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Optimized Digital Proportional Integral Derivative Controller for Heating and Cooling Injection Molding System

  • Jeong, Byeong-Ho;Kim, Nam-Hoon;Lee, Kang-Yeon
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.1383-1388
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    • 2015
  • Proportional integral derivative (PID) control is one of the conventional control strategies. Industrial PID control has many options, tools, and parameters for dealing with the wide spectrum of difficulties and opportunities in manufacturing plants. It has a simple control structure that is easy to understand and relatively easy to tune. Injection mold is warming up to the idea of cycling the tool surface temperature during the molding cycle rather than keeping it constant. This “heating and cooling” process has rapidly gained popularity abroad. However, it has discovered that raising the mold wall temperature above the resin’s glass-transition or crystalline melting temperature during the filling stage is followed by rapid cooling and improved product performance in applications from automotive to packaging to optics. In previous studies, optimization methods were mainly selected on the basis of the subjective experience. Appropriate techniques are necessary to optimize the cooling channels for the injection mold. In this study, a digital signal processor (DSP)-based PID control system is applied to injection molding machines. The main aim of this study is to optimize the control of the proposed structure, including a digital PID control method with a DSP chip in the injection molding machine.

High functional surface treatments for rapid heating of plastic injection mold (급속가열용 플라스틱 사출금형을 위한 고기능성 표면처리)

  • Park, Hyun-Jun;Cho, Kyun-Taek;Moon, Kyoung-Il;Kim, Tae-Bum;Kim, Sang-Sub
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2021
  • Plastic injection molds used for rapid heating and cooling must minimize surface damage due to friction and maintain excellent thermal and low electrical conductivity. Accordingly, various surface treatments are being applied. The properties of Al2O3 coating and DLC coating were compared to find the optimal surface treatment method. Al2O3 coating was deposited by thermal spray method. DLC films were deposited by sputtering process in room temperature and high temperature PECVD (Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition) process in 723 K temperature. For the evaluation of physical properties, the electrical and thermal conductivity including surface hardness, adhesion and wear resistance were analyzed. The electrical resistance of the all coated samples was showed insulation properties of 24 MΩ/sq or more. Especially, the friction coefficient of high temp. DLC coating was the lowest at 0.134.

Integrated Numerical Analysis of Induction-Heating-Aided Injection Molding Under Interactive Temperature Boundary Conditions (열-유동 상호작용을 고려한 유도가열 적용 미세 사출성형의 통합적 수치해석)

  • Eom, Hye-Ju;Park, Keun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.575-582
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    • 2010
  • In recent years, several rapid-mold-heating techniques that can be used for the injection molding of thin-walled parts or micro/nano structures have been developed. High-frequency induction heating, which involves heating by electromagnetic induction, is an efficient method for the rapid heating of mold surfaces. The present study proposes an integrated numerical model of the high-frequency induction heating process and the resulting injection molding process. To take into account the effects of thermal boundary conditions in induction heating, we carry out a fully integrated numerical analysis that combines electromagnetic field calculation, heat transfer analysis, and injection molding simulation. The proposed integrated simulation is extended to the injection molding of a thin-wall part, and the simulation results are compared with the experimental findings. The validity of the proposed simulation is discussed according to the ways of the boundary condition imposition.

A Study on the Strength Evaluation of Thin Wall Molding (박육성형제품의 강도평가에 관한연구)

  • Kim, Ok-Rae;Woo, Chang-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.490-494
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, using by rapid heating and cooling systems for injection molding and temperatures to changes. In the process of molding temperature and pressure inside the mold was found. In addition, the tensile strength of test specimens were molded, mechanical properties of injection molded parts were identified on mold temperature. Copper could withstand more tensile force than NAK. Therefore, it can be concluded that materials with high heat conductivity must be used in thin walled products.

고효율 사출금형 온도제어를 위한 급속가열/냉각기술

  • Park, Geun;Park, Chang-Yong
    • Journal of the KSME
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.37-40
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    • 2011
  • 이 글에서는 고효율 사출금형 온도제어를 위한 급속가열 및 냉각기술(Rapid mold heating and cooling)의 개요에 대해 소개하고, 국내외에 개발되어 있는 급속 금형가열 및 냉각기술의 현황 및 특성에 대해 비교분석을 제시하고자 한다.

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Design and Fabrication of Durable Micro Heater for Intelligent Mold System (금형온도 능동제어 시스템 적용을 위한 고 내구성 마이크로 히터의 설계 및 제작)

  • Noh Cheolyong;Kim Youngmin;Choi Yong;Kang Shinill
    • 정보저장시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.26-30
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    • 2005
  • Stamper surface temperature is very critical in replicating the high density optical disc substrates using injection molding as the pit or land/groove patterns on the optical disc substrate have decreased due to the rapid increase of areal density. During the filling stage, the polymer melt in the vicinity of the stamper surfaces rapidly solidifies and the solidified layer generated during polymer filling greatly deteriorates transcribability and fluidity of polymer melt. To improve transcribability and fluidity of polymer melt, stamper surface temperature should be controlled such that the growth of the solidified layer is delayed during the filling stage. In this study, the effect of heating on replication process was simulated numerically. Then, an injection mold equipped with instant active heating system was designed and constructed to raise the stamper surface temperature over the glass transition temperature during filling stage of the injection molding. Also, the closed loop controller using the Kalman filter and the linear quadratic Gaussian regulator was designed. As a result, the stamper surface temperature was controlled according to the desired reference stamper surface temperature.

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Design and Fabrication of Durable Micro Heater for Intelligent Mold System (금형온도 능동제어 시스템 적용을 위한 고 내구성 마이크로 히터의 설계 및 제작)

  • Noh, Cheol-Yong;Kim, Young-Min;Choi, Yong;Kang, Shin-Ill
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.100-104
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    • 2006
  • Stamper surface temperature is very critical in replicating the high density optical disc substrates using injection molding as the pit or land/groove patterns on the optical disc substrate have decreased due to the rapid increase of areal density. During the filling stage, the polymer melt in the vicinity of the stamper surfaces rapidly solidifies and the solidified layer generated during polymer filling greatly deteriorates transcribability and fluidity of polymer melt. To improve transcribability and fluidity of polymer melt, stamper surface temperature should be controlled such that the growth of the solidified layer is delayed during the filling stage. In this study, the effect of heating on replication process was simulated numerically. Then, an injection mold equipped with instant active heating system was designed and constructed to raise the stamper surface temperature over the glass transition temperature during filling stage of the injection molding. Also, the closed loop controller using the Kalman filter and the linear quadratic Gaussian regulator was designed. As a result. the stamper surface temperature was controlled according to the desired reference stamper surface temperature.

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Improvement of Moldability for Ultra Thin-Wall Molding with Micro-Patterns (마이크로 패턴을 가진 초박육 사출성형의 성형성 개선)

  • Yun, Jae-Ho;Park, Keun;Kwon, Oh-Kyung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.556-561
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    • 2007
  • The rapid thermal response(RTR) molding is a novel process developed to raise the temperature of mold surface rapidly in the injection stage and then cool rapidly to the ejection temperature by air or water. The objectives of this paper are to investigate the effect of mold temperature, pressure and thickness of micro pattern molding and to provide a optimization of RTR injection molding for micro pattern from Moldflow simulation. Optimal minimum temperature and pressure was found without shortcut according to thickness. Filling percentage was influenced by glass transition temperature with the kinds of resin. Optimal temperature is slightly higher than glass transition temperature irrespectively of pressure, thickness, the kinds of resin in the micro pattern molding.