An additive injection system for use in injection molding machines to inject additive materials, such as fluids or powders, downstream of a nozzle of the injection molding machine. The additive injection unit has an additive tank to store or contain additive material and additive injectors that inject an additive material into an injection molding machine. A pump pumps the additive material from the tank through a common manifold connected to the additive injectors to be injected into the injection molding machine. A controller controls operation of the additive injection device and one or more sensors coupled to the additive injection device can provide feedback to the controller.

Disclosed are a system and method tuning PET raw material processing process by employing real time process management and machine learning steps and reactive addition of dosing of homogenizing composition for impregnating chain extenders and compatibilizing agents in thermoplastic resin using the liquid additive as a carrier into the process for modifying material performance. The properties of PET blend are no longer fixed once dry-blending and melting is complete.

An injection molding apparatus including an injection device, a mold, a gas supply device, and a temperature control device is provided. The mold has a mold cavity, wherein the injection device is adapted to inject a material into the mold cavity. The gas supply device is adapted to supply a gas to the mold cavity such that the pressure in the mold cavity is increased. The temperature control device is adapted to control the temperature in the mold cavity. In addition, an injection molding method is also provided.

In order to be capable of reliably supplying a prescribed amount of fiber materials into a heating cylinder for each cycle and continuously manufacturing a homogeneous composite material, a plasticizing unit is provided with a fiber supply device 3 that supplies prescribed amount of fiber materials A2 having a prescribed length into the heating cylinder 1. The fiber supply device 3 is provided with: a cutting section 12 that cuts off a long fiber material A1 pulled out from a reel 11 into a prescribed length; a pressure-feeding section 13 that presses the fiber materials A2 having the prescribed length cut off by the cutting section 12 into the heating cylinder 1; and a fiber transfer device 45 that forcibly transfers the fiber materials A2 accumulated in the cutting section 12 to the pressure-feeding section 13. The pressure-feeding section 13 is constituted by a press cylinder 41 and a press piston 42, and the fiber transfer device 45 is constituted by a vacuum device.

A resin composition for molding having excellent heat resistance, hardness, cost-effectiveness and biodegradability is provided by using amorphous resin material components extracted from plant-derived wood. The resin composition includes a first resin including a hemicellulose or a hemicellulose derivative and a second resin including polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), polycarbonate (PC), cyclo olefin polymer (COP), cyclo olefin copolymer (COC), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or polystyrene (PS) and has excellent injection moldability.

A velcro inserting type universal synthetic resin mask with a replaceable filter, an injection molding apparatus therefor, and a manufacturing method thereof are described. The velcro inserting type universal synthetic resin mask with a replaceable filter can include a mask guide with a rim-like shape which supports a filter insertion portion therein and is formed of a synthetic resin by an injection molding process using an upper mold and a lower mold along with the filter insertion portion; and a velcro for attachment of a filter which is placed at a front portion of a velcro entity for attachment of a filter forming portion of the upper mold during the injection molding process for the mask guide and the filter insertion portion and formed on the mask guide when inserted such that the velcro for attachment of a filter is fixed through a velcro entity insertion hole of the upper mold.

A sustainable thermoplastic composition made by forming a mixture of virgin polypropylene and post-industrial-recycled material (PIR). The PIR may include a thermoplastic, elastomeric-polymer and a spunbond component. The mixture is melt-blended in an extruder. Extruded materials made from the mixture demonstrate little variance in the results of the IZOD Impact Test of materials containing 30 to 70 percent PIR, and a material containing 100 percent virgin polypropylene. In addition, the extruded materials containing 30 to 70 percent PIR demonstrate a substantially constant strain at yield, that strain at yield being substantially equal to that demonstrated by a material containing 100 percent virgin polypropylene.

A molding system and a method for operation of the molding system are provided. The method includes flowing a molten polymeric material from an upstream device into an in-mold tuning chamber in a filling position where the in-mold tuning chamber is positioned at least partially within a mold cavity. The method also includes adjusting at least one of a temperature of and a pressure applied to the molten polymeric material in the in-mold tuning chamber to create a first tuned molten polymeric material and releasing the tuned molten polymeric material into the mold cavity from the in-mold tuning chamber.

This disclosure provides an injection molding system for use with a material, the system comprising: a heated barrel; a member mounted in the barrel for melting the material and for ejecting molten material; a pair of mold plates, one of the pair being operatively coupled to the barrel in use, the other of the pair being movable relative to other plate for movement between a closed position and an open position, characterized in that the barrel is defined by a nested part and a protruding part, the nested part having an external end which is disposed exteriorly of the one of the pair of mold plates and an internal end which, in use, is disposed interiorly of the one of the pair of mold plates and engaged therewith, the protruding part, in use, extending to the nested part and being releasably coupled thereto in end-to-end communicating relation.

The invention provides a valve disposed in a fluid supply path to control opening or closing of the supply path, configured to comprise, as components of the supply path, an inflow channel, a second channel, a first channel, and an outflow channel that are in communication with each other in sequence, in such a manner that fluid from a supply source entering the inflow channel passes through the second channel and the first channel in sequence and then flows out through the outflow channel. The valve further comprises a first valve piece and a second valve piece disposed movably in the first channel and the second channel respectively. Blocking or unblocking of the communication between the first channel and the outflow channel is controlled by movement of the first valve piece in the first channel, while blocking or unblocking of the communication between the inflow channel and the first channel via the second channel is controlled by movement of the second valve in the second channel. In this way, the valve enables opening or closing of the supply path through dual control by the first valve piece and the second valve piece.