An object is to manufacture molded bodies having a small variation among products even if the mixture amount of a metal powder is increased when molding is performed by directly introducing not only a metal powder but also a powdered resin into an injection molding machine.

In a metal powder mixed resin molded body manufacturing method for manufacturing a molded body by kneading a molding material including a metal powder, a thermoplastic resin powder, and an additive agent, molding is performed by an injection molding machine in which a molding screw is arranged. The molding screw of the injection molding machine includes a feeding portion, a compressing portion, and a metering portion that are continuously and integrally provided, the feeding portion and the compressing portion are constituted by an one-line spiral flight, the flight of the compressing portion includes a plurality of sub-flights that extend in a spiral manner in a screw axis direction and the sub-flights each have a polygonal shape with rounded corner portions, and the sub-flights are arranged such that the corner portions are shifted by a set angle in a circumferential direction about the screw axis, and the metering portion is provided with a plurality of blending/aligning portions each having gear-like protrusions and recesses in a circumferential direction about the screw axis.

An injection device has a screw disposed in a heating cylinder so as to be rotatable and movable in an axial direction. An injection stage supports the heating cylinder. A material supplying unit supplies a resin material to the heating cylinder. A material introducing member is disposed between the material supplying unit and the heating cylinder and introduces the resin material from the material supplying unit to the heating cylinder, The material introducing member has a cylindrical portion fitted in a vertical hole provided in the injection stage, and a lower part of the cylindrical portion is in abutting contact with the heating cylinder. A heat medium passage extends inside a sidewall of the cylindrical portion for flowing therethrough a temperature-controlled heat medium, and a heat-insulating air space is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion and a circumferential surface of the vertical hole.

A control device for an injection molding machine is equipped with a pressure acquisition unit that acquires a pressure of a resin, a reverse rotation control unit that causes a screw to be rotated in reverse, after the screw has reached a predetermined metering position, a measurement unit that measures an elapsed time or a rotation amount of the screw from when the screw has reached the predetermined metering position, and a rearward movement control unit that initiates sucking back of the screw in an overlapping manner with the reverse rotation of the screw, in the case that a predetermined rearward movement initiation time has elapsed, or in the case that the screw has been rotated by a predetermined rearward movement initiation rotation amount, from when the screw has reached the predetermined metering position.

The present disclosure provides an injection machine for a recycled plastic injection molding system. The injection machine comprises a supplying system configured to drive plastics from an entry end to downstream of receiving route, a heating system disposed to downstream of the supplying system and configured to melt plastics and drive plastics to the downstream of receiving route, and a buffer system disposed to downstream of the heating system and configured to be a receiving state and a supplying state. When the buffer system is in the receiving state, the buffer system is configured to receiving plastics from the heating system. When the buffer system is in the supplying state, the buffer system is configured to drive plastics to downstream of the receiving route.

The present disclosure provides a process for preparing a cured transparent rubber composition containing a synthetic isoprene polymer(s), a transparent polymer(s), a curing agent and additives. The process includes mixing the components at a temperature ranging from 50 to 130° C., curing the compound with peroxide and allowing the compound to mature. The maturated compound is fed to an injection molding machine. The cured transparent rubber composition prepared using the methods described herein has a haze of less than 30% and a total light transmission of more than 80%. The disclosure further provides an article including the cured transparent rubber composition, in particular for medical applications and artificial nipples.

A plasticizing device includes a passage defining section that is coupled to a hopper which stores a material and that defines a supply passage to which the material is supplied from the hopper, a plasticizing section that includes an introduction portion which communicates with the supply passage, and a screw, and that plasticizes the material supplied from the introduction portion by rotation of the screw to form a molten material, and a material detection section that detects the presence or absence of the material in the supply passage.

An injection apparatus is configured to feed a molten resin into an injection molding section of an injection stretch blow molding machine. The injection apparatus uniformly melts a resin material while the duration from the time of starting plasticizing and kneading till completion of injection is shortened, thereby allowing the operation of the injection apparatus to fall within the time corresponding to the reduced injection molding process in the injection stretch blow molding machine. Thus, the molding cycle for a hollow body is reduced. In this context, at the start of the filling for each injection cycle, the injection apparatus starts plasticizing and kneading for generating the molten resin for injection in the next injection cycle.

A method is described for producing fibre-reinforced plastic moulded parts, wherein endless fibre strands are fed by a fibre braking device and/or cut fibres via a gravimetric metering device, and a plastic material to be melted, by a volumetric metering device are fed to a single-screw plasticizing unit. Plastic material which is molten and is mixed with fibre material is injected into a moulding tool by an injection stroke of the plasticizing screw. According to the application, the ACTUAL mass flow of the plastic material is calculated from the ACTUAL volume flow of the plastic material and from the ACTUAL mass flow of the fibre material. The ACTUAL mass flow of the plastic material is compared to a TARGET mass flow of the plastic material, and the rotation speed n.sub.d of the rotary drive of the metering element of the metering device is adapted.

A self-cleaning dosing apparatus includes a material hopper for containing pellets of material, a feed screw, a first material outlet through which pellets of material fall by gravity onto a first end of the feed screw for the feeding of pellets to a process machine. A second material outlet is located beneath the first end of the feed screw, with a slide gate blocking the second material outlet. A pneumatic piston is provided for pulling the slide gate to unblock the second material outlet, and a Venturi pump is located under the second material outlet for pulling pellets through the second material outlet when the slide gate is opened.

An injection molding apparatus and method of fabricating a molded part are provided. The apparatus may include a barrel, a nozzle enclosing an end of the barrel and defining an opening in fluid communication with an inside of the barrel, and an extrusion screw positioned at least partially inside the barrel and rotatable relative to the barrel. The extrusion screw may include a screw tip. Relative axial movement between the barrel and the extrusion screw may open or close the opening of the nozzle to permit or prevent, respectively, material flow through the opening of the nozzle. The method may include clamping a mold, opening a nozzle, rotating the extrusion screw to pump a molten material into the mold until the mold is filled, closing the nozzle, and unclamping the mold to release a molded part.