Injection molding: Also known as injection molding, its principle is to add granular or powdery raw materials into the hopper of the injection machine, and the raw materials are heated and melted into a flowing state. The system enters the mold cavity and hardens and forms in the mold cavity. Factors affecting the quality of injection molding: injection pressure, injection time, injection temperature.
Process features:
Advantage:
1. Short molding cycle, high production efficiency, and easy automation
2. It can form plastic parts with complex shapes and precise dimensions, with metal or non-metal inserts
3. Stable product quality
4. Wide range of adaptation
Shortcoming:
1. The price of injection molding equipment is higher
2. The structure of the injection mold is complex
3. The production cost is high, the production cycle is long, and it is not suitable for the production of single and small batches of plastic parts
Application:
Among industrial products, injection-molded products include: kitchen supplies (garbage cans, bowls, buckets, pots, cutlery, and various containers), housings for electrical equipment (hair dryers, vacuum cleaners, food mixers, etc.), toys and games, automobiles Various industrial products, parts of many other products, etc.
Insert injection molding: Insert molding refers to the molding method of inserting pre-prepared inserts of different materials into the mold and then injecting resin, and the molten material is bonded and solidified with the inserts to form an integrated product.
Process features:
1. The pre-molding combination of multiple inserts makes the post-engineering of the product unit combination more rational.
2. The combination of the easy formability and flexibility of resin and the rigidity, strength and heat resistance of metal can make complex and exquisite metal-plastic integrated products.
3. In particular, by using the combination of the insulating properties of resin and the electrical conductivity of metal, the formed products can meet the basic functions of electrical products.
4. For rigid molded products and bending elastic molded products on the rubber gasket plate, after the integrated products are made by injection molding on the substrate, the complicated operation of arranging the sealing rings can be omitted, which makes the automatic combination of the subsequent processes easier.
Two-color injection molding: refers to the molding method of injecting two different color plastics into the same mold. It can make the plastic appear two different colors, and can make the plastic parts present regular patterns or irregular moiré-like colors, so as to improve the usability and aesthetics of the plastic parts.
Process features:
1. The core material can use low-viscosity material to reduce the injection pressure.
2. From the consideration of environmental protection, the core material can use recycled secondary materials.
3. According to different use characteristics, for example, soft material is used for the skin material of thick finished products, hard material is used for the core material, or foamed plastic can be used for the core material to reduce the weight.
4. Lower quality core materials can be used to reduce costs.
5. The skin material or core material can be expensive and have special surface properties, such as anti-electromagnetic wave interference, high electrical conductivity and other materials to increase product performance.
6. Appropriate combination of skin material and core material can reduce residual stress of molded products, increase mechanical strength or product surface properties.
Micro-foaming injection molding process: It is an innovative precision injection molding technology, which relies on the expansion of pores to fill the product, and completes the molding of the product under a low and average pressure. The microcellular foam molding process can be divided into three stages: first, the supercritical fluid (carbon dioxide or nitrogen) is dissolved into the hot melt adhesive to form a single-phase solution; then the mold is injected into the mold with lower temperature and pressure through the switch-type nozzle. Due to the molecular instability caused by the decrease of temperature and pressure, a large number of bubble nuclei are formed in the product, and these bubble nuclei gradually grow to form tiny pores.
Process features:
1. Precision injection molding;
2. Breaking through many limitations of traditional injection molding, it can significantly reduce the weight of parts and shorten the molding cycle;
3. Greatly improve the warpage deformation and dimensional stability of the parts.
Application:
Car dashboards, door panels, air-conditioning ducts, etc.
NMT (NanoMoldingTechnology): It is a method of combining metal and plastic with nanotechnology. After the metal surface is treated by nanotechnology, the plastic is directly injection molded on the metal surface, so that the metal and plastic can be integrally formed. Nanomolding technology is divided into two types of processes according to the location of the plastic:
1. Plastic is integral molding of non-appearance surface
2. Plastic is integral molding of appearance surface
Process features:
1. The product has a metallic appearance and texture;
2. The design of the parts of the product machine is simplified, making the product lighter, thinner, shorter and smaller, and more cost-effective than the CNC machining method.
3. Reduce production cost and high bonding strength, and greatly reduce the utilization rate of related consumables.
Applicable metal and resin materials:
1. Aluminum, magnesium, copper, stainless steel, titanium, iron, galvanized sheet, brass;
2. The adaptability of aluminum alloy is strong, including 1000 to 7000 series;
3. Resins include PPS, PBT, PA6, PA66, PPA;
4. PPS has a particularly strong adhesive strength (3000N/c㎡).
Application:
Mobile phone case, laptop case, etc.
Blow molding: The molten thermoplastic raw material extruded from the extruder is clamped into the mold, and then air is blown into the raw material. The molten raw material expands under the action of air pressure, fits to the wall of the mold cavity, and finally cools. The method of curing into the desired product shape. Blow molding is divided into film blow molding and hollow blow molding:
1. Film blow molding
Film blow molding is to extrude molten plastic from the annular gap of the extruder die into a cylindrical thin tube, and at the same time blow compressed air into the inner cavity of the thin tube from the center hole of the die to inflate the thin tube to a diameter A larger tubular film (commonly known as a bubble tube), which is coiled after cooling.
2. Hollow blow molding
Hollow blow molding is a secondary molding technology that inflates a rubber-like parison closed in a mold cavity into a hollow product by means of gas pressure, and is a method for producing hollow plastic products. According to the different manufacturing methods of the parison, hollow blow molding includes extrusion blow molding, injection blow molding, and stretch blow molding.
(1) Extrusion blow molding: Extrusion blow molding is to extrude a tubular parison with an extruder, clamp it in the mold cavity and seal the bottom while it is hot, and then blow compressed air into the inner cavity of the tube blank for inflation.
(2) Injection blow molding: The parison used is obtained by injection molding. The parison is left on the core mold of the mold. After the blow mold is used to close the mold, compressed air is introduced into the core mold to inflate and cool the parison. After demolding, the product is obtained.
Advantage:
The wall thickness of the product is uniform, the weight tolerance is small, the post-processing is less, and the waste corner is small; it is suitable for the production of small refined products with large batches.
(3) Stretch blow molding: The parison that has been heated to the stretching temperature is placed in the blow mold, longitudinally stretched with a stretch rod, and transversely stretched with blown compressed air, so as to obtain the product’s method.
Application:
1. Film blow molding is mainly used to manufacture thin plastic molds;
2. Hollow blow molding is mainly used to make hollow plastic products (bottles, packaging barrels, watering cans, fuel tanks, cans, toys, etc.).
Extrusion molding: Also known as extrusion molding, it is mainly suitable for the molding of thermoplastics, and also suitable for the molding of some thermosetting and reinforced plastics with good fluidity. The molding process is to use the rotating screw to extrude the heated and melted thermoplastic raw material from the head with the desired cross-sectional shape, then shape it by the shaper, and then pass it through the cooler to make it harden and solidify to become the desired cross-sectional shape. product.
Process features:
1. Low equipment cost;
2. The operation is simple, the process is easy to control, and it is convenient to realize continuous automatic production;
3. High production efficiency; uniform and dense product quality;
4. Products or semi-finished products with various cross-sectional shapes can be formed by changing the die of the die.
Application:
In the field of product design, extrusion molding has strong applicability. The types of extruded products include pipes, films, rods, monofilaments, flat belts, nets, hollow containers, windows, door frames, sheets, cable cladding, monofilaments and other profiles.
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