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert D. Schad
  • Publication number: 20140374936
    Abstract: The cooling of injection molded plastic is targeted. Coolant flows into a porous medium disposed within an injection molding component via a porous medium inlet. The porous medium is thermally coupled to a mold cavity configured to receive injected liquid plastic. The porous medium beneficially allows for an increased rate of heat transfer from the injected liquid plastic to the coolant and provides additional structural support over a hollow cooling well. When the temperature of the injected liquid plastic falls below a solidifying temperature threshold, the molded component is ejected and collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Neil Reginald Beer
  • Patent number: 8894401
    Abstract: The present invention is on injection mold with cooling and heating passage which can form cooling and heating passage close to forming space in the inside of mold body and easily design cooling and heating passage in forming space with complicated trajectory. Injection mold with cooling and heating passage consists of lower mold and upper mold forming blowed forming space by combining said lower mold on the top of said lower mold, provided that said lower mold or said upper mold consists of mold body in which forming space is created on one side so that melted resin is injected and formed; connecting groove depressed towards said forming space from the opposite side of the side with said forming space created; and sealing kit which is inserted into said connecting groove in separation from the end of forming space of said connecting groove and creates cooling and heating passage 60) in said separated space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: GNST Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Jong Oh, Jae Seung Cho, Nam In Jeong
  • Patent number: 8845321
    Abstract: A split thread insert is disclosed with integral cooling channels utilized for the continuous internal circulation of cooling fluid around a molding surface of the split thread insert, wherein the molding surface forms a neck area of a preform during an injection molding process. The molding surface of the split thread insert is semi-circular with a profile corresponding with a threaded area of the preform. The split thread insert is assembled from two or more cut pieces, wherein at least one of the cut pieces includes a curved groove formed therein proximate the molding surface for forming a curved cooling fluid channel when the cut pieces are joined to form the split thread insert. The cooling fluid channel includes a flow diverter positioned therein for defining a portion of a continuous cooling fluid circuit of the split thread insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mold-Masters (2007) Limited
    Inventor: Witold Neter
  • Patent number: 8834771
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an appliance having a micro-pattern (190b) for displaying a pattern or a character, and a method for fabricating a structure having a micro-pattern (190b), and more particularly, to a method for displaying a pattern or a character more effectively. To achieve above object, the appliance of the present invention includes a body, a structure provided to an outside or an inside of the body, and a micro-pattern (190b) for changing a light incident thereon from an outside of the micro-pattern to a light of a predetermined color to display a predetermined character or a predetermined pattern on the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Bae Kim, Young Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8764433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mold apparatus, and according to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a mold apparatus including a cavity mold comprising a cavity mold plate formed with a cavity at a front surface thereof and provided with a heating means at an inner portion thereof, and a cooling plate brought into contact with or separated from a rear surface of the cavity mold plate and provided with a cooling means at an inner portion thereof; and a core mold configured to determine the cavity together with the cavity mold plate, wherein the cooling plate is formed with at least two or more divided surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jookwon Kim, Gyusang Lee, Minkyu Hwang, Hyunwoo Jun, Seokjae Jeong, Kyungdo Kim
  • Publication number: 20140151928
    Abstract: A hollow ice-making forming mould comprises an inner membrane(1) which is in a fixed shape after charging air and an outer membrane (2) which is in a fixed shape after liquid injection and is disposed outside the inner membrane (1); a base plate(3) is arranged at the bottom of the outer membrane (2); the bottoms of the inner and outer membranes are hermetically connected with the base plate(3) respectively, wherein an airtight air chamber(5) is formed between the inner membrane (1) and the base plate(3), and a cavity(6) for pouring cooling liquid is formed between the inner membrane (1) and the outer membrane (2); an air filling and water injecting member(4) is provided at the top of the inner membrane (1); a top part of the outer membrane (2) is connected with an upper part of the air filling and water injecting member(4) by a detachable way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Shihua Zhen, Deqin Xu
  • Publication number: 20140154351
    Abstract: An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system. The simplified cooling system has a cooling complexity factor of less than three, preferably less than two, more preferably less than one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gene Michael ALTONEN, Ralph Edwin NEUFARTH, John Boyet STEVENS, Robert Lawrence PROSISE, James Edward POLAND, John Moncrief LAYMAN, Danny David LUMPKIN
  • Publication number: 20140147546
    Abstract: A device for demoulding pieces in a mould comprises a skid comprising a slider for housing a figure insert for moulding of a negative of the piece to be moulded, said slider being associated with a pushrod that can move said slider to an ejection position of a piece to be moulded pushing at least one ejection plate, and it is characterized in that said pushrod is placed substantially perpendicular with respect to said at least one ejection plate. Due to this substantially vertical arrangement of the pushrod the construction of the mould is simplified, minimizing the width needed for placing the device inside the mould.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Commericial de Utiles Y Moldes, S.A.
