An artificial intelligence-based injection molding system in which molding conditions can be changed to manufacture fair-quality products when defective products are manufactured because of disturbances during the injection molding including an injection molding machine which performs injection molding by injecting a molding material into a mold; an injection state data acquisition unit for acquiring, during injection molding, current injection state data that includes the viscosity profile of the molding material injected into the mold and/or the injection pressure value thereof; a determination unit, which inputs the current injection state data into a molding quality maintenance model trained with predetermined target injection state data, so as to determine whether to maintain molding quality; and a molding condition setting unit for changing a preset molding condition so that the current injection state data follows the target injection state data, when the determination unit determines not to maintain the molding quality.

A plasticizing device includes a drive motor, a flat screw, a barrel, a heater, a cooler, and a controller, wherein the controller executes a plasticizing step of controlling the drive motor, the heater, and the cooler to plasticize a material fed between the flat screw and the barrel to make the material plasticized outflow from a communication hole, a stopping step of stopping at least the drive motor and the heater after executing the plasticizing step to stop the plasticizing step, and a start-up step of starting up the heater and controlling at least one of the heater and the cooler so that the outer circumference of the flat screw becomes at a temperature no higher than in the plasticizing step when resuming the plasticizing step after a predetermined time elapses from the stopping step.

A shaped article comprising a polymer-based resin derived from cellulose, wherein the polymer-based resin has an HDT of at least 95° C., a bio-derived content of at least 20 wt %, a notched izod impact strength of greater than 80 J/m and at least one of the following properties chosen from: flexural modulus of greater than 1900 MPa; a spiral flow length or at least 3.0 cm; a flex creep deflection of less than 12 mm; a transmission of at least 70%; a ΔE value of less than 25; or an L* color of at least 85.

A controller for an injection molding machine having a heater and serving to estimate the surface temperature of the heater at a predetermined time, the controller comprising: an operation information acquiring unit for acquiring, as operation information, heater output power and heater setting temperature of the heater during a predetermined period immediately before the predetermined time; a surface temperature acquiring unit for acquiring the surface temperature of the heater during the predetermined period; an actual performance information acquiring unit for acquiring, as actual performance information, the actual performance on the transition of the ratio between the surface temperature of the heater and the setting temperature relative to the transition of the heater output power of the heater; and an estimating unit for estimating the surface temperature of the heater at the predetermined time on the basis of the operation information, the actual performance information, and the acquired surface temperature.

A joining member configured to join a temperature-controlled member and a temperature control jacket includes a temperature control jacket attachment part attached to the temperature control jacket, and a temperature-controlled member attachment part attached to the temperature-controlled member. The temperature control jacket attachment part includes a temperature control jacket-side opening into which a first bolt is insertable, and the temperature-controlled member attachment part includes a temperature-controlled member-side opening into which a second bolt is insertable. The temperature control jacket-side opening and/or the temperature-controlled member-side opening are configured to allow change in positions where the first and second bolts are inserted.

A protective cover for a plasticising cylinder of a shaping machinehas an elongate internal space which is enclosed by at least one wall and in which the plasticising cylinder can be arranged. A terminal box for heating strips arranged on the plasticising cylinder projects into the internal space, and one of the walls of the protective cover has an opening which is closed by an openable cover member. In the opened condition, the opening allows access to the terminal box or the interior of the terminal box.

A temperature control method includes: a step of obtaining, by means of PID control, a first energization rate based on a first temperature difference between an actually measured temperature and a target temperature; a step of obtaining a second energization rate based on a second temperature difference between the ambient temperature of the environment in which a heating barrel is disposed and the target temperature; a step of obtaining a corrected energization rate on the basis of the result of comparison of the first energization rate and the second energization rate; and a step of controlling the electrical power to be supplied to a heater on the basis of the corrected energization rate. The corrected energization rate is set to any of predetermined first, second, and third conditions on the basis of the comparison result.

An injection molding machine uses a native controller and a retrofit controller to effectively control its operation. The controllers may determine and/or receive information regarding the machine's maximum load capacity, and may also determine a current operational load value of the machine. The retrofit controller may cause the machine to operate at any number of combinations of settings of operational parameters which result in the machine operating at or below the maximum load value by adjusting any number of machine parameters associated with the injection molding machine based on feedback sensors measuring real-time operating conditions of the machine.

A plasticizing apparatus, includes: a drive motor; a rotor that is rotated around a rotation axis by the drive motor and that has a groove forming surface on which a groove is formed; a barrel that has a facing surface facing the groove forming surface and that includes a communication hole in the facing surface; a heating portion that heats a material supplied to between the groove and the barrel; and a controller that controls the drive motor and the heating portion to plasticize the material supplied to between the groove and the barrel and discharge the material from the communication hole, the facing surface includes a first region and a second region that is closer to the communication hole than is the first region, the controller controls the heating portion to set a temperature of the second region to be higher than a temperature of the first region, and the controller controls the heating portion to reduce a temperature difference between the first region and the second region when the material includes a crystalline resin as compared with a case where the material includes an amorphous resin.

In a temperature control device, a resin flow channel is formed from a nozzle section and a cylinder section that is connected to the nozzle section and the device controls the temperature of the resin that flows in the resin flow channel. The temperature control device is provided with: a first temperature sensor for detecting the nozzle temperature of the resin flowing through the nozzle section; a first temperature control unit for performing PID control so that the nozzle temperature achieves a first target temperature; multiple second temperature sensors for detecting the cylinder temperature of the resin flowing through the cylinder section; and second temperature control units for performing PID control so that the cylinder temperature achieves a second target temperature. The second temperature control units perform PID control of the cylinder temperature using temperature control information from the first temperature control unit.