Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a mold air passage and a mold, which can improve the mold air passage with high efficiency and quick air exhaust, thereby improving the problem that the air trapping phenomenon occurs during injection molding in the prior art to influence the product quality.
Embodiments of the invention may be implemented as follows:
in a first aspect, the present invention provides a mold gas circuit for cooperating with an exhaust inlet and an exhaust outlet of a mold, comprising a first gas circuit and at least one gas cell group; the first air channel and the air groove group are both manufactured by 3D printing;
the air duct groups are all connected with the first air path, and an outlet of the first air path is communicated with an exhaust outlet;
the inlet of the air duct group is distributed at the product glue position, and the first air path and the air duct group are both positioned inside the die.
The mould gas circuit of this scheme is through lieing in product glue position department in the mould and setting up the gas cell group, links to each other the space at die cavity dead angle, dark position of bone department through gas cell group, first gas circuit and exhaust outlet to make the narrow and small position of mould die joint also can with the mould outer communicating with each other, balanced die cavity dead angle, dark position of bone department and external atmospheric pressure. Therefore, the problem that the product quality is influenced due to the air trapping phenomenon at the narrow part (dead angle of a cavity, deep bone position and the like) during injection molding is solved.
Furthermore, the inlets of the air groove groups are distributed at the glue positions of the product, so that the pressure at the glue positions can be balanced with the pressure outside the mould in time, and the air trapping phenomenon at the glue positions is avoided; compared with the mode that the air path inlet and the glue position are staggered in the prior art, the arrangement mode can ensure that the air pressure at the glue position can be discharged efficiently.
On the other hand, the first air passage and the air groove group are both positioned inside the die and can be protected by the movable die body, so that the strength and the structural stability of the whole die air passage structure are guaranteed. The 3D printing manufacturing mode ensures the accuracy and the high efficiency of the manufacturing of the first air passage and the air groove group, and can avoid the condition that the air exhaust is influenced by large processing difficulty and insufficient finish of finished products in the existing machining mode.
In conclusion, the mold gas circuit has the characteristics of convenience in processing, high exhaust efficiency, high quality of injection molding products and remarkable comprehensive economic benefit.
In an alternative embodiment, the first air passage is arranged in the direction of extension of the glue sites.
In an alternative embodiment, the inlet of the air channel set extends along the length of the first air channel.
In an alternative embodiment, a plurality of the air groove sets are arranged in sequence along the length direction of the first air path.
In an alternative embodiment, the first air path and the glue site are the same in shape and parallel to each other.
In an alternative embodiment, the bank of air slots includes a first air discharge slot and a second air discharge slot;
the first exhaust groove is located at a position close to the glue position, and an outlet of the first exhaust groove is connected with the first air path through the second exhaust groove.
In an alternative embodiment, the width of the first exhaust groove is smaller than the width of the second exhaust groove, and the width of the second exhaust groove is smaller than the diameter of the first air passage.
In an alternative embodiment, the groove width of the first exhaust groove is 0.03 to 0.08 mm.
In an alternative embodiment, the second vent groove has a groove width of 0.5 mm.
In an optional embodiment, the mold gas path further includes a second gas path, an inlet of the second gas path is connected to an outlet of the first gas path, and an outlet of the second gas path extends to the exhaust outlet.
In an alternative embodiment, the adjacent second air paths are connected in an intersecting manner and then extend to the exhaust outlet; and rounding the intersection of the plurality of second air paths.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a mould comprising:
a body and a mold gas circuit of any of the preceding embodiments;
the die air path is arranged in the body and is respectively communicated with an exhaust inlet and an exhaust outlet of the die;
and the bondable material is made into a mold including the mold air passages by 3D printing.
In an optional embodiment, the mold further comprises a waterway independent of the mold gas circuit;
the waterway is arranged inside the body, and the bondable material is printed by 3D to form a mold comprising the mold airway and the waterway.
The beneficial effects of the embodiment of the invention include, for example:
the mould gas circuit of this scheme includes first gas circuit and at least one gas cell group. The square first air path and the air groove set which are manufactured through 3D printing guarantee the accuracy and the high efficiency of the manufacture of the air path of the whole die. The inlet of the air groove group is distributed at the glue position of the product, so that the space of the dead angle and the deep bone position of the cavity is communicated through the air groove group, the first air path and the exhaust outlet, namely, the narrow part of the parting surface of the mold can be communicated with the outside of the mold, and the air pressure between the dead angle and the deep bone position of the cavity and the outside is balanced.