    Inventor: Alberto Navarra Pruna
  • Publication number: 20140127347
    Abstract: A first fitting surface 11 and a first mating surface 12 taking a concave shape are formed on a fixed mold 1, a second fitting surface 21 to be fitted to the first fitting surface 11 in clamping and a second mating surface 22 taking a convex shape which is to be mated in the first mating surface 12 in the clamping are formed in a moving mold 2, and a concave portion is provided on a bottom surface of the first mating surface 12 to form a cavity 3. Consequently, the fixed mold 1 and the moving mold 2 are positioned by fitting the first fitting surface 11 and the second fitting surface 21 and mating the first mating surface 12 and the second mating surface 22. Consequently, it is not necessary to provide a guide pin in order to carry out the positioning and a size of a device can be reduced correspondingly. Moreover, it is possible to decrease heat capacities of the fixed mold 1 and the moving mold 2 by the reduction in the size, thereby decreasing consumed power required for a temperature control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: JNL Corporation, Century Innovation Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20140113021
    Abstract: An injection mould component for moulding the outer surface of a preform neck, which allows improved cooling of the preform neck inside the mould, while at the same time reducing the mould cycle time. A related production process of said injection mould component, which allows the section of the cooling channels to be optimised, determining a more effective cooling, is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: S.I.P.A. Societa' Industrializzazione Progettazione E Automazione S.P.A.
    Inventors: Matteo Zoppas, Andrea Cavalet
  • Patent number: 8696338
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a capsule by using vegetable gelatin is provided. Heating units are installed in a gelatin feeding line, which feeds gelatin in the form of a sheet, and a molding line to feed the gelatin in a predetermined temperature. The molded capsule is conveyed through a conveyer so that the molded capsule is stably dried and cured and a temperature of the conveyer is adjusted to control a temperature of the capsule. A length of the drying line is maximally increased within a narrow space, so that a film of the capsule made of the vegetable gelatin is gradually cured and dried without abrupt temperature variation, thereby preventing crack from occurring in the capsule, and preventing bonding parts of the capsule from being torn to improve the commercial value of the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Chang Sung Softgel System Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju-su Kim
  • Publication number: 20140097555
    Abstract: A molding device for manufacturing a molded product having an inner space bent in a circular arc shape includes: a set of molds joinable to and separable from each other, the set of molds being capable of forming a cavity having a shape corresponding to an outer shape of the molded product in a joined state at the time of molding; a core having an outer shape corresponding to an inner shape of the molded product for use in a state where the core is arranged in the inside of the cavity formed by the set of molds at the time of molding; and an ejector plate having a core through hole through which the core passes for ejecting the molded product formed around the core along the circular arc shape in a separated state where the set of molds is separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kitazawa, Hisaomi Masuzawa, Shinsuke Araki, Takayuki Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20140087017
    Abstract: The present invention is on injection mold with cooling and heating passage which can form cooling and heating passage close to forming space in the inside of mold body and easily design cooling and heating passage in forming space with complicated trajectory. Injection mold with cooling and heating passage consists of lower mold and upper mold forming blowed forming space by combining said lower mold on the top of said lower mold, provided that said lower mold or said upper mold consists of mold body in which forming space is created on one side so that melted resin is injected and formed; connecting groove depressed towards said forming space from the opposite side of the side with said forming space created; and sealing kit which is inserted into said connecting groove in separation from the end of forming space of said connecting groove and creates cooling and heating passage 60) in said separated space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: GNST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung Jong OH, Jae Seung Cho, Nam In Jeong
  • Patent number: 8663537
    Abstract: A heatsink for use in injection molding, with at least one load-bearing path with a rearward segment, wherein at least a portion of at least one non-load-bearing, dynamic heat-transfer zone of the heatsink is laterally offset from the rearward segment of the load-bearing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Karl K. Stensvad, Stanley Rendon, Paul A. Martinson, Samuel Kidane, Thomas Herdtle
  • Patent number: 8628322
