• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.50-55
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• 2014

Recently, semi-stack mold have been developed for satisfying the various elements required in the mold industry. The mold is possible using with general-purpose injection molding machine by weight reduction through the improvement of the mold structure. In order to do that, tension core, spiral cooling system and half runner system were applied. It is effective for increased productivity and decreased of loss to the materials. However, the mold is required the filling balance in order to improve the quality and efficiency. Thus this study performed that optimum design and analysis of semi-stack mold for filling balance.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2008

Recently, ultra precision and light-weight micro products are needed in various industries. Injection molding products with metal insert material is often satisfied with light-weight and precision simultaneously. The researches on macro-size insert deformation have been performed but, a research on micro-size insert is meager. In this paper, the injection molding product with $300{\mu}m$ thin foil insert is designed and insert injection molding process is performed. Finally, the deformation of thin foil insert is analyzed according to insert feature and gate length.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.136-148
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• 2006

주물공장에서는 주철을 녹여서 다양한 기계부품을 만든다. 다양한 기계부품을 만들기 위해 목형을 주물사에 넣은 후 주입구를 만들어 녹인 주철을 투입한다. 주물공장은 furan 공정을 포함해 많은 공정으로 이루어지며, 이 중 furan 공정은 목형에 주물사를 부어 넣는 공정이다. Furan 공정의 첫 단계는 주물사가 서로 엉겨 붙어 있게 하기 위해 접착성을 가지는 고분자 물질인 furan류를 주물사에 섞게 되고 녹은 주철이 목형으로 들어가는 것이며 고온에 의해 많은 유해 VOC류가 발생하게 된다. 또 공정조업에서 furan용 모래를 목형이 든 주물형틀에 부어 넣게 되고, 이때도 유독가스와 분진이 발생하게 되며 이 분진은 furan 물질을 포함하고 있어 조업자의 건강에 치명적인 요소가 되며, 이로 인해 조업기피현상이 심화되어 인력수급에 문제가 되고 나아가 사업 경영에 큰 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 조업기피의 원인을 제거하고 쾌적한 조업환경을 제공하기 위해 유해 VOC류와 집진을 동시에 수행할 수 있는 유해 VOC 및 분진 동시제거 시스템을 최적 설계하고 나아가 현장에 적용 설치하였다. 그 결과 설치 후 포름알데히드의 경우 VOC 0 ppm, 분진 $4{\mu}g/m^3$으로 조업환경이 개선되었으며, 조업자들의 조업 기피 요인을 해소하였다. 또한, 우리는 회사의 고용 문제를 해결하고, 작업의 생산성을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.18-22
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• 2014

Two shot molding is one of the injection method which uses two materials or two color materials simultaneously in one mold. Two shot molding is good rate of productivity and economical because of no extra-progress necessary. The cowl grille is located in the bottom of wind shield glass and rolls as a passage of air inlet to inside of vehicle. It consists of body and seal. Firstly, the body is injected with PP. Next seal is extruded with EPDM and engineered and then assembled with body. These procedures lead high cost of production and the quality of part has problems. Therefore, it has effects on saving production cost and being a solution of the quality problems with the development of two shot molding cowl grille. It is guaranteed that two shot molding will be widely used in the vehicle parts industry afterwards.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2017

The major parts of a vacuum cleaner are molded. The vacuum cleaner works in multi-load conditions. Therefore, the designer needs to optimize the structure and injection molding conditions simultaneously. Here, the main factor of design is the rib shape and thickness. The greater the rib thickness, the greater the stiffness of the structure. However, it causes an increase in weight. On the other hand, the lower the rib thickness, the greater the increase in the injection pressure. However, the weight will be reduced. Therefore, the designer needs to optimize the rib shape and thickness for structure stiffness and injection molding. In order to solve this problem, we propose an optimization method using D.O.E and a response surface model, which is a multi-objective optimization method using the multi-objective genetic algorithm.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2023

