US 11,938,664 B2
Method and apparatus for producing hollow articles made of injection moulded plastic material
Maurizio Bazzo, San Polo di Piave (IT); and Massimo Rossi, San Polo di Piave (IT)
Assigned to INGLASS S.p.A.
Filed by INGLASS S.p.A., San Polo di Piave (IT)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,440.
Application 17/897,440 is a division of application No. 16/133,109, filed on Sep. 17, 2018, granted, now 11,458,659.
Claims priority of application No. 102017000105306 (IT), filed on Sep. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0402181 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 45/14 (2006.01); B29C 45/23 (2006.01); B29C 45/28 (2006.01); B29C 45/76 (2006.01); B29C 45/77 (2006.01); B29C 45/80 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 45/14836 (2013.01) [B29C 45/231 (2013.01); B29C 45/768 (2013.01); B29C 45/77 (2013.01); B29C 45/80 (2013.01); B29C 2045/2872 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76006 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76083 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76103 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76254 (2013.01); B29C 2945/7626 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76287 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76381 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76454 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76498 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76545 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76658 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76859 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plastic material injection moulding apparatus including a mould having a die defining a cavity within which a core is inserted, the apparatus comprising:
at least one pair of injectors, each including a pin valve displaceable between a closing position and an opening position for injecting the pressurized plastic material into a space comprised between the die and the core,
an actuator for controlling displacement of the pin valve of the or of each of the pair of injectors,
an electronic unit operatively connected to the actuator so as to displace the pin valve of the or of each of the pair of injectors in a controlled fashion and adjust a pressure and/or a flow rate of the injected plastic material, and
at least one sensor designed to detect any flexural deflection of the core during injection and connected to said electronic unit,
said electronic control unit configured to, upon receiving a signal from said sensor indicative of flexural detection of the core, commanding the controlled displacement of the pin valve of the or of each of the pair of injectors by adjusting at least one among a position, speed, acceleration and stroke of the pin valve so as to adjust the pressure and/or the flow rate of the injected plastic material thereby reducing or eliminating such flexural deflection of the core,
wherein in order to detect the flexural deflection of the core, a position of a free end thereof is measured,
wherein the injecting of the pressurized plastic material is carried out by the at least one pair of injectors facing the core at opposite sides thereof, and
wherein the pin valves facing the core at opposite sides thereof are separately controlled and configured to correct the detected flexural deflection of the core by adjusting, based on the detected flexural deflection, at least one among the position, speed, acceleration and stroke of each pin valve so as to adjust the pressure and/or the flow rate of the injected plastic material.