Abstract: Provided is a method of molding, by using a mold, a component including a metal plate and a thermoplastic resin containing a thermoplastic resin arranged on a surface on one side of the metal plate, the mold including at least a movable mold and a fixed mold including a support portion. Specifically, the molding method includes: an arranging step of arranging a premolded metal plate within the mold; a fixing step of fixing the metal plate by pressing the metal plate against the movable mold with use of the support portion; and a molding step including forming a cavity between the fixed mold and the metal plate by closing the mold, bringing the thermoplastic resin into close contact with the metal plate, and forming an exposed portion by exposing the metal plate out of the softened thermoplastic resin with use of the support portion. With this, without leakage of the thermoplastic resin, a joint region to a metal surface of another component can be reliably secured.

Abstract: A gear manufacturing method, the gear including an annular gear portion including teeth on an outer periphery, an annular support portion provided on an inner peripheral surface of the gear portion and supporting the gear portion, and a core portion provided inside the support portion, the method includes: a support portion molding step of molding the support portion by disposing the gear portion and the core portion in an annular mold and filling a resin between the gear portion and the core portion; and a support portion cooling step of cooling the support portion molded in the support portion molding step, a radial gap between the teeth of the gear portion and the mold before the support portion molding step is set to be smaller than a radial shrinkage amount of the support portion in the support portion cooling step.

Abstract: A purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a fine pattern transfer mold and a fine pattern molding method that allow high-resolution transfer of a fine pattern to the interior of a hollow product by integral molding. In a product formation chamber that is formed between a cavity and a core pin member having a predetermined portion at which a fine pattern original plate is fixed by closing of a mold body, a gate into which a molten resin material flows from a hot runner member has an opening that is located outside an end of a fixed surface of the fine pattern original plate in a horizontal direction of the fixed surface and that faces the end of the fixed surface, an injection nozzle of the hot runner member and the gate are directly coupled together, and the hollow product is integrally molded by the resin material flowing from the gate.

Abstract: A reconfigurable melt delivery system is disclosed for use with a first injection unit and a second injection unit. The reconfigurable melt delivery system may include a first arm manifold configured to receive a moldable material from a second injection unit, an exchangeable second arm manifold in fluid communication with the first arm manifold that is configured to receive the moldable material from the first arm manifold and to transfer the moldable material to an outlet nozzle, and a repositionable and replaceable insert plate configured to be repositioned or replaced relative to remaining plates of the melt delivery system, wherein the outlet nozzle is secured within a mold facing surface of the insert plate and is radially offset from a central machine nozzle opening of the melt delivery system for delivering the moldable material to a corresponding offset mold gate of a two-material mold.

Abstract: A method for moving a mold assembly from a mounted position within a concrete products forming machine includes extending an extraction assembly forwardly from a retracted position at a rear of the concrete products machine to an intermediate position so that terminal ends of the extraction assembly are positioned below a carrying surface of the mold assembly. The extraction assembly is raised at the rear portion of the concrete products machine so that the terminal ends of the extraction assembly contact and raise the carrying surface of the mold assembly up off mold mounting surfaces on the concrete products machine. The extraction assembly is then moved to a fully extended position so that the mold assembly is moved forwardly from the mold mounting surfaces to an operative position whereby the mold assembly can be removed from the extraction assembly and replaced with a replacement mold assembly.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a biocompatible polymer-based microneedle, the method comprising: (a) a primary filling step of covering, by stoppers, upper sides of multiple holes, which are formed to be spaced apart from one another, penetrate a mold, and each have a conical shape, and injecting a biocompatible polymer solution containing an appropriate amount of active ingredient by using filling needles; (b) a secondary filling step of injecting a biocompatible polymer solution containing an excipient by using the filling needles; (c) a step of solidifying the biocompatible polymer solution; and (d) a step of attaching a pad to an upper portion of the mold and then detaching the pad from the mold. The microneedle manufactured by the present invention may solve problems of degeneration of medicine, insufficient hardness, and a loss of medicine caused by a complicated process and a long manufacturing time.

