A predetermined mold gap is provided beforehand between a movable mold and a stationary mold of a mold by a mold clamping device. A mold clamping pressure is set to zero, and a predetermined back pressure is set for the movable mold. Subsequently, the injection device is caused to start injection of the molten resin into the mold for which the mold gap, the mold clamping pressure, and the back pressure have been set. When a predetermined injection end condition set beforehand is satisfied as a result of progress of an injection filling process, a filling end process of ending the injection filling process is performed.

An injection molding machine including an injection device which performs an injection filling process of injecting and filling a molding material into a mold composed of a movable mold and a stationary mold and having a predetermined mold gap therebetween, a mold clamping device which performs a compression process of applying a predetermined mold closing pressure to the mold into which the molding material has been injected and filled, thereby compressing the molding material, and a molding machine controller which controls the injection device and the mold clamping device, wherein the molding machine controller is configured to allow setting of mold clamping conditions for the clamping device, the mold clamping conditions including a predetermined mold gap between the movable mold and the stationary mold, a predetermined mold clamping force, a predetermined back pressure for the movable mold, a predetermined mold closing pressure, and a predetermined mold closing pressure adjustment condition associated with a compression state of the molding material, the injection device performs the injection filling process of injecting and filling the molding material into the mold of the mold clamping device for which the mold clamping conditions have been set, and the mold clamping device performs the compression process for the mold, into which the molding material has been injected and filled, on the basis of the mold clamping conditions including the mold closing pressure adjustment condition.

An injection molding machine includes a plasticizing unit having a plasticizing cylinder and a material-conveying device that is movable in the plasticizing cylinder and powered by a material-conveying drive, a material-conveying drive control, which is coupled with the material-conveying drive and is designed to control operating parameters of the material-conveying drive, a closing unit having an injection molding tool that is connected with an outlet nozzle of the plasticizing cylinder, as well as a closing unit control, which is coupled with a closing unit drive of the closing unit and is designed to control operating parameters of the closing unit drive. The injection molding machine further includes one or more dieletric or acoustic sensors which are disposed in the cavity of the injection molding tool or close to the cavity of the injection molding tool and are designed to determine the dielectric polarizability, mobility of free load carriers and/or acoustic material responses of a molding material in the cavity of the injection molding tool. A sensor control is coupled with the dielectric or acoustic sensor(s) and is designed to ascertain a time-dependent degree of crystallization and a time-dependent median temperature of the molding material in the cavity of the injection molding tool from the dielectric polarizability, mobility of free load carriers and/or acoustic material responses determined by the dielectric sensor(s) and, depending on the ascertained degree of crystallization and the ascertained median temperature, to actuate the material-conveying drive control and/or the closing unit control to adjust the operating parameters of the material-conveying drive and/or of the closing unit drive.

A setting support system includes: a first reception unit that receives, regarding a setting of sequence control that controls a series of operations in a machine, inputs of component information indicating an operation component that operates in the series of operations and operation order information indicating an operation order of the operation component; a processing unit that specifies a time range in which each of a plurality of target operations constituting the series of operations is executable based on the component information and the operation order information and a logic of a sequence for the series of operations; and a display control unit that displays, on a display device, a sequence image in which a plurality of target images corresponding to each of the plurality of target operations are disposed in an execution order, based on the time range specified for each of the plurality of target operations.

A mold clamping device includes: a fixed die having a fixed mold; a movable die having a movable mold; a toggle link coupled to a link housing placed opposite to the fixed die and the movable die, and changing a distance therebetween by a mold clamping motor; a tie bar coupled to the fixed die and the link housing; a tie bar nut screwed onto the tie bar and placed on the link housing; and a control device that, when performing mold clamping, brings the movable mold close to the fixed mold at a slow speed immediately before the both come into contact with each other, stops the mold clamping motor for a predetermined period when the movable mold and the fixed mold come into contact with each other, increases the rotation speed of the mold clamping motor after the predetermined period elapses, to perform mold clamping.

A predetermined mold gap is provided beforehand between a movable mold and a stationary mold of a mold by a mold clamping device. A mold clamping pressure is set to zero, and a predetermined back pressure is set for the movable mold. Subsequently, the injection device is caused to start injection of the molten resin into the mold for which the mold gap, the mold clamping pressure, and the back pressure have been set. When a predetermined injection end condition set beforehand is satisfied as a result of progress of an injection filling process, a filling end process of ending the injection filling process is performed.

A mold clamping device includes two mold platens; a ball screw mechanism connecting the mold platens to each other, the ball screw mechanism being provided with an axial force detector configured to detect an axial force acting on the ball screw mechanism; a servo motor provided on the ball screw mechanism and configured to drive the ball screw mechanism; and a control device configured to: monitor the axial force detected by the axial force detector during injection; and based on detecting an axial force increase, the axial force increase being an increase in the axial force, perform a mold clamping force increase control including driving the servo motor to increase a mold clamping force for tightening the ball screw mechanism.

An injection molding machine has a clamp that generates electromagnetic force and that secures a moving plate or a fixed plate using attractive force that is produced by the electromagnetic force; and a controller that controls separation force that acts on the moving plate or the fixed plate such that the separation force is less than the attractive force.

An injection molding machine has a clamp that generates electromagnetic force and that secures a moving plate or a fixed plate using attractive force that is produced by the electromagnetic force; a pressure sensor that is provided in the clamp, wherein the pressure sensor measures contact pressure that acts between the moving plate or the fixed plate and the clamp; and a controller for performing a measure to prevent detachment of the moving plate or the fixed plate based on the contact pressure.

A technique for suppressing molding defects is provided. A control device of an injection molding machine includes: a mold clamping control unit that controls, with respect to an actual value of a mold clamping force for pressing a stationary mold and a movable mold after pressurizing of the mold clamping force is completed and before a molding material reaches parting surfaces of the stationary mold and the movable mold, a range of increase in the actual value of the mold clamping force after the molding material reaches the parting surfaces to an upper limit or less.