Die, manufacturing method therefor, and molded body manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11267187-B2
Application number	US-201716333014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2017
Priority date	Sep 29, 2016
Publication date	Mar 8, 2022
Grant date	Mar 8, 2022

Abstract

A mold which can improve an appearance of a molded body is provided. A mold includes a cavity, the mold being capable of subjecting a resin sheet under reduced pressure suction via a plurality of reduced pressure suction holes thereby shaping the resin sheet to follow a shape of an inner surface of the cavity; wherein: the inner surface includes a base surface and a plurality of island-like concave portions provided in the base surface; and a concave portion reduced pressure suction hole index defined by an in-concave reduced pressure suction hole ratio divided by a concave portion area ratio is 0.5 or lower.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A one-piece mold comprising a cavity, the one-piece mold having a unitary construction and being capable of subjecting a resin sheet to reduced pressure suction via a plurality of reduced pressure suction holes, each having an area of 0.001 to 1 mm 2 , thereby shaping the resin sheet to follow a shape of an inner surface of the cavity;
wherein the inner surface comprises a base surface and a plurality of island-like concave portions provided in the base surface; and
a concave portion reduced pressure suction hole index defined by an in-concave reduced pressure suction hole ratio divided by a concave portion area ratio is 0.5 or lower, wherein
the in-concave reduced pressure suction hole ratio is defined by a ratio of number of reduced pressure suction holes that are capable of performing reduced pressure suction existing in the concave portions with respect to a sum of number of reduced pressure suction holes that are capable of performing reduced pressure suction existing in both the base surface and the concave portions, and the concave portion area ratio is defined by a ratio of an area of the concave portions with respect to sum of areas of the base surface and the concave portions; and
wherein some of the reduced pressure suction holes are provided in the concave portions, and at least one of the reduced pressure suction holes in the concave portions is blocked.

2. The mold of claim 1 , wherein the concave portion area ratio is 1 to 80%.

3. The mold of claim 1 , wherein the concave portions are regularly dispersed.

4. The mold of claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the number of the reduced pressure suction holes divided by the number of the concave portions is 0.1 to 10.

5. The mold of claim 1 , wherein the concave portions are concave portions each having an area of 2 to 900 mm 2 .

6. The mold of claim 1 , wherein the concave portions have a depth of 0.1 to 10 mm.

7. The mold of claim 1 , wherein wrinkles are provided on the base surface.

8. A method for manufacturing the mold of claim 1 , comprising the steps of:
a reduced pressure suction hole forming step to form the plurality of reduced pressure suction holes on the base surface of the cavity;
a concave portion forming step to form the plurality of concave portions in the base surface; and
a blocking step to block the reduced pressure suction holes which exist in the concave portions.

9. A method for manufacturing a molded body, comprising a step of:
a shaping step to, by use of the mold of claim 1 , shape the resin sheet to follow the shape of the inner surface of the cavity by subjecting the resin sheet to reduced pressure suction.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the resin sheet is formed by extruding and dangling a molten resin from a slit.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising a welding step after the shaping step to weld a foamed body on the resin sheet.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising a welding step after the shaping step to weld a foamed body on the resin sheet.

Assignees

• Kyoraku Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fukuda Tatsuya
• Harasawa Yuki
• Oki Ryosuke

Classifications

• B29C48/08

  flexible, e.g. films · CPC title

• B29C51/105

  Twin sheet thermoforming, i.e. deforming two parallel opposing sheets or foils at the same time by using one common mould cavity and without welding them together during thermoforming (B29C51/267, B29C49/0691 take precedence) · CPC title

• B29C48/0017

  combined with blow-moulding or thermoforming · CPC title

• B29C51/365 Primary

  Porous moulds · CPC title

• B23P15/24

  dies (B21C3/18, B21C25/10, B21D37/20 take precedence) · CPC title