Abstract: A cement mold assembly configured to form a temporary implant for use in delivering antibiotics to an infected site can includes a first mold and a second mold. The first mold can have an open end and an inner wall. The first mold can define a tibial component forming cavity including a platform forming cavity and a stem forming cavity. The second mold can have a body portion configured to be slidably and progressively receivable by the inner wall into the tibial component forming cavity in a direction toward the closed end. Progressive advancement of the second mold into the tibial component forming cavity urges cement within the tibial component forming cavity against the body portion and the inner wall to form a unitary tibial component having a tibial tray portion formed by the platform forming cavity and a stem portion formed by the stem forming cavity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to articles, systems, and methods for injection molding an article. The method includes directing a first shot of molten polymeric material into a mold cavity to form a first part while simultaneously occluding a portion of the gate orifice area with a mold core. Once the first shot is solidified, then the mold core is withdrawn and a second shot is directed into the space previously occupied by the mold core while a portion of the gate orifice area is occluded by the solidified first shot.

Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet, which includes a transfer layer, is superposed on a transfer receiving article, and while the transfer layer is continuously transferred onto the article by a printer comprising a sheet supplying device, heating device, sheet winding device, measuring device located between the heating and sheet winding devices to measure the tensile strength of the thermal transfer sheet conveyed along a conveyance path, and release device located between the heating and the measuring devices, under conditions including an applied power for printing: 0.15 W/dot and a conveying speed for the thermal transfer sheet: 84.6 mm/sec., the transfer layer transferred on the article is released from a constituent member in contact with the transfer layer of the thermal transfer sheet, has a tensile strength measured by the measuring device of 0.1 N/cm or less.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an injection molding apparatus comprises: a first mold section comprising a first molding surface, wherein the first mold section is configured for attachment to a presser; a second mold section and disposed opposite the first mold section, a thermoelectric device disposed in one of the first and second mold sections and in thermal communication with at least one of the first and second mold surfaces; an electrical control system disposed in electrical communication with the thermoelectric device; the presser in mechanical communication with the first mold section and configured to move at least one of the first and second mold sections toward the other to define a molding space; and an injector for introducing a material to be molded into the molding space; wherein at least one of the first and second mold sections is formed from a ceramic material.

Abstract: This pressing device includes an actuator, a pressing unit provided on a movable element of the actuator, a movement quantity detector for detecting a movement quantity of the movable element and outputting movement quantity information indicating the movement quantity, and a drive device that moves the pressing unit to press a pressed object by supplying a drive current to the actuator based on the movement quantity information. The drive device controls an operation of the pressing unit using position control processing based on current information indicating the drive current and the movement quantity information. When the speed of the pressing unit is decelerated down to a predetermined lower limit speed, the drive device controls the speed of the pressing unit to be constant based on the current information, and when the current reaches a predetermined current value, determines that the pressing operation is performed.

Abstract: A mold assembly for forming concrete products comprising a mold box having cavities for receiving and molding concrete products and a mounting bracket extension coupled to each side wall of the mold box and forming a lower mounting surface of the mold box. Die alignment holes are formed in an underside of each mounting bracket extension and are configured to receive alignment dowels extending upward from shelves of the concrete products forming machine on which the mold box sits. The mounting bracket extensions further include mold transfer locators formed on the underside inward of the die alignment holes so that they are exposed from below when the mold assembly sits on the shelves of the concrete products forming machine. These locators are configured to locate the mold assembly onto mold extractor arms when the mold assembly is lifted off of the alignment dowels by the mold extractor arms during a mold extraction process.

Abstract: The press-fit device includes a platform having an upper surface provided with a bearing base; a mounting rack disposed at the upper surface of the platform; a power cylinder mounted at the mounting rack, including a piston chamber, a piston rod and an actuating element intercommunicated with the piston chamber to provide pressure medium, wherein the piston rod is perpendicular to the bearing base; a guiding track disposed at the upper surface of the platform and arranged in parallel to the piston rod; and a press-fit plate disposed at one end of the cylinder rod and slidably sheathed on the guiding track, wherein a surface of the press-fit plate facing the bearing base is provided with a pressure base, and a surface of the pressure base facing the bearing base is provided with a press-fit frame and a pressure sensing device which is configured to detect a press-fit pressure.

