Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Naoki Takeuchi

Masanobu Kurumaji

Hiroaki Kondo

Tsutomu Sano

Kazuyuki Kajiyama

Etujiro Imanishi

Tutomu Sano

Hiroshi Ueda

Toshihiko Watanabe

Yoshihiro Fukuda

Susumu Nakatsukasa

Masahiko Kashiwa

Tokuji Maruyama

Tsutomu Nagaoka

Toshiaki Akita

Noriharu Nakagawa

Katsumi Sugano

Tadatsugu Koishi

Kazuo Murase

Yoshifumi Mukai

Soichi Tsuruga

Two-layer foam injection molding machine

The present invention has a purpose to prevent leakage of resin material and disorder of cutting operation without increasing plate thickness of the cutter, thereby providing a resin material supply apparatus capable of suiting increase of resin material sheet size or higher back pressure. To this end, according to the present invention, there is provided a resin material supply apparatus and method for a resin press molding machine in which: resin material is extruded in a supply cylinder toward a die by a piston, and the molded resin material is cut by a cutter which slides along a front end surface of the die. Then, the cut resin material is supplied onto a metal mold, and new resin material is charged into the supply cylinder by pressing the cutter toward the die at a position that the cutter closes an opening of the die.

Resin material supply apparatus for resin press molding machine

A mold aligning method and device for a compression molding machine comprising a bed, uprights standing upright on the bed, a crown block joined to the tops of the uprights, a slide block guided for vertical sliding movement by the uprights, and a hydraulic cylinder actuator mounted on the crown block to drive the slide block for vertical sliding movement, for maintaining an upper mold attached to the lower surface of the slide block in parallel to a mating lower mold during a compression-molding operation. The mold aligning device comprises a plurality of mold position adjusting cylinder actuators disposed on the bed, position detectors associated respectively with the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators to detect the strokes of the latter, a hydraulic source for driving the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators, and a control unit for controlling the strokes of the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators with reference to the zero points of the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators determined beforehand. The zero points are decided by placing the upper mold in close contact with the lower mold and extending the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators so that the piston rods are pressed against the lower surface of the slide block. The strokes of the piston rods are controlled during a compression-molding operation so that the upper mold is maintained precisely in parallel to the lower mold.

Mold aligning device for a compression molding machine

A method of controlling a hydraulic press wherein changing over from velocity control to pressure control can be effected at an optimum point of time in accordance with a condition of material being filled. When a movable mold half of a metal mold is moved by a hydraulic cylinder to compression mold a work within a cavity defined in the metal mold, the velocity of movement of the mold half by the hydraulic cylinder is controlled until pressurization of the work is started, but after starting of the pressurization, the pressurizing force of the hydraulic cylinder is controlled. During the velocity control, a parameter which varies as the compression proceeds is successively detected during the velocity control, and changing over from the velocity control to the pressure control is effected at a point of time when the detected parameter coincides with a preset value--that is, when the work is fully filled in the cavity. A device for controlling a hydraulic press is also disclosed wherein optimal pressure control can be assured in accordance with a current condition of material for molding.

Method of controlling hydraulic press

An apparatus for supplying a resin material to molds of a resin press molding machine includes a supply cylinder for supplying the resin material to the molds, resin material charge hopper mounted to the supply cylinder, a plunger for extruding the resin material within the supply cylinder, a drive device for moving forward and backward the plunger in an axial direction, an opening and closing device for opening and closing an opening of a fore end of the supply cylinder, and a die positioned between the opening and closing device and the molds to form the resin material into a predetermined shape.

Resin material supply apparatus to resin press molding machine

A mold aligning method and device for a compression molding machine which includes a bed, a plurality of uprights standing upright on the bed, a crown block joined to the tops of the uprights, a slide block guided for vertical sliding movement by the uprights, and a hydraulic cylinder actuator mounted on the crown block to drive the slide block for vertical sliding movement, for maintaining an upper mold attached to the lower surface of the slide block in parallel to a mating lower mold during a compression-molding operation. The mold aligning device includes a plurality of mold position adjusting cylinder actuators disposed on the bed, a plurality of position detectors associated respectively with the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators to detect the strokes of the latter, a hydraulic source for driving the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators, and a control unit for controlling the strokes of the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators with reference to the zero points of the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators determined beforehand. The zero points are determined by placing the upper mold in close contact with the lower mold and extending the piston rods of the mold position adjusting cylinder actuators so that the piston rods are pressed against the lower surface of the slide block. The strokes of the piston rods are controlled during a compression-molding operation so that the upper mold is maintained precisely in parallel with the lower mold.

Apparatus for mold aligning in a compression molding machine

Method for adjusting the compression stroke allowance of a vertical injection-compression molding machine including a slide plate mounting thereon a mold clamp cylinder and an upper mold in opposition to a lower mold on a machine bed, and a lift cylinder for moving the slide plate up and down along tie bars, the method including the steps of: downwardly extending a piston rod of a hydraulic cylinder connected to the slide plate to a stroke end: upwardly extending a piston rod of an air cylinder connected to the bed thereof, with the upper and lower molds in contact with each other, until a micrometer at the upper end of the air cylinder piston rod abutts the lower end of the hydraulic cylinder piston rod; fixing the air cylinder piston rod in this state; upwardly retracting the hydraulic cylinder piston rod; setting the micrometer at a desired compression stroke allowance; lowering the hydraulic cylinder piston rod to the stroke end thereof; and lifting the slide plate so as to allow for injection-compression molding operation.

Method for adjusting compression stroke allowance of vertical

A mold clamping device for an injection molding machine wherein a movable table which supports a movable mold is moved in directions approaching and moving away from a fixed table which supports a fixed mold to thereby bring the molds into open and closed states, and wherein mold clamping is effected in a closed state of the molds by mold clamping cylinders. The mold clamping device includes tie rods for guiding the movement of the movable table, the tie rods projecting upward from the fixed table and being each provided with an engaging groove such as threads or the like formed on the outer peripheral surface of its portion projecting from the movable table to the side opposite to the fixed table in the closed state of the molds; and split mold-like locking members capable of engaging with and disengaging from the tie rods each through each engaging groove in the closed state of the molds, the locking members being slidable in the axial direction of the tie rods. The mold clamping cylinders are disposed between the locking members and the movable table. Since the tie rods which receive the mold clamping reaction are so constructed as to also be employable as guide members for guiding the movement of the movable table, it is possible to attain a structural simplification and reduction in size in addition to advantage in terms of maintenance.

Mold clamping device for injection molding machine

A welding DC power supply system suitable for consumable or non-consumable electrode welding, including plural inverter units for converting a first direct current into an alternate current and for rectifying the alternate current to produce an output of a second direct current; a circuit connecting the output of terminals of the inverter units in parallel; a detection circuit for detecting the total output current of the inverter units; and a circuit for varying the number of operating inverter units according to the value of the detected total output current. According to other aspects of the invention, the power supply system is further provided with a phase control means for controlling the phases of alternate currents produced by the respective inverter units, or means for selectively actuating a particular inverter unit or units in a short circuit period of large current in dip transfer welding, or feedback means for suppressing the current in a controlled timing in the final stage of each short circuit period to prevent spattering as caused by bursting rupture of the large short circuit current.

DC Welding power supply system

An injection molding machine having in spaced positions at least a first injecting station for injecting a plasticized resin material into a die cavity and a second station for further treating the injected resin material concurrently and in relation with the injecting operation at the injecting station, the molding machine including a die carriage movable to and from the first and second stations and fixedly supporting thereon at least a lower die of an injection molding die set; a track for guiding movements of the die carriage to and from the respective stations; a carriage clamp for fixing the die carriage at the respective stations; a die closing mechanism provided at each station for releasably clamping an upper die against the lower die; and a drive mechanism for moving the die carriage sequentially to the first and second stations.

Injection molding machine

A welding machine is disclosed which includes a wire supply device, a wire coil, a flexible wire guide connected between the wire supply device and a torch nozzle and a welding assembly alterable in more than one welding position and mounted on a wheeled platform. The axis or width center position of the wire coil and the axis of a supply roll in the wire supply device or a supply slot in the supply roll are placed above the center line on the overall width of the wheeled platform. Both handed welding is possible by switching the torch between the left handed side and right handed side of the wheeled platform.

Welding machine

A waste gas discharging device for use in an injection molding machine including a vacuum pump connected by way of a waste gas discharging unit to a vent hole in an injection molding machine, a branch path leading to a blower and connected between the vent hole and the waste gas discharging unit, the branch path being open and closed by a firstchange-over valve, and a second change-over valve disposed between the vacuum pump and the waste gas discharging unit, whereby waste gas from the waste gas discharging unit is discharged to atmosphere, without passing through the vacuum pump.

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Kobe, Japan

Naoki Takeuchi