Abstract: A combustion apparatus 2 has an anti-spreading member 65 disposed below a combustion chamber 10. This anti-spreading member 65 is composed of a generally cylindrical main body 65a, an outer flange 65b and an inner flange 65c, these flanges being formed at and integral with the opposite ends of the main body 65a, respectively. A controller 40 for regulating the operation of this apparatus 2 is designed to preheat the anti-spreading member 65 at a heat generation rate ‘q’ lower than the required heat generation rate ‘Q’, before the apparatus starts its normal operation to burn a fuel.

Abstract: A combustion apparatus 2 has a fuel spraying nozzle 12, a feed canal 16 and a return canal 17, both the canals connected to the nozzle, with the former canal 16 feeding a fuel to the nozzle and with the latter canal 17 allowing an unsprayed portion of the fuel to flow back. An electromagnetic pump 18 disposed in the feed canal 16 serves to compress the fuel towards the nozzle 12, and an injector valve 25 is disposed in the return canal 17. A controller 40 regulates the operation of the injector valve 25 in the manner of duty-ratio control so as to adjust the flow rate of the fuel being sprayed out of the nozzle 12.

Abstract: In a back pressure control apparatus for controlling back pressure in an injection molding machine comprising an injection device which comprises a heating cylinder, a screw, and an injection actuator and which is provided with a back pressure detector for producing a pressure detected signal and with a screw position detector for producing a screw position detected signal, the back pressure control apparatus comprises a level setting section for setting a back pressure control level with respect to back pressure. A sharpness selecting section selects, as a selected sharpness, one of a plurality of sharpnesses in transition up to a maximum back pressure command value. On the basis of the back pressure control level, a determining section determines a back pressure pattern having a variable back pressure command value which continuously changes with respect to a retreat position of the screw. The back pressure pattern has a mountain-shaped portion defined by the selected sharpness.

Abstract: A back-flow prevention apparatus is composed of a screw and a platelike closing member. The screw includes at least a metering portion having a groove formed thereon for advancing a resin. The closing member is brought into an open position state by resin pressure which is developed behind the closing member in association with metering, thereby establishing communication between the groove and a space located ahead of the screw. The closing member is brought into a closed position by a restoring force of an elastic material, thereby shutting off communication between the groove and the space located ahead of the screw. Upon completion of a metering step, the restoring force brings the closed position into the closing state to thereby shut off communication between the groove and the space located ahead of the screw. Accordingly, sealing can be completed before the start of an injection step.

Abstract: A method for ejecting a molded product from a die. The method includes advancing an ejector pin from a withdrawn position to a projected position for ejecting a molded product and withdrawing the ejector pin from the projected position to the withdrawn position. At a preset range in at least one of the advancing step and the withdrawing step, the ejector pin undergoes very small reciprocating movements having a period less than 0.1 seconds. When the ejector pin is advanced while very small reciprocation is performed over a preset range in the advancing step, energy due to the projection of the ejector pin is continuously and gradually dissipated. When the ejector pin is withdrawn while very small reciprocation is performed over a preset range in the withdrawing step, the molded product is easily separated from the ejector pin. Accordingly, scattering of molded products and generation of cracks in the molded products can be prevented.

Abstract: In an injection molding machine which comprises a mold composed of a fixed mold attached to a fixed platen and a movable mold attached to a movable platen, and a driving source for driving the movable platen to open and close the mold, a distance sensor detects, as a platen interval, a distance between two positions preliminarily selected on the fixed platen and the movable platen and produces a distance detection signal. A pressure sensor detects a clamping pressure applied by the driving source and produces a pressure detection signal. A control unit controls the driving source to adjust the platen interval and the clamping pressure through a plurality of steps in response to the distance detection signal and the pressure detection signal.

