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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2021
Applicant:

Blockwise Engineering Llc, Tempe, AZ (US);

Inventor:

Jeremiah J. Warriner, Tempe, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Blockwise Engineering LLC, Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 49/48 (2006.01); B29C 49/08 (2006.01); H05B 6/10 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 49/4823 (2013.01); B29C 49/08 (2013.01); H05B 6/105 (2013.01); B29C 2049/4825 (2013.01); B29C 2049/4838 (2013.01); B29C 2049/4853 (2013.01); B29C 2049/4894 (2013.01); B29L 2031/7543 (2013.01);
Abstract

An inductively heated mold system enables rapid heating of the mold and rapid cooling to reduce thermal cycling times by employing an inductive coil in a heater module that inductively heats a ferromagnetic layer configured on the mold body, such as around the outside perimeter of the mold body. A cooling channel may be configured between the inductive coil and the ferromagnetic layer on the mold body to allow a fluid to be passed between the mold body and the heater module to rapidly cool the mold body for removal of the molded part. A plurality of heater modules may be employed that can be coupled together such that the cooling fluid passes through the coupled cooling channels from one module to a second module. In this way heater modules can be combined to provide an inductively heated mold system for a variety of mold body sizes, or lengths.


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