Abstract: One-piece article obtained by injection molding, with at least one injection point, said article comprising a main body (20), having a body volume defined by the space within a surface forming an outer envelope, and at least one hook (21), preferably a field of hooks, obtained from the same molding of the main body of the molded article, the hook or each hook having a stem of longitudinal axis and a catching part projecting laterally from the stem, characterized in that the volume of the hooks is substantially smaller than the volume of the body, i.e. at least 100 times smaller, preferably at least 1000 times smaller, for example between 100 000 and 100 000 000 times smaller, than the volume of the body, and in that the width, or smallest transverse dimension, of the stems, measured transversely to the longitudinal axis, is smaller than the thickness of the main body, measured along the longitudinal axis of the stems.

Abstract: An assembly for producing cabinet doors including a CNC machine provided with a porous worktable, means for positioning workpieces thereon, means for applying a vacuum to such porous worktable for adhering such workpieces thereto and means for machining such workpieces adhered to such worktable; and means for thermally deforming a thermally pliable foil to laminate such workpiece.

Abstract: A time Gt from the start of an injection step until a mold clamping operation is complete is compared with an operation time Ct for a mold clamping step. For Gt<Ct, the injection step is started when a time Dt equal to a difference between Gt and Ct elapses. On the other hand, for Gt?Ct, after the start of the injection step, a movable platen is stopped at a mold touch position until the time Dt elapses. When the time Dt elapses, the mold clamping step is started.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an optical lens element (2), particularly for illumination purposes, particularly for producing a headlight lens (2) for a vehicle headlight, particularly for a motor vehicle headlight (1), wherein a blank (136) made of a transparent plastic is shaped in an injection molding tool (131, 132) by means of an injection molding method, and the blank (136) is subsequently pressed into the lens element (2) by means of a final shape mold (140, 141, 142), particularly in a polished manner.

Abstract: A mold and a method for the molding by injection of plastic material of a generally thin part, notably of a vehicle lighting and/or signalling device. The mold comprises two half-molds designed to be disposed one against the other and forming an enclosure designed to be filled with plastic material by injection. The plastic material is injected via an injection nozzle in the vicinity of one end of the part. The volume formed by the mold includes a cavity the volume of which may be modulated by means of a mobile element. During the injection of plastic material, when the latter has reached at least the level of the cavity, the initially zero volume of the cavity is progressively increased via the control means of the mobile element.

Abstract: The first sliding molds are movable back and forth in a direction orthogonal to a back-and-forth direction of the movable mold, come into contact with a periphery of the central mold when the first sliding molds move forward to form a first cavity for molding a panel body, and avoid interference with a second sliding mold when the first sliding molds move back to form a second cavity for molding a frame. The second sliding mold is movable back and forth in the back-and-forth direction of the movable mold, allows a forward movement of the first sliding molds when the second sliding mold moves back to form the first cavity, and comes into contact with an inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge of the panel body held on a fixed mold, thereby forming sealing portions, when second sliding mold moves forward to form the second cavity.

Abstract: A tool (1000) includes a mold defining a cavity (1002). The cavity can be for receiving a glass layer (402). A floating core insert (1001) can be placed in the cavity to apply a preloading force against a first major face of the glass layer, preclude an overmolding operation on the first major face, and allow overmolding only on minor faces of the glass layer when polymeric material (1100) is injected into runners (1018,1019,1020) of the tool.