    Abstract: A mold apparatus used in injection molding of liquid silicone composition. The mold apparatus is made of several components aiding in the overall process. The mold apparatus has two main sections, a cold section to prevent the liquid silicone from curing and a heated section for curing the liquid silicone. The two sections are separated by a thermal insulating plate. The metering of the flow is achieved by an actuator providing linear movement of a valve pin position in the center of the flow path of the runnerless nozzle resting against a gate orifice. The runnerless nozzle is keep cooled with an annular heat pipe surrounding the body of the runnerless nozzle and circulating a liquid coolant at one end of the runnerless nozzle. The cavity block receive heat from an heating element incorporated in the cavity back plate. Heat is evenly distributed in the cavity block by vaporization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Inventor: Terry L. Schwenk
  • Publication number: 20130334727
    Abstract: An injection molding method in which a multilayer film including a base layer and a transfer layer stacked on the base layer is disposed in the molding space of an injection mold, the molding space containing the multiplayer film is filled with resin, and then the injection mold is opened to obtain a molded article transferred with the transfer layer peeled from the base layer, wherein after the resin is injected into the molding space, a cooling circuit near the molding space cools the multilayer film before the injection mold is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Hideo MINE, Chikara NAKANISHI, Masakazu HIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20130334741
    Abstract: A molding device which can heat molding portions of dies by a simple structure while guaranteeing the durability of the molding portions of the dies, and a method of molding a product using the molding device are provided. A molding device 100 includes a first die 110 and a second die 120 for molding a product PR to be molded. The first die 110 and the second die 120 have a first molding portion 111 and a second molding portion 121 formed at central portions of the surfaces which face each other. Each of the first molding portion 111 and the second molding portion 121 has a three-dimensional shape corresponding to the surface shape of the product PR. Thermal/electrical insulators 113 and 124 are provided around the first molding portion 111 and the second molding portion 121 of the first die 110 and the second die 120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: CAP Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Takai
  • Patent number: 8597018
    Abstract: A weldless-type injection mold apparatus is provided. The weldless-type injection mold apparatus includes an upper mold, a lower mold engaged to the upper mold to form a cavity for injection-molding of products, a heating unit formed on one side of the cavity of at least one of the lower and upper molds to heat a resin injected into the cavity, a first cooling unit formed at the at least one of the lower and upper molds to prevent the injection mold from being over-heated, and a second cooling unit installed between the heating unit to cool an area surrounding the cavity and an injection-molded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Namdo Mold Co. Ltd., GNST Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung Jong Oh
  • Patent number: 8591219
    Abstract: An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system that is an evaporative cooling system or a cooling system including a hazardous, dangerous, or expensive cooling fluid. The simplified cooling system has a cooling fluid channel that is confined to a mold support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ralph Edwin Neufarth, Niall D. Robinson, Rainer Scharrenberg, Robert Lawrence Prosise, Charles John Berg, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20130307189
    Abstract: A heatsink for use in injection molding, with at least one load-bearing path with a rearward segment, wherein at least a portion of at least one non-load-bearing, dynamic heat-transfer zone of the heatsink is laterally offset from the rearward segment of the load-bearing path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Karl K. Stensvad, Stanley Rendon, Paul A. Martinson, Samuel Kidane, Thomas Herdtie
  • Patent number: 8585394
    Abstract: A cooling sleeve for receiving a preform comprising a receiving cavity having a receiving opening so that a preform can be inserted into the receiving cavity, and a fluid passage arranged so that when the receiving opening is closed a fluid can be introduced into or removed from the receiving cavity by way of the fluid passage, wherein the cooling sleeve extends along a longitudinal axis and the fluid passage has a passage opening which is arranged near the longitudinal axis and which is arranged opposite the receiving opening. The cooling sleeve allows accelerated cooling of the sprue region of the preform without corresponding noses or markings being formed at the outside of the preform. Arranged in the fluid passage in the region of the passage opening is a support element having a support surface for contacting the preform when the preform is inserted into the cooling sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG
    Inventor: Helmut Thoemmes
  • Publication number: 20130295219
    Abstract: An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system that is an evaporative cooling system or a cooling system including a hazardous, dangerous, or expensive cooling fluid. The simplified cooling system has a cooling fluid channel that is confined to a mold support plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Ralph Edwin NEUFARTH, Niall D. Robinson, Rainer Scharrenberg, Robert Lawrence Prosise, Charles John Berg, JR.
