Injection molding method and injection molding device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9821498-B2
Application number	US-201314758518-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2013
Priority date	Mar 25, 2013
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

In an injection molding method, using a heating cylinder having on the front end thereof a discharge nozzle, a single axis screw is rotatable inside the heating cylinder, a fiber-supplying device fills reinforcing fiber into the heating cylinder, and injection molding is performed while supplying the reinforcing fiber and the resin starting material separately and supplying the reinforcing fiber on the front side of the resin starting material. The method includes a plasticization process for obtaining a specified amount of a kneaded product by retracting the screw while rotating in the normal direction to melt the resin starting material and knead reinforcing fiber into the melted resin starting material, and an injection process for discharging the kneaded product from the discharge nozzle by advancing the screw. Reinforcing fiber is supplied into the heating cylinder in the injection process.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An injection molding method which includes a cylinder having a discharge nozzle formed on a front side thereof, a single axis screw provided to be rotatable in the cylinder, and a fiber-supplying device for filling the cylinder with reinforcing fiber, and performs injection molding while separately supplying the reinforcing fiber and a resin starting material and supplying the reinforcing fiber on a side closer to the front side than the resin starting material, the method comprising:
a plasticization process of allowing the screw to retract while rotating the screw in a normal direction to melt the resin starting material and kneading the reinforcing fiber with the melted resin starting material, thereby obtaining a predetermined amount of a kneaded product; and
an injection process of discharging the kneaded product from the discharge nozzle by allowing the screw to advance,
wherein the reinforcing fiber is supplied into the cylinder in the injection process,
wherein the screw is rotated in the normal direction or is rotated in a reverse direction in the injection process,
wherein the cylinder is provided with a vent hole which penetrates through a body of the cylinder from an outer peripheral surface to an inner peripheral surface thereof in order to supply the reinforcing fiber from the side closer to the front side than the resin starting material, and
and wherein, in the injection process, a reverse rotational velocity of the screw is set so that movement of the flight of the screw in a projection region of the vent hole is equal to or smaller than one lead length of the flight.

2. The injection molding method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the injection process, the screw is rotated in the reverse direction at the same velocity as in the plasticization process.

3. An injection molding device comprising:
a controller;
a cylinder having a discharge nozzle formed on a front side thereof;
a single axis screw provided to be rotatable in the cylinder;
a fiber-supplying device for filling the cylinder with reinforcing fiber;
a resin-supplying hopper which is provided closer to a rear side than the fiber-supplying device and supplies a resin starting material into the cylinder; and
a vent hole which penetrates through a body of the cylinder from an outer peripheral surface to an inner peripheral surface thereof in order to supply the reinforcing fiber from the side closer to the front side than the resin starting material,
wherein the injection molding device is configured to control the injection molding device to perform
a plasticization process of allowing the screw to retract while rotating the screw in a normal direction to melt a resin starting material and kneading the reinforcing fiber with the melted resin starting material, thereby obtaining a predetermined amount of a kneaded product, and
an injection process of discharging the kneaded product from the discharge nozzle by allowing the screw to advance,

the injection molding device is configured to supply reinforcing fiber into the cylinder in the injection process,
the screw is rotated in the normal direction or is rotated in a reverse direction in the injection process, and
a reverse rotational velocity of the screw is set so that movement of a flight of the screw in a projection region of the vent hole is equal to or smaller than one lead length of the flight in the injection process.

4. The injection molding device according to claim 3 ,
wherein, the injection molding device is configured to, in the injection process, rotate the screw in the reverse direction at the same velocity as in the plasticization process.

Assignees

• U-Mhi Platech Co Ltd
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Okabe Ryoji
• Kariya Toshihiko
• Toda Naoki
• Nobuta Munehiro

Classifications

• B29C45/60

  Screws · CPC title

• B29K2101/00

  Use of unspecified macromolecular compounds as moulding material {(use of unspecified rubbers B29K2021/00)} · CPC title

• B29K2105/12

  of short lengths, e.g. chopped filaments, staple fibres or bristles · CPC title

• B29C45/50

  Axially movable screw · CPC title

• B29C45/76

  Measuring, controlling or regulating {(measuring in general G01; controlling or regulating in general G05)} · CPC title