Method for manufacturing article and injection molding system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11780133-B2
Application number	US-202117549282-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2021
Priority date	Dec 16, 2020
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

A method of manufacturing an article using injection molding includes a step of injecting resin from an injection nozzle having a valve pin via a resin flow path in a first mold (metal mold) into a cavity in the first mold, a step of inserting the valve pin into the resin flow path, extracting the valve pin from the resin flow path, starting to increase a distance between the injection nozzle and the first mold after extracting the valve pin, and a third step of, after starting to increase the distance between the injection nozzle and the first mold, injecting resin from the injection nozzle via a resin flow path in a second mold into a cavity in the second mold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing an article using injection molding, the method comprising:
a first step of injecting resin from an injection nozzle having a valve pin via a resin flow path in a first mold into a cavity in the first mold;
a second step of, after the first step, inserting the valve pin into the resin flow path, extracting the valve pin from the resin flow path, and starting to increase a distance between the injection nozzle and the first mold after extracting the valve pin; and
a third step of, after starting to increase the distance between the injection nozzle and the first mold, injecting resin from the injection nozzle via a resin flow path in a second mold into a cavity in the second mold.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the second step, the injection nozzle and the first mold are contacting each other during extraction of the valve pin.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the third step further comprises injecting resin present in a resin flow path in the injection nozzle in the second step.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first mold has a cold runner structure.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first mold has a hot runner structure.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the valve pin of the injection nozzle is a first valve pin and the first mold includes a second valve pin.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the second step further comprises, inserting the second valve pin into a discharge port of the injection nozzle and extracting the second valve pin from the discharge port.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the second step further comprises extracting the second valve pin while maintaining a state where the first valve pin and the second valve pin are contacting each other.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the second step further comprises an end of the first valve pin and an end of the second valve pin fitting with each other.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a fourth step of, after the third step, ejecting a resin molded product from the first mold.

11. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
a fifth step of, after the fourth step, injecting resin from the injection nozzle via the resin flow path in the first mold into the cavity in the first mold; and
a sixth step of, after the fifth step, ejecting a resin molded product from the second mold.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the second step further comprises closing a portion between a resin flow path in the injection nozzle and the resin flow path in the mold.

13. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
conveying, between the second step and the third step, the first mold and the second mold in a first direction (X),
wherein in the second step, the first mold is moved in the second direction (Y) other than the first direction.

14. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising:
a third step of, after the second step, injecting resin from the injection nozzle via a resin flow path in another mold into a cavity in the another mold.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Ochiai Takamichi
• Yokotani Kyosuke

Classifications

• B29C45/231 Primary

  Needle valve systems therefor · CPC title

• B29C45/2806

  consisting of needle valve systems (B29C45/2896 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29C45/04 Primary

  using movable moulds {or mould halves}(B29C45/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29C31/006

  Handling moulds, e.g. between a mould store and a moulding machine (movable moulds B29C33/34; for injection moulding B29C45/1756) · CPC title

• B29C45/27

  Sprue channels {; Runner channels or runner nozzles} · CPC title