Abstract: Disclosed is a guide bushing for the guiding and sealing of a closing needle of a needle valve nozzle of an injection moulding apparatus, the guide bushing having a main part and a fastening element, wherein the main part has a through-opening for the closing needle, wherein the through-opening comprises at least one guiding portion, which encloses the closing needle with slight movement play, wherein the through-opening comprises at least two expansion portions, whose diameter in each case is larger than that of the at least one guiding portion. The guide bushing moreover comprises a fastening element, which is securable to the main part, wherein a seal element is arranged between the fastening element and the main part, bearing against the entire circumference of a closing needle inserted into the through-opening.

Abstract: A heating element for flow channel heating or for heating a mould impression and an injection-moulding nozzle incorporating the heating element are disclosed. The heating element has a carrier element which carries a heating conductor with first and second connection pins, and a connection device with an electrical connection cable with first and second conductors. The first and second connection pins end in an insulator. The insulator is arranged at least in certain portions in a receiving sleeve of the connection device, and the receiving sleeve points with a first end in the direction of the carrier element, is fixed with the first end on the carrier element and fixes the insulator in relation to the carrier element. A first crimping sleeve is fixed on the first connection pin and the first conductor, and a second crimping sleeve is fixed on the second connection pin and the second conductor.

Abstract: A nozzle mouthpiece for an injection molding nozzle for use in an injection molding tool and for processing a fluid mass has a flow channel having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. A first sealing surface is formed radially with respect to a longitudinal axis. A stop surface is arranged between the first sealing surface and the outlet opening and is aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and facing the outlet opening. A a coupling means is arranged radially with respect to the longitudinal axis for fixing the nozzle mouthpiece in a mold sprue opening of a pattern plate. An injection molding nozzle and an injection molding tool is provided having such the telescopic nozzle mouthpiece, which can be fixed in a mold sprue opening of a pattern plate.

Abstract: A component part for an injection molding tool comprises a distributor that includes the first distributor plate, with a top side and underside. The component part has at least two material pipes that are aligned crosswise in relation to the underside of the first distributor plate and connected on the underside to the first distributor plate. Each material pipe has a flow channel configured therein, with feed channels configured in the first distributor plate being open on the underside into the flow channels of the material pipes. The feed channels on the top side of the first distributor plate are configured as open and the first distributor plate is monolithically formed together with the material pipes. An injection molding tool can be used with the component part and a method of making the component part is disclosed.

Abstract: A hot runner nozzle having an electrical heating element includes a connector for producing an electrical connection to a connection line, terminal contacts for the heating element terminating in an insulation body for the connector that separates the terminal contacts from one another electrically. The connection line has contact elements that are electrically contactable with the terminal contacts of the heating element. The insulation body is arranged at least in part in a receiving sleeve of the connector, that the connection line may be fixed in or on the receiving sleeve such that the contact elements of the connection line electrically contact the terminal contacts of the heating element, and that a first end of the receiving sleeve that faces towards the heating element wraps around the insulation body and has on this first end two opposing feet that face outward and that are attached to the heating element.

Abstract: A hookup stem (48; 70) to implement an electric hookup (50; 60) of an electric heater of an injection molding nozzle (30), the hookup stem (48; 70) being designed in a manner that it can be affixed by means of at least one electrically conducting adhesion layer (52; 62; 64; 66) and/or by a contact paste (52) to the heater, the hookup stem comprising a shank element (54; 72), and a connecting segment (56; 74) coming into contact with the minimum of one adhesion layer (52; 62; 64; 66) or the contact paste (52).

Abstract: An injection-molding equipment includes at least two cavities and at least one needle valve nozzle, each fitted with one needle, per cavity. The needles are displaceable by an electromagnetic drive into an open and a closed position to respectively release and close a gate aperture subtended in the particular related cavity. Each electromagnetic drive has at least one electromagnet with each sealing needle axially held in place in the open and in the closed position by at least one permanent magnet. A control unit generates individual power pulses of which the duration is defined and saved in said control unit. An electromagnet of an electromagnetic drive is fed a power pulse and generates an electromagnetic field to displace the sealing needle from its closed into its open position and vice-versa, with the power pulses for at least two electromagnetic drives being transmitted in time-staggered manner to the drives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric heater (22) to heat substantially cylindrical objects (12), in particular hot runner nozzles (10) of hot runner systems, essentially being fitted with at least one cylindrical support and with at least one heating conductor track (28) deposited on the support (12). To reduce premature failure of the heater, the invention stipulates that each heating conductor track (28) runs substantially in the axial direction (A) of said support (12), the heating conductor tracks (28) being connected to each other by conductor tracks (30) of lower electrical resistance and each conductor track (30) running essentially in the tangential direction (T) of the support (12).