Therefore, the gas circuit of the mold improves the problem that the product quality is influenced by the gas trapping phenomenon of narrow parts such as a cavity dead angle, a deep bone position and the like during injection molding, and has the advantages of convenient processing and better overall structure.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.
Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that if the terms "upper", "lower", "inside", "outside", etc. indicate an orientation or a positional relationship based on that shown in the drawings or that the product of the present invention is used as it is, this is only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, and it does not indicate or imply that the device or the element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Furthermore, the appearances of the terms "first," "second," and the like, if any, are used solely to distinguish one from another and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
It should be noted that the features of the embodiments of the present invention may be combined with each other without conflict.
The plastic mold is a closed cavity formed by metal parts, and when plastic is injected and filled into the cavity, air in the cavity is discharged through a parting surface on the edge. However, at the dead angle of the cavity and the deep bone position, when the plastic flows to the deep bone position for filling, the air is easy to trap in the cavity, the air can not be discharged, a piece of plastic can be lacked on the product, the quality defect problem that the product is lacked is caused, and the compressed air can generate high temperature and even burn black plastic when serious.
When the problem occurs, an insert or a thimble with an exhaust function is generally made at the trapped gas position, or an expensive air-permeable steel insert is made.
Specifically, an exhaust insert is embedded in the mold, and an exhaust groove is formed at the edge of the insert, as shown in the following figure.
The disadvantages are as follows: 1. the exhaust groove is arranged singly, and the exhaust effect is not ideal; 2. the cooling water channels of the mould can not be arranged, so that the overheating phenomenon of the mould influences the normal production; 3. the mold structure is complicated by inlaying and splicing a plurality of inserts; 4. the product has the defects of line clamping flash and affects the product quality when being inlaid and spliced on a die.
For example, the mold is embedded with the permeable steel. The air permeable steel is made of fine-grain round sphere powder stainless steel through high-temperature sintering, and micro exhaust holes, also called porous materials or porous metals, are uniformly distributed in all directions in the air permeable steel and are applied to an injection mold for air trapping and the like.
The disadvantages are as follows: 1. mainly produced in Japan and Europe and America, the price is high and is more than thousand yuan per kilogram, and the material is also difficult to purchase in large blocks; 2. the whole block is breathable, so that the air holes are easily sealed by oil stains and dust, and the performance of the air holes is influenced; 3. the product has the defects of line clamping flash and affects the product quality when being inlaid and spliced on a die.
In order to improve the technical problem, the following embodiments provide a mold air path and a mold.
Referring to fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a mold air passage 10 for cooperating with an exhaust inlet and an exhaust outlet 20a of a mold 20, including a first air passage 100 and at least one air groove set 300; the first air channel 100 and the air tank group 300 are both manufactured by 3D printing;
the air cell groups 300 are all connected with the first air path 100, and the outlet of the first air path 100 is communicated with the exhaust outlet 20 a;
the inlets of the bank of air slots 300 are distributed at the product glue location 30 and both the first air path 100 and the bank of air slots 300 are located inside the mould 20.
The mold gas circuit 10 of the scheme is characterized in that the gas groove group 300 is arranged at the product glue position 30 in the mold 20, and the space of the dead angle and the deep bone position of the mold cavity is connected with the exhaust outlet 20a through the gas groove group 300 and the first gas circuit 100, so that the narrow part of the parting surface of the mold 20 can be communicated with the outside of the mold 20, and the dead angle and the deep bone position of the mold cavity and the external gas pressure are balanced. Therefore, the problem that the product quality is influenced due to the air trapping phenomenon at the narrow part (dead angle of a cavity, deep bone position and the like) during injection molding is solved.
Furthermore, the inlets of the air tank group 300 are distributed at the glue position 30 of the product, so that the pressure at the glue position 30 can be balanced with the pressure outside the mold 20 in time, and the air trapping phenomenon at the position is avoided; compared with the mode that the air path inlet and the glue position 30 are staggered in the prior art, the arrangement mode can also ensure that the air pressure at the glue position 30 can be discharged efficiently.
On the other hand, the first air passage 100 and the air groove set 300 are both located inside the mold 20, so that the body 21 of the mold 20 can be protected, and the structural strength and the structural stability of the whole mold air passage 10 can be ensured. The 3D printing manufacturing mode ensures the accuracy and the high efficiency of the manufacturing of the first air passage 100 and the air tank group 300, and can avoid the condition that the air exhaust is influenced by large processing difficulty and insufficient finish of finished products in the existing machining mode.