  • Publication number: 20130295220
    Abstract: An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system that is an evaporative cooling system or a cooling system including a hazardous, dangerous, or expensive cooling fluid. The simplified cooling system has a cooling fluid channel that is confined to a mold support plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ralph Edwin NEUFARTH, Niall D. ROBINSON, Rainer SCHARRENBERG, Robert Lawrence PROSISE, Charles John BERG, JR.
  • Patent number: 8574473
    Abstract: An injection molding apparatus and method are provided. The method includes a molded cavity coupled to a resin injection apparatus which injects molten resin under pressure with a gas such that the resin foams within the mold cavity. An electrical heater is in contact with a first cavity surface, and a cooling medium cools the mold. The resin may include metallic flakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Haoliang Michael Sun, Ellen Cheng-chi Lee, Junko Pauken
  • Patent number: 8562334
    Abstract: An injection blow molding (IBM) system and method for forming a plurality of parisons and molded articles. The IBM system includes an injection station having two die sets, two body mold halves, and two neck mold halves. Each of the neck mold halves is attached directly to one of the die sets. The neck mold halves are configured to cooperatively form the exterior shape of the necks of one or more parisons. This type of neck mold attachment configuration can allow for better temperature control of the neck portion of the parison being molded therein. Further, such a neck mold configuration can reduce the cost of fabricating, installing, and/or replacing the neck molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: R&D Tool & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Randal L. Fields, Bruce A. Wardlow, David A. Brunson
  • Patent number: 8550800
    Abstract: It is an object to prevent dies from interfering with each other when the dies are closed and effectively prevent overshoot of cavity temperature while efficiently performing heating of the dies. In an injection molding machine for two-material molding including two sets of a first injecting unit and a second injecting unit that respectively plasticize different resin materials and inject and fill the resin materials, prior to performing injection molding on the first injecting unit side on a secondary side, after injection molding on the second injecting unit side on a primary side, heating of the dies is started before 180-degree rotation of a rotary die plate is completed. After the start of heating, until the 180-degree rotation of the rotary die plate is completed, i.e., die closing is performed, die temperatures are maintained within a temperature range set higher than die temperatures during the heating start and lower than die temperatures during injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plastic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyagawa, Naoki Kato, Yasuaki Ozeki, Hiroto Matsushita, Masamitsu Saji, Yasuo Okochi, Toshihiko Kariya, Koji Kubota
  • Patent number: 8523556
    Abstract: An injection blow molding (IBM) system and method for forming a plurality of parisons and molded articles. The IBM system includes an injection station having two die sets and a plurality of first and second body mold halves each attached to a respective die set. Each of the first body mold halves has a corresponding second body mold half with which it cooperatively defines a cavity for forming the exterior shape of the body of one of the parisons. The individual, independent attachment of the body mold halves to the die sets allows easy individual replacement of faulty or worn molds. Further, such an attachment configuration also permits the body mold halves connected to a common die set to be spaced from one another, so as to reduce thermal expansion problems and ease dimensional tolerances required for the width of the body mold halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: R&D Tool & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Randal L. Fields, Bruce A. Wardlow, David A. Brunson
  • Patent number: 8523558
    Abstract: An injection mold (1) may include: an outer block (100) that is mounted and fixed to an injection molding machine and divided into an upper mold (110) and a lower mold (120), an inner block (200) composed of an upper block (230) and a lower block (220) that are replaceably mounted on the upper mold (110) and the lower mold (120), respectively; a metal core (300) mounted in the inner block (200) and has a cavity (310) for forming a molded product (10) with a molded portion having a size of tens to hundreds of micrometers; an ejector (400) coupled to the inner block (200) and removes the molded product (10) in the cavity (310) by moving straight; a driving unit (500) disposed inside the lower mold (120) is moved up/down by hydraulic pressure or pneumatic pressure supplied from the outside, and drives the ejector (400).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials
    Inventors: Jae Ho Jeon, Si Young Choi
  • Publication number: 20130224327
    Abstract: An injection mold assembly for a high output consumer product injection molding machine, the injection mold assembly having a simplified cooling system. The simplified cooling system has a cooling complexity factor of less than three, preferably less than two, more preferably less than one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventor: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
