• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.317-323
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• 2013

In-mold coating is a reactive fluid designed to improve the surface quality of injection molded thermoplastic substrate in functional and cosmetic properties. In this study, a mixing head for in-mold coating was designed, and mixing characteristics of two-component polyurethane flowing through runner were investigated based on flow simulations. In order to achieve uniform mixing of two components injected through straight mixing head, an impingement aftermixer was used in runner design. Semi-circular cross-section was better than circular one for runners for uniform mixing. With increasing runner length and flow rate, mixing became more uniform. In addition, the degree of mixing was more improved with decreasing viscosity of isocyanate.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.551-552
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• 2012

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권7호
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• pp.687-692
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• 2015

자동차 암레스트의 사출성형과 코팅을 동시에 구현하기 위하여 인몰드 코팅 금형을 설계하였다. 개발된 금형은 하나의 코어와 두개의 캐비티를 포함하고 있으며, 캐비티는 기재 캐비티와 코팅 캐비티로 이루어진다. 코어는 가동측 형판에 부착되었으며, 두개의 캐비티는 고정측 형판에서 슬라이딩하는 평판위에 설치되었다. 2 단계 공정으로 이루어지며 가장 먼저 사출성형된 제품은 슬라이딩 평판에 의하여 2 번째 캐비티로 전달되었다. 기재에 적용된 소재는 PC/ABS 이며, 코팅제로는 2 액형 폴리우레탄이 사용되었다. 코팅제의 토출유량을 변경하면서 실험을 수행하였으며, 주제와 경화제의 믹싱특성을 고찰하였다. 토출유량이 증가함에 따라 믹싱이 더욱 향상되었으며, 주입된 코팅제의 중량이 증가할수록 기재 표면에 발생하는 기포가 감소하였다.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.18-23
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• 2016

Injection molded thermoplastic parts may need to be coated to facilitate paint adhesion, or to satisfy other surface property requirements, such as appearance, durability, and weather resistance. In this paper, a two-component polyurethane metering system was developed for the simultaneous injection and surface coating of a plastic substrate. The system was composed of storage tanks, feed pumps, axial piston pumps, mixing head. The tank was designed to be double-jacket structured and fabricated for polyol and isocyanate, respectively. A temperature chamber was used to maintain the material temperature to be $80^{\circ}C$ during flowing from storage tank to mixing head. Inside the chamber, feed pump, low pressure filter, high pressure pump, high pressure filter, pressure sensor, flow meter were installed. A mixing head of L-type was used for homogeneous mixing of polyol and isocyanate. Inside the mixing head, a cartridge heater and a temperature sensor were installed to control the temperature of the materials. The flow rate of axial-piston pump was controlled by using closed-loop feedback control algorithm. The input flow-rates were compared with the measured values. The output error was 6.7% for open-loop control, whereas the error was below 2.2% for closed-loop control. In addition, the pressure generated through mixing-head nozzle increased with increasing flow rate. It was found that the pressure drop between metering pump and mixing-head nozzle was almost 10 bar.