A controller includes a mold movement control unit that moves a movable mold between a first position separated from a fixed mold and a second position at which mold closing is completed; a determining unit determines the presence of abnormalities in at least one of the movable mold and the fixed mold on the basis of inspection information acquired from at least one of the movable mold and the fixed mold and outputs a confirmation signal related to the presence of abnormalities; and a mold stopping unit that stops movement of the movable mold on the basis of whether the confirmation signal output from the determining unit is acquired while a safety confirmation condition is satisfied after the mold movement control unit starts moving the movable mold from the first position toward the second position.

A monitoring apparatus for molds includes a control unit connectable to a first and second sensor associable with the mold and configured for emitting respective signals representative of a deformation parameter and temperature parameter of the mold. The control unit, in order to define an alert condition, is configured for: defining a value of a threshold parameter as a function of the temperature of the mold and comparing such value of the deformation parameter with a value of a threshold parameter defined as a function of the temperature of the mold; or normalizing, at a reference temperature, the value of the deformation parameter determined at the temperature of the mold and comparing a value of a threshold parameter, defined at the reference temperature, with the value of the normalized deformation parameter at the same reference temperature. Also forming the object of the present invention is a monitoring method and a data medium.

An injection molding system includes an extruding system, a discharging channel, a molding device including a first and second mold cavities, and a pressure regulating system regulates pressures inside the first and second mold cavities. An injection molding method includes providing a molding device having a first and second mold cavities, a first feeding port in communication with the first mold cavity, and a second feeding port in communication with the second mold cavity; sensing a first pressure in the first mold cavity, and injecting a first gas into the first mold cavity until the first mold cavity is sensed to have a first predetermined pressure; and sensing a second pressure in the second mold cavity, and injecting a second gas into the second mold cavity until the second mold cavity is sensed to have a second predetermined pressure, wherein the first and second predetermined pressures are different.

A coinjection molded multi-layer container includes an inner layer, an outer layer, and a barrier layer. The inner layer includes a first polymeric material and forms an inside surface of the container. The outer layer includes the first polymeric material and forms an outside surface of the container. The barrier layer is located between the inner layer and the outer layer and includes a second polymeric material less permeable to gas than the first polymeric material. The barrier layer is biased toward the inside surface or the outside surface such that the inner layer and the outer layer have different thicknesses.

The present disclosure provides a method for operating a molding system. The molding system includes a molding machine and a mold disposed on the molding machine, wherein the mold has a mold cavity for being filled with a molding material from the molding machine. The method comprises a step of obtaining a predetermined state waveform expressing a predetermined volumetric variation of the molding material. Next, the method further comprises obtaining a measured pressure and a measured temperature of the molding material in the mold cavity while performing a molding process for filling the molding material into the mold cavity. Next, the method includes obtaining a detected volumetric property of the molding material corresponding to the measured pressure and the measured temperature. Subsequently, the method comprises displaying the detected volumetric property of the molding material with the predetermined state waveform.

A remote controller can be provided on any apparatus that employs feedback control from a native controller to add functionality to the apparatus where the native controller is not capable of providing such functionality independently.

An injection molding apparatus and an method for the manufacture of moldable articles having an injection manifold, a plurality of hot runner nozzles, a first nozzle heater, a plurality of mold cavities positioned to receive molten material from the plurality of the hot runner nozzles, each mold cavity having at least one mold gate orifice and a mold cavity heater surrounding each mold cavity at least partially and a thermocouple associated with the mold cavity to measure directly or indirectly a temperature generated by the mold cavity heater.

An insert molding includes a lithium-ion battery, temperature measurement element and a pressure measurement element disposed close to the lithium-ion battery to sense temperature and pressure around the lithium-ion battery during insert molding; and a molding resin that covers the lithium-ion battery, the temperature measurement element, the pressure measurement element and a cover member.

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the steps of: preparing a lead frame; mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips on the lead frame; and sealing one portion of the lead frame with a sealing resin. The resin-sealing step includes the step of: disposing the lead frame, molds having main surfaces on which cavity parts are formed, the lead frame being disposed on the main surface of the heated molds; injecting a resin in the main surfaces of the heated molds so as to seal the one portion of the lead frame with the sealing resin; and taking out the lead frame from the heated molds. In the taking-out step, while the lead frame is taken out, the main surfaces of the molds are inspected by using a sensor, and the sensor is cooled and formed integrally with an arm used for taking out the lead frame.

There are provided a molding conditions determination assist device and a resin state estimation device including: a quality estimation unit which estimates quality of the mold products by a machine learning on the basis of a detection data; a quality transition storage unit which accumulates the estimated quality of the mold products and stores a quality transition with respect to the accumulated quality of the mold products; a tendency evaluation unit which evaluates a quality change tendency with respect to a prescribed standard quality on the basis of the quality transition; a relationship storage unit which stores a relationship between the quality change tendency and a modification amount of the molding conditions for returning the quality to the standard quality; and a modification conditions determination unit which determines the modification amount of the molding conditions on the basis of the quality change tendency and the relationship.