Power supply device for an injection moulding machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10424922-B2
Application number	US-201414217702-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2014
Priority date	Mar 19, 2013
Publication date	Sep 24, 2019
Grant date	Sep 24, 2019

Abstract

A power supply device for a molding machine with an intermediate circuit, which can be connected with at least one drive of the molding machine and is suitable for supplying the at least one drive with electrical energy; a supply module connected to the intermediate circuit; an energy storage device connected to the intermediate circuit; and a closed loop control device for closed loop controlling an energy content of the energy storage device. The energy storage device can be closed loop controlled by means of the closed loop control device so that the energy content of the energy storage device does not go outside a range, in which a power input and/or a power output of the energy storage device is essentially constant.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power supply device for a moulding machine, comprising:
an intermediate circuit, connected with at least one drive of the moulding machine and suitable for supplying the at least one drive with electrical energy;
a supply module connected to the intermediate circuit;
an energy storage device connected to the intermediate circuit, and
a closed loop control device for closed loop controlling an energy content of the energy storage device,
wherein the energy storage device is closed loop controlled by the closed loop control device so that the energy content of the energy storage device does not go outside a range, in which a power input or a power output of the energy storage device is essentially constant.

2. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the energy storage device has a flywheel and an accumulator drive for accelerating and slowing down the flywheel and a speed of the flywheel is closed loop controllable so that the speed does not go outside a range in which a power input or a power output of the accumulator drive is essentially constant.

3. The power supply device according to claim 2 , wherein the accumulator drive is in the form of an asynchronous machine.

4. The power supply device according to claim 2 , wherein the accumulator drive is in the form of an electrical drive, wherein the flywheel is preferably in the form of a rotor of the accumulator drive.

5. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate circuit is in the form of a DC voltage intermediate circuit.

6. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein an intermediate circuit voltage is closed loop controlled in the intermediate circuit.

7. The power supply device according to claim 6 , wherein a nominal intermediate circuit voltage, at which the intermediate circuit voltage is closed loop controlled, is essentially constant.

8. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein for connecting the intermediate circuit with the at least one drive at least one drive supply module for supplying the at least one drive with at least one drive AC voltage is provided.

9. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the supply module is connected with a power supply network and has a rectifier for rectifying a supply voltage of the power supply network.

10. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein excess electrical energy, present in the intermediate circuit or the energy storage device, is fed back via the supply module to a power supply network.

11. The power supply device according to claim 10 , wherein the supply module has a line choke or a line filter for reducing undesired fluctuations in an electrical current fed back to the power supply network.

12. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the moulding machine is an injection moulding machine.

13. A moulding machine with a power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate circuit is connected with the at least one drive.

14. The moulding machine according to claim 13 , wherein the at least one drive is in the form of an electrical drive.

15. The moulding machine according to claim 13 , wherein the at least one drive comprises a clamping drive or an injection drive.

16. The moulding machine according to claim 13 , wherein the moulding machine is an injection moulding machine.

17. A method for operating a power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the energy storage device is charged prior to an injection moulding cycle to a level at which the energy content of the energy storage device is in a range in which the energy storage device is able to absorb or deliver a constant power.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein an energy to supply the at least one drive during the injection moulding cycle is delivered in part by the energy storage device or that an energy returned from the at least one drive during the injection moulding cycle is delivered in part to the energy storage device.

Assignees

• Engel Austria Gmbh

Inventors

• Fraueneder Harald
• Dimmler Gerhard

Classifications

• B29C2945/76026

  Energy, power · CPC title

• H02P11/04

  for controlling dynamo-electric converters having a DC output · CPC title

• B29C2945/76866

  Mould closing · CPC title

• B29C2945/76518

  Energy, power · CPC title

• H02J1/16 Primary

  using energy storage units, e.g. batteries or dynamo-electric machines coupled to flywheels · CPC title