JP2009279871A - Injection molding machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an injection molding machine capable of adjusting a gate opening at a low price. <P>SOLUTION: The machine is equipped with molds 14, 15 made up of plurality of resin supply ports 17, a fork road 19 for supplying a synthetic resin injected from an injection device 100 to each resin supply port 17 and a plurality of switches 20 for individually opening and closing gates 25 provided on each fork road 19 provided that the switch 20 is composed of a switch pin 22, a cylinder unit 23 for driving a piston rod 27 back and forth between two positions and a switch pin drive unit 24 for moving the switch pin 22 in between open position and close position in response to displacement of a piston rod 27 with movement of the piston rod 27 converted into smaller momentum by the switch pin drive unit 24 and transferred to the switch pin 22 while enabling gate opening adjustment of each gate 25 by a stopper member 42 for stopping the piston rod 27 in the intermediate position between two positions and a position changing device 50 for changing this position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an injection molding machine.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when molding a large resin part such as a vehicle bumper, an injection molding machine is used in which a synthetic resin fed from an injection device is branched through a plurality of paths and poured into a mold. As described above, in the case where the molten resin is introduced into the mold from a plurality of paths, each of the introduced molten resins is merged in the cavity in the mold, but when the molten resin to be merged has a pressure difference and a speed difference, Product defects are likely to occur at the junction. Therefore, as a countermeasure, an adjustment device that can adjust the opening of the gate is provided for each route, and the injection pressure (speed) of the molten resin can be adjusted for each route (the following patent) Reference 1). Such an adjustment device is composed of an opening / closing pin provided inside the valve of each path and a driving device for driving the opening / closing pin. When the opening / closing pin is brought close to the gate at the valve tip, the flow passage area of the injection port is reduced (opened). When the opening / closing pin is separated from the injection port, the flow passage area of the injection port becomes large (high opening).
JP 2006-224499A

The drive device that constitutes the adjustment device may be any device that continuously moves the open / close pin relative to the gate. For this purpose, a cylinder device, a ball screw mechanism, or the like can be applied. However, a normal inexpensive cylinder device can only operate the piston rod as the drive shaft in either the expanded or contracted state, and by itself cannot continuously change the stop position of the piston rod. It is difficult to continuously move the open / close pin relative to the gate. On the other hand, since the ball screw mechanism can continuously move and operate the stop position of the ball screw serving as the drive shaft, the position of the open / close pin can be continuously moved forward and displaced with respect to the gate, but the cost increases. .
The present invention has been created in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an injection molding machine including an adjusting device capable of adjusting the opening of a gate at a low cost.

  The present invention provides a mold having a plurality of resin supply ports communicating with a cavity, an injection device for injecting a synthetic resin, and each of the molds while branching the synthetic resin injected from the injection device. An injection molding machine comprising: a branch path to be supplied to a resin supply port; and a plurality of opening / closing devices that individually open and close gates provided in each of the branch paths, wherein the opening / closing device includes the branch path An opening / closing pin that is movable to advance relative to the gate, a cylinder device that reciprocally drives the piston rod between a first position and a second position; In response to a displacement operation for displacing the rod from the first position to the second position, the open / close pin is moved to the closed position for closing the gate, and the piston rod is displaced from the second position to the first position. Control And a drive device that moves the open / close pin to an open position that opens the gate, and has a shape that can be abutted against an overhang provided on the outer periphery of the piston rod, and the piston. A stopper member which is attached to the mold within the movement range of the rod and forcibly stops the piston rod heading from the second position to the first position at an intermediate stop position between the two positions; A position changing device for changing the position of the stopper member within the movement range of the piston rod, and an opening adjusting device for adjusting the opening of the gate is provided for each opening and closing device. The drive device is composed of a rack gear and a pinion gear, and the movement of the piston rod in the straight direction is controlled in the rotational direction of the pinion gear. A first conversion mechanism for converting to a male screw part formed on one of the pinion gear and the open / close pin, and a female screw part formed on the other side and screwed into the male screw part, A second conversion mechanism for converting the movement of the pinion gear in the rotation direction into the movement of the opening / closing pin in the straight direction and moving the opening / closing pin forward, and by both the conversion mechanisms, It is characterized in that the structure is such that the movement is transmitted to the open / close pin while being converted into a smaller momentum.

The following configuration is preferable as an embodiment of the present invention.
The position changing device includes a guide portion that is on the second position side with the stopper member as a boundary and guides the stopper member so as to be movable in the rectilinear direction, and a stopper member guided by the guide portion. The urging means for urging the first position side, and the stopper member guided by the guide portion abuts the tip of the bolt from the first position side so as not to further retreat to the first position side. A position restricting bolt for restricting the position of the stopper member, and the position restricting bolt is screwed into a screw hole formed in a mounting base for attaching the cylinder device to the mold, and the piston rod The structure can be screwed back and forth in the straight direction.

