The present invention relates to a method and the corresponding system for checking the color quality of preforms (2) intended for the manufacture of containers, in particular beverage bottles, the preforms (2) being transported to a collection vessel (4) by a transport device (3), and an image of the preforms (2) being made by means of an imaging device (6) and being transmitted to a processing device for checking, in which the preforms (2) are led unsorted into the collection vessel (4) upon leaving the transport device (3), the image being made between the leaving of the transport device (3) and the collection vessel (4), and in which the image is processed by the processing device in such a way that the color quality of the preforms (2) and/or defective preforms (2) are discovered.

Types of molded articles carried by a carrier are identified and the molded articles are sorted based on image-related information for the molded articles molded based on set operating conditions for injection molding machines and molded article images acquired by an image acquisition unit. It is thus possible to narrow down candidate images in processing in a molded article identification unit, thereby making it possible to construct an injection molding system that has excellent production efficiency with a reduced load on processing in the molded article identification unit.

A handling device (1) for tubular or elongate bowl-shaped workpieces such as pipette tips (4) or cups, said workpieces preferably being transported or being able to be transported on a workpiece carrier (T) during the production of said workpieces until packaging, the workpiece carrier (T) having receiving places (5) for the workpieces, which receiving places are arranged in a grid relative to each other, preferably with the stipulation that faulty workpieces located on the workpiece carrier (T) can be detected, and preferably with the stipulation that a removal station (25) is provided, by means of which the faulty workpieces can be removed from the receiving places (5) of a workpiece carrier (T), receiving places (5) thus being freed up, freed-up receiving places (5) of the workpiece carrier (T) being able to be loaded with faultless workpieces by means of the handling device, the handling device comprising a refill magazine (2), which has magazine places (3) arranged next to each other, each magazine place having a holding element (7) that can be moved up and down and that is used to secure and to receive and release a faultless workpiece, with the additional stipulation that each magazine place (3) comprises a guide tube (6), in which the up and down movement of the holding element (7) occurs, the holding element (7) being able to be moved, together with a secured workpiece, into the guide tube (6), and that an acceleration apparatus (V) is provided, by means of which the workpiece can be accelerated out of the guide tube (6) and can be moved to a receiving place (5) of the workpiece carrier (T).

A method of reducing or limiting tissue adhesion comprises contacting the tissue with an effective amount of a hydrogel composition comprising: 2% to 6% by weight hyaluronan, and 3% to 18% by weight methylcellulose, wherein the combined total amount of hyaluronan and methylcellulose in the hydrogel is between 8 and 24% by weight; and wherein the ratio of hyaluronan:methylcellulose is between 1:1 and 1:5 w/w. The hydrogel composition and may be used to reduce or limit tissue adhesion that is correlated with surgery, and may be used in surgeries wherein the surgery is performed through a small incision or opening.

A silicone pencil preparation device includes: a conveying apparatus, a grabbing apparatus, a silicone injection molding machine and a control apparatus. The conveying apparatus includes an unprocessed pencil conveying apparatus and a processed pencil conveying apparatus. The silicone injection molding machine includes a main machine provided with a mold and a mold closing system, the mold includes a front mold and a rear mold, the mold is secured onto the mold closing system, and a middle portion of a front mold cavity is provided with a pencil carrying slot. The control apparatus is configured to perform the following steps: moving an unprocessed pencil to the pencil carrying slot; performing a mold closing operation; performing an injection molding operation on the front mold cavity and a rear mold cavity; performing a mold splitting operation; and moving a processed pencil in the pencil carrying slot to the processed pencil conveying apparatus.

A method for forming a preform or part including the following: dispensing an initial amount of an additive and a thermoplastic resin into an injection molding machine; forming the preform or part by operating a molding machine to inject the thermoplastic resin and the additive at the initial amount into a mold of the preform or part; measuring realized visual parameters of the preform or part; comparing the realized visual parameters to the target visual parameters and determining whether the realized visual parameters are within a predetermined acceptable range of the target visual parameters; if the realized visual parameters are outside the predetermined acceptable range of the target visual parameters, adjusting the initial amount of the additive to a modified amount estimated to achieve the target visual parameters; and forming an additional preform or part by operating the injection molding machine to inject the thermoplastic resin and the additive at the modified amount into the mold of the preform or part.

A setting timing data acquisition module configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of setting timing data being monitoring data at preset timings among pieces of monitoring data obtained when molding a molded article by an injection molding machine; a waveform data acquisition module configured to acquire waveform data being the monitoring data continuous in a predetermined period among the pieces of monitoring data; a sample point data acquisition module configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of sample point data in the waveform data; a combined data generation module configured to combine a monitoring data group including the plurality of pieces of setting timing data and the plurality of pieces of sample point data to generate combined data; and a pass/fail determination module configured to determine whether a defective article has occurred in the molded article, based on the combined data are included.

As viewed in the vertical direction, in the injection molding system, a first distance, which is a distance between a first joint and a first placement section, a second distance, which is a distance between the first joint and a second placement section, and a third distance, which is a distance between the first joint and a robot wall section, are smaller than a fourth distance, which is a distance between the first joint and a tip end of a second arm when a first arm and the second arm are on a co-linear straight line and in an angular range from one of the first placement section and the second placement section to the robot wall section centered on the first joint, the distance between the first joint and at least a part of a wall section is larger than the fourth distance.

The invention relates to a packaging method and to an associated packaging device (1) for packaging injection-molded plastic parts (2), which are pipette tips or medical reaction vessels, the injection-molded plastic parts (2) being arranged in cavity-pure subgroups (6) and then subjected to lateral inspection sub-subgroup (10) per sub-subgroup (10).

An injection molding system includes a molding device, an inspection device configured to inspect a molded product and a control device that includes a storage unit, and a reception unit configured to receive a change content of a parameter included in a standard molding condition. The control device executes a first control of forming the molded product under a second molding condition in which the parameter is changed based on the change content, a second control of forming the molded product under a third molding condition in which the same parameter is changed, a third control of associating the second molding condition with an inspection result of the molded product formed under the second molding condition and storing the association, and a fourth control of associating the third molding condition with the inspection result of the molded product formed under the third molding condition and storing the association.