Abstract:
In press moulding or embossing a thermoplastic resin for producing a moulded product excellent in transferability of microscopic surface asperities and having high quality with high productivity, a preform (X-1) of a thermoplastic resin is heated to about the hardening temperature of the thermoplastic resin constituting the preform, the preform is embedded between an upper half (8a) and a lower half (8b) of a mould which are maintained at a temperature of about the hardening temperature of the thermoplastic resin, and then the mould is closed at a low pressure. Carbon dioxide is dissolved in a surface of the preform by charging carbon dioxide through inlet (11) between a surface of the mould and the surface of the preform in order to reduce the viscosity of the preform surface. The surface of the mould is brought into contact with the preform having the reduced surface viscosity by increasing a pressing pressure. Then, carbon dioxide is discharged, and a moulded product is extracted. Thus, the moulded product excellent in transferability of microscopic surface asperities and having high quality can be produced with high productivity.
Abstract:
A center-portion molding member (21) having a center-portion transfer shape surface (30) and a side wall surface (211) is inserted and fitted in a frame-portion molding member (38) having a frame-portion transfer shape surface (23) to form a part of a cavity (28). The center-portion molding member (21) has a groove portion (212) in the side wall surface (211). The groove portion (212) protrudes from the frame-portion transfer shape surface (23). Before injected resin transfers a shape of the center-portion transfer shape surface (30), the side wall surface (211) of the center-portion molding member (21) is sealed with the resin to form, between the center-portion transfer shape surface (30) and the resin, a space (39) in which gas is confined.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a thin container production method capable of forming a thin container having a thickness of about 0.7 mm by injecting a molten resin of a polylactic acid into a narrow cavity. The production method according to the present invention produces a thin container W having a thickness in a range of 0.3 to 0.7 mm by injection molding of a polylactic acid resin. The molten resin of the polylactic acid impregnated with supercritical carbon dioxide in a range of 0.5 to 2.5 percent by mass relative to the total amount is injected into a cavity 29 corresponding to the thin container W.
Abstract:
An injection/compression molding method comprising the steps of: a injection filling step for injection filling a conductive thermoplastic resin composition containing a conductive filler at a ratio of 70 to 95 mass% into a cavity space 13 with the interval in the range of 0.5 to 5.0 mm formed by mating faces 11a, 12a of dies 11, 12 each having a temperature in the range of 150 to 250 °C; and a compression forming step for compression forming, after the filling step is finished and the die space was closed, the conductive thermoplastic resin composition filled in said space at the compression speed in the range of 1.0 to 20 mm/sec with the compression pressure of 10 MPa or higher. As obtained molded product contains the conductive filler homogeneously distributed at a high content ratio, so that the molded product can be applied to, for instance, a separator for a fuel cell.
Abstract:
A method of injection molding of a thermoplastic resin which comprises dissolving carbon dioxide into a molten resin in an amount sufficient to improve fluidity, filling a mold cavity with the resultant molten resin having carbon dioxide while allowing to foam at the flow front of the molten resin, and then pressuring the resin in the mold cavity with a pressure sufficient not to foam or more. The method can be employed, in the injection molding using a molten resin having carbon dioxide dissolved therein as a plasticizer, for dissolving carbon dioxide in an amount so as to satisfactorily improve the fluidity of the molten resin to thereby greatly improve the fluidity of the molten resin and at the same time preparing unfoamed moldings.
Abstract:
An economical method for facilitating injection molding of a thermoplastic resin by reducing the viscosity of a molten resin without impairing the physical properties of the resin, the surface appearance of the molded article and productivity. In the method for injection molding of a thermoplastic resin, a thermoplastic resin in which not less than 0.2% by weight of carbon dioxide is dissolved is injected into a mold cavity pressurized with a gas beforehand to at least a pressure where foaming does not take place in the flow front of the molten resin.
Abstract:
A plasticizing process in which a molten resin that has been plasticized and dissolved in a foaming gas is sent to the front end side of a heating cylinder 20 by means of a screw 21 that rotates in a heating cylinder 20, and the screw 21 retreats according as the molten resin accumulates in the front end side of the heating cylinder 20; a transfer process in which the screw 21 is advanced with rotating and transfers the molten resin accumulated in the front end side of the heating cylinder 20 from a plasticizing unit 2 to an injection unit 3, and an injection process in which the molten resin is injected from the injection unit 3 are conducted and repeated to produce a foamable injection molded product. By this method, in injection molding of a foamable injection molded product dissolved in a foaming gas such as an inert gas, plasticization of a raw material resin and impregnation of a plasticized molten resin with a foaming gas in a molding cycle can be improved, whereby productivity can be improved.
Abstract:
Method for producing a thermoplastic component reinforced with at least one reinforcing sheet situated at the surface of one of the faces of said component. This method involves the following steps: o a stack of sheets comprising at least one reinforcing sheet and at least one draining fabric sheet is placed in a mould; o the mould is closed and a thermoplastic is injected into the mould; and o the component thus obtained is demoulded.