  If it does in this way, a stopper member will be urged | biased by the 1st position side by the urging | biasing means, and a position control will be carried out by the position control bolt so that it may not reverse | retreat further to the 1st position side. Then, the operator can rotate the position restricting bolt to advance and retract, whereby the restricting position of the stopper member can be changed, and as a result, the attaching position of the stopper member can be changed. Thus, the operator can adjust the opening of the gate by rotating the position regulating bolt. For this reason, for example, compared with the method of adjusting the opening by linear operation, the operation is easy because the operation target does not move, and the opening adjustment work is facilitated. In particular, in the present invention, since a plurality of opening adjustment devices are provided, the number of adjustments tends to increase, and it is more effective that the opening adjustment work becomes easier.

  Further, since the stopper member is guided by the guide portion, it can be moved smoothly, and the opening adjustment operation becomes easier. In addition, since the configuration is such that the tip of the position restricting bolt only abuts against the stopper member, the stopper member does not rotate due to the rotation of the position restricting bolt, and there is no need to provide a rotation restricting member for the stopper member. Further, since both the cylinder device and the position regulating bolt are attached to the fixed mold via the mounting base, the entire mounting base can be attached to / detached from the fixed mold and the work is easy.

  A shaft hole is formed in the pinion gear, a female screw portion is formed on the inner periphery thereof, and a male screw portion is formed on the outer periphery of the opening / closing pin, and both screws are screwed together. In this way, the male screw part on the outer periphery of the opening / closing pin and the female screw part on the inner periphery of the pinion gear are always meshed with each other, so that the effect of preventing the axial displacement of the opening / closing pin with respect to the pinion gear can be expected. On the other hand, advancement displacement can be performed more reliably.

  According to the present invention, the stopper member for forcibly stopping the driving of the piston rod and the position changing device for changing the mounting position of the stopper member are provided. If it does in this way, while using the cylinder device which can stop a piston rod only in two positions corresponding to expansion / contraction by itself as a drive source, the position change device is operated and the stopper member If the mounting position is changed, it is possible to move the stop position of the piston rod, and hence the stop position of the open / close pin, to an arbitrary position, and the gate opening can be adjusted without difficulty. Therefore, it is possible to arbitrarily adjust the opening of the gate while using an inexpensive cylinder device as a drive device, and a high-performance injection molding machine can be provided at low cost.

  In addition, the linear movement of the piston rod is transmitted to the open / close pin while being converted small by both the first conversion mechanism and the second conversion mechanism. As a result, the opening / closing amount of the opening / closing pin can be reduced with respect to the change amount of the stopper member mounting position by the position changing device, and as a result, the gate opening can be finely adjusted. If done in this way, the magnitude of the injection pressure of the molten resin injected from each gate can be finely adjusted, which is effective in preventing and suppressing molding defects called secondary welds.

<Embodiment 1>
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
(A) Overall Configuration As shown in FIG. 1, the injection molding machine 1 according to the present embodiment has a mold clamping mechanism 10 and an injection device 100 arranged side by side on a flat bed B. The mold clamping mechanism 10 is mainly composed of a pair of mounting plates 11 and 12 facing each other, a tie bar 13 for connecting these mounting plates 11 and 12 to the left and right, and both fixed and movable molds 14 and 15. In this embodiment, the fixed die 14 is fixed to the first mounting plate 11 on the right hand side of FIG. 1, the movable die 15 is movably supported by the tie bar 13, and the second mounting plate on the left side shown in FIG. 12 includes a mold clamping device (not shown) having a hydraulic cylinder.

  From the above, by operating the mold clamping device and extending / contracting the rod of the hydraulic cylinder, the movable mold 15 can be moved in the left-right direction in FIG. 1 along the tie bar 13. The movable mold 15 can be clamped and opened with respect to 14. When the molds 14 and 15 are clamped, a cavity 16 is formed between the opposing surfaces of both molds.

  The injection device 100 includes a screw driving device 101 attached on the bed B, a hopper 102, and a heating cylinder 103 attached in front of the hopper 102. The heating cylinder 103 is attached to an opening 11A provided in the first mounting plate 11 in a horizontal direction with its axis turned in the horizontal direction while inserting the tip of the cylinder. The heating cylinder 103 is formed with a shaft hole 103A along the axis, and an injection screw (not shown) is accommodated therein.