As a representative method for mass production, a multi-cavity type mold capable of simultaneously molding products of the same shape can be applied. It has the advantage of improving the productivity from several times to several tens of times, but it may cause disadvantages which is the quality deviation with each cavity. This study, therefore, has tried to increase the cavity filling balance by using a melt flipper and a flow distance control part in the runner part of the mold. Along with this, the design and manufacturing of air vents during injection molding have been verified through experimental methods to achieve a higher level of multi-cavity filling balance and dimensional accuracy.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2013

In various manufacturing industries, an in-mold decoration (IMD) process for plastic objects is widely utilized because a film forming and an injection molding processes run simultaneously. In the present study, the deformation of polymer film and filling of resin in the IMD process were numerically investigated to evaluate the quality of the plastic object formed by the IMD process, which consists of thermoforming and injection molding processes. To obtain the initial shape of the polymer film during the injection molding process, the deformation of the polymer film in the thermoforming process was pre-formed using the vacuum conditions to attach the film to a cavity. Since the properties and deformation of polymer film are greatly affected by the behavior of polymer resin being injected into a mold cavity, numerical simulations for the injection molding and film forming were performed with one-way coupling method. The results showed that the injected resin could lead to the tearing of the polymer film in local regions near the corners. In order to verify the proposed numerical methodology, the numerical results of the deformation patterns printed on the initial polymer film were compared with the experimental data. The proposed methodology to couple film forming analysis with injection molding analysis can be used to predict the deformation of film in IMD process.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2021

In this study, the optimal feed system and process conditions that can simultaneously minimize each warpage occurring in the two shape features of the 2P Header HSG, a connector part for automobiles, were determined through injection molding simulation analysis. First, we defined each warping deformation of the two features geometrically and quantified them approximately using the injection molding simulation data. For design optimization, a full factorial experiment was conducted considering the feed system, resin temperature, and packing pressure as design variables, and a follow-up experiment was conducted based on the analysis of the average warpage. In this study, an optimal design was generated considering both the warpage result and resin-saving effect. In the optimal design, the warpages of the two shape features were predicted to be 0.18 and 0.29 mm, and these warpages were found to meet the allowable limit of warpage, which is 0.3 mm, for part assembly.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2000

일반적인 고무가공 공정에 비해 열가소성 고무 (Thermoplastic Elastomer: TPE)의 가공은 재료가 공공정의 단축, 생산공정의 간소화, scrap의 재활용 둥의 장점과 이에 따른 불량률 저하에 의한 폐기물감소, 제조원가 감소 및 부가가치성을 높일 수 있어 국제 경쟁력 확보에 유리하다. 본 연구에서는 Ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM)고무와 polypropylene을 사용하여 동적가교 (dynamic vulcanization)에 의해 블렌드를 제조한 후, glass insert molding법을 이용하여 fixed glass weather-strip을 성형하였다. 성형품의 기계적인 특성을 조사하기 위하여 인장강도, 신장율. 경도, 비중을 측정하였으며, mixing 상태는 SEM 사진을 통하여 관찰하였다. TPE molding 부분과 glass를 일체 성형하므로써 공정의 효율성에 대한 기여 및 생산 자동화에 유리할 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.650-654
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• 2020

A combination of Polycarbonate (PC) material and Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), fabricated using an injection molding machine, has been investigated to determine its advantages, as studied in Ref. 1). This paper aims to investigate the optimization of PMMA/PC blend for both tensile yield strength and impact strength. Furthermore, interaction effects of process conditions on mechanical properties including tensile yield strength and impact strength of PMMA/PC blend by injection molding process are interpreted in this study. Tensile and impact specimens are designed following ASTM, type V, and are fabricated by injection molding process. The processing conditions such as melt temperature, mold temperature, packing pressure, and cooling time are applied; each factor has three levels. As a result, in comparison with optimization of separated responses, mechanical properties of PMMA/PC are found to decrease when optimizing both tensile and impact strengths simultaneously. The melt temperature is found to be the most significant interaction parameter with the mold temperature and packing pressure. In addition, there is more interaction between the mold temperature and cooling time. This investigation provides a useful understanding of the control of injection molding processing of polymer blends in optical application.