A screw can be driven along an axial direction of a heating barrel and rotatable. An injection piston drives the screw along the axial direction. An injection hydraulic cylinder is partitioned into a first chamber in which pressured hydraulic oil for driving the injection piston is supplied and a second chamber from which hydraulic oil is discharged, and drives the injection piston in the axial direction by hydraulic pressure. A first oil discharge port is blocked by the injection piston when the injection piston advances to a holding pressure switching position. A second oil discharge port can discharge the hydraulic oil from the front chamber regardless of the position of the injection piston. The first oil discharge port is disposed at a position opposed to the first oil discharge port across a center axis of the injection hydraulic cylinder, and is connected to the first oil discharge port.

The present invention offers a technique for providing assistance in setting up control for releasing gas from the interior of a mold device to the outside of the mold device. A display device for an injection molding machine display a screen. The screen includes a tab display field, in which a plurality of tabs are arranged, and a selection screen display field, in which selection screens that are selected for the respective plurality of tabs are displayed. The tab display field includes a first tab. The first selection screen, displayed in the selection screen display field when the first tab is selected, includes a plurality of input columns for use in a control of the release of gas from the inside of the mold device to the outside of the mold device.

The present invention offers a technique for providing assistance in setting up control for releasing gas from the interior of a mold device to the outside of the mold device. A display device for an injection molding machine display a screen. The screen includes a tab display field, in which a plurality of tabs are arranged, and a selection screen display field, in which selection screens that are selected for the respective plurality of tabs are displayed. The tab display field includes a first tab. The first selection screen, displayed in the selection screen display field when the first tab is selected, includes a plurality of input columns for use in a control of the release of gas from the inside of the mold device to the outside of the mold device.

A mold clamping apparatus of the type including a mold opening/closing actuator and a mold clamping cylinder, wherein rails for guiding a movable platen are disposed on a base, and the mold clamping cylinder has a left leg and a right leg each disposed between one pair of left and right rails of the rails. The rails provided for guiding the movable platen is used also as a side guide for the mold clamping cylinder. This arrangement can obviate the need for a separate guide member.

A mold clamping apparatus of the type including a mold opening/closing actuator and a mold clamping cylinder, wherein rails for guiding a movable platen are disposed on a base, and the mold clamping cylinder has a left leg and a right leg each disposed between one pair of left and right rails of the rails. The rails provided for guiding the movable platen is used also as a side guide for the mold clamping cylinder. This arrangement can obviate the need for a separate guide member.

The invention relates to a hydraulic device for supplying a plurality of work units (3a, 3b), in particular on a plastics injection moulding machine, said device comprising at least one controller (7), at least one valve regulator and/or one valve controller and a central drive (1). A regulating valve (13a, 13b) with a regulating-valve geometry is provided on at least one of the work units (3a, 3b). Pressure sensors (8) detect at least one pressure both upstream and downstream of the regulating valve (13a, 13b), the load pressure (10a, 10b) of at least one of the work units (3a, 3b), and the system pressure (9). Since the valve regulator and/or the valve controller has knowledge about the regulating-valve geometry of the at least one regulating valve (13a, 13b) and is designed to derive, from a relationship between the regulating-valve geometry and at least one pressure difference resulting from the pressures detected upstream and downstream of the regulating valve (13a, 13b), at least one volume flow rate actual value per regulating valve (13a, 13b), and the controller (7) is designed to derive, from the volume flow rate setpoint values of the at least one work unit (3a, 3b) and/or the volume flow rate actual values of the at least one regulating valve (13a, 13b), at least one setpoint value feedforward control for the central drive (1) in such a way that the system pressure (9) corresponds at least to the relevant highest load pressure (10a, 10b) of the work units (3a, 3b), the hydraulic device is improved in terms of functionality, energy, efficiency and economy.

The invention relates to a hydraulic device for supplying a plurality of work units (3a, 3b), in particular on a plastics injection moulding machine, said device comprising at least one controller (7), at least one valve regulator and/or one valve controller and a central drive (1). A regulating valve (13a, 13b) with a regulating-valve geometry is provided on at least one of the work units (3a, 3b). Pressure sensors (8) detect at least one pressure both upstream and downstream of the regulating valve (13a, 13b), the load pressure (10a, 10b) of at least one of the work units (3a, 3b), and the system pressure (9). Since the valve regulator and/or the valve controller has knowledge about the regulating-valve geometry of the at least one regulating valve (13a, 13b) and is designed to derive, from a relationship between the regulating-valve geometry and at least one pressure difference resulting from the pressures detected upstream and downstream of the regulating valve (13a, 13b), at least one volume flow rate actual value per regulating valve (13a, 13b), and the controller (7) is designed to derive, from the volume flow rate setpoint values of the at least one work unit (3a, 3b) and/or the volume flow rate actual values of the at least one regulating valve (13a, 13b), at least one setpoint value feedforward control for the central drive (1) in such a way that the system pressure (9) corresponds at least to the relevant highest load pressure (10a, 10b) of the work units (3a, 3b), the hydraulic device is improved in terms of functionality, energy, efficiency and economy.

An injection molding system, water jet cutting machine or other industrial system has a synthetically controlled variable displacement fluid working machine which outputs hydraulic fluid to one or more fluid consumers, such as rams or hydraulic motors, through hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes and receives hydraulic fluid back from one or more fluid consumers through the same or other said hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes. Individual piston cylinder assemblies can be allocated to different outputs. There may be no valve between the machine and the consumers. A working chamber of the machine can be caused to undergo a motoring cycle to enable the machine to output more power than is received from a motor driving the machine. An accumulator can be used to provide a source of hydraulic compliance. The machine can be controlled using pressure control, flow control, feed forward control or variable power/variable power limit control.

In an injection molding machine in which intermediate molds are disposed movably in a mold opening/closing direction between a movable platen attached with a movable mold and a stationary platen attached with a stationary mold, setting is simplified when individually setting a setting value related to molding using the movable mold and the intermediate mold and a setting value related to molding using the stationary mold and the intermediate mold. In a method for controlling an injection molding machine 11 in which intermediate molds 18 are disposed movably in a mold opening/closing direction between a movable platen 15 attached with a movable mold 14 and a stationary platen 17 attached with a stationary mold 16, single setting enables setting of both of a setting value related to molding using the movable mold 14 and the intermediate mold 18 and a setting value related to molding using the stationary mold 16 and the intermediate mold 18.

An injection molding system configured to operate in a plurality of cycles includes, amongst other things, a controller that is configured for performing a comparison of a variable pressure setpoint with a target pressure value. The controller is configured to, when the target pressure value is less than the variable pressure setpoint by at least a predetermined lower bound, (i) decrease the variable pressure setpoint to a reduced variable pressure setpoint and (ii) not further decrease the variable pressure setpoint from the reduced variable pressure setpoint until the pump assembly operates for a plurality of stabilizing cycles at the reduced variable pressure setpoint.