Fiber reinforced resin gear, method of forming fiber reinforced resin gear by injection molding, fiber reinforced resin rotary body, method of forming fiber reinforced resin rotary body by injection molding

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9772023-B2
Application number	US-201414324356-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2014
Priority date	Jul 5, 2013
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

Plural ejector pins are made to project before a molten resin containing reinforcing fibers is injected into an inside of a cavity through pin point gates in a web forming portion in the inside of the cavity and at positions outside the pin point gates in a radial direction. The ejector pins are retracted from the inside of the cavity after a flow of the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers injected into the inside of the cavity through the pin point gates impinges on the ejector pins and is divided and before a tooth portion forming portion in the inside of the cavity is filled with the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers. Accordingly, weld lines which extend along the radial direction are formed at positions outside the ejector pins in the radial direction, and the molten resin is filled in portions formed after the ejector pins are retracted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fiber reinforced resin gear, comprising:
a boss portion positioned at a center portion of the fiber reinforced resin gear;
a web which extends outward from a center portion of the boss portion; and
a tooth portion formed on an outer peripheral side of the web by injecting a molten resin containing reinforcing fibers into an inside of a cavity through pin point gates,
wherein:
weld lines are formed in the web at respective merged flow portions of the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers,
each of the weld lines extends in a radial direction,
the pin point gates are arranged on a circle around a center of the fiber reinforced resin gear,
the weld lines are formed only at positions between the circle and the tooth portion,
a number of the weld lines is greater than a number of the pin point gates, and
the web is continuous between the boss portion and the tooth portion such that holes are not formed in the web between the boss portion and the tooth portion.

2. The fiber reinforced resin gear according to claim 1 , wherein a direction of each of the reinforcing fibers is aligned along one of the weld lines.

3. A fiber reinforced resin rotary body, comprising:
a boss portion positioned at a center portion of the fiber reinforced rotary body;
a disk-shaped portion which extends outward from a center portion of the boss portion; and
a cylindrical portion formed on an outer peripheral side of the disk-shaped portion by injecting a molten resin containing reinforcing fibers into an inside of a cavity through pin point gates,
wherein:
weld lines are formed in the disk-shaped portion at respective merged flow portions of the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers,
each of the weld lines extends in a radial direction,
the pin point gates are arranged on a circle around a center of the fiber reinforced resin rotary body,
the weld lines are formed only at positions between the circle and the cylindrical portion,
a number of the weld lines is greater than a number of the pin point gates, and
the disk-shaped portion is continuous between the boss portion and the cylindrical portion such that holes are not formed in the disk-shaped portion between the boss portion and the cylindrical portion.

4. The fiber reinforced resin rotary body according to claim 3 , wherein a direction of each of the reinforcing fibers is aligned along one of the weld lines.

Assignees

• Enplas Corp

Inventors

• Hashimoto Masaomi
• Yanagisawa kazuma

Classifications

• F16H2055/065

  Moulded gears, e.g. inserts therefor · CPC title

• Y10T74/1987

  Rotary bodies · CPC title

• B29C2045/0043

  preventing shrinkage by reducing the wall thickness of the moulded article · CPC title

• B29C45/40

  Removing or ejecting moulded articles · CPC title

• B29C2045/0006

  the fibres being oriented in a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the moulding material into the mould · CPC title