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An Intelligent Cavity Layout Design System for Injection Moulds

  • Hu, Weigang;Masood, Syed
    • International Journal of CAD/CAM
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents the development of an Intelligent Cavity Layout Design System (ICLDS) for multiple cavity injection moulds. The system is intended to assist mould designers in cavity layout design at concept design stage. The complexities and principles of cavity layout design as well as various dependencies in injection mould design are introduced. The knowledge in cavity layout design is summarized and classified. The functionality, the overall structure and general process of ICLDS are explained. The paper also discusses such issues as knowledge representation and case-based reasoning used in the development of the system. The functionality of the system is illustrated with an example of cavity layout design problem.

A Study on flow Balance and Warpage Characteristics in Manufacturing of Plastic Injection Family Mould (Family 금형 제작에서의 유동 밸런스 및 휨특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim K. H.;Song D. J.;Kwon C. O.;Lee S. H.;Heo Y. M.;Kim M. Y.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.141-146
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    • 2005
  • In the present study, the characteristic of warpage and flow balance for family mould, which is able to mold parts with different shapes in a mold, is considered. To obtain an optimal gate and runner system, plastic injection molding analysis with commercial code is performed. Design and manufacturing of family mould is then carried out on the basis of this computer aided engineering result. Flow balance and warpage comparisons between experiment and numerical analysis give good agreement with each other. However, it was shown that results of warpage measured by CMM was about $20\~55\%$ lower than those of numerical analysis.

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Computational design of mould sprue for injection moulding thermoplastics

  • Lakkannan, Muralidhar;Mohan Kumar, G.C.;Kadoli, Ravikiran
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.37-52
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    • 2016
  • To injection mould polymers, designing mould is a key task involving several critical decisions with direct implications to yield quality, productivity and frugality. One prominent decision among them is specifying sprue-bush conduit expansion as it significantly influences overall injection moulding; abstruseness anguish in its design criteria deceives direct determination. Intuitively designers decide it wisely and then exasperate by optimising or manipulating processing parameters. To overwhelm that anomaly this research aims at proposing an ideal design criteria holistically for all polymeric materials also tend as a functional assessment metric towards perfection i.e., criteria to specify sprue conduit size before mould development. Accordingly, a priori analytical criterion was deduced quantitatively as expansion ratio from ubiquitous empirical relationships specifically a.k.a an exclusive expansion angle imperatively configured for injectant properties. Its computational intelligence advantage was leveraged to augment functionality of perfectly injecting into an impression gap, while synchronising both injector capacity and desired moulding features. For comprehensiveness, it was continuously sensitised over infinite scale as an explicit factor dependent on in-situ spatio-temporal injectant state perplexity with discrete slope and altitude for each polymeric character. In which congregant ranges of apparent viscosity and shear thinning index were conceived to characteristically assort most thermoplastics. Thereon results accorded aggressive conduit expansion widening for viscous incrust, while a very aggressive narrowing for shear thinning encrust; among them apparent viscosity had relative dominance. This important rationale would certainly form a priori design basis as well diagnose filling issues causing several defects. Like this the proposed generic design criteria, being simple would immensely benefit mould designers besides serve as an inexpensive preventive cliché to moulders. Its adaption ease to practice manifests a hope of injection moulding extremely alluring polymers. Therefore, we concluded that appreciating injectant's polymeric character to design exclusive sprue bush offers a definite a priori advantage.

Application of Birefringence CAE in Mould Design of Optic Lens Injection Molding Process (광학렌즈 사출성형금형 설계에 있어서 CAE기술의 활용)

  • Yamanoi, Mikio;Kwak, Tae-Soo;Jung, Jong-Kyo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2012
  • This study is focused on simulation technology in injection molding process for plastic optic lenses. The CAE program, $3D-TIMON^{TM}$ is used for the injection molding simulation with O-PET resin material. The design for different gate shape and runner layout has been under review by CAE simulation results. Moreover, the prediction of birefringence and polarized light in injection molded optic lenses has been tested by the CAE Program. The simulation results have been expected to effectively use in the design of injection molding mould.

Optimization of an Electron Microwave Oven Window Injection Mold Using Kriging Based Approximation Model (크리깅을 이용한 전자 오븐 윈도우 부품용 사출금형의 최적설계)

  • Ryu M. R.;Lee K. H.;Kim Y. H.;Park H. S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.22 no.7 s.172
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    • pp.177-184
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    • 2005
  • Recently, the engineering designer of injection mould has become more and more dependent on the CAE. In the design factors of injection mould, the shrinkage rate should be considered as one of the important performances to produce the reliable products. therefore the shrinkage rate can be mostly calculated by the MoldFlow and Pro-engineering. in the design process. However it is not easy to predict the shrinkage rate of a plastic injection mold in its design process because the analysis can take minutes to hours, the high computational costs of performing the analysis limit their use in design optimization. In this study, the surrogate models, DACE model, based on the Kriging in order to optimize the shrinkage rate of electric microwave oven window is used in lieu of the original models, facilitating design optimization.

A Study on the Wall Thickness Design for Injection Molding (사출 금형의 벽두께 설계 방법의 고찰)

  • Hwang, S.J.;Lyu, M.Y.;Kim, D.W.;Kim, S.Y.;Shin, K.S.;Kim, K.Y.
    • 한국금형공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.149-153
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    • 2008
  • The cavity of mold is exposed to high pressure during injection molding operation. Injection molded articles with deep depth are often demanded as design variety increases. Mold becomes weak and deformation increases as the mold depth increases. Thus the injection molds for deep depth articles should be designed to hold out high pressure or stress and large deformation. Through this study, equation for mold design was examined and suggested novel method to determine equation for mold design with deep depth. Novel equation developed in this study was consisted with cantilever and two points bending while previous equation was modified from just cantilever bending. The validity of novel equation was verified through computer simulation.

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Machining of the Inject Mould for Forming the Dot Pattern of LGP of TFT-LCD (TFT-LCD의 도광판 패턴 사출성형용 금형가공)

  • 박동삼;최영현;하민수
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.1215-1219
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    • 2003
  • Light Guide Panel(LGP) is a key part of backlight unit(BLU) which transforms line-light of lamp to surface-light. Dot pattern is formed on the injected LGP surface by screen printing. This dot pattern is composed of several ten thousands micro dots of diameter 150-180$\mu\textrm{m}$ or so. The dot patterning by screen printing causes low productivity and low performance of TFT-LCD. This research develops the micromachining technology for LGP mould which could form micro dot pattern by injection molding, removing the existing screen printing process.

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