  The screw drive device 101 includes a hydraulic cylinder, a motor (not shown), and the like as a drive source, and has a function of moving the injection screw in the axial direction while rotating the injection screw around the axial center. . As described above, when the screw driving device 101 is operated while supplying the synthetic resin pellets to the inside of the heating cylinder 103 through the hopper 102, the injection screw is melted in the heating cylinder 103 (hereinafter referred to as the synthetic resin pellets). , Referred to as a molten resin) is extruded to the front end side of the heating cylinder 103 and injected from the nozzle 104 at the front end of the heating cylinder 103.

  The fixed mold 14 is provided with a plurality (five in this embodiment) of resin supply ports 17 communicating with the cavity 16 (see FIG. 2). The molten resin to be injected is branched and poured into the cavity 16 in the mold. By doing in this way, molten resin can be spread over the whole cavity 16 with a low injection pressure.

Next, the configuration of the branch path 19 that guides the molten resin injected from the injection apparatus 100 while distributing it to the resin supply ports 17 of the fixed mold 14 will be described in detail. As shown in FIG. 1, a mounting recess 14 </ b> A is formed in the right side surface of the fixed mold 14, and a plate-like manifold 18 is accommodated therein. The manifold 18 is provided with a resin introduction hole 18A communicating with the nozzle 104 of the injection apparatus 100, and a plurality of branch holes 18B (five in this embodiment) are formed therein. Each of the branch holes 18B extends along the surface of the manifold 18 starting from the resin introduction hole 18A, and the molten resin introduced into the interior through the resin introduction hole 18A is branched in the manifold 18. (See FIG. 2).
In FIG. 2, the manifold 18 itself is omitted, and only the branch hole 18B is shown by a dotted line.

  On the other hand, the fixed mold 14 is provided with a plurality of (in this embodiment, five) opening / closing devices 20 corresponding to the resin supply ports 17. Each opening / closing device 20 has a communication hole 20 </ b> A (which will be described in detail below) that communicates with each branch hole 18 </ b> B on the manifold 18 side, starting from each resin supply port 17. These communication holes 20A, together with the branch holes 18B on the manifold 18 side, form branch paths 19 through which the molten resin injected from the injection device 100 is introduced into the resin supply ports 17 while branching.

(B) Opening / closing device As shown in FIG. 3, the opening / closing device 20 is mainly composed of a valve body 21, an opening / closing pin 22, a cylinder device 23, and an opening / closing pin driving device 24 which form the communication hole 20A along the axis. ing. The valve body 21 is installed through the inside of the fixed mold 14 in the left-right direction in FIG. The communication hole 20 </ b> A formed in the valve body 21 has a small hole diameter at the tip and constitutes a gate 25. The open / close pin 22 opens and closes the gate 25 and has a long bar shape in one direction. The open / close pin 22 is attached so as to be linearly movable in the axial direction of the valve body 21 in the communication hole 20A formed in the valve body 21. It has been.

  The open / close pin 22 has a tip 22A formed in a small-diameter column corresponding to the gate 25, and can be displaced forward with respect to the gate 25. When the tip 22A is inserted into the gate 25, the gate 25 is closed as shown in FIG. 5A (closed position of the opening / closing pin), and when retracted outside the gate 25, FIG. As shown, the gate 25 can be opened (opening position of the open / close pin). In this open position, the flow path area a of the molten resin immediately before flowing into the gate 25 is the largest. Further, in the vicinity of the tip of the communication hole 20A, the inner wall of the valve body around the communication hole 20A has a tapered cross section, and the hole diameter becomes smaller toward the gate. For this reason, as shown in FIGS. 5B and 5C, the channel area a becomes smaller as the open / close pin approaches the closed position.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the molten resin supplied through the branch hole 18B on the manifold 18 side is introduced into the gate through the inside of the opening / closing pin, and the passage of the molten resin along the shaft portion of the opening / closing pin. 22B (which constitutes part of the communication hole 20A) is formed.

  The cylinder device 23 serves as a drive source for displacing the opening / closing pin 22, and mainly includes a cylinder portion 26 having a bottomed cylindrical shape and a piston rod 27. A receiving part 14B is formed between the valve body 21 and the cylinder part 26 by recessing the fixed die 14 inward, and a piston rod 27 is received in the internal space of the receiving part 14B. A plate-like attachment base 28 is attached to the outer wall of the fixed mold 14 so as to close the opening of the accommodating portion 14B, and the cylinder portion 26 is attached to the attachment base 28. The piston rod 27 is orthogonal to the central axis of the valve body 21, and is supplied with air from an air supply device (not shown) into the cylinder portion 26, so that the first contracted position (see FIG. 3). And a reciprocating drive between the most extended second position (position shown in FIG. 7).

