	US 12,011,861 B2
	Method and system for improving the production of a cased device
Sairam Potaraju, Leverkusen (DE); Reinhard Albers, Leverkusen (DE); Andreas Lyding, Duisburg (DE); and Michael Loof, Leverkusen (DE)
Assigned to COVESTRO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH & CO. KG, Leverkusen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/284,490
Filed by COVESTRO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH & CO. KG, Leverkusen (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/077552 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 12, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/074680, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18200231 (EP), filed on Oct. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339445 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 13/04 (2006.01); B29C 44/18 (2006.01); B29C 44/60 (2006.01); B29C 45/76 (2006.01); B29K 75/00 (2006.01); B29K 105/04 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01)

CPC B29C 45/766 (2013.01) [B29C 44/18 (2013.01); B29C 44/60 (2013.01); G05B 13/04 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76461 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76936 (2013.01); B29K 2075/00 (2013.01); B29K 2105/04 (2013.01); B29K 2995/0015 (2013.01); B29L 2031/762 (2013.01)]

14 Claims

1. A method for improving the production of a cased device, comprising producing a casing component of the cased device, wherein the casing component comprises a shell, which production of the casing component comprises injecting a polymer mixture for creating a solid foam interior into a cavity, which cavity is formed by the shell of the casing component, which injecting is done by an injection apparatus and which injecting is based on injection control data input to the injection apparatus, wherein, during the injection of the polymer mixture into the cavity forming data for describing the injection process is recorded, that after injecting the polymer mixture into the cavity at least one image of the casing component is recorded, that the at least one image comprises a thermographic image for determining a distribution of the solid foam interior in the cavity, that based on the forming data, the at least one image and the injection control data a prediction model for generating new injection control data for inputting to the injection apparatus is updated, and that the injection apparatus is controlled based on the new injection control data generated by the updated prediction model.