Mold and method for molding resin foamed molding

• US 9,180,607 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2009
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Archem, Inc. (Bridgestone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Suenaga, Kazuyuki, Motomura, Tomoyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Malekzadeh, Seyed Masoud
• Application Number:
  US12/992,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20110062614A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,365 Days
• Field of Search: 425/4.R, 425/127, 425/401, 425/546, 425/812, 425/817.R, 249/141
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/10 with incorporated venting means
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 37/006 Degassing moulding material or draining off gas during moulding venting means in moulds B29C33/10
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 44/587 with a membrane, e.g. for pressure control
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 44/588 with means for venting, e.g. releasing foaming gas
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 425/812 Venting

Abstract

Provided is a mold configured to properly exhaust gas from a cavity and to prevent resin from entering into a vent hole, and a method for molding resin foamed molding using the mold. The mold (1) includes lower mold (2), upper mold (4), and core mold (3). The core mold (3) is provided at wall portions (3b), (3c) thereof with respective vent holes (6). Annexed members (7) are detachably attached to the outer surface sides of wall portions (3b), (3c). Each of the annexed members (7) has a tubular shape having an air passage in communication with the vent hole, and a sectional dimension smaller than that of vent hole (6). A nonwoven cloth (10) is attached to core mold (3) so as to cover each surface thereof facing the cavity, and cover wall portions (3b), (3c), thereby covering vent hole (6) from the cavity side.

Claims

1. A mold characterized in having a cavity enclosed by at least an upper mold and a lower mold, the mold designed for resin foam moldings including the cavity comprising:

a cavity main portion to be supplied with foam resin material; and

a cavity end portion, disposed above the cavity main portion, to be filled with expanding resin which starts foaming in the cavity main portion,

a cavity side portion communicating with one end side of the cavity main portion,

wherein the cavity end portion is provided at a vertical surface thereof with a vent hole,

wherein an annexed member having an air passage in communication with the vent hole is detachably installed,

wherein at least a part of a sectional dimension of the air passage is smaller than that of the vent hole,

wherein the vent hole is covered at the cavity side portion thereof with an air permeability material,

wherein the vent hole communicates with an external atmosphere through the annexed member, and

wherein the mold further comprises inside thereof a core mold that comprises wall portions which each constitute a respective vertical surface of the cavity end portion, and the vent hole is provided at a respective wall portion of the core mold,

wherein the vent hole is provided at the respective vertical surface of the respective wall portion in an opposite side of the cavity side portion; and

the vent hole is provided at the respective vertical surface farthest from the cavity side portion.

2. The mold according to claim 1, wherein the air permeability material is made of a nonwoven cloth, a slab, a press felt, or a urethane compressed chip material.

3. The mold according to claim 1, wherein the mold is used for molding a seat pad for vehicles;

the cavity end portion is disposed above the cavity main portion, and the cavity main portion and the cavity end portion communicate with each other through the cavity side portion.

4. The mold according to claim 1, wherein the vent hole is provided at each of the vertical portions of the core mold.