Analysis of thermal cycling efficiency and optimal design of heating/cooling systems for rapid heat cycle injection molding process

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 3426-3441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Guilong ◽  
Zhao Guoqun ◽  
Li Huiping ◽  
Guan Yanjin
2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Park ◽  
J. H. Ahn ◽  
S. R. Choi

Abstract The present work concerns optimal design for the injection molding process of a deflection yoke (coil separator). The optimal design for the injection molding process is developed using design of experiments and finite element analysis. Two design of experiments approaches are applied such as: the design of experiment for mold design and the design of experiments for determination of process parameters. Finite element analyses have been carried out as a design of experiments for mold design: runner system and cooling channel. In order to determine optimal process parameters, experiments have been performed for various process conditions with the design of experiments scheduling.


2013 ◽  
Vol 690-693 ◽  
pp. 2772-2775
Author(s):  
Jian Wen Tang

In the injection molding process, CAE technology is used for detailed analysis of the designing of injection mold gate location and number, this method can optimize the pouring system, and change the traditional method which improves the mold structure by mold testing, so the cost of mold design and manufacturing can be reduced.


2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 308-313
Author(s):  
Yong Hu ◽  
Wen Ling Xie

To optimize injection molding process, the gating system, cooling systems and related injection molding process parameters are chosen as the experimental analysis factors, the quality of the injection as the experimental index in this paper. First, design the test program with orthogonal experimental and simulate with Moldflow MPI 6.0. Second, after plastic molding, in order to determine the integrated target, the comprehensive evaluation method of fuzzy mathematic is used to evaluate warpage values, shrinkage and residual stress. Finally, get the optimization scheme and the best match of gating system and cooling systems though the range and variance analysis of integrated target. The experimental results shown this optimization method can achieved the best parameters for practical produce. So, the optimization injection molding method, MPI and experimental design based, has important practical significance.


2013 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
Chisato Yoshimura ◽  
Hiroyuki Hosokawa ◽  
Koji Shimojima ◽  
Fumihiro Itoigawa

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Truong Giang ◽  
Pham Son Minh ◽  
Tran Anh Son ◽  
Tran Minh The Uyen ◽  
Thanh-Hai Nguyen ◽  
...  

In the injection molding field, the flow of plastic material is one of the most important issues, especially regarding the ability of melted plastic to fill the thin walls of products. To improve the melt flow length, a high mold temperature was applied with pre-heating of the cavity surface. In this paper, we present our research on the injection molding process with pre-heating by external gas-assisted mold temperature control. After this, we observed an improvement in the melt flow length into thin-walled products due to the high mold temperature during the filling step. In addition, to develop the heating efficiency, a flow focusing device (FFD) was applied and verified. The simulations and experiments were carried out within an air temperature of 400 °C and heating time of 20 s to investigate a flow focusing device to assist with external gas-assisted mold temperature control (Ex-GMTC), with the application of various FFD types for the temperature distribution of the insert plate. The heating process was applied for a simple insert model with dimensions of 50 mm × 50 mm × 2 mm, in order to verify the influence of the FFD geometry on the heating result. After that, Ex-GMTC with the assistance of FFD was carried out for a mold-reading process, and the FFD influence was estimated by the mold heating result and the improvement of the melt flow length using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). The results show that the air sprue gap (h) significantly affects the temperature of the insert and an air sprue gap of 3 mm gives the best heating rate, with the highest temperature being 321.2 °C. Likewise, the actual results show that the height of the flow focusing device (V) also influences the temperature of the insert plate and that a 5 mm high FFD gives the best results with a maximum temperature of 332.3 °C. Moreover, the heating efficiency when using FFD is always higher than without FFD. After examining the effect of FFD, its application was considered, in order to improve the melt flow length in injection molding, which increased from 38.6 to 170 mm, while the balance of the melt filling was also clearly improved.


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