Patents Assigned to Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme GmbH
  • Patent number: 11878452
    Abstract: A hot or cold runner device for an injection mold includes a distributor block for polymer melts or polymeric liquids such as liquid silicone. The distributor block includes at least one central supply line, at least one melt channel, at least one fluid outlet, and at least one exchangeable deflection and/or distribution insert. The deflection and/or distribution insert has a sleeve and a cone element for deflecting and/or distributing the melts or liquids and is mounted without gaps and without offset at flow channel transitions by a pressing-in process, and the cone element is held in the sleeve in a self-locking manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: EWIKON Heißkanalsysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Patent number: 11389998
    Abstract: A hot channel device for guiding an incoming hot melt, in particular a plastic melt, to a gate opening of a mould insert of a tool, which gate opening can be opened and closed again by a movable needle, wherein the hot channel device has a first hot channel region, with a coolable melt transfer region, and a second hot channel region, which are arranged one behind the other in the flow direction of the melt toward the mould insert, wherein the coolable melt transfer region has a melt transfer chamber, which is penetrated by the needle, said needle being guided displaceably in a needle channel so as to be sealed by a needle seal, and the needle channel continues in an aligned manner in a melt channel of the second hot channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: EWIKON HEISSKANALSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Braun, Stefan Eimeke
  • Patent number: 11148337
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hot runner device comprising at least one needle valve nozzle and a shut-off needle which is movable in the needle valve nozzle by means of a movement means, and comprising an overload protection device for the shut-off needle, characterized in that the overload protection device is implemented as follows: the shut-off needle is connected in at least a first movement direction directly or indirectly to the movement means by at least one frictional connection that can be released when a threshold force is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: EWIKON HEISSKANALSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Eimeke, Peter Braun, Peter Mittler
  • Patent number: 9174373
    Abstract: A hot channel distributor arrangement for a hot channel system that can particularly be heated during a heating phase, which is designed to supply plastic melt from a pour-in opening for at least two nozzle arrangements that can be moved relative to and independently of one another, each having at least one outlet opening in the region of a nozzle body, wherein at least one main distributor block having at least one main distributor arm is provided, said main distributor block being rotatable around a first rotational axis, wherein at least one auxiliary distributor block is arranged on the at least one main distributor block, said auxiliary distributor block forming at least one auxiliary distributor arm and being rotatable around a second rotational axis, wherein an angle between the main distributor block and the auxiliary distributor block is adjustable, wherein at least one of the nozzle arrangements is provided on each auxiliary distributor arm, and wherein the angle between the main distributor arm and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: EWIKON HEISSKANALSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Eimeke, Henk Jan Pomstra
  • Patent number: 8899963
    Abstract: A hot nozzle for spraying of plastic components. The hot nozzle includes a multipart nozzle body including a tip inset including a tip element having a tip section protruding outwardly beyond a circumferential surface of the multipart nozzle body into a molding plate. The tip section of the tip element is penetrated by a shut-off needle which is movable in a reciprocating manner by a drive. The shut-off needle is movable between a position in which the shut-off needle closes off a feed borehole in the molding plate and a position in which the shut-off needle opens the feed borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Patent number: 8282387
    Abstract: A hot runner nozzle for lateral injection of plastic components. The nozzle includes a multi-part nozzle body including at least one tip element which protrudes outwardly over a circumferential area of the nozzle body. The multi-part nozzle body further includes a nozzle body clamping disk section and a nozzle body base section having an axial side that has at least one recess arranged on the axial side to accommodate the at least one tip element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Publication number: 20120118999
    Abstract: A hot nozzle for spraying of plastic components. The hot nozzle includes a multipart nozzle body including a tip inset including a tip element having a tip section protruding outwardly beyond a circumferential surface of the multipart nozzle body into a molding plate. The tip section of the tip element is penetrated by a shut-off needle which is movable in a reciprocating manner by a drive. The shut-off needle is movable between a position in which the shut-off needle closes off a feed borehole in the molding plate and a position in which the shut-off needle opens the feed borehole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: EWIKON HEISSKANALSYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Publication number: 20110033570
    Abstract: A hot runner nozzle for lateral injection of plastic components. The nozzle includes a multi-part nozzle body including at least one tip element which protrudes outwardly over a circumferential area of the nozzle body. The multi-part nozzle body further includes a nozzle body clamping disk section and a nozzle body base section having an axial side that has at least one recess arranged on the axial side to accommodate the at least one tip element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: EWIKON HEISSKANALSYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Patent number: 7824176
    Abstract: A feature of a needle valve nozzle positioned in a hot-runner injection mould and actuated by means of an actuator, where the direction of actuation of the shut-off needle and that of the flow channel in the hot-runner nozzle differ from one another, is that, in the closed position, the shut-off needle (13), as distinct from the actuation device (12), is held in position, in the closed position, exclusively by the cooler mould plate (2) at at least two locations at a distance from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Patent number: 6146126
    Abstract: A hot runner system, in particular a heatable injection nozzle for an injection molding machine or plastics injection mold, includes a central heating rod having opposite ends and defining a longitudinal axis, a sleeve assembly which surrounds the heating rod and is split radially to define first and second sleeves abutting one another, and current-conducting means for feeding an electric current to the sleeve assembly. The heating rod is electrically connected with each end of the sleeve assembly. One of the sleeves is formed at the interface to the other sleeve with a flange which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and forms at least one flow passageway for melt, whereby the flow passageway is bounded along its entire length by a wall surface made entirely of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: EWIKON Heisskanalsysteme GmbH & Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Patent number: 6007108
    Abstract: An adapter for use with a nozzle manifold of a hot runner injection molding system for fluidly connecting at least two runner sections and thereby distribute and conduct melt to cavities of an injection mold, includes a plug having at least one end face formed with a first opening for fluid connection to one runner section and a cylindrical or conical wall surface formed with a second opening for fluid connection to another runner section and extending at an angle with respect to the one end face, and a force-applying unit so acting upon the plug as to urge the end face and the wall surface into a fluid-tight pressure fit upon mating surfaces of the nozzle manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Braun
  • Patent number: 5830524
    Abstract: A needle seal nozzle assembly for a plastics injection machine, injection mold or hot-runner system, includes a housing defining a passageway for feeding a melt from an inlet to an outlet, with housing being formed by a first housing portion having one end facing the inlet, and by a second housing portion facing the other end of the first housing portion and having an interior forming part of the passageway. The first housing portion includes a substantially cylindrical tubular body which defines a fluid channel that forms another part of the passageway and is fluidly connected to the interior of the second housing portion. Received in fluidtight manner between the first and second housing portions is a slide for displacement between a first position in which a fluid flow through the outlet is cut and a second position in which the flow of melt is open through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Ewikon Heisskanalsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Braun