Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (한국정밀공학회지)

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Development of a Cooling Circuit Design System for Injection Molding Die of Vehicular Lamp

자동차 램프 사출금형 냉각회로 설계지원 시스템 개발

  • Received : 2011.08.01
  • Accepted : 2011.11.01
  • Published : 2012.02.01
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Abstract

The paper presents the development of a cooling circuit design system that automatically creates 3D cooling circuit on a given section plane conforming to design specifications, generates 3D solid model of cooling line segments defined on a 2D sketch plane, and verifies interference of 3D cooling channel with the molding die surface. The system was developed mainly for designing plastic injection molding die of vehicular lamp, which helps the mold designer to rapidly construct cooling circuits but also reduce designer's unintended mistakes by conforming to the dimensional design specifications. It is used by an injection molding die manufacturing company in Korea, and reported approximately 20% reduction of cooling channel design time.

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