CONTROL METHOD FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE

• US 20150321406A1
• Filed: 05/08/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Inventors: UCHIYAMA, Tatsuhiro, KOYAMA, Hideki, URUSHIZAKI, Tetsuharu
• Application Number:
  US14/707,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20150321406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2945/76026 Energy, power
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2945/76518 Energy, power
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/76 Measuring, controlling or regulating measuring in general G01; controlling or regulating in general G05
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/7666 of power or energy, e.g. integral function of force
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/772 Articles characterised by their shape and not otherwise provided for closed loop B29L2031/709; ring-like B29L2031/7096; corrugated B29L2016/00, flat B29L2007/00; hollow B29L2022/00; screw-threaded B29L2001/00; toothed B29L2031/775; corrugated tubes B29L2023/18

Abstract

Disclosed is a control method for an injection molding machine, which is provided with a movable part, an electric storage device configured to store energy, and an energy supply unit configured to supply at least some of necessary energy for operation of the movable part from the electric storage device. In this injection molding machine control method, an amount of energy storable in the electric storage device is changed based on an energy index value as an index of the necessary energy for the operation of the movable part.

Claims

1. A control method for an injection molding machine, which comprises a movable part, an electric storage device configured to store energy, and an energy supply unit configured to supply at least some of necessary energy for operation of the movable part from the electric storage device, the injection molding machine control method comprising:

a step of changing an amount of energy storable in the electric storage device based on an energy index value as an index of the necessary energy for the operation of the movable part.

2. The control method for an injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the movable part is an injection unit and the energy index value is an injection capacity equivalent to the product of an injection stroke and the cross-sectional area of a screw of the injection unit.

3. The control method for an injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the movable part is a mold clamping unit and the energy index value is a clamping force of the mold clamping unit.

4. The control method for an injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the movable part is an ejector and the energy index value is a forward driving force of the ejector.

5. The control method for an injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the electric storage device comprises one or more combinations of electric storage modules of a plurality of types with different storable amounts of energy.

6. The control method for an injection molding machine according to claim 1, wherein the electric storage device comprises one or more combinations of electric storage modules with substantially equal storable amounts of energy.

7. The control method for an injection molding machine according to claim 5, wherein the number of combined electric storage modules is calculated from the necessary energy for the operation of the movable part and an amount of energy capable of being supplied from each of the electric storage modules.