  At the tip of the piston rod 27, a plate-like rack gear 29 is attached with the meshing surface side on which the teeth are formed facing the front side of the page shown in FIG. On the other hand, a male screw portion 30 is formed over a predetermined length at the rear end portion on the outer peripheral side of the open / close pin 22 and on the upper side in FIG.

  Moreover, the code | symbol 31 shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 4 is a pinion gear. The pinion gear 31 has a tooth portion 31A that meshes with the rack gear 29 on the outer peripheral portion, a female screw portion 31B that engages with the male screw portion 30 on the outer periphery of the opening / closing pin 22 in the shaft hole, and the piston rod 27 on the outer peripheral side. The rack gear 29 is meshed and coupled to the open / close pin 22 on the inner peripheral side. The pinion gear 31 is housed inside the valve body 21 and can be rotated around the central axis of the valve body 21 while its vertical movement is restricted by a mounting means (not shown). A part of the tooth portion of the pinion gear 31 is exposed to the outside of the valve main body by notching a part of the valve main body 21 (not shown), and meshes with the rack gear 29.

  The rack gear 29, the pinion gear 31, the female thread portion 31B of the pinion gear 31 and the male thread portion 30 of the open / close pin transmit the movement of the piston rod 27 to the open / close pin 22 to move the open / close pin 22 straight in the vertical direction shown in FIG. It has a configuration. That is, when the cylinder device 23 is driven, the linear movement of the piston rod 27 is converted into the rotational movement of the pinion gear 31 around the pinion gear 31 by the meshing action of the rack gear 29 and the pinion gear 31. (First conversion mechanism). The movement of the pinion gear 31 in the rotational direction is converted into an axial movement (second conversion mechanism) by the screwing action of the male screw portion 30 and the female screw portion 31B. 4 to move straight up and down. Further, the opening / closing pin drive device 24 (corresponding to the “drive device” of the present invention) is constituted by the first conversion mechanism and the second conversion mechanism. The opening / closing pin 22 is restricted from rotating in the axial direction by a mounting means (not shown) and does not rotate together with the pinion gear 31.

From the above, when the piston rod 27 is extended to reach the second position, the opening / closing pin 22 can be moved to the closed position where the gate 25 is closed. Further, when the piston rod 27 is contracted to reach the first position, the opening / closing pin 22 can be moved to the open position where the gate 25 is completely opened. Thus, the thing of this embodiment becomes a structure which can open and close the gate 25 by the action | operation (contraction / extension) of the piston rod 27. FIG.
Note that the gate 25 is completely opened when the tip of the opening / closing pin 22 is farthest from the gate 25 within the movement range of the opening / closing pin 22 and the flow path of the molten resin in the communication hole 20A immediately before the gate 25. In this state, the area a is maximized.

  Further, in the present embodiment, since the male screw portion 30 on the outer periphery of the open / close pin 22 and the female screw portion 31B on the inner periphery of the pinion gear are always meshed with each other, the effect of preventing the axial displacement of the open / close pin 22 with respect to the pinion gear 31 is also expected. The opening / closing pin 22 can be advanced and displaced with respect to the gate 25 more reliably.

  Moreover, the thing of this embodiment is provided with the opening degree adjustment apparatus 40 demonstrated below with the said cylinder apparatus 23, and the structure which can adjust the opening degree of the gate 25 by operating the opening degree adjustment apparatus 40, and It has become.

(C) Opening adjusting device Reference numeral 27A shown in FIG. 3 is an overhanging portion. The overhanging portion 27A is disposed near the rear end of the outer peripheral portion of the piston rod 27 and is orthogonal to the straight traveling direction, and is attached toward a stopper member 42 described later.

  A guide hole 14 </ b> C is formed in the wall surface of the fixed mold 14 corresponding to the left side of the accommodating portion 14 </ b> B, with a part thereof being recessed in the extending direction of the piston rod 27. A guide rod 41 is inserted into the guide hole 14 </ b> C so that the piston rod 27 can move in the straight direction. A stopper member 42 is attached to one end of the guide rod 41 on the first position side. As a result, the guide portion 47 including the guide hole 14C and the guide rod 41 is formed on the second position side with the stopper member 42 as a boundary. The stopper member 42 is guided along the guide hole 14C and can move smoothly. It has become.

  The stopper member 42 is disposed on the right side (first position side) shown in FIG. 3 with respect to the overhanging portion 27A. The stopper member 42 has a block shape, and a part of the left side surface thereof is a cutout portion 42A opened to the left side corresponding to the shape of the projecting portion 27A. The left side surface of the cutout portion 42A and the overhang portion 27A are arranged to face each other, and the cutout portion 42A abuts against the overhang portion 27A when the piston rod 27 contracts.