It should be noted that the 3D printing technology (also referred to as additive manufacturing technology, rapid prototyping technology, etc.) is a digital manufacturing technology that is based on the principle of discrete material layer-by-layer stacking and laser sintering molding, and uniformly lays a layer of thin (micron-sized) raw material powder on a molding platform by a scraper according to a three-dimensional CAD model of a product, and rapidly prints out a product prototype or a part.
While the present embodiment employs metal 3D printing. Metal 3D printing is a rapid prototyping technique, which is a technique for constructing a metal object by using a bondable material such as powdered metal and the like based on a digital model file and by using a layer-by-layer selective metal laser melting sintering prototyping printing method, and the sections are printed and sintered together layer by layer to produce an entity. Are often used to directly manufacture model parts in the fields of mold 20 manufacture, industrial design, and the like. The method is characterized in that:
1. the laser sintering is to sinter solid powder selectively and layer by laser and to superpose the sintered and molded solidified layers layer by layer to produce the part with required shape. The whole process comprises the steps of CAD model establishment, data processing, powder spreading, sintering, post-processing and the like.
2. The whole process device consists of a powder cylinder and a forming cylinder, wherein a piston (powder feeding piston) of the powder cylinder rises during working, a layer of thin (micron-sized) raw material powder is uniformly paved on a forming platform by a scraper, and then a laser beam of a prototype section model is scanned in a two-dimensional way at a certain speed and energy density by a scanner under the control of a computer, and the scanning is carried out according to two-dimensional data of a layered surface. The powder scanned by the laser is sintered into a solid sheet layer with a certain thickness, after the solid powder material is sintered to form one layer of the part, the working piston descends one layer thickness, the powder laying system lays new powder, and the laser beam is controlled to scan the new sintering layer. And repeating the steps repeatedly in such a way, and overlapping layer by layer until the three-dimensional part is molded. And finally, taking out the molded part, removing the redundant powder to obtain a part, and recycling the unsintered powder into the powder cylinder.
The method utilizes the principle that metal powder materials are sintered under laser irradiation, selective sintering is carried out under the control of a computer according to interface profile information, and the materials are stacked layer by layer to form.
Please further refer to fig. 1 to 6 for further details of the structure of the mold gas circuit 10.
As can be seen from fig. 1 and 3, in the present embodiment of the invention, the first air path 100 is arranged along the extending direction of the glue sites 30. Such a mode of setting up can make the narrow and small space of gluing position 30 department communicate in time with first gas circuit 100, and then the guarantee glues position 30 department and communicates with the external world through first gas circuit 100 to balanced glue position 30 department and external atmospheric pressure.
Optionally, in this embodiment, the inlet of the air chute assembly 300 extends along the length of the first air path 100. Because the first air path 100 is arranged along the extending direction of the glue position 30, the opening of the air duct set 300 can also extend along the glue position 30, thereby ensuring that the air duct set 300 can exhaust air timely and efficiently.
Further, in the present embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of air groove sets 300 are arranged in sequence along the length direction of the first air path 100. The arrangement of the air cell sets 300 along the first air path 100 means that the air cell sets 300 are arranged in front of each other along the extending direction of the glue sites 30, so that the air cell sets 300 can stably and efficiently complete the air discharge work in cooperation with each other, and the air discharge work is more efficient and faster. The rapid and sufficient filling of injection molding is realized through sufficient exhaust, so that the molding period is shortened, and the molding efficiency is improved.
As can also be seen from fig. 3, in the present embodiment of the invention, the first air passage 100 and the glue site 30 are identical in shape and parallel to each other. The air path can be designed according to the shape of the glue position 30, the glue position 30 is flat, and the air path can also be designed to be parallel to the glue position; the glue position 30 is inclined, the glue position 30 can also be designed to be inclined and parallel to the glue position 30, and even if the glue position is a curve, the air path can be designed along with the shape.
Therefore, the air passage 10 of the mold can ensure that the air pressure at the glue position 30 can be timely discharged, and the problem that the product quality is influenced by the air trapping phenomenon in the injection molding process in the prior art is solved.
Referring to fig. 4 and 5, it can be seen that in the present embodiment of the invention, the air slot set 300 includes a first air discharge slot 310 and a second air discharge slot 320; the first air discharge groove 310 is located near the glue site 30, and an outlet of the first air discharge groove 310 is connected to the first air passage 100 through the second air discharge groove 320.
