Designing cooling channels for the thermoplastic injection process is a very important step in mold design. A conformal cooling channel can significantly improve the efficiency and the quality of production in plastic injection molding. This paper introduces an approach to generate spiral channels for conformal cooling. The cooling channels designed by our algorithms has very simple connectivit...

Paradigmatic examples are the classical Stefan problem and more general models of phase transitions, where the free boundary is the moving interface between phases. Other examples come from problems in surface science, plastic molding and glass rolling, filtration through porous media, where free boundaries occur as fronts between saturated and unsaturated regions, and others from reaction-diff...

The plastic industry is a very important manufacturing sector and injection molding is a widely used forming method in that industry. The contribution of this work is the development of a strategy to retrofit control of an injection molding machine based on an embedded system microprocessors sensor network on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) device. Six types of embedded processors are in...

Power-adjustable spectacle lenses, based on the Alvarez-Lohmann principle, can be used to provide affordable spectacles for subjective refractive errors measurement and its correction. A new mechanical frame has been designed to maximize the advantages of this technology. The design includes a mechanism to match the interpupillary distance with that of the optical centers of the lenses. The fra...

Injection molding is the most effective process to produce plastic parts of complex shape to the highest precision at the lowest cost. Considerable progress has been made over the last two decades in modeling and simulation of the molding dynamics. However, due to complex material properties and other uncontrollable disturbances, consistency of part quality cannot be assured in production. This...

When end use considerations preclude complete utilization of the multifunctional design capabilities of DuPont engineering plastics, components can be joined through a variety of relatively quick and inexpensive assembly techniques. Among them: press and snap fits, cold heading cementing self-tapping screws, heat staking and spin, vibration and sonic welding. There is still another method of jo...

This paper presents the application of injection molding of wedge-shaped plates for lightguiding application. This paper discusses the influence of processing parameters on injection molding. The filling stages of lightguide plate for mold flow simulation (3D, midplane) are analyzed. The numerical simulation of mold filling process is based on the concept of control volume finite element method...

INTRODUCTION Refractive and diffractive hybrid lenses have been designed and implemented for some industrial applications. These optical elements however are limited to low volume production or specific materials such as polymers. Although plastic lenses can be fabricated using injection molding into different geometries at high volume, these optics do not perform well under rigorous conditions...