Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd.

Akira Yoshinaga

Jun Koike

Makoto Nishizawa

Shinya Itani

Nobuyuki Asanuma

Noriyuki Sasaki

Harumichi Tokuyama

Haruhiko Kikuchi

Fumiyuki Kato

Masahiko Mori

Makoto Takami

Hiroshi Katsuta

A convey device, which conveys an insert member into a die, includes a holding device configured to hold the insert member in an attitude in which a major surface of the insert member is in a substantially gravitational direction; a convey mechanism configured to convey the insert member to the die, while the insert member is being held in the attitude by the holding device; and a heating device configured to heat the insert member. The insert member can be heated by the heating device before the insert member is disposed in the die.

Convey device, molded article manufacturing apparatus, and method of manufacturing molded article

A lubrication-condition detector detects a lubricant shortage of a target portion that repeats a predetermined operation at a predetermined cycle. The lubrication-condition detector includes: a physical-quantity measuring unit for continuously measuring a physical quantity related to the target portion; and a computer for determining a presence of a lubricant shortage based on the physical quantity. The computer includes: a cycle extractor for extracting a cycle datum per an operational cycle from continuous data including the physical quantity and its measuring time; a representative-value calculator for calculating a representative value for each of plural cycle data; and determining unit for determining a presence of a lubricant shortage based on the plural representative values.

Lubrication-condition detector, lubricant feeder, injection molding machine and method of detecting lubrication-condition

An object of the present invention is to suppress a clamping force from sharply increasing when dies are clamped in an electric direct-acting die clamping unit of an injection molding machine. A movable platen is arranged to face a stationary platen. A stationary die is attached to the front surface of the stationary platen, whereas a movable die is attached to the front surface of the movable platen. The movable platen is connected to the front surface of a backup plate via four coil springs. A nut of a ball screw is fixed at each of diagonally-opposed corners of the backup plate. The threaded rod of the ball screw passes through the backup plate via the nut. The tip portion of the threaded rod is rotatably connected to the stationary platen. The rear end portion of the threaded rod is connected to a motor.

Electric direct-acting die clamping unit of an injection molding machine

The present invention is directed to a method of monitoring operation data for quality control with a little possibility that a nondefective product is mistakenly determined as a defective product even if the operation data fluctuates in a large waviness curve. Every time an operation data piece for quality control is obtained, a moving average of the predetermined number of data pieces lately obtained is calculated. When the deviation of a data piece from the moving average exceeds the tolerance limit, an alarm is generated. By employing the method of the present invention for monitoring operation data such as charging time, injection time and the amount of cushion in an injection-molding machine, the accuracy of determination as to a defective or nondefective can be improved.

Method for monitoring operation data of an injection-molding machine

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Numazu, Japan

Akira Yoshinaga