Patent classifications
B29C45/464
Plasticizing device, injection molding apparatus, and three-dimensional shaping apparatus
A plasticizing device includes a plasticizing mechanism including a feeding port for receiving a material and configured to plasticize the material to generate a melted material and a material feeding mechanism configured to feed the material to the plasticizing mechanism. The material feeding mechanism includes a housing including a depositing port communicating with the feeding port, the housing storing the material, and a rotating member housed in the housing and capable of rotating along an inner edge of the housing. A plurality of through-holes are provided in the rotating member at intervals along an outer circumference of the rotating member. When the rotating member rotates and any one of the plurality of through-holes and the depositing port communicate, the material stored in the housing is fed from the feeding port to the plasticizing mechanism through the depositing port.
Plasticizing device, injection molding device, and three-dimensional shaping device
A plasticizing device includes a flat screw including a groove forming surface in which a groove is formed, a barrel having a facing surface and a communication hole formed in the facing surface, the communication hole allowing a plasticized material to flow out, a heating unit, a flow path through which the plasticized material flows, a nozzle communicating with the flow path, a plurality of measurement units configured to measure pressures or temperatures in the flow path, an aspiration delivery unit, including a cylinder, having a branch flow path and a plunger configured to move in the cylinder so as to aspirate the plasticized material into the branch flow path or deliver the aspirated plasticized material to the nozzle, and a control unit configured to identify a state of the plasticized material in the flow path based on measurement values of the measurement units.