  Further, a spring 43 (corresponding to the “biasing means” of the present invention) is externally attached to the guide rod 41. A spring fitting hole 14D is formed on the right side of the guide hole 14C. The spring fitting hole 14D communicates with the guide hole 14C and has a fixed die 14 that is larger than the diameter of the guide hole 14C. The left end of the spring 43 is connected to the spring fitting hole 14D. While being fitted, the fixed mold 14 is in contact with the wall surface. On the other hand, the right end of the spring 43 comes into contact with the lower side of the left side surface of the stopper member 42. The spring 43 is provided in a contracted state between the spring fitting hole 14D and the stopper member 42, and biases the stopper member 42 toward the first position side (the right side in FIG. 3).

  A screw hole 28 </ b> A penetrating in the extending direction of the piston rod 27 is formed at a position below the cylinder portion 26 of the mounting base 28. Position restriction bolts 45 are screwed into the screw holes 28A, and can be screwed back and forth in the same direction as the linear movement direction of the piston rod 27 by rotating. The front end 45 </ b> A of the position regulating bolt 45 penetrates the mounting base 28 and comes into contact with a recessed portion on the right side surface of the stopper member 42.

  As a result, the stopper member 42 is urged by the spring 43 from the left direction (second position side) in FIG. 3 and the position regulating bolt 45 from the right direction (first position side) so as to suppress this urging. The front end 45A is abutted and the position is regulated so as not to retreat further toward the first position. The position restricting bolt 45 is rotated and moved forward and backward to adjust the mounting position of the stopper member 42.

  Specifically, when the operator rotates the position restricting bolt 45 and moves it to the left side, the tip of the position restricting bolt 45 pushes the stopper member 42. As a result, the stopper member 42 is retracted while the spring 43 is contracted. Changed to the left side. When the position regulating bolt 45 is moved to the right side, the stopper member 42 is urged to the right side by the spring 43, and the mounting position thereof is changed to the right side. With the above configuration, the position changing bolt 50, the spring 43, and the guide portion 47 constitute the position changing device 50 that can change the mounting position of the stopper member 42.

  When the piston rod 27 contracts from the second position toward the first position, the projecting portion 27 </ b> A hits the stopper member 42. As a result, the piston rod 27 can be forcibly stopped at an intermediate position between the two positions (“intermediate stop position” in the present invention). And if the attachment position of the stopper member 42 is changed by the position control bolt 45, the stop position of the piston rod 27 can be adjusted (see FIG. 6).

  When the piston rod 27 stops at an intermediate position between the two positions, the open / close pin 22 driven by the cylinder device 23 is also positioned between the aforementioned closed position and open position. As described above, the closer the closing pin 22 is to the closed position, the smaller the flow path area a. Therefore, by adjusting the position of the stopper member 42, it is possible to adjust the intermediate position of the open / close pin 22, and consequently the flow passage area a of the molten resin (gate opening adjustment). By adjusting the flow passage area a, the injection pressure of the molten resin from the gate 25 to the resin supply port 17 can be adjusted.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the opening degree of the gate 25 is adjusted by rotating and moving the position regulating bolt 45 by the operator. By the way, in order to quickly open and close the gate 25, the distance from the open position of the open / close pin 22 to the closed position is generally set small (for example, about several mm). For this reason, in order to finely adjust the opening degree of the gate 25, it is desirable that the advance / retreat amount of the open / close pin 22 is smaller than the advance / retreat amount of the position regulating bolt 45.

  In this embodiment, as described above, the amount of advancement / retraction of the position restriction bolt 45 is determined by the transmission path of the advance / retreat amount of the position restriction bolt 45 → the advance / retreat amount of the piston rod 27 → the rotation amount of the pinion gear 31 → the advance / retreat amount of the open / close pin 22 This is converted into an advance / retreat amount of the open / close pin 22. In the present embodiment, by setting the pitch circle of the pinion gear 31 to be large, the rotation amount of the pinion gear 31 is converted to be small with respect to the advance / retreat amount of the piston rod 27, and the internal thread portion 31 </ b> B and the open / close pin 22 on the inner periphery of the pinion gear 31. By setting the lead of the external threaded portion 30 on the outer periphery short, the advance / retreat amount of the opening / closing pin 22 with respect to the rotation amount of the pinion gear 31 is reduced (in the present invention, “the movement of the piston rod in the straight direction by both conversion mechanisms is more Equivalent to "convert to small momentum"). Thereby, the advance / retreat amount of the open / close pin 22 is converted to be smaller than the advance / retreat amount of the position regulating bolt 45 operated by the operator. For this reason, fine adjustment of the gate opening degree by the operator is possible.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the piston rod 27 is in the first position, the stopper member 42 can be retracted to a position where it does not contact the overhanging portion 27A.
If the advance / retreat amount of the position restricting bolt 45 is set larger than the advance / retreat amount of the piston rod 27, the stopper member 42 can be attached in the entire movement range (between the first position and the second position) of the piston rod 27. Since the position can be changed, the position of the open / close pin 22 can be changed between the open position and the closed position, and the adjustment range of the gate opening can be increased.

  Note that a locking nut 46 is screwed onto the position regulating bolt 45. The position regulating bolt 45 is pressed against the mounting base 28 by the locking nut 46 and is prevented from loosening from the mounting base 28.

  In the injection molding machine configured to flow the molten resin injected from the injection device into the cavity in the mold from the plurality of resin supply ports as in the present embodiment, the molten resin injected from the plurality of resin supply ports is poured into the cavity. The two or more molten resins thus joined together. In the vicinity of the boundary of the joining point, a molding defect generally called secondary weld (also called internal weld) is likely to occur.

  When the molten resin cools and hardens in the cavity, the secondary weld is formed by forming a boundary on the molten resin side where the pressure is low, and this recess generates a shrinkage difference within the thickness of the molded product. It is considered to be. As a countermeasure, it is conceivable to reduce the pressure difference between the molten resins on both sides of the boundary. In order to reduce the pressure difference between both sides of the boundary, the injection pressure may be adjusted by individually adjusting the opening of each gate.

  Therefore, the injection molding machine 1 of the present embodiment performs a molding try and adjusts the opening degree of the gate 25 according to the molding result. Thus, after the opening of each gate 25 is set so as to suppress the occurrence of secondary welds, the main forming step is performed.

(D) Molding Tri Process First, a molding trie procedure using the injection molding machine 1 will be described. Here, the description will be made assuming that the rod of the hydraulic cylinder of the mold clamping device is contracted and the movable mold 15 is in the mold open state with respect to the fixed mold 14. Further, all the gates 25 corresponding to the respective resin supply ports 17 are closed. For example, the stopper member 42 of each opening / closing device 20 corresponding to each gate 25 is retracted to a position where it does not come into contact with the overhanging portion 27A (initial position of the stopper member 42). Thereby, when each cylinder device 23 contracts, each gate 25 is completely opened.

  First, the mold clamping device is operated to bring the movable mold 15 into a mold-clamped state with respect to the fixed mold 14 (FIG. 1). Next, the cylinder device 23 of each gate 25 is driven to open the gate 25. When the screw driving device 101 is operated in this state, the injection screw pushes out the molten resin, and the molten resin is injected from the nozzle 104 at the tip of the heating cylinder 103. The molten resin injected from the injection apparatus 100 is branched by the branch path 19 and then flows through the gates 25 into the cavity 16 in the mold. Then, after the molten resin is poured by a predetermined amount, the cylinder device 23 is driven and each gate 25 is closed to stop the supply of the molten resin. The molten resin is cooled and solidified in the cavity 16 to form a resin molded product. Thereafter, the mold clamping device is driven to return to the mold open state, and the resin molded product is removed from the fixed mold 14.

When secondary welds are generated in the resin molded product thus molded, the opening / closing device 20 of each gate 25 is operated to adjust the opening of each gate 25 as described below. .
(E) Adjusting the opening degree of the switchgear As described above, the secondary weld has a high pressure when there is a pressure difference between the molten resins at the junctions of the molten resins injected from the gates 25 in the cavity 16. It is considered that the molten resin on the side is generated by denting the molten resin on the low pressure side. Therefore, the operator confirms the location where the secondary weld of the molded product has occurred, and determines the opening degree of the gate 25 that injected the molten resin (corresponding to the high pressure side) opposite to the side where the molten resin is recessed. The pressure of the molten resin injected from the gate 25 is reduced. Thereby, since the pressure difference of each molten resin becomes small on both sides of a joining location, generation | occurrence | production of a secondary weld can be suppressed.

  In order to reduce the opening of the gate 25, first, the cylinder device 23 is driven to extend the piston rod 27 to the second position (see FIG. 7). Accordingly, since the overhanging portion 27A moves to the left side, the stopper member 42 can be moved to the left side. Next, the operator rotates the position restricting bolt 45 so as to be screwed by a distance c from the initial position to the left side. Then, the stopper member 42 is pushed in by the tip of the position regulating bolt 45 and moves to the left side by the same distance c (see FIG. 8). When the piston rod 27 is contracted in this state, as shown in FIG. 9, the piston rod 27 stops on the side closer to the second position by the distance c moved by the stopper member 42. As a result, the flow path area a of the molten resin is reduced and the opening degree of the gate 25 can be reduced as a result of stopping closer to the closed position than when the open / close pin 22 is in the open position.

  In the state where the stopper member 42 is on the left side from the initial position, if the position regulating bolt 45 is rotated and screwed to the right side, the opening degree of the gate 25 is increased (more precisely, the gate 25 Can be brought to a fully open state).

  Further, the advance / retreat amount of the piston rod 27 is converted smaller by the first conversion mechanism and the second conversion mechanism and transmitted as the advance / retreat amount of the open / close pin 22. The advance / retreat amount of the pin 22 is reduced. For this reason, the operator can finely adjust the opening degree of the gate 25. In the present embodiment, for example, when the operator moves the position regulating bolt 45 to the left by 18 mm, the stop position of the open / close pin 22 when the piston rod 27 is contracted approaches the closed position by 2.5 mm.

  After adjusting the opening degree of each switching device 20 as described above, a molding try is performed again to mold a molded product. When secondary weld occurs in the molded product, the opening degree of each switching device 20 is adjusted again. By repeating this, the opening degree of the gate 25 of each switching device 20 is adjusted so that secondary weld does not occur.

In the present embodiment, the operator can adjust the opening degree of the gate 25 by rotating the position regulating bolt 45. For this reason, for example, compared with the method of adjusting the opening by linear operation, the operation is easy because the operation target does not move, and the opening adjustment work is facilitated. In particular, according to the present embodiment, depending on the result of the molding try, it is necessary for the operator to perform the opening degree adjustment of the plurality of opening / closing devices 20 many times. is there.
Further, since the stopper member 42 is guided by the guide portion 47, the stopper member 42 can be smoothly moved during the adjustment work, and the rotation operation of the position restricting bolt 45 is further facilitated.

(F) Main forming step After the opening degree of each switchgear 20 is set as described above, the main forming is performed in the same procedure as the forming trie step. In the main molding, since the opening degree of each gate 25 has already been adjusted, when the molten resin poured into the cavity 16 joins in the cavity 16, the pressure difference between both sides becomes small at each joining point. For this reason, generation of secondary weld is suppressed in the molded product formed by the main molding.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the stopper member 42 that forcibly stops the driving of the piston rod 27 and the position changing device 50 that changes the attachment position of the stopper member 42 are provided. If it does in this way, while using cylinder device 23 which can stop piston rod 27 only in two positions corresponding to expansion / contraction by itself as a drive source, position change device 50 is operated. If the attachment position of the stopper member 42 is changed, the stop position of the piston rod 27 and thus the stop position of the open / close pin 22 can be moved to an arbitrary position, and the opening degree of the gate 25 can be adjusted without difficulty. Accordingly, it is possible to arbitrarily adjust the opening degree of the gate 25 while using an inexpensive cylinder device 23 as a drive device, and a high-performance injection molding machine can be provided at low cost.

  Moreover, the open / close pin 22 is converted while the movement of the piston rod 27 in the rectilinear direction is reduced by the first conversion mechanism (the rack gear 29 and the pinion gear 31) and the second conversion mechanism (the female screw portion 31B and the male screw portion 30). It is as a structure which is transmitted to. As a result, the amount of advancement / retraction of the opening / closing pin 22 can be reduced with respect to the amount of change of the attachment position of the stopper member 42 by the position changing device 50, so that the opening degree of the gate 25 can be finely adjusted. In this way, the magnitude of the injection pressure of the molten resin injected from each gate 25 can be finely adjusted, which is effective in preventing and suppressing secondary welds.

  Further, since the front end of the position restricting bolt 45 is merely abutted against the stopper member 42, the rotation of the position restricting bolt 45 prevents the stopper member 42 from rotating, and it is necessary to provide a rotation restricting member for the stopper member 42. There is no.

  Further, since both the cylinder device 23 and the position regulating bolt 45 are attached to the fixed mold 14 via the mounting base 28, the attachment base 28 and the mounting base 28 can be attached to / detached from the fixed mold 14, and the work is easy.

<Other embodiments>
The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described with reference to the above description and drawings. For example, the following embodiments are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.
(1) In the present embodiment, the male screw portion 30 is formed on the outer periphery of the opening / closing pin 22 and the female screw portion 31B is formed on the inner periphery of the pinion gear 31, and these are screwed together. Alternatively, the internal thread portion 31B may be formed on the inner periphery of the open / close pin 22 and the external thread portion 30 may be formed on the outer periphery of the pinion gear 31, and the both screw portions may be screwed together.

  (2) In this embodiment, the position changing device 50 including the spring 43, the position restricting bolt 45, and the guide portion 47 is used to change the position of the stopper member 42. For example, the position restricting bolt 45 is used. When the position restricting bolt 45 is advanced and retracted by screwing with the stopper member 42, the position of the stopper member 42 may be integrally advanced and retracted. In this embodiment, it is preferable to attach the stopper member so that the stopper member 42 can advance and retract while restricting rotation so that the stopper member 42 does not rotate integrally when the position restricting bolt 45 is rotated.

Diagram showing overall configuration of injection molding machine AA line sectional view in FIG. The figure which shows the opening / closing apparatus in the state which has a piston rod in a 1st position Diagram showing the drive Diagram showing movement of the open / close pin near the tip of the valve body The figure which shows the position change of the stopper member by a position change apparatus The figure which shows the switchgear in a state where the piston rod is in the second position The figure which shows the state which changed the position of the stopper member to the 2nd position side The figure which shows the opening / closing apparatus of the state which the piston rod stopped in the intermediate position of the 2nd position and the 1st position

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Injection molding machine 14 ... Fixed mold | type (equivalent to the "mold" of this invention)
15 ... Movable type (corresponding to the "die" of the present invention)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 16 ... Cavity 17 ... Resin supply port 19 ... Branching path 25 ... Gate 20 ... Opening / closing device 22 ... Opening / closing pin 23 ... Cylinder device 24 ... Opening / closing pin drive device (equivalent to "drive device" of this invention)
27 ... Piston rod 27A ... Overhang portion 28 ... Mounting base 28A ... Screw hole 29 ... Rack gear (corresponding to "first conversion mechanism" of the present invention)
30 ... male screw portion (corresponding to "second conversion mechanism" of the present invention)
31 ... Pinion gear (corresponding to "first conversion mechanism" of the present invention)
31B ... Female thread portion (corresponding to "second conversion mechanism" of the present invention)
42 ... Stopper member 40 ... Opening adjusting device 43 ... Spring (corresponding to "biasing means" of the present invention)
45 ... Position regulating bolt 45A ... Tip (corresponding to "bolt tip" of the present invention)
47 ... Guide part (corresponding to "guide part" of the present invention)
50 ... Position changing device 100 ... Injection device

Claims (2)

A mold formed by forming a plurality of resin supply ports communicating with the cavity, an injection device for injecting synthetic resin, and the resin supply ports of the mold while branching the synthetic resin injected from the injection device An injection molding machine comprising: a branch path to be supplied; and a plurality of opening / closing devices that individually open and close the gates provided in the respective branch paths,
The opening / closing device includes an opening / closing pin that can be displaced forward with respect to the gate of the branch path, a cylinder device that reciprocally drives a piston rod between a first position and a second position, and the piston rod And receiving the displacement operation for displacing the piston rod from the first position to the second position, moving the open / close pin to the closed position for closing the gate, and moving the piston rod to the second position. A drive device that receives a displacement operation for displacing from the first position to the first position and moves the open / close pin to an open position that opens the gate,
A piston that has a shape that can be abutted against an overhang provided on the outer periphery of the piston rod, and that is attached to the mold within the movement range of the piston rod, and that moves from the second position to the first position. A stopper member that forcibly stops the rod at an intermediate stop position between both positions;
A position changing device for changing the position of the stopper member within the movement range of the piston rod, and an opening adjusting device for adjusting the opening of the gate with respect to each opening / closing device. While providing
The drive device;
A first conversion mechanism that is composed of a rack gear and a pinion gear, and that converts a linear motion of the piston rod into a rotational motion of the pinion gear;
The pinion gear includes an external thread portion formed on one of the opening and closing pins and an internal thread portion formed on the other side and screwed into the external thread portion. A second conversion mechanism that converts the movement of the piston rod into a linear motion and moves the open / close pin forward and displaces, and by both the conversion mechanisms, the linear motion of the piston rod is converted into a smaller momentum. An injection molding machine characterized by having a structure for transmitting to the opening / closing pin. The position changing device includes:
A guide portion that is on the second position side with the stopper member as a boundary and guides the stopper member to be movable in the rectilinear direction;
Biasing means for biasing the stopper member guided by the guide portion toward the first position;
A position restricting bolt for restricting the position of the stopper member so that the stopper member guided by the guide portion abuts the tip of the bolt from the first position side and does not retreat further to the first position side; As well as
The position restricting bolt is screwed into a screw hole formed in a mounting base for attaching the cylinder device to the mold, and is configured to be screwed back and forth in the straight direction of the piston rod. Item 2. The injection molding machine according to Item 1.

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