Injection Mould Construction

A molding according to the function of each of its parts can be divided into four sections 1. Introductory part of the plastic nozzle into the cavity cavity 2. penunjuang system (support system) 3. demolding system 4. heat transfer system

Mold Base Standard Part

In the manufacture of injection mold, mold base is an integral part, mold maker can make your own mold base or buy a standard mold base, the system of the mold base can be adjusted with the construction standards required, both for the two plate and three plate, stripper plate ejectors, hot runner and mold base for a screw, when the entire standard mold base is not there to meet the new final step is to make a special mold base.

Injection Mould Classification

classification or types of mold injection very depend on what we need to make the plastic parts, because every parts have specific and unique design. when design molds we must see what the influencing factor like geometry, number of cavities, ejection principle, plastic material and shape of part.

Injection Mold Cooling

This section is the most important part of the overall mold cylcle time, because in one cycle time, the process of heat exchange to spend about 70-80% of the total cycle time, thus setting the optimal heat transfer system will greatly affect the quality and cycle time of a product.

Undercut System : Cam, Angular, Lift Cavity, Loose core

cavity and core, and its derivatives when there are undercut on product, design and construction of a good core cavity and in accordance with the requirement could increase the life of tooling itself, reduce material consumption, reduce dependence on maintenance inserts, and can reduce the cost of making the mold so the mold cost per products also declined.

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Showing posts with label cavity cooling. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Cavity mold cooling construction design

In commonly mold designer know that Cooling conditions affect cycle time, part dimensions, surface finish, and warpage. but some junior mold designer still confuse to make layout and construction of cooling in mold.

before this posting, i havepost about cooling construction in slider, beside slider mold cavity also important to fill cooling, why because almost product 70-80 % is molded shape in mold cavity.

picture above shown core side of cavity mold, the basic construction is
1. Plug (Plug is for prevent water flow out from desire flow layout)
2. cooling pipe (as those picture cooling pipe doesn't shown, almost cavity cooling pipe processing using jig bor to make a long hole that becoming cooling pipe)
3. In / Out Hole, it's hole also make using jig bore. this hole will attach in cavity plat that will match with cooling layout in mold base.
orange color indicate product insert hole shape.

here i post basic construction in single cavity, see picture below to learn more

picture above is shown flow of cooling process of cavity mold from top view.
then which hole water flow in and flow out, see picture below

at this wireframe method picture, we should make hole at bottom side of core to connected cavity and cooling layout of mold base.

Tips Design Cooling pipe for cavity
1. make sure side of cooling pipe have enough length from insert, minimum 3 cm
2. choose a good diameter for the hole, like 6 cm, 8 cm, or 10 cm.
3. when injection proses begin make sure using calculation so you have turbulent flow in cooling pipe.
4. make the pipe more long is useful for make turbulent flow.


then how the layout and construction of cooling in mold base ?
just wait for new post