Injection molding machine and injection molding method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11911945-B2
Application number	US-202117378776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2021
Priority date	Jul 20, 2020
Publication date	Feb 27, 2024
Grant date	Feb 27, 2024

Abstract

Provided are an injection molding machine and an injection molding method. An injection molding machine includes: a plasticizing unit which rotates a screw to plasticize a molding material inside a plastication cylinder, and an injection unit. The injection unit has: a plunger reciprocally moving inside an injection chamber, and an injection driving device reciprocally moving the plunger. By driving the injection driving device to move the plunger backward and forward inside the injection chamber, and driving a rotary driving device to alternately rotate the screw in a normal rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction, the molding material is controlled to reciprocate between the plastication cylinder and the injection chamber.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An injection molding machine, comprising:
a plasticizing unit which plasticizes a molding material inside a plastication cylinder by rotation of a screw;
an injection unit which injects, into a mold, the molding material supplied into an injection chamber of an injection cylinder from the plasticizing unit; and
an injection control section which controls operations of the plasticizing unit and the injection unit, wherein
the plasticizing unit comprises a rotary driving device rotating the screw,
the injection unit comprises a plunger reciprocally moving inside the injection chamber, and an injection driving device reciprocally moving the plunger, and
the injection control section is configured to driving the injection driving device to move the plunger backward and forward inside the injection chamber and driving the rotary driving device to alternately rotate the screw in a normal clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation direction and a corresponding reverse counter-clockwise or clockwise rotation direction, and controlling the molding material to flow back-and-forth between the inside of the plastication cylinder and the injection chamber, and the injection control section is configured to
driving the rotary driving device to rotate the screw in the normal clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation direction, extruding the molding material from the inside of the plastication cylinder into the injection chamber, moving the plunger backward, and stopping the plunger in a metering completion position; and
driving the rotary driving device to rotate the screw in the reverse counter-clockwise or clockwise rotation direction, driving the injection driving device to move the plunger forward, and pushing back the molding material from the inside of the injection chamber into the plastication cylinder.

2. The injection molding machine according to claim 1 , wherein the injection control section performs, for a plurality of cycles, the rotation of the screw in the normal rotation direction and the reverse rotation direction and a backward movement and a forward movement of the plunger.

3. The injection molding machine according to claim 1 , wherein a porous plate is arranged on the flow path.

4. An injection molding method of an injection molding machine, wherein the injection molding machine comprises: a plasticizing unit which plasticizes a molding material inside a plastication cylinder by the rotation of a screw, and an injection unit comprising a plunger which reciprocally moves inside an injection chamber,
the injection molding method of the injection molding machine performs: a metering step in which the screw is rotated in a normal clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation direction, the molding material is extruded from the plastication cylinder into the injection chamber, the plunger is moved backward, and then the plunger is stopped in a metering completion position; and
a pushing-back step in which after the metering step, the screw is rotated in a corresponding reverse counter-clockwise or clockwise rotation direction, the plunger is moved forward, and the molding material is extruded from the inside of the injection chamber to the plastication cylinder.

5. The injection molding method of the injection molding machine according to claim 4 , wherein the metering step and the pushing-back step are performed for a plurality of cycles.

6. The injection molding machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an operation panel configured to set a number of times that the molding material reciprocates on a flow path from the inside of the plastication cylinder into the injection chamber.

Assignees

• Sodick Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kubo Yoshikazu
• Araki Hisakazu
• Hirota Koichi
• Akiyama Kenzo

Classifications

• B29C45/54 Primary

  and plasticising screw {(B29C45/532 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B29C45/461

  Injection of measured doses · CPC title

• B29C2045/547

  continuously rotating plasticising screw cooperating with a single injection plunger (B29C45/542 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29C45/544 Primary

  the plasticising unit being connected to a transfer chamber in the injection unit at the upstream side of the injection piston · CPC title

• B29C45/531

  Drive means therefor · CPC title