Apparatus for controlling injection molding machines

• US 5,885,624 A
• Filed: 06/17/1997
• Issued: 03/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Machine Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Machine Company Limited
• Inventors: Katsuta, Hiroshi, Nishizawa, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): HEITBRINK, TIMOTHY W
• Application Number:
  US08/877,326
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 425/574, 425/149, 425/150, 425/151
• US Class Current: 425/149
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/1753 Cleaning or purging, e.g. of the injection unit B29C45/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/76 Measuring, controlling or regulating measuring in general G01; controlling or regulating in general G05
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/77 of velocity or pressure of moulding material

Abstract

An apparatus for a feed-back control of an injection molding machine, comprising a control target which operational conditions are different in accordance with operational purposes; and a control unit for subjecting said control target to a feed-back control, is characterized in that said control unit comprises a judgement function section for judging operational purposes of the control target, a condition setting section for setting operational conditions in accordance with the operational purposes and a switching section for switching the condition setting section through the judgement function section.

Claims

1. An apparatus for a feed back control of an injection molding machine, comprising:

a control led object obtaining various commands in accordance with movements of said control led object; and

a control unit controlling the control led object by feed back control, wherein said control unit comprises;

a decision function unit judging said movements of said control led object,

a command setting unit setting commands in accordance with said movements, and

a selection unit switching the command setting unit through the decision function,

wherein the feedback control of the control unit adjusts at least one of an injection speed and an injection pressure which adjusts the movement of said control led object in order to control the injection molding machine.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the control led object is an injection screw,

the movements are purge and real molding operations,

references of the decision function unit are a die close and an injection nozzle touch, and

commands of the command setting unit are an injection speed and an injection pressure of the injection screw.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the judgement function receives a signal from an injection unit position sensor which detects a die close and an injection nozzle touch.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit further comprises:

a first injection speed setting and a second injection speed setting, the first and second injection speed settings set injection speeds for a molding operation and a purge operation; and

a first injection pressure setting and a second injection pressure setting, the first and second injection pressure settings set injection pressures for a molding operation and a purge operation.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the selection unit further comprises a switching device that switches between (i) the first injection speed setting and the second injection speed setting and (ii) the first injection pressure setting and the second injection pressure setting.

6. A feed back control of an injection molding machine controlling operational settings of the injection molding machine in a purge mode and a molding mode, comprising:

at least one injection speed setting device setting injection speeds depending on whether the injection molding machine is in one of the purge mode and the molding mode;

at least one injection pressure setting device setting injection pressures depending on whether the injection molding machine is in one of the purge mode and the molding mode;

a switch switching between the at least one injection speed setting device and the at least one injection pressure setting device;

an injection unit position device sensing a die close and an injection nozzle touch; and

a feed back control switching device switching one of the injection speeds and the injection pressures corresponding to control output signals of at least the at least one injection speed setting device, the at least one injection pressure setting device and the injection unit position device,

wherein the injection speeds and the injection pressures are adjusted by feed back control based on whether the injection molding machine is in one of the purge mode and the molding mode.