Injection apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9248596-B2
Application number	US-201214351615-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 2, 2012
Priority date	Oct 19, 2011
Publication date	Feb 2, 2016
Grant date	Feb 2, 2016

Abstract

The injection apparatus is provided with a high speed step cylinder, a pressure accumulation part and a coupling mechanism. The high speed step cylinder has a rod and an operating chamber. The coupling mechanism is capable of switching between a coupled state in which the movement of the rod is restricted, and a non-coupled state in which the coupled state is released so as to enable the rod to move due to the operating pressure. The coupling mechanism includes a first coupling member, a second coupling member and a drive source. The coupling mechanism is kept in the coupled state in which the second coupling member is rotated to less than 90°. When the second coupling member is forced to rotate in the coupled state, the first coupling member rotates such that a first contact surface is in contact with a second contact surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An injection apparatus that performs a low speed operation, a high speed operation, and a pressurizing operation to inject and fill a molding material into a mold, the injection apparatus comprising:
a high speed operation cylinder operated during the high speed operation and including a rod and an operation chamber;
an accumulating unit connected to the operation chamber to supply operational pressure to the operation chamber and move the rod; and
a connection mechanism switchable between a connected state, in which the connection mechanism restricts movement of the rod caused by the operational pressure of the accumulating unit, and a disconnected state, in which the connection mechanism cancels the connected state so that the rod is movable by the operational pressure, wherein the connection mechanism includes a first connection member, a second connection member, and a drive source, wherein
the first connection member is rotatably supported by the rod and includes a first abutment surface and a first rotation axis extending in a direction substantially orthogonal to an axis of the rod,
the second connection member includes a second abutment surface that comes into planar contact with the first abutment surface to form a joined surface with the first abutment surface,
the drive source rotates the second connection member about a second rotation axis,
a hypothetical axis is defined by an axis lying on and orthogonal to the axis of the rod and parallel to the first rotation axis, and
a hypothetical plane is defined by a plane set by the axis of the rod and the hypothetical axis,
a referential connection state is defined by a situation in which at least a portion of the joined surface extends at a right angle relative to the hypothetical plane, a normal direction extending toward the second connection member in the first abutment surface conforms with a direction in which the rod is moved by the operational pressure of the accumulating unit, and the first rotation axis substantially conforms to the second rotation axis,
the connection mechanism remains in the connected state until the second connection member is rotated by the drive source from the referential connection state by less than 90 degrees in either one of a forward direction and a reverse direction, and
when the second connection member is rotated by the drive source in the connected state, the first connection member is rotated with the first abutment surface in planar contact with the second abutment surface.

2. The injection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first abutment surface and the second abutment surface are both flat surfaces.

3. The injection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first rotation axis of the first connection member conforms to the axis of the rod.

4. The injection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first abutment surface is one of two first abutment surfaces formed on two sides of the first connection member with respect to the axis of the rod as being a reference.

5. The injection apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first connection member and the second connection member is formed by a cylindrical member including a corresponding abutment surface.

Assignees

• Yamaguchi Kazuyuki
• Toyota Jidoshokki Kk

Inventors

• Yamaguchi Kazuyuki

Classifications

• B22D17/32 Primary

  Controlling equipment · CPC title

• B29C45/53 Primary

  using injection ram or piston · CPC title

• B29C45/531

  Drive means therefor · CPC title

• B29C45/77

  of velocity or pressure of moulding material · CPC title

• B29C45/82

  Hydraulic {or pneumatic} circuits · CPC title