Abstract: A connection system (36) implementing an electric junction between a heater (22), in particular a heater (22) for a hot runner nozzle (10) and at least one hookup conductor (32) linked to a power source, comprises a hookup body (38, 60, 70) which is made of an electrically non-conducting material and which is fitted with at least one passage (46) to receive at least one hookup conductor (32). Said passage (46) is specified to end in a side face (40) of the hookup body (38, 609, 70). Also the hookup conductor (38, 60, 70) is affixable to and/or on the substrate in a manner that in the specified state, the hookup conductors (32) passing through the minimum of one passage (46) shall make contact by their free ends with the heater (22).

Abstract: An injection molding nozzle comprises a material feed pipe subtending a flow duct communicating flow-wise with at least one nozzle tip. Each tip points transversely to axial direction A of the nozzle and is held by a manifold. The manifold is pluggable/insertable into the material feed pipe and includes a neck and a base. A manifold duct system is subtended in the manifold. A main duct extending the flow duct is in the neck and the base comprises a deflection site and at least one manifold duct. The manifold duct runs radially to axial direction A. The nozzle tip is affixed in a seating unit fitted with a central recess. Radial boreholes running transversely to axial direction A fit into the seating unit and receive plugged-in nozzle tips. The central recess receives the base, the nozzle tip being secured by the base to and in the seating unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to an injection mold's injection nozzle (10) comprising a feed pipe (12) subtending in the axial direction (A) a flow duct (16) for a flowable/fluid material, a nozzle tip (26) being inserted into the feed pipe (12) and extending the flow duct (16). In order to reduce temperature drops, the injection molding nozzle (10) encloses at least one thermal insulator (32) resting against the injection mold and at least partly enclosing the nozzle tip (26).

Abstract: An operating device (10) for shut-off needles in injection moulding tools with needle valve nozzles has a displaceable element (20) to which at least two shut-off needles (16) can be fastened and which can be moved between two guide rails (30) mounted so as to be longitudinally displaceable in a second direction (D2) that is perpendicular to the first direction (D1). At least two slide elements (50) are arranged between the displaceable element (20) and the guide rails (30) in grooves (40) running obliquely with respect to the first direction (D1) and to the second direction (D2), which convert a movement of the guide rails (30) in the first direction (D1) into a displacement motion of the displaceable element (20) in the second direction (D2).

Abstract: The present invention relates to injection molding apparatus (10) comprising a main manifold plate (16) fitted with at least several flow ducts (18), further at least two auxiliary manifold plates (22) fitted with several flow ducts (24), said auxiliary manifold plates being configured above and underneath the main manifold plate (16), the flow ducts (24) of the particular auxiliary manifold plates (22) fluidly communicating with those of the main manifold plate (16), further with needle valve nozzles (26) configured in mutually opposite and back-to-back manner and fluidly communicating with the flow ducts (24) of the auxiliary manifold plates (22), where the needle valve nozzles (26) each comprise one valve needle (28) to open/close a nozzle outlet aperture, and further pneumatically or hydraulically actuated plunger units (units (30; 71) driving the valve needles (28), said plunger units being received in at least one separate receiving plate (32; 70) configured between the auxiliary manifold plates (22), a

Abstract: A nozzle 10 used in injection molding comprises at least one runner 30 within a nozzle casing 20 to convey injection material to be processed. At its lower end, the runner 30 communicates, in flow-transmitting manner, through a nozzle orifice element 40 and an insert 50, with an injection mold cavity constituted by at least one mold insert 12, 13. The insert preferably is made in powder metallurgy form of a wear-resistant material and is configured in limited longitudinally displaceable manner in the nozzle orifice 40 in the lower end of the runner 30. Said insert 50 furthermore constitutes a gate aperture 18. In the embodiment mode of a needle shutoff nozzle 10, a shutoff needle 60 displaceable between an open and a closed position passes through the runner 30 and through the insert 50 which constitutes a centering element wherein an intake cone 54 centers the intrinsic sealing element 65 of the needle 60.

