System and method for monitoring system parameters from multiple independent controllers that monitor and control an injection process is a plurality of IMSs, including: establishing a common graphical user interface (common GUI) for viewing system parameters of a tool based injection molding system (IMS), the IMS including a plurality of different local controllers that control different tool based system functions of the IMS and one common graphical user interface (local GUI) with GUI routines specific to the local controllers for set up and monitoring of the respective tool based system function of the respective local controllers.

A manufacturing system including an injection molding machine and a conveyance apparatus injections a mold and cools the mold at a molding operation position in the injection molding machine, ejections a molded part from the mold at the molding operation position, and conveys the mold to a path of the conveyance apparatus and heats the mold on the path.

The molding support device for an injection molding machine is provided with: a temperature control unit which controls the temperature of a material supply unit which supplies a resin material to the inside of a heating cylinder; a basic data input unit which can input resin type; a Controlled temperature data table in which the optimum control temperature by the temperature control unit is set for each resin type; a data processing unit having a temperature setting processing unit which sets the control temperature of the temperature control unit as the control temperature of the temperature control unit by reading the control temperature corresponding to resin type input from the Controlled temperature data table if the resin type is input from the basic data input unit when molding conditions are set, and a molding machine controller having an output processing function unit which displays the control temperature on a display.

The present invention relates to extrusion molding machines and methods of producing extrusion molded parts and, more particularly, to extrusion molding machines that adjust operating parameters of the extrusion molding machine during an extrusion molding run to account for changes in material properties and pressures of the extrusion material and methods of accounting for changes in extrusion molding material properties during an extrusion molding run and/or compounding of materials.

A system is disclosed for micro-molding articles. The system melts and pre-pressurizes thermoplastic material to a first level, within a plasticizing barrel. The melt pressure of the thermoplastic material is manipulated to a second level, within a hot runner. The melt pressure of the thermoplastic material is manipulated to an ultra-cavity packing pressure within a valve gate nozzle.

An injection molding apparatus including a mold, an injection device and at least one sensor is provided. The mold has a mold cavity. The injection device is adapted to inject a material into the mold cavity such that the material is formed into a forming article. The at least one sensor is disposed on the mold and adapted to sense at least one of a temperature and a pressure in the mold cavity. The at least one sensor is located at an inner surface of the mold cavity and corresponds to a non-appearance surface of the forming article. In addition, an injection molding method is also provided.

Provided is a mold carrier. The mold carrier comprises a mold bearing chassis, a pressure bearing plate, and a tie bar. The mold bearing chassis includes a plurality of molds disposed therein. Each mold has one or more mold cavities. The pressure bearing plate is configured to physically couple to the mold bearing chassis during an injection molding process. The tie bar runs through the center of the mold bearing chassis and the pressure bearing plate. The mold bearing chassis is configured to allow components to be removed from their molds without separating the mold bearing chassis from the pressure bearing plate.

The invention relates to an injection-molding process for the production of an injection-molded element, comprising a film element and an in-mold-coating layer directly injected onto said element. The film element occupies only part of the area of the in-mold-coating layer, and therefore at least one portion of the film edges of said film element is located in the middle of the relevant area of the injection-molded element. In order to avoid notching in the boundary region, the process for the production of the injection-molded element utilizes dynamic temperature control for locally restricted heating of the mold in the region where the flow front of the in-mold-coating material encounters the film material. Injection-molded elements are thus obtained in which no optically discernible boundary is present between film element and in-mold-coating layer. Because there are no joints, the injection-molded elements are amenable to successful and durable subsequent coating.

An injection molding heat removal sensing and control system and method are provided for determining and controlling a heat transfer rate for a mold in a molding machine. The system includes an inflow temperature sensor for sensing an inflow temperature for coolant provided to the mold, an outflow temperature sensor for sensing an outflow temperature for coolant exiting the mold, and a flow rate sensor for sensing a flow rate for coolant through the mold. The electronic processor is also configured to calculate a heat transfer rate for the mold from the inflow temperature, the outflow temperature, the flow rate for the coolant, and the calculated mass and the temperature of the molten plastic. The processor determines a time lag between when heat enters the mold and when heat is removed by the coolant and pre-emptively adjusts coolant flow rate to provide uniform heat transfer throughout a molding cycle. The heat transfer rate and total energy removed can be determined and provided on the display.

A mold system and method for forming a casting article for investment casting is disclosed. The mold system includes a mold for receiving therein a selected core chosen from a plurality of varied cores. The mold includes a plurality of separable mold portions that are coupleable together to create the mold and configured to form a sacrificial material from a sacrificial material fluid about the selected core. At least one selected separable mold portion of the plurality of separable mold portions includes a set of varied interchangeable versions of the at least one selected separable mold portion. Each varied interchangeable version of the selected separable mold portion is configured to accommodate a different core of the plurality of varied cores. A number of systems for controlling a temperature of the mold are also disclosed.