  • Patent number: 8512028
    Abstract: An injection blow molding (IBM) system and method for forming a plurality of parisons and molded articles. The IBM system includes an injection station having two die sets and two mold half assemblies. Each of the mold assemblies is attached to one of the die sets. The mold half assemblies are configured to cooperatively form the exterior shape of the necks of a plurality of parisons. Heat transfer channels formed in both the die sets and the mold half assemblies are fluidly connected with each other, such that a heat transfer fluid can be routed to the mold half assemblies via the die sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: R&D Tool & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Randal L. Fields, Bruce A. Wardlow, David A. Brunson
  • Patent number: 8512625
    Abstract: An injection blow molding (IBM) system and method for controlling the surface temperature of the parison molds by passing heat transfer fluid through a plurality of fluidly-coupled heat transfer channels. The heat transfer channels can be formed primarily in die sets to which the parison molds are attached. The placement and distribution of the heat transfer channels relative to the parison-forming surfaces helps control the temperatures of the bodies and necks of the parisons being formed, instead of relying on various adjustments by an IBM operator. This system/method reduces the discretion required by the IBM operator and shifts the burden of consistently making high-quality parisons and molded articles onto the designer of the IBM tooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: R&D Tool & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Randal L. Fields, Bruce A. Wardlow, David A. Brunson
  • Publication number: 20130153582
    Abstract: A technique for allowing the convenient and orderly withdrawal of contents is disclosed. An apparatus according to the technique may include a container which includes an enhancement at the rim of the container. The enhancement provides the functionality to move edible and/or inedible substances onto objects. In one example, the enhancement may protrude inwardly as a smoothed surface that may push substances onto objects as the objects are removed from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: SIMPLE WAVE LLC
    Inventor: SIMPLE WAVE LLC
  • Patent number: 8454347
    Abstract: A sprue device for an injection mold includes a first part and a second part. The sprue device is sealed and water-cooled so as to reduce overall molding time. The connecting section defines spiral grooves. The second part includes a chassis and an extension from the chassis. The chassis is defined with a through hole, and two gates communicated with the through hole respectively. The spiral grooves mate with the wall of the mounting hole to form a spiral runner. The gates, the through hole, and the spiral runner communicate with each other. An injection mold using the sprue device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Dian-Hong Wei, Du-Xi Gao, Zhong-Hai Xiao
  • Publication number: 20130071511
    Abstract: A method of producing at least one conformal cooling passage in a part-producing mold, and a mold provided with such a conformal cooling passage(s). A conformal cooling passage is produced by creating an open channel in a molding surface of a mold of interest, the channel substantially conforming to the contour of the molding surface. A bridging weld formed from a plurality of connected weld beads is generated in the channel so as to span and seal the channel while enclosing an open passage in the bottom thereof. The remainder of the channel above its bridging weld is filled, such as by welding, and an exposed portion of the fill material in the channel may be subsequently shaped to conform with the contours of the molding surface surrounding the channel. A sub-surface conformal cooling passage is thus formed in the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130052296
    Abstract: An injection mold (1) may include: an outer block (100) that is mounted and fixed to an injection molding machine and divided into an upper mold (110) and a lower mold (120), an inner block (200) composed of an upper block (230) and a lower block (220) that are replaceably mounted on the upper mold (110) and the lower mold (120), respectively; a metal core (300) mounted in the inner block (200) and has a cavity (310) for forming a molded product (10) with a molded portion having a size of tens to hundreds of micrometers; an ejector (400) coupled to the inner block (200) and removes the molded product (10) in the cavity (310) by moving straight; a driving unit (500) disposed inside the lower mold (120) is moved up/down by hydraulic pressure or pneumatic pressure supplied from the outside, and drives the ejector (400).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS
    Inventors: Jae Ho Jeon, Si Young Choi
  • Publication number: 20130040051
    Abstract: In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a method for manufacturing a tool comprises applying at least one ferro-magnetic material to at least a portion of a tool face of a different material. The method produces a tool face with varying magnetic properties facilitating substantially uniform induction heating of the tool face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: JULIEN P. MOUROU, URBAN J. DE SOUZA
  • Patent number: 8360766