Abstract: A drive system (10) for shutoff needles in injection molds fitted with needle shutoff nozzles comprises an elevation drive element (20) to which can be affixed at least two shutoff needles (16) of two needle shutoff nozzles, said elevation drive element being displaceable—between two longitudinally supported control rails (30) that can be moved in a first direction (R1)—in a second direction (R2) perpendicular to the first direction (R1), at least two glide elements (50) being configured in grooves (40) oblique to said first and second directions (R1, R2) running between the elevation drive element (20) and the control rails (30), said glide elements converting the first motion of the control rails (30) in the direction (R1) into an elevation motion imparted by the elevation drive element (20) in the second direction (R2).

Abstract: An injection molding apparatus (10) comprises at least one manifold and at least one injection molding nozzle (30), each nozzle (30) being affixable by means of a fastener (40) to the manifold (20). To allow rapid assembly and durable sealing of all nozzles at the manifold, the fastener (40) is fitted with at least one centering and/or fixating element (50) which is supported in longitudinally displaceable manner and which in its final-assembly position is engageable to the manifold (20) in a manner that said manifold and the nozzle (30) are secured into their relative position. The fastener (40) comprises at least one recess (41) receiving the nozzle (30) and at least one further recess (42) to receive the fixating element (50) which is supported in longitudinally displaceable manner in said further recess (42). Preferably the fixating element (50) is a fastening element for the fastener (40), in particular it is a part of a bolt connection (14).

Abstract: An electric surface heating element is installed by direct application to the periphery of a cylindrical material pipe (13) of a hot runner nozzle (12). Said surface heating element consists of a ceramic dielectric layer (20) which is directly applied to the metal pipe (13) or to the wall (16) thereof, at least one layer (22) consisting of heating conductor strips (23) and an electrically insulating ceramic covering layer (24) which is applied on top of the latter. Film, or thick-coat screen printing technology are suitable as coating processes. However, thick-coat technology using round printing is preferably used for the layer construction as a whole. Alternatively, the ceramic dielectric layer (20) can be fixed to the periphery of the hot runner pipe (13) in the form of a prefabricated green film and subsequently baked.

Abstract: A hot runner nozzle for an injection mold with a material pipe made of a high-strength material, which may be mounted on a mold or manifold has at least one flow duct for a melt and a nozzle tip at its lower end. A heater for the melt is attached onto the periphery of the material pipe, the heater being designed as a solid block made of a highly heat-conductive material and comprising a first receiving channel for the material pipe and at least one other receiving channel for a linear heating element, which other channel is substantially parallel to the first receiving channel. This heating assembly ensures a surprisingly uniform and homogeneous temperature distribution in the material pipe down to the nozzle tip.

Abstract: Plugs (20) that can be removed and that are made in two parts are used to close off channel sections in a hot-channel distributor (10); these are arranged so as to subtend an acute angle &agr; with the principal axis (A) of a channel (15) that can be charged with a plastified mass. A continuous sealing edge of the face surface (30) of these is pressed onto a continuous annular surface (40) that encloses an opening (42) to the channel (15). The angle &agr; lies between 40° to 45°. The plug (20) incorporates a pressure piece (26) that is located in front of a screw body (22) that can be screwed into an inclined bore (16) that opens out into area of the channel in the distributor (10) that is to be sealed off. At the sealing edge (31), the face surface (30) of the plug is flat, although it can be concavely curved inward or be crowned (32), much like a segment of a sphere, the diameter of which is defined by the diameter of the smallest radius of the sealing edge (31).

Abstract: A valve-type nozzle (10) is provided for use in hot runner systems through which a plastic material melt is fed under high pressure to a separable and coolable tool having at least one mold cavity (K) for injection-molded items. The nozzle is heatable and comprises at least one needle valve (20) supported by sliding guides (28, 38), the arrangement being such that the melt, which is fed trough a material pipe (14), passes around at least a lower section (22) of the needle valve (20). The nozzle (10) further comprises, in an antechamber (30) upstream of the mold cavity (K), at least one outlet (18) adapted to receive a closely fitting needle end (24). The needle valve (20) includes in its lower section (22), upstream of the needle end, a pressure-relief arrangement that is in direct flow-connection with the antechamber (30).