Method of manufacturing resin pipe

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11433583-B2
Application number	US-201917599667-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2019
Priority date	Apr 11, 2019
Publication date	Sep 6, 2022
Grant date	Sep 6, 2022

Abstract

Two molded articles having a cylindrical two-piece split shape is formed by forming two primary cavities in a desired shape with molds assembled together and injecting a molten primary resin into the two primary cavities. An assist material is injected into a secondary cavity into which a molten secondary resin is injected in a state where the two molded articles are located opposed to each other via a space therebetween and internally fitted into one secondary cavity formed by the molds that are assembled together by shifting the positions. A flange portion having any desired shape is disposed on an outer circumferential surface of a resin pipe in a two-layer structure in which an inner surface layer formed of the cured secondary resin is integrated with an outer surface layer formed of the two molded articles. Thus, a portion having any desired shape is easily manufactured on the resin pipe.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a resin pipe using a die slide injection mold configured such that positions at which molds to be assembled together during primary molding and secondary molding are slid, in which the resin pipe is manufactured by:
forming two molded articles in a cylindrical two-piece split shape by injecting a primary resin that is molten into two primary cavities that are formed by the molds assembled together during the primary molding;
internally fitting the two molded articles in a cylindrical shape into one secondary cavity formed by the molds assembled together during the secondary molding such that the molded articles are located opposed to each other via a space between the molded articles, injecting a secondary resin that is molten into the secondary cavity, and then injecting an assist material into the secondary cavity;
the assist material passes, and thus the inner circumferential surface of the secondary resin that has not yet completely cured is molded into the desired shape;
integrating an inner surface layer formed of the secondary resin, that has cured, with the two molded articles,
wherein the molded articles having a desired outer shape are molded during the primary molding, and by integrating the inner surface layer formed of the secondary resin cured during the secondary molding with the two molded articles, a portion having any desired shape can be manufactured on an outer circumferential surface of the resin pipe in a two layer structure formed of the inner surface layer and the outer surface layer.

2. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 1 , wherein
the resin pipe is a bent pipe, and
a wall thickness of a region corresponding to an inner side of a bent portion of the two molded articles is formed larger than a wall thickness of a peripheral region.

3. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 1 , wherein reinforcing fibers are mixed only in the primary resin of the primary resin and the secondary resin that are molten.

4. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 1 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is set such that an interval is narrowed toward an outer circumference side in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

5. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 1 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is inclined to one side in a circumferential direction in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

6. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 2 , wherein reinforcing fibers are mixed only in the primary resin of the primary resin and the secondary resin that are molten.

7. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 2 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is set such that an interval is narrowed toward an outer circumference side in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

8. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 3 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is set such that an interval is narrowed toward an outer circumference side in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

9. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 2 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is inclined to one side in a circumferential direction in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

10. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 3 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is inclined to one side in a circumferential direction in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

11. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 4 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is inclined to one side in a circumferential direction in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

12. The method of manufacturing a resin pipe according to claim 1 , wherein a space between the two molded articles located opposed to each other and internally fitted in a cylindrical shape into the secondary cavity is narrowed toward the outer circumference of side in a cross-sectional view of cylindrical shape and is inclined to one side in a circumferential direction in a cross-sectional view of the cylindrical shape.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• KURIBAYASHI Nobuaki
• Hatanaka Susumu

Classifications

• B29C45/1635 Primary

  using displaceable mould parts, e.g. retractable partition between adjacent mould cavities · CPC title

• B29C45/16 Primary

  Making multilayered or multicoloured articles {(B29C45/0062 takes precedence; feeding colouring materials into the injection unit B29C45/1816)} · CPC title

• B29C2045/1692

  one layer comprising fibres · CPC title

• B29L2023/004

  Bent tubes (for use as pipe couplings B29L2031/24) · CPC title

• B29C2045/1637

  the first injected part and the movable mould part being movable together · CPC title