• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.39-45
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to build effective cooling circuit design in injection mold to improve glass fiber reinforced laptop computer cover plastics' transcription and gloss. Moldflow Insight and Ansys CFD CAE program used to verify efficiency and the experiment mold is precision machined and brazing soldered to make three-dimension cooling channel. The temperature of mold in injection test are fixed to $80^{\circ}C$ and $160^{\circ}C$. The result of this experiment is the improved surface quality of plastics with 85% improvement of transcription in high temperature mold.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2013

In injection molding, the mold temperature is one of most important process parameters that affect the flow characteristics and part deformation. The mold temperature usually varies periodically owing to the effects of the hot polymer melt and the cold coolant as the molding cycle repeats. In this study, a pulsed mold temperature control was proposed to improve the part quality as well as the productivity by alternatively circulating hot water and cold water before and after the molding stage, respectively. Transient thermal-fluid coupled analyses were performed to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of the proposed pulsed mold heating and cooling system. The simulation results were then compared with those of the conventional mold cooling system in terms of the heating and cooling efficiencies of the proposed pulsed mold temperature control system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.185-192
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• 2012

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.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.115-125
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• 2003

The design methodology of plastic injection molding die has been gradually moved from two-dimensional line drawings to three-dimensional solid models. The 3D design gives many benefits, a few of which are: ease of design change, data associativity from concept design to final assembly. In the paper represented is the implementation of a program which automatically generates 3D mold-bases and cooling-lines, conforming to given geometric constraints. It utilized a commercial CAD software and the related API(application program interface) libraries. We constructed a DB(database) of typical mold-bases assembled from standard parts, from which the geometry (position & dimension) of a mold-base and composed parts can be automatical]y determined by a few key parameters. Also we classified cooling lines into several typical types and constructed a DB, from which the position of cooling lines is automatically determined. The research is expected not only to simplify construction of a 3D mold-base model including cooling lines but also to reduce design efforts, by way of databases and automatized determination of geometric dimensions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.121-128
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• 2012

The optimization of cooling system parameters for designing injection mold is very important to acquire the highest part quality. In this paper, the integration of computer simulations of injection molding and Analysis of Variance(ANOVA) with orthogonal array was used as a design tool to optimize the cooling system parameters aimed at minimizing the part warpage. The design optimizer was applied to find the optimum levels of cooling system parameters for a dustpan. This optimization resulted in more uniform temperature distribution over the part and significant reduction of a part warpage, showing the capability of present method as an effective design tool. The whole optimization process was performed systematically in a proper number of cooling simulations. The design optimizer can be utilized effectively in the industry practice for designing mold cooling system with less cost and time.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.417-422
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• 2009

The injection mold cooling circuit optimization was studied with a response surface method in the previous research. It took so much time to find an optimum solution for a large product due to an extensive amount of calculation time for the CAE analysis. In order to use the optimization technique in the actual design process, the calculation time should be much reduced. In this study, we tried to reduce the number of design variables with the concept of the close relationship between the depth and the distance of cooling channel. The optimum ratio of the distance to the depth of cooling channels for a 2-dimensional problem was 2.0 so that the optimum ratio was again sought out for 4 large automotive parts. Therefore, the number of design variables for the cooling circuit optimization can be reduced in half, resulting in much faster running time for the optimization as a design tool.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.251-256
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• 2001

Deformation analysis of injection molded articles whose geometry is considered as the assembly of the thin flat plates has been conducted. For the in-mold analysis, thermo-viscoelastic stress calculation of rheologically simple amorphous polymer and in-mold deformation calculation considering the in-plane mold constraint has been done. Free volume theory has been used for the non-equilibrium density state by the fast cooling. At ejection, the redistribution of stress together with instantaneous deformation has been considered. During out-of-mold cooling after ejection, thermoelastic model based on the effective temperature has been adopted for the calculation of deformation. Two typical mold geometries are used to test the numerical simulation.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.641-650
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• 2002

For the production of complicated plastic parts in a cycle, a mold is needed.. The basic tasks of a mold are accommodation and distribution of the resin, shaping and cooling the melt and ejection of the molding. To achieve these goal a mold has several important parts and we classified types of molds. The 6 different major functions of a mold are explained and several types of molds are shown in her. I hope these explanation will help to understand injection molds for a design engineer.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.34-40
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• 2015

In the study, Three-dimensional drawing parts for conformal cooling circuit cavity & core and their 3D Metal parts using DMLS(Direct MetalLaser Sintering) and NC integrated machining center were showned. For conformal cooling circuit cavity and core parts, I discussed its practicality to DMLS multiple machinins process introducing general manufacturing process and comparing with them.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.340-348
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• 2002

Deformation analysis of injection molded articles whose geometry is considered as the assembly of thin flat plates has been conducted. For the in-mold analysis, thermo-viscoelastic stress calculation of thermo-rheologically simple amorphous polymer and in-mold deformation calculation considering the in-plane mold constraint have been done. Free volume theory has been used to represent the non-equilibrium density state during the fast cooling. At ejection, instantaneous deformation takes place due to the redistribution of in-mold residual stress. During out-of-mold cooling after ejection, thermoelastic model based on the effective temperature has been adopted for the calculation of out-of-mold deformation. In this study, emphasis is also made on the treatment with regard to lateral constraint types during molding process. Two typical mold geometries are used to test the numerical simulation modeling developed in this study.