Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Injection-molding apparatuses containing integrally formed thermocouples
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Application No.: US14909749Application Date: 2014-09-12
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Publication No.: US10913192B2Publication Date: 2021-02-09
- Inventor: Edward Joseph Jenko
- Applicant: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
- Applicant Address: CA Bolton
- Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Bolton
- International Application: PCT/US2014/055291 WO 20140912
- International Announcement: WO2015/047743 WO 20150402
- Main IPC: B29C45/27
- IPC: B29C45/27 ; B29C45/26

Abstract:
Thermocouples and their associated thermocouple junctions can be integrated via freeform fabrication into various parts of injection-molding apparatuses, including the nozzles. Unitary monolithic integration of thermocouples allows thermocouple junctions to be located highly proximate to the locations where temperature monitoring is desired, particularly, near the tips of injection-molding nozzles, which has conventionally been difficult or impossible to achieve. An injection-molding nozzle with one or more integrated thermocouples, a hot-runner manifold with injection-molding nozzles, having integrated thermocouples, monolithically integrated with the manifold as a single part using a freeform fabrication process, and a separately formed injection-molding nozzle having at least one integrated thermocouple and a robust electrical connection are presented according to various aspects of the invention.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160193770A1 Injection-Molding Apparatuses Containing Integrally Formed Thermocouples Public/Granted day:2016-07-07
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