Seikei-Kakou
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Volume 30, Issue 12
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Index
Foreword
Technical Notes : Special Issue on Film Converting Technologies
Special Lecture -Design and Making Technology of Injection Molds (4)
Technical Report
Principia
Report from Universities and Institutions in Japan : 215
Report of Meetings and Trade Fair
Original Paper
  • Shigeru Owada, Hidetoshi Yokoi
    2018 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 642-649
    Published: November 20, 2018
    Released on J-STAGE: August 25, 2020
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

    Molded products using a hot runner can have peculiar defects such as flow marks, gate marks, flow imbalance, and the like, caused by melt staying in the manifold channel. These phenomena have been noted, but the systematic analysis of their generation mechanisms have not been adequately shown. In this study, we focused on the generation mechanism of concentric flow marks around the gate that were observed on the surface of molded products using acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene resin (ABS) with a side-fed type hot runner mold. An analysis was conducted using a dynamic flowing visualization method developed by the authors and a two-color molding method. A correlation between these flow patterns and flow mark generation areas was then derived. A unique stagnant behavior of the flow front was observed in the filling process, and it was thought that this caused a change in the deformation of the rubber particles in the melt during the transcription process. Results indicate a glossy unevenness on the surface. The stagnant behavior of the flow front was presumed to be a phenomenon that occurs due to the reversal of the temperature distribution between the inner and the outer layers of the cavity when the low-temperature, high-viscosity resin stagnating around the valve pin of the hot runner begins flowing into the cavity.

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