A conveying device for conveying a viscous material from a container includes a follower plate that can be inserted into the container, and a pump by means of which the viscous material can be conveyed through the follower plate. Moreover, a measuring chamber for accommodation of a measuring sample of the viscous material is provided. The measuring chamber includes a closable material inlet opening for this purpose. A closable disposal line leads away from the measuring chamber. Moreover, a closable material return line extends from the measuring chamber via the follower plate into the container. The conveying device also includes a controller that is designed and can be operated appropriately such that it determines the compressibility of each of multiple measuring samples. The controller opens the disposal line or the material return line to the measuring sample present in the measuring chamber as a function of the compressibility thus determined.

A control device for an injection molding machine including a cylinder into which a resin is supplied, and a screw that moves forward and rearward and rotates inside the cylinder, includes a suck back control unit that sucks back the screw based on a predetermined suck back speed and a suck back distance or a suck back time period, a pressure acquisition unit that acquires a pressure of the resin, a calculation unit which calculates a compensation amount of the suck back speed, based on a difference between the pressure of the resin at a time when sucking back is completed and a predetermined target pressure, and a speed determination unit that newly determines the suck back speed based on the compensation amount.

An injection molding machine includes: a first driving device rotating a screw provided inside a heating cylinder; a second driving device moving the screw forward and backward; a metering control section configured to, by controlling the first driving device and the second driving device, to meter resin while melting the resin, and thereafter rotate the screw in reverse to thereby reduce the pressure of the resin; a first sensor unit for detecting the pressure; a second sensor unit for detecting one or more kinds of physical quantities that affect the change of the pressure; and a prediction section predicting decompressing rotation information based on the pressure detected by the first sensor unit and the one or more kinds of physical quantities detected by the second sensor unit. The metering control section controls the first driving device based on the decompressing rotation information predicted by the prediction section.

A control device for an injection molding machine including a cylinder into which a resin is supplied and a screw that moves forward and rearward and rotates inside the cylinder, includes a metering control unit that performs metering of the resin inside the cylinder by controlling forward rotation and rearward movement of the screw until the screw has been moved rearward to a predetermined metering position, based on predetermined metering conditions, a rearward movement speed acquisition unit acquiring a rearward movement speed of the screw, a speed determination unit that determines a suck back speed for causing a resin pressure to reach a target pressure, based on the rearward movement speed acquired during metering by the rearward movement speed acquisition unit, and a suck back control unit causing the screw to move further rearward based on the suck back speed, after the screw has reached the predetermined metering position.

An injection molding machine includes: a plunger provided inside a barrel and capable of moving forward and backward in an axial direction thereof and rotating about an axis thereof; a feed hole for feeding a molding material in liquid form into a front of the plunger; a packing provided on a backward side of the feed hole to prevent the molding material fed through the feed hole from flowing backward along the plunger; and a controller for controlling a retracting movement of the plunger based on pressure of the molding material fed from the feed hole to thereby perform metering. In this configuration, at least part of the feed hole is covered by a side surface of the plunger at least from start to end of the retracting movement.

A database 3 is previously set which is related to oxidation induction times Tg indicating the deteriorations of individual resins R based on the combinations of a plurality of oxidation induction conditions X including at least different types of resins R. and different heating temperatures TH, when the molding condition is set, oxidation induction time derivation processing is performed such that an oxidation induction time Tg based on oxidation induction conditions X including at least the resin R which is used and the heating temperature TH which is set is determined from the database 3 and assistance processing is performed in which the determined oxidation induction time Tg is compared with a residence time Ts until the molten resin R is charged into a mold 2 that is calculated from the set molding condition and in which when the oxidation induction time Tg is shorter than the residence time Ts, the molding condition is corrected so as to shorten the residence time Ts or to prolong the oxidation induction time Tg.

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.

Methods and systems of delivering liquid additives in a molding system are provided. A charging sensor is provided to monitor the status of the injection charging mechanism of the molding system which charges, meters or doses an injection volume of molding material. A dosing instruction is generated based on the charging status signal. The additive pump controls the delivering of the liquid additives into the injection unit based on the dosing instruction, while the injection charging mechanism is charging the injection volume of molding material.

The present disclosure prevents load from being produced in an injection molding machine. The control device for an injection molding machine according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has a determining part that is configured to determine, based on information detected in accordance with a movement of a measurement motor provided in the injection molding machine, whether or not an operation of removing or attaching a screw that rotates in accordance with the measurement motor has been performed.

A controller includes an operation information acquisition unit that acquires operation information, a characteristic information acquisition unit that acquires characteristic information of heat dissipation characteristics of a heater, a surface temperature acquisition unit that acquires the surface temperature of the heater, and a results information acquisition unit that acquires results of a transition in the ratio of the surface temperature and a set temperature with respect to a transition in the heater output as results information. The controller also includes an estimation unit that uses the operation and results information, and the acquired surface temperature to estimate the surface temperature of the heater, and an energy quantity calculation unit that uses the estimated surface temperature and characteristic information to calculate the heat quantity dissipation from the surface of the heater and calculates heat transfer energy quantity transmitted from the heater to a resin and the shear energy quantity.