Abstract: Provided is an injection foaming mold capable of preventing, when formed resin molding is performed by a partial core back, degradation of an outer appearance and component precision, and occurrence of swelling when a portion that is not subjected to the core back is taken out of a die. The injection foaming mold includes at least: a fixed core that avoids moving; and a movable core that performs the core back. The injection foaming mold further includes a capacity change shape portion, which is formed in a region in which a capacity in the die is changed smoothly and continuously from the fixed core side to the movable core side, the capacity change shape portion being formed at a boundary between the fixed core and the movable core.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an elongated element (200) is provided. The method comprises arranging a molding cavity (101), defined by a mold (103) and a mold insert (104), said mold insert (104) comprising a mold core (105) and a displaceable mold cavity wall (106), said displaceable mold cavity wall (106) being arranged between the mold (103) and the mold core (105), such that the molding cavity has a start volume in a start position of the displaceable mold cavity wall (106). Then a liquid material is injected into a proximal end (102) of the molding cavity (101), where after the displaceable mold cavity wall (106) is displaced in relation to and along with the mold (103) and the mold core (105), distally during said injection, to increase the molding cavity volume from the start volume into an end volume at an end position of the displaceable mold cavity wall (106), wherein the molding cavity (101) in said end position of the displaceable mold cavity wall (106) corresponds to the elongated element (200).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an elongated element (200) is provided. The method comprises arranging a molding cavity (101), defined by a mold (103) and a mold insert (104), said mold insert (104) comprising a mold core (105) and a displaceable mold cavity wall (106), said displaceable mold cavity wall (106) being arranged between the mold (103) and the mold core (105), such that the molding cavity has a start volume in a start position of the displaceable mold cavity wall (106). Then a liquid material is injected into a proximal end (102) of the molding cavity (101), where after the displaceable mold cavity wall (106) is displaced in relation to and along with the mold (103) and the mold core (105), distally during said injection, to increase the molding cavity volume from the start volume into an end volume at an end position of the displaceable mold cavity wall (106), wherein the molding cavity (101) in said end position of the displaceable mold cavity wall (106) corresponds to the elongated element (200).

Abstract: A mold for forming tilt boss includes a slider part, a main part and a core pin. The slider part is formed with a tilt groove. The main part is formed with a tilt channel. When the slider part and the first main part are engaged, a tilt-boss forming cavity is formed. The tilt-boss forming cavity is communicated with the tilt channel and coaxial with the tilt channel. The core pin penetrates the tilt channel and one distal portion thereof is slidably engaged with the tilt groove, another distal portion thereof is protruded into the tilt-boss forming cavity. When the slider part is separated from the main part for allowing the core pin to be moved from a high point to a low point of the tilt groove, the core pin is downwardly moved along the tilt channel.

Abstract: A gas tank, includes: a liner; and a fiber reinforced plastic layer. A hollow portion is formed within a thickness of the liner along an axial direction of the tank.

Abstract: A resin gear has a concave portion formed on a gear body at a position radially inward of a boundary region between a toothed portion and a non-toothed portion. During a molding process, a welded portion is formed at the non-toothed portion by merger of flow of the molten resin along a first path and flow of the molten resin along a second path. The first path detours the concave portion and passes through the side of the toothed portion, and the second path detours the concave portion and passes through the side of the non-toothed portion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a crash pad for a vehicle, may include (a) preparing a die including an upper die and a lower die for forming a first cavity for a Passenger Air Bag (PAB) door and a second cavity for a crash pad body, between the upper die and the lower die, (b) fixing a skin foam on an upper surface of the lower die, (c) moving the upper die in an upward direction in a predetermined distance and filling the first cavity for the PAB door with a first material and the second cavity for the crash pad body with a second material, (d) moving the upper die in a downward direction to compress the first and second materials against the lower die, while the first and second cavities may be filled with the first material and the second material, and (e) extracting a core of the PAB door and the crash pad body integrally formed with the skin foam from the die.

Abstract: A mold for forming a temporary prosthesis has at least two mold members at least partially separable from each other. The at least two mold members cooperatively define a generally enclosed interior cavity for forming the temporary prosthesis. The mold has a securement structure mounted on the at least two mold members for securing the at least two mold members to each other during the forming of the temporary prosthesis. The securement structure is removable from the at least two mold members by hand and without the use of a tool.

Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing a liquid product from a container containing said product comprises a first chamber and a second chamber. An inlet passage comprising at least one inlet opening establishes a fluid connection between the first chamber and an interior part of a container having the dispensing device mounted thereon. An outlet passage adapted to deliver liquid product being dispensed by way of the dispensing device is fluidly connected to the second chamber. An intermediate wall divides an interior part of the dispensing device into the first chamber and the second chamber. The intermediate wall defines an edge, and the intermediate wall is arranged in such a manner that an intermediate passage between the first chamber and the second chamber is defined at said edge.

Abstract: A mold apparatus, an injection molding apparatus, and an injection molding method, which can satisfactorily form a preform having a bottom thicker than a body, are provided. The mold apparatus comprises a neck mold, an injection cavity mold, and an injection core mold having an inside core mold and an outside core mold, and further comprises a regulation means, such as an urging member, for regulating the movement of the inside core mold toward the outside of the injection cavity mold.

Abstract: An injection molding assembly comprising a collapsible core assembly, an injection mold press comprising an internal cavity configured to receive the collapsible core assembly, and an actuator configured to insert the collapsible core assembly into the internal cavity of the mold press and method of using the same. The collapsible core assembly may comprise a static core member, a moveable core member coaxial to the static core member and moveable relative to the static core member, and a stripper plate moveable within the collapsible core assembly relative to the static core and configured to eject the molded part. The moveable core member may comprise an external engagement feature disposed at an end of the moveable core member. The external engagement feature may define a geometry operable to matingly engage an internal feature of a molded part supported on the moveable core member upon formation of the molded part.

Abstract: A process for making a crosslinked assembly includes steps of: selecting a desired performance parameter for a molded assembly of a first polymeric component and a second polymeric component bonded to the first polymeric component, controlling a first crosslinking percentage for the first polymeric component and a second crosslinking percentage for the second polymeric component independently to provide the desired performance parameter for the assembly, orienting the assembly at an angle between an orientation axis of the assembly and a electron beam direction, exposing the oriented assembly a predetermined number of times (N) to the electron beam operable to deliver a predetermined amount of radiation (R) in the electron beam direction providing a total radiation exposure proportional to (N×R) providing the first component crosslinking percentage and the second component crosslinking percentage, the resulting assembly having the desired performance parameter.

Abstract: A dispensing device for dispensing powdered or granular product from a container containing said product comprises a first chamber and a second chamber. An inlet passage comprising at least one inlet opening and establishes communication between the first chamber and an interior part of a container having the dispensing device mounted thereon. An outlet passage adapted to deliver powdered or granular product being dispensed by means of the dispensing device establishes communication from the second chamber. An intermediate wall divides an interior part of the dispensing device into the first chamber and the second chamber, the intermediate wall defining an edge. The intermediate wall is arranged in such a manner that an intermediate passage between the first chamber and the second chamber is defined at the edge for allowing powdered or granular product to pass between the first chamber and the second chamber. The intermediate wall further defines a second passage.

Abstract: A mold assembly includes a male mold, a female mold, and a driving unit. The male mold includes a stationary member, a moveable member defining through holes, and mold cores fixed on the stationary member and received in the respective through holes. The female mold covers the moveable member. The female mold defines recesses aligned with and communicating with the respective through holes. The moveable member, the female mold and the mold cores cooperatively form mold cavities at the through holes. The driving unit is fixed on the stationary member and supports the moveable member. The driving unit is configured for driving the moveable member to move upward or downward along the mold cores relative to the stationary member.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a tool, comprising: a tool stationary portion comprising a nozzle and a film gate; and a tool movable portion comprising a shut off pin opposite the nozzle and the film gate; wherein the shut off pin prevents polymer melt in the nozzle from leaking into a cavity of the tool after injection of polymer into the tool.

