Injection molding machine

• US 8,994,313 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2012
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Inventors: Okada, Noritaka, Morita, Hiroshi, Mizuno, Hiroyuki, Kato, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): DUDA, RINA I
• Application Number:
  US13/556,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20130026961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 318/727, 318/798, 318/800, 318/801, 318/805, 318/629, 318/400.3
• US Class Current: 318/629
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2045/1792 Machine parts driven by an electric motor, e.g. electric servomotor
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2045/7673 Recovering energy or power from drive motors
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/7666 of power or energy, e.g. integral function of force
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/00 Arrangements for controlling synchronous motors or other dynamo-electric motors using electronic commutation dependent on the rotor position; Electronic commutators therefor vector control H02P21/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/10 Greenhouse gas [GHG] capture, material saving, heat recovery or other energy efficient measures, e.g. motor control, characterised by manufacturing processes, e.g. for rolling metal or metal working

Abstract

An injection molding machine includes a motor; a driver circuit; a rectifying part; a capacitor provided between the driver circuit and the rectifying part; a bridge circuit that converts direct electric power between the driver circuit and the rectifying part into alternating electric power; a harmonics component reducing part connected to an alternating side of the bridge circuit; and a regenerative line connected to the rectifying part in parallel, wherein the bridge circuit and the harmonics component reducing part are provided in the regenerative line, and plural switching elements of the bridge circuit are turned on or off such that electric power of the motor is regenerated when a voltage of the capacitor is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and all the switching elements are turned off when the voltage of the capacitor is less than the predetermined value.

Claims

1. An injection molding machine, comprising:

a motor;

a driver circuit that drives the motor;

a rectifying part that supplies electric power to the driver circuit;

a capacitor provided between the driver circuit and the rectifying part;

a bridge circuit that converts direct electric power between the driver circuit and the rectifying part into alternating electric power;

a harmonics component reducing part connected to an alternating side of the bridge circuit; and

a regenerative line connected to the rectifying part in parallel, wherein

the bridge circuit and the harmonics component reducing part are provided in the regenerative line,

plural switching elements of the bridge circuit are switched between ON state and OFF state such that electric power of the motor is regenerated when a voltage of the capacitor is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and all the switching elements are turned off when the voltage of the capacitor is smaller than the predetermined value, wherein the regenerative electric power of the motor is transmitted to an alternating current line part on an input side of the rectifying part through the regenerative line via the bridge circuit.

2. The injection molding machine of claim 1, further comprising:

a controlling part that controls switching operations of the switching elements.

3. The injection molding machine of claim 1, wherein the harmonics component reducing part has an inductor.