Disclosed is a method of adjusting a motion profile of a shooting pot plunger for use in a molding system, the shooting pot plunger slidably movable within a shooting pot cavity, the method comprising: sensing a characteristic at a predetermined location in an injection circuit of the molding system; determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of a threshold range; adjusting the motion profile of the shooting pot plunger to account for determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of the threshold range; and storing the adjusted motion profile in a memory.

A method for performing injection molding using a mold with at least two cavities and an injection cylinder includes supplying resin to be injected into a first cavity, from among the at least two cavities, of the mold to the injection cylinder, injecting the resin into the first cavity, supplying resin to be injected into a second cavity, from among the at least two cavities, of the mold to the injection cylinder, and injecting the resin into the second cavity, wherein the resin injected into the first cavity is cooled, wherein the resin injected into the second cavity is cooled, and wherein molded parts are removed from the first cavity and from the second cavity after the resin in the first cavity has cooled and solidified and the resin the second cavity has cooled and solidified.

An apparatus for producing a fiber-reinforced injection molded component includes an injection mold half with a mold cavity and a receiving chamber open to the mold cavity. A band section of a fiber-reinforced plastics band is fed into the receiving chamber through a feed channel and a first clamping device arranged in an initial region of the receiving chamber and a second clamping device arranged in an end region of the receiving chamber clamp the fiber-reinforced plastics band section within the receiving chamber. A first cut-through device arranged in the initial region of the receiving chamber and a second cut-through device arranged in the end region of the receiving chamber cut the band section such that an injection molded component formed in the cavity of the mold includes the cut fiber-reinforced plastics band section and a fiber-reinforced injection molded component is provided.

An injection apparatus is configured to feed a molten resin into an injection molding section of an injection stretch blow molding machine. The injection apparatus uniformly melts a resin material while the duration from the time of starting plasticizing and kneading till completion of injection is shortened, thereby allowing the operation of the injection apparatus to fall within the time corresponding to the reduced injection molding process in the injection stretch blow molding machine. Thus, the molding cycle for a hollow body is reduced. In this context, at the start of the filling for each injection cycle, the injection apparatus starts plasticizing and kneading for generating the molten resin for injection in the next injection cycle.

Provided are an injection molding machine and an injection molding method. An injection molding machine includes: a plasticizing unit which rotates a screw to plasticize a molding material inside a plastication cylinder, and an injection unit. The injection unit has: a plunger reciprocally moving inside an injection chamber, and an injection driving device reciprocally moving the plunger. By driving the injection driving device to move the plunger backward and forward inside the injection chamber, and driving a rotary driving device to alternately rotate the screw in a normal rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction, the molding material is controlled to reciprocate between the plastication cylinder and the injection chamber.

A method for determining an actual volume Vr of an injection-moldable compound during an injection-molding process is disclosed. The injection-moldable compound is introduced into at least one cavity of the mould. The method includes the steps of: a) determining a theoretical volume Vt from process variables at least during a filling phase of the injection-molding process, b) determining and/or measuring at least one value for at least one compound pressure pM, c) selecting a material-specific compression k (p), corresponding to the value of pM, of the injection-moldable compound, and d) calculating an actual volume Vr by taking into account the compression k (p).

An injection molding system comprising: a first selected valve, one or more downstream valves, delivering a fluid to a mold cavity, at least one fluid property sensor that detects a flow front of fluid material flowing downstream through the mold cavity at a trigger location within the cavity disposed between the first gate and at least one selected downstream gate, a controller instructing an actuator associated with the downstream gates to open the gates at a predetermined open gate target time on a first injection cycle, each valve associated with a position sensor that detects opening of a gate at an actual open gate time to the controller, the controller automatically adjusting time of instruction to open the gates on a subsequent injection cycle by an adjustment time equal to any delay in time between the predetermined open gate target time and the actual open gate time.

An injection molding machine includes an injection device including at least first and second injection units, and one mold clamping device. A molding material is injected into a first cavity space by the first injection unit, and a molding material is injected into a second cavity space by the second injection unit. The injection molding machine further includes a control device controlling the injection device and the mold clamping device, and a storage device storing a set time in advance. The control device starts injection of the second injection unit after elapse of the set time from a predetermined time point. The predetermined time point is a time point at which the first injection unit starts injection or an earlier time point. The set time is a delay time for delaying start of injection of the second injection unit from start of injection of the first injection unit.

An injection molding apparatus (5), comprising: a first fluid drive cylinder (940c, 941c, 942c), a second fluid drive cylinder (940ac, 941ac, 942ac) interconnected to a valve pin (1040, 1041, 1042), wherein the first fluid drive cylinder (940c, 941c, 942c) and the second fluid drive cylinder (940ac, 941ac, 942ac) are interconnected in an arrangement wherein reciprocating movement of a piston (940p, 941p, 942p) of the first cylinder drives concomitant back and forth movement of a piston (940ap, 941ap, 942ap) of the second cylinder and concomitant back and forth movement of the valve pin (1040, 1041, 1042); an electrically powered actuator (940, 941, 942) adapted to drive the piston of the first cylinder reciprocally according to a drive program such that the valve pin (1040, 1041, 1042) is driven between gate closed and gate open positions and selected positions therebetween.

An injection molding machine includes a mold clamping unit that clamps a mold unit, an injection unit that fills the mold unit clamped by the mold clamping unit with a molding material, and an ejector unit that takes out a molding product from the mold unit after the molding material with which the mold unit is filled by the injection unit is cooled and solidified, in which a communication cycle in which data is exchanged in at least one path of between two internal devices and between the injection molding machine and an external device is shorter than a control cycle in which predetermined control is performed using received data.