Afros S.p.a.

Nitto Chemical Co., Ltd.

Cannon Ergos S.p.a.

Cannon S.p.a.

Bono Energia S.p.a.

Cannon Viking Limited

Cannon Tipos S.r.l.

Marco Volpato

Maurizio Corti

Luca Campi

Fabio Fini

Samuele Zampini

Giorgio Molteni

Shinichi Suzuki

Tadashi Kimura

Masashi Suematsu

Makoto Ide

Yoshio Tamura

Alberto Bonansea

Andrea Orlandini

Pierangelo Olivieri

Claudio De Rossi

Kozo Hatsumi

Loredano Sbrana

Hiromi Hasegawa

Nobuo Okamura

Kouei Miyazato

Tetsuya Matayoshi

Isao Naganuma

Osamu Hatsumi

Takuhiko Ohashi

Takehiro Miyazawa

Kazuhiro Takaishi

Andrea Castelnovo

Luciano Boscari

Paul Heywood

Riccardo Babini

Luca Ferrarini

An injector device for supplying a chemically reactive component to a mixing head includes a modular structure defined by a hollow housing and guiding body extending around a longitudinal symmetry axis and having one or more supply openings for supplying the chemically reactive component; in the hollow body a nozzle orifice is obtained arranged to face and communicate with a mixing chamber obtained in the mixing head; a pin-shaped partialization and control element, which is housed and slidably movable—along the longitudinal symmetry axis—in the hollow body and configured to vary a narrowed active section of the nozzle orifice; on the partialization and control element a tip portion is obtained that is conformed to receive pressure from the respective polymer component delivered to said hollow body so as to move away said partialization and control element from said nozzle orifice to vary the area of said narrowed active section; a modular adjusting and contrasting unit, which is removably couplable with the hollow body and with the partialization and control element and configured to exert an axisymmetric thrust action on the partialization and control element to arrange the partialization and control element in an initial position and preload condition to adapt the narrowed active section to a reference flowrate and pressure of the polymer component and subsequently to vary the position of said partialization and control element to adjust the narrowed active section according to the flowrate variation, exerting the contrasting force that is suitable for balancing the pressure exerted by the polymer component; the modular adjusting and contrasting unit includes a series of interchangeable elastic elements of conical disc shape, configured to exert a non-linear elastic action that is such as to contain the retracting stroke of the partialization and control element, limiting as much as possible the pressure variation at the variation of the flowrate of the respective polymer component entering the hollow housing and guiding body; the modular adjusting and contrasting unit, the tip portion and the nozzle orifice cooperate mutually to confer to the injector device a geometric conformation with high section gain, corresponding to a high ratio between the variation of the area of narrowed active section and the longitudinal shift of the partialization and control element.

Injector device for an apparatus suitable for mixing chemically reactive components

A method is disclosed for preparing and dispensing a mixture obtained by mixing at least one first chemically reactive component and at least one second chemically reactive component containing a dispersed solid material by a high pressure mixing device comprising a mixing chamber for mixing the components, in which a valve member is slidable, in particular a slide-valve, provided with longitudinal slots for recirculating the components to respective storage tanks. The method provides removing from at least one tank, a dosed quantity of the at least second chemically reactive second component to with filler material is added; recirculating the second component through the slots of the slide-valve for a period of time that is comparatively very reduced with respect to a recirculating step of the at least first component through the slide-valve. An apparatus for preparing and dispensing the mixture is also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for preparing and dispensing a mixture obtained by mixing chemically reactive components, at least one of which containing a filler material

A device for mixing at high-pressure two or more reactive liquid components or resins includes a head-body provided with a mixing chamber with inlet and outlet openings for the injecting and recirculating reactive components; a single-piece tubular element, for delivering the mixture; a valve member with longitudinal recirculation slots; the tubular element is removably inserted into a pass-through hole of the head-body, having annular shoulder zone, separated and distant from the transversal hole; fixing elements removably lock the annular shoulder zone at the head-body for holding the tubular element in the aforesaid hole; a clearance gap between the tubular element and the pass-through hole of the head-body is provided such that the forces are exchanged through the annular shoulder zone; sealing and centering elements avoid leakages of polymeric mixture. Deformation-detecting elements detect the deformation conditions which the tubular element is subjected.

High-pressure mixing device with sensored self-cleaning delivery duct

The invention relates to a high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head for injection or casting reaction molding, said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head comprising a head body, a mixing chamber, obtained in the head body wherein a valve element or mixing valve slides and in fluid communication with a supply duct, and a self-cleaning element comprising a scraping portion, said self-cleaning element being structured to slide in said supply duct, as well as comprising an apparatus for controlling and commanding mixing, supply and recirculation comprising a plurality of sensors and transducers mounted on board of the head body and of the components parts of the head connected thereto to detect and transform representative physical quantities of at least one operational status of said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head into electrical signals and an electronic control and storing system adapted to synchronously control and scan said sensors and transducers and adapted to receive and process said electrical signals indicative of said at least one operational status, at the beginning and during the operational phases of said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head to compare them with each other and with electrical signals representative of a predetermined reference operational status. The invention also relates to a high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation method for injection or casting reaction molding.

Monitored mixture and dosing head

A method for obtaining and applying a sealing gasket element on a slide-valve sliding in a cavity of an apparatus for the recirculation and mixing of chemically reactive polymeric components, comprises the steps of: obtaining from an elastic-plastic material a precursor element of the seal element, with a grid structure having a reticular shape; positioning the precursor element around the slide-valve; exerting on the precursor element, through temporary clamping elements, a radial compression and contraction action to insert it and couple it to one or more housing seats provided on the slide-valve so as to obtain the seal element well coupled to the latter; progressively removing the clamping elements to sequentially release successive parts of the gasket element and gradually free the slide-valve to gradually introduce the parts of the slide-valve&#x2014;freed in succession&#x2014;in the housing cavity allowing the sealing gasket element to gradually expand radially due to the elastic return by adhering tightly to the inner surface of the same housing cavity. The special equipment for fitting the sealing gasket element on the slide-valve and the so obtained recirculation and mixing apparatus is also described.

Seal gasket element for a mixing apparatus, method for obtaining and applying the same, and special equipment for fitting the same

A frame device for retaining and positioning sheet materials and possible reinforcing materials intended to be thermoformed to obtain objects made of composite material The first tubular element and the second tubular element are fixed together permanently so as to define a grasping frame-structure configured as a single piece. A third vacuum chamber is defined in the grasping frame structure, separate and independent of the first and second vacuum chambers and configured for removing air from the zone that is interposed between the first and second sheet materials and which is intended for being possibly occupied by the reinforcing materials.

Frame device and method for thermoforming objects

A high-pressure mixing device adapted to form a polymeric mixture from the reaction of two or more reactive liquid components or resins, comprises a head-body with a mixing chamber having an inner cylindrical surface with inlet and outlet openings for injecting and recirculating reactive components; a duct for delivering the mixture, a valve body with recirculation longitudinal slots; the delivery duct, of the self-cleaning type, is a single-piece tubular element, insertable into a hole passing through the head-body, having an intermediate transversal hole aligned with the mixing chamber with a diameter greater than a diameter of the mixing chamber for avoiding protrusions of the walls of the transversal hole from forming inwardly of the mixing chamber of the head-body. Sealing elements duly arranged between the coupling interfaces of the various components prevent the leakage of polymeric mixture and lubricant liquid. There is also disclosed a related method.

High-pressure mixing device with single-piece delivery duct

The invention relates to an apparatus for fine and controlled adjustment of an injection molding process and a related industrial process. The apparatus () has a sealed mold () supplied with fluid reactive resin via a supply inlet () and by means of a mixing and injection head () so as to impregnate with said resin fibers of composite material loaded inside a cavity () of the mold () and wherein at least one storage container () having an inlet/outlet opening () in fluid communication with an outlet () of said injection head () is provided so as to store a predefined quantity of fluid resin inside a storage chamber () prior to completion of the injection phase. Advantageously, the storage container () is a cylinder () defining internally a storage chamber () which houses slidably inside it a plunger () operated by an actuator () configured as a cylinder/piston assembly arranged as a coaxial extension of said cylinder () and comprising an actuating piston () having a stem () coinciding with the stem of said plunger (); the cylinder () of the storage chamber () and the cylinder () of said actuator () having cross-sections different from each other.

Apparatus for fine and controlled adjustment of an injection molding process and related industrial process

The invention concerns an apparatus () for the dispersion of an expansion gas even in supercritical conditions, e.g. carbon dioxide, in a reactive resin, of the kind in which a reaction chamber having an input () for gas and an input () for resin is provided. Advantageously, the chamber is a dispersion and containment chamber made into a casing () of predetermined high resistance susceptible to sustain high pressure and is divided into two sections () by a head () of a dispersion and mixing cylinder-piston group () in fluid communication between themselves by means of at least one pouring passage () provided with a static mixer (), motor means () being provided for piston () control of said mixing cylinder-piston group (). The invention also concerns a process for the formation of a polyurethane foam starting with the dispersion of carbon dioxide, even supercritical, in a reactive resin in which at least one initial dispersion and mixing controlled phase of the two components is provided in a dispersion and containment chamber under pressure divided into two sections () by a head () of a cylinder-piston mixing group () in fluid communication between themselves by means of at least one pouring passage () provided with a static mixer () and in which adduction, dispersion and mixing occurs under high pressure (at least greater than 75 bar).

Apparatus for dispersing a gas, for example carbon dioxide, in at least one reactive resin

A method is disclosed for dispensing a polyurethane mixture onto a substrate by generating a liquid mixture from reactive component resins; introducing the mixture in an inlet section of a dispensing device so as to advance it towards a planar-shaped outlet slit section, transversely to the advancement direction of the substrate; distributing the mixture along a gap chamber having a cross section diverging towards the outlet slit section; and dispensing the mixture through the outlet slit section, so as to deposit a thin, uniform film onto the substrate. Fractions of the mixture travel equal distances from the inlet section to the outlet slit section, in equal times, maintaining equal average speeds along each section having zones placed all at the same path distance either from the inlet section or from the outlet slit section.

Method, device and apparatus for dispensing polyurethane mixtures

In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquidsare injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.

Preventing progression of corrosion in steel pipe structure

A method and high-pressure mixing device for co-injection of polymeric reactive components, in particular for polyurethane and epoxy mixtures. The polymeric components are supplied in a common pressure chamber where they flow at a same pressure and in an unmixed state into a forwardly converging fore portion of the pressure chamber, and through a settable co-injection orifice to be co-injected, in the unmixed state, into a mixing chamber transversely oriented to the pressure chamber. The settable co-injection orifice consists in an elongated restriction that longitudinally extends on a side wall of the mixing chamber orthogonally oriented to an intersecting the forwardly converging fore portion of the pressure chamber; a first cleaning member and a second cleaning member are sequentially reciprocable in the pressure chamber to eject the remaining unmixed polymeric components, respectively in the mixing chamber to eject the remaining mixture, and stop elements are provided to set an open section of the elongated restriction, by adjustably stopping the fore end of the cleaning member for the mixing chamber, in respect to the same elongated restriction of the co-injection orifice.

Method and high-pressure mixing device for the co-injection of polymeric components

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