Further, in the present embodiment, the width of the first exhaust groove 310 is smaller than the width of the second exhaust groove 320, and the width of the second exhaust groove 320 is smaller than the diameter of the first air path 100.
Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the groove width of the first exhaust groove 310 is 0.03-0.08 mm. The vertical height of the first exhaust groove 310 is 2-5 mm.
Optionally, in the present embodiment of the present invention, the groove width of the second exhaust groove 320 is 0.5 mm. The vertical height of the second exhaust groove 320 is 2-4 mm.
Optionally, the diameter of the first gas circuit 100 is 2-4 mm.
The deep bone position area on the product is easy to generate the air trapping phenomenon of injection molding, and the double-stage exhaust grooves can increase the exhaust. With the mode that prior art only has the one-level air discharge duct, this embodiment includes doublestage air discharge duct to avoid the easy problem of taking place to be blockked up by the plastic dust in gap. The double-stage exhaust groove structure shortens the length of the narrow slit, can also ensure the strength of parts, and can greatly solve the problem of blockage.
Further, referring to fig. 1 to 5, in the present embodiment of the invention, the mold gas circuit 10 further includes a second gas circuit 200, an inlet of the second gas circuit 200 is connected to an outlet of the first gas circuit 100, and an outlet of the second gas circuit 200 extends to the exhaust outlet 20 a.
Further, the adjacent second air paths 200 intersect and connect and then extend to the exhaust outlet 20 a; the intersection of the plurality of second air passages 200 is rounded 400. The gas circuit handing-over department all makes the chamfer, can be favorable to the laser to print, clears up the metal powder in the gas circuit with the air gun, prevents that the powder from remaining the influence and exhausts.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a mold 20, comprising a body 21 and the mold gas circuit 10 of any one of the foregoing embodiments; the mold gas circuit 10 is disposed inside the body 21 to communicate with the exhaust gas inlet and the exhaust gas outlet 20a of the mold 20, respectively; and the bondable material is made into a mold 20 including the mold air path 10 by 3D printing.
Further, the mold 20 further comprises a water path 22 independent from the mold gas path 10; a water path 22 is provided inside the body 21, and the bondable material is manufactured into the mold 20 including the mold air path 10 and the water path 22 by 3D printing. Can ensure gas circuit and water route 22 mutual independence, mutually noninterfere through 3D printing.
Such a mold 20 can be directly manufactured on a 3D printing machine, and the exhaust grooves are printed out according to a specific gas trapping area on the mold 20, so that a large-sized integral part can be manufactured without a mosaic line of an insert, and the appearance of the product is not affected. And the exhaust gas path is printed according to the specific gas trapping area on the die 20, an exhaust groove with the diameter of 0.03-0.08mm can be printed, the selection area is wide, the exhaust gas path can be arranged on the surface and also on a deep bone, large-size parts can be manufactured, and the strength and the rigidity of the parts of the die 20 cannot be influenced by the gas path structure.
To sum up, the embodiment of the present invention provides a mold gas circuit 10 and a mold 20, which at least have the following advantages:
1. and (3) reducing the injection molding and pressure maintaining time of the mold 20: the air exhaust is good, the filling time is shortened, and the molding period is shortened.
2. Prevent the deformation and the warpage of injection moulding product: no gas is trapped inside, and the risk of product deformation is reduced.
3. The phenomenon of high-temperature glue burning after air trapping and compression in the injection molding process is prevented, and the surface quality of a product is improved.
4. The exhaust device solves the problems of difficult exhaust and the like, and avoids flash and other defects generated by using inserts or other exhaust systems.
5. The excellent air exhaust can solve and relieve the difficult molding problems of gate deviation, uneven wall thickness, thin-wall products and the like.
6. The defects of part deformation and the like caused by scorching, flow marks, material shortage, air suction and the like caused by gas generated by injection molding and rapid pressure accumulation in the cavity of the mold 20 can be fully solved.
7. The fine exhaust improves shaping production efficiency, practices thrift manufacturing cost, and the air in the die cavity can be let through the pore in the mould 20 and release smoothly fast during the injection molding, and injection pressure can reduce injection molding machine power consumption.
Therefore, when the printing breathable part is used at a proper position of the injection mold 20, the problem of air trapping caused by air during injection can be completely eliminated, and the injection molding is more perfect.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.