Abstract: An injection molding method using an injection molding machine in which a plurality of control parameters including the injection speed, injection pressure and the mold opening degree are controlled, from a moment immediately before filling up of the mold cavity with the resin, setting the parameters in an order determined in accordance with the characteristics demanded by the resin, such that, when the injection pressure is controlled as a commanding parameter, the injection speed is controlled as a subordinate parameter under a given restriction and, when the mold opening degree is controlled as the commanding parameter, the injection pressure is controlled as a subordinate parameter under a given restriction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an infrared ray moisture meter which measures moisture of paper using absorption of infrared rays, and in which infrared rays being penetrated and scattered by the paper are sufficiently independent of whether the paper is thin or thick, in which sensitivity is high, in which attenuation of rays is small and error due to misalignment in the XY direction is small. Also, concurrently, in the invention, adverse influence due to quality of the paper is reduced by applying infrared rays which are absorbed by moisture, infrared rays which are absorbed by cellulose, and infrared rays which are not absorbed by moisture or cellulose, and by computing the value of moisture from signals detected from the application of the different infrared rays. In one embodiment a device is provided with a shielding plate having two mirrored surfaces disposed between the paper being measured and a lower one of a pair of reflectors.

Abstract: An injection molding method for forming molded products of foamed plastics, in which molten resin mixed with foaming agent which begins foaming after being kept at a required temperature for a required time is injected into a metal mold wherein the foaming agent mixed together with the molten resin is solidified in a body in the metal mold under such conditions that the portion of the foaming agent molten resin mixture which is in contact with the inner surface of the metal mold is accordingly cooled rapidly such as to substantially prevent foaming thereof, so that the appearance of the molded product is finished neatly, while the foaming agent/molten resin mixture in the inner part of the mold is cooled gradually so that the temperature thereof is not rapidly decreased, under conditions wherein the foaming agent begins foaming and the inner portion of the molten resin is therefore expanded from inside owing to the foaming pressure, which expansion substantially prevents the occurrence of depressions in the s

Abstract: As injection molding machine in which a plurality of stationary molds (29) are securely disposed in a row on a stationary platen (3) and transversely extending parallel to one another, and a moving mold (6) to be coupled with the stationary molds is supported as a unit displaceable in a lateral direction in a mold holder with regard to a moving platen (4), by coupling and clamping the moving mold (6) and one of a plurality of stationary molds (29) together, injection molding is accomplished, thus by changing stationary molds one after another and clamping the moving mold, the injection molding is accomplished to obtain multi-colored or multi-material molded products. The moving mold protrudes a small distance beyond the end surface of the mold holder facing the stationary mold to minimize flash produced by slanting due to off-center pressure on the molds.

Abstract: In a pressure setting method which is for use in an injection molding machine including a mold or a die, an injection section, and a control section and which is for setting and controlling a sequence of pressures for a sequence of steps from the start of injection of a resin to the die through a filling step to a holding step, pressure setting is carried out by sequentially setting the sequence of pressures described above in accordance with a time - injection pressure characteristic curve determined under the condition that a volume of the resin inside the die is substantially constant during the holding step and by locally modifying the holding step in the characteristic curve in correspondence with a molded product to be molded. The characteristic curve exhibits an exponential curve during the holding step while local modification is carried out pulsewise so that the characteristic curve becomes discontinuous.

Abstract: In an injection molding machine having at least four motors (18 to 21) and a control section (22) for controlling the four motors to carry out a predetermined injection molding process divided into a plurality of steps, the four motors are grouped into first and second groups so that the motors of each group have driving durations which are not overlapped with one another and which may be overlapped with those of the motors of another group. The control section has first and second control unit (24 and 25) coupled to the first-group motors and the second-group motors for individually and selectively controlling the first-group motors and the second-group motors.

Abstract: An injection nozzle for an injection molding machine having a heating device for heating its injection nozzle body (3) protruding from the front end of the heating cylinder (1) thereof. The heating device is composed of a plurality of heating members (7, 10) longitudinally arranged side by side. The temperatures of the different nozzle body sections heated by the respective heating members are individually detected (9, 11), the heating members (7, 10) being individually controlled in accordance with the temperatures thus detected. The construction enables the different nozzle body sections to be individually set to a desired, optimum temperature. The nozzle front end section 3b, for example, which is in contact with a metallic mold and whose temperature is consequently apt to be lowered can be kept high, and the nozzle middle-rear section 3a, which is near the heating cylinder and whose temperature is consequently apt to be raised, can be kept low.