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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165714 | Controller for controlling combination of hot-runner system and mold assembly A single stand alone controller system (100) for controlling combination of hot-runner system (102) and mold assembly (104), assembly (104) connectable to system (102), controller system (100) comprising: processor (110 | 04/24/2012 |
| 7953513 | Systems, devices, and methods for automation control Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities comprising via a graphical editor running on a Human Machine Interface comprising a first embedded operating system, providing a plurality of set points related to a process to a pr... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7840306 | Molding-system set-up based on molded-part attribute A molding-system set-up process has: (i) a receiving operation, including receiving an attribute associated with a molded part, (ii) a determining operation, including determining a molding-system set-up parameter based on the attribute associated with the receiving... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7580771 | Intelligent molding environment and method of configuring a molding system An injection molding machine, including: a human machine interface being configured to provide graphical representation of a status of the injection molding machine; a machine controller being configured to: (i) provide operational control of the injection molding m... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7526360 | Method and apparatus for designing molds A design apparatus for efficiently designing a mold that has improved quality. The mold is manufactured by removing cutting area from a mold material. The apparatus includes a database for storing geometry data, which represents a shape of the mold, and a further da... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7505830 | Intelligent molding environment and method of configuring a molding system An injection molding machine, including: a human machine interface being configured to provide graphical representation of a status of the injection molding machine; a machine controller being configured to: (i) provide operational control of the injection molding m... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7496427 | Molding machine and molding machine management system A molding machine includes a control part incorporating a specific server program and a memory part saving internal data of the molding machine. The specific server program transmits the internal data, which is converted into a predetermined format and stored in the... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7412301 | Identifying quality molded article based on determination of plug blow Disclosed is: (i) a method of a molding system, (ii) a method of a controller of a molding system, (iii) a method of an article of manufacture of a controller of a molding system, (iv) a method of a network-transmittable signal of a controller of a molding system, (... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391336 | Anomaly monitoring system for molding machine Each of molding machines has a conductive line whose electrification state changes as a result of anomalous stoppage. An anomaly monitoring system includes detection sections provided in the conductive lines so as to detect the electrification states thereof; a data... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7372995 | Analysis apparatus An analysis apparatus includes an information acquisition part for acquiring shape information about an analysis target object, an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information on the analysis target object from the shape information, ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366578 | Method, program and system for designing shape of product, such as a tire Typical numeric data for specifying a shape of a first product having a typical size are stored in a storage portion. By an input portion (10), a size of a second product other than the typical size is input. A calculating portion (4) determines recomm... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349747 | Monitoring device and monitoring method for injection molding machine A monitoring device and a monitoring method for an injection molding machine, in which a trend chart is displayed on a common axis so that changes of set values of molding conditions and changes of measured values of monitoring items can be grasped correspondingly. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328083 | Injection molding system data management method A controller of an injection molding machine and a controller of a molded-product removing robot are connected to each other via communication means. When a molding condition save command is entered from the controller of the injection molding machine, a folder with... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313499 | Apparatus for characterizing the temporo-spatial properties of a dynamic fluid front and method thereof Methods and apparatus are described for characterizing the temporal-spatial properties of a dynamic fluid front within a mold space while the mold space is being filled with fluid. A method includes providing a mold defining a mold space and having one or more openi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310562 | System and method for scheduling mold manufacturing A system for scheduling mold manufacturing includes a number of user computers (1) connected with a server (3) by a network (2), a standard parameter database (5), and a task scheduling database (6). Each user computer includes a s... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302375 | Simulation of processes, devices and circuits by a modified newton method Roughly described, a method for numerically solving a system of equations of the form 0=F(X), for a solution vector X which involves choosing a starting value X0 and iterating Xn+1=X | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293182 | Methods and apparatus for powering a data communications port A data communications device includes a supervisory circuit, a power supply, and a power circuit. The power circuit includes a data communications port, a power supply connection coupled to the power supply, and a power controller coupled to the data communications ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289874 | Method of designing and producing a mold A method of designing and producing a mold for manufacturing an article having at least one surface coated by a coating. The method including evaluating the article design to determine the probable flow characteristics of the mold, an optimal flow of the coating com... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286898 | Lead time reduction for manufacturing of tooling The specification and drawings present a new method and a system for organizing and structuring a process of tool manufacturing with a reduced lead time. The manufacturing of the component tooling can be applied (but not be limited) to: mold tooling, injection mold ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277771 | Three-dimensional foam analysis method, product design aiding method using the analysis method, and recording medium recording these methods To regulate the passage structure of a foaming die and the injected amount of foaming material, the flow behavior of the foaming material is analyzed by obtaining a flow velocity and a pressure by inputting the density as a function, including the elapsed time from ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262728 | Data transfer apparatus for industrial machinery A pressure measured by a load cell is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter provided in an analog interface, and is processed by a digital filter provided in the analog interface. A sensor signal processed in the digital filter is transferred to a cont... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251591 | Consistent back pressure for piezoelectric ink-jet simulation A consistent back pressure formulation is introduced into ink-jet simulation models and algorithms to