Invention Application
- Patent Title: Controlling the Curing of a Rubber Compound
- Patent Title (中): 控制橡胶化合物的固化
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Application No.: US11694701Application Date: 2007-03-30
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Publication No.: US20070185611A1Publication Date: 2007-08-09
- Inventor: Richard Magill , John Van Doren , Bruce Sellers , Tim Erickson , Scott Schneider , Steve Courington , Lance Bethel
- Applicant: Richard Magill , John Van Doren , Bruce Sellers , Tim Erickson , Scott Schneider , Steve Courington , Lance Bethel
- Applicant Address: US CO Denver 80227
- Assignee: SIGNATURE CONTROL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee: SIGNATURE CONTROL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Denver 80227
- Main IPC: B29C39/00
- IPC: B29C39/00

Abstract:
A process for curing a natural or synthetic rubber compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a non-bridged impedance sensing circuit and a capacitor having the rubber compound being cured as a dialectric; (2) determining impedance related measurements from the obtained data streams; (3) determining a predictive curing equation by performing a multiple regression between: (a) reheometric data obtained from a plurality of different rubber compound samples cured in a rheometer at various environmental curing conditions, and (b) corresponding samples cured in a production mold at the same environmental conditions; (4) adjusting the curing equation to obtain cured parts having one or more desired properties; and (5) controlling the mass producing cured parts with a controller that uses the curing equation for predicting a cure time for each part, wherein the predictions are effective over variations in the rubber compound, and in the mold temperature.
Public/Granted literature
- US07433755B2 Controlling the curing of a rubber compound Public/Granted day:2008-10-07
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