    Abstract: An injection molding machine is provided with a mold forming a cavity into which a resin is injected, a liquid supplying device which supplies a liquid continuously to an internal flow channel of the mold during a preparation period prior to injection of the resin and an injection period in which the resin after the preparation period is injected, an electricity supplying device which supplies electricity to an electric heater arranged on the mold at least during a part of the preparation period, thereby heating the mold, and a controller which carries out a predetermined procedure for making different a temperature of a liquid in the internal flow channel between the preparation period and the injection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plastic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kariya, Satoshi Miyagawa, Naoki Toda, Gen Hamada, Michitaka Hattori
  • Publication number: 20120315351
    Abstract: A weldless-type injection mold apparatus is provided. The weldless-type injection mold apparatus includes an upper mold, a lower mold engaged to the upper mold to form a cavity for injection-molding of products, a heating unit formed on one side of the cavity of at least one of the lower and upper molds to heat a resin injected into the cavity, a first cooling unit formed at the at least one of the lower and upper molds to prevent the injection mold from being over-heated, and a second cooling unit installed between the heating unit to cool an area surrounding the cavity and an injection-molded product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicants: GNST CO., LTD., NAMDO MOLD CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyung Jong Oh
  • Publication number: 20120301572
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for cooling a mold in a compression or injection molding assembly, thereby enabling increased cycling speed and efficiency. Embodiments include a coolant flow path that transports a fluid coolant into and out of a cooling ring around the molding assembly's core. The coolant flow path may divide into several channels within the cooling ring. The coolant flow path may also include a series of stages with varying volumes or cross sectional areas designed to regulate the flow of coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: F&S Tool, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas D. Barnes
  • Patent number: 8317509
    Abstract: A two-shot molding system with four independent molding positions at ninety degree intervals allow injection of the first shot, injection of the second shot, cooling, and ejection of the product to occur simultaneously while the mold is closed. Thus, the invention decreases cycle time, increases throughput, and allows for adequate cooling time without delaying injection and ejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: MGS Mfg. Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Hartlmeier
  • Publication number: 20120286451
    Abstract: The injection molding method for injecting a resin into a cavity formed within a mold is provided with a heating step in which the temperature of a cavity surface forming the cavity of the mold is heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a heat distortion temperature of the resin and an injection step in which after the heating step, during a decrease in temperature of the cavity surface of the mold, the resin is injected into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PLASTIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Naoki Toda, Satoshi Imaeda, Toshihiko Kariya, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8293164
    Abstract: The present invention provides a molding die and a control method thereof aimed at shortening cycle time from heating to cooling of a molding cavity of the die with a simple and inexpensive configuration. In a molding die equipped with a molding cavity to mold a base material, a magnetic die material is used for the molding cavity, cooling means to feed a refrigerant is installed inside the molding cavity along a molding face and heating means by high-frequency induction is installed around the cooling means, and the molding cavity is alternately heated and cooled repeatedly by the heating means and the cooling means when the base material is molded with the molding cavity. Here, the cooling means includes a tubular body installed in the molding cavity, feeds a refrigerant when the molding cavity is cooled, and is in a hollow state of not containing the refrigerant when the molding cavity is heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Kusano, Kazuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8272865
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mold for resin injection molding that can realize rapid heating or cooling. A resin injection molding mold includes a cavity mold and a core mold and is produced on a base plate by metal photofabrication. The cavity mold is provided with a cavity warm water circuit for allowing warm water for heating to flow and a cavity cold water circuit for allowing cold water for cooling to flow. The core mold is also provided with a core warm water circuit and a core cold water circuit. The core mold includes an air blowing passage for feeding warm air or cold air into a resin molding part and a suction passage (36) for sucking a gas within the resin molding part. The resin molding part side of the air blowing passage and the suction passage is formed of a low-density shaping part that has a low metallic powder sintered density and is permeable to gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Higashi, Satoshi Abe, Isao Fuwa, Masataka Takenami, Norio Yoshida