Abstract: The application provides a molding apparatus. The molding apparatus comprises a first mold-defining member together with a second mold-defining member, one or more channels, and one or more moveable cores. The first mold-defining member together with the second mold-defining member defines an internal cavity. The channels comprise inlets for receiving molten resin and outlets to the internal cavity. The moveable cores are moveable between a first position and a second position, wherein the moveable core in the second position reduces a volume of the internal cavity and closes the channel outlets. The moveable core is also independently moveable with respect to the first mold-defining member and with respect to the second mold-defining member.

Abstract: A resin-made interior panel molded into a thin-plate shape using a cavity die and a core die in which portions which corresponds to undercut portions with respect to the die-cutting direction of the molding die includes on the front surface side of a panel a flat bottom portion having a shape which cancels an entire undercut space on the side of the core-die and a rib structure having a plurality of ribs projecting in the shape of plugging back the undercut space and having a plurality of grooves extending from the bottom portion in the die-cut direction. According to the invention as described above, means which maintain the design shape of the interior panel on the front surface side having the undercut portions is provided without necessity of a slide die in the core die.

Abstract: A mold includes a mold core, a first cover, and a second cover. The mold core includes a cavity and a pair of elastic pieces. The pair of elastic pieces is in the cavity and divides the cavity into a first room and a second room. The first cover covers the first room of the cavity. The first cover defines a plurality of first plug holes. A first I/O can be formed in the first room by injecting a first liquid plastic material in the first room via the plurality of first plug holes. The second cover covers the first room and second room of the cavity. The second cover defines a plurality of second plug holes. A second I/O port assembly can be formed by injecting a second liquid plastic material in the first room and the second room via the plurality of second plug holes.

Abstract: A method of molding a microneedle including providing a mold apparatus having a mold insert having the negative image of at least one microneedle, a compression core, a mold housing configured to allow a reciprocal motion between the mold insert and the compression core. The method includes placing the mold apparatus in a closed position, injecting polymeric material into the closed mold apparatus, compressing the injected polymeric material between the mold insert and the compression core by a reciprocal motion between the compression core and the mold insert, opening the mold, and removing a molded microneedle from the mold. The mold insert has a mold insert height and the molded microneedle has a height that is from about 90% of the mold insert height to about 115% of the mold insert height.

Abstract: A load bearing panel member having a first portion, a second portion, and an appearance surface portion is formed by injection molding such that the first portion includes a plurality of rib members forming a grid pattern on the first portion and another plurality of rib members extending toward the periphery of the first portion which may be non-orthogonal to each other and to the rib members forming the grid pattern. A tubular cavity may be formed within each of the non-orthogonal rib members by injecting a gas into the rib member during the molding process forming the panel. An appearance surface portion attached to the first portion and second portion of the panel member forms an integral hinge between the first and second portions of the panel member. The panel member may be configured as a floor panel of a vehicle.

Abstract: A cement mold assembly configured to form a temporary implant for use in delivering antibiotics to an infected site can includes a first mold and a second mold. The first mold can have an open end and an inner wall. The first mold can define a tibial component forming cavity including a platform forming cavity and a stem forming cavity. The second mold can have a body portion configured to be slidably and progressively receivable by the inner wall into the tibial component forming cavity in a direction toward the closed end. Progressive advancement of the second mold into the tibial component forming cavity urges cement within the tibial component forming cavity against the body portion and the inner wall to form a unitary tibial component having a tibial tray portion formed by the platform forming cavity and a stem portion formed by the stem forming cavity.

Abstract: A multilayer molding apparatus, comprising: a fixed platen; a movable platen; an intermediate platen positioned between the fixed platen and the movable platen to be movable in the direction to come close or be opened, and having a surface facing the fixed platen, a surface facing the movable platen, and a housing space that goes therethrough from the surface facing the fixed platen to the surface facing the movable platen; and a rotary platen rotatably supported by the intermediate platen inside the housing space of the intermediate platen, and having at least one pair of parallel surfaces facing the fixed platen and the movable platen, wherein at least one of the surfaces of the intermediate platen facing the fixed platen and the movable platen is a mold mounting surface on which a mold can be mounted directly or indirectly.

Abstract: An injection mold assembly for manufacturing multiple-component articles includes opposed first and second mold halves and mold cores carried by the first mold half. Each of the mold cores is mounted for rotation between a first position and a second position about an axis of rotation. The mold halves are mounted for movement in reciprocal directions along an axis of reciprocation between an open position and a closed position forming molding cavities between the mold cores and the second mold halves. The axes of rotation of the mold cores are different from one another.

Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a vehicular component part that is molded by charging molten resin into a cavity defined by a first die that has a mirror surface-molding portion and a semi-gloss surface-molding portion and a second die that is movable relative to the first die and cooling the molten resin. The vehicular component part includes a mirror surface-formed portion having a mirror surface that is formed by the mirror surface-molding portion and a semi-gloss surface-formed portion having a semi-gloss surface that is formed by the semi-gloss surface-molding portion. A step surface is provided between the mirror surface and the semi-gloss surface of the vehicular component part. The semi-gloss surface-formed portion is protruded on a first die side relative to the mirror surface-formed portion.

Abstract: An injection molding machine may include a split mold where a gas discharge portion is formed at parting surfaces. Further, the cross-section of a flow passage of the gas discharge portion may be reduced at a predetermined timing after the start of the filling of a molding material. Since the cross-section of the flow passage of the gas discharge portion is reduced after a cavity space starts being filled with a molding material, it may be possible to make the amount of gas, which flows through the gas discharge portion, large until the cross-section of the flow passage of the gas discharge portion is reduced. It may be possible to prevent a foreign material from adhering to the inner peripheral surface of the gas discharge portion.

Abstract: Flow gates 5 capable of protruding and retracting are provided in a cavity 9 of a die 2 to control a resin filling path. The generation of welds or orientation lines in a resin flow pattern is allowed only in an area containing uneven portions outside a design surface but is not allowed in other areas. The area containing welds or orientation lines in a resin flow pattern is covered with a separate component having a design surface, thereby achieving a desired metallic appearance.

Abstract: A trim panel for a door of a vehicle that wherein both sunshade and non-sunshade versions of the trim panel are manufactured on the same equipment, thus eliminating the need to prepare separate molds for each trim panel. Both the sunshade and non-sunshade versions of the trim panel share essentially the same components and dimension except that the sunshade trim panel has an upper surface that terminates prior to a corresponding surface of the non-sunshade trim panel. This feature allows both trim panels to be made on the same equipment and then installed as needed depending on whether a given door will include a sunshade assembly.

Abstract: A processing method for in-mold coating integrative system is used in cooperation with an injection molding machine. The injection molding machine comprises a rotatable work platform and a combination of at least one male mold and at least two female molds. The rotatable work platform is divided averagely into several work areas, and the processing proceeds sequentially in each work area by the rotation of the rotatable work platform.

Abstract: A method of injection moulding a plastics container 1 having wall(s) 2 of substantially uniform thickness using an injection mould 10 with an unsupported core 12 is disclosed. A small sliver 17 is removed from the free end of the core 12 of the mould 10 from that side of the wall which is thinnest. As a consequence on the next injection more plastic flows in that direction. Repeated optical inspection of the containers enables a balance to be achieved in which slightly asymmetric injection conditions are balanced by a slightly asymmetric container base with the result being a container with substantially uniform wall thickness.

Abstract: Mold system (1) for manufacturing cardboard-based container, comprising movable mold half (10) and stationary mold half (20) located opposite one another. Movable mold half (10), movable with respect to stationary mold half (20), includes at least a core plate (4), a plate-like seal ring (5) movable with respect to the core, and collar ring (6). Stationary mold half (40) includes at least a mold plate (7) provided with a mold cavity (71) and a seal surface (7a). In the mold system (1), an insert (720) can be supported on and detachably attached to the base (71b) of the mold cavity (71) reducing the depth H of the mold cavity by its height h. Container (500) comprises bottom (57) pressed from cardboard blank and wall (59) connected to the bottom and plastic rim (50) connected to the upper edge of the walls.