• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.72-75
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• 2003

Almost all injection molds have multi-cavity runner system for productivity and are designed with geometrically balanced runner system in order to minimize filling imbalance between cavity to cavity during processing. However, filling imbalances have been observed though geometrically balanced runner lay-out are used. Generally, these filling imbalances are due to thermal unbalance, viscosity, characteristic of polymers and so on. These kinds of filling imbalances has already been reported by Beaumont[1] since 1997. In this study, we presented filling imbalaces in balanced runner that has unnary branch type lay-out through experimental tests. As a result of experiments, we could present the processing conditions for the balanced filling in geometrically balanced runner that has unnary branch type lay-out

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.580-585
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• 2004

Almost all injection molds have multi-cavity runner system fur productivity and are designed with geometrically balanced runner system in order to minimize filling imbalance between cavity to cavity during processing. However, filling imbalances have been observed though geometrically balanced runner lay-out. Generally, these filling imbalances are due to thermal unbalance, viscosity, characteristic of polymers and so on. These kinds of filling imbalances have already been reported by Beaumont since 1997, but his research has mainly focused on filling imbalance at binary runner. In this study, we conducted an experimental study about the filling imbalances in unary branch runner as well as binary branch runner and inquired into the causes of filling imbalances. The results could be summarized as fellowing: Filling imbalances existed in multi-cavity mold with unary branch runner, it could be decreased by optimizing processing condition such as increasing injection rate, and it is almost proportion to each polymer's temperature sensibility.