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Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2014
Applicant:

Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., Bolton, CA;

Inventor:

Edward Joseph Jenko, Essex, VT (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 45/40 (2006.01); B29C 45/27 (2006.01); B29C 45/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 45/2738 (2013.01); B29C 45/2725 (2013.01); B29C 45/2737 (2013.01); B29C 2045/2754 (2013.01); B29C 2045/2827 (2013.01);
Abstract

Hot-runner manifolds that contain one or more types of non-melt channels in addition to melt channels, and injection-molding systems containing such hot-runner manifolds. The differing types of non-melt channels include: coolant channels for carrying a coolant for cooling the tips of hot-tip nozzles, for example, during hot latching operations; heating-fluid channels for carrying a heating fluid for heating melt within melt channels within the hot-runner manifolds; and actuation-fluid channels for carrying actuation fluid to valves of valve-actuated nozzles. In each case, nozzles can be formed unitarily monolithically with the hot-runner manifolds and one or more of the various types of non-melt channels can be continuously routed within such unitary monolithic nozzles. Freeform fabrication processes can be used to form hot-runner manifolds of the present disclosure, which often contain complex/intricate internal passageways that form the various types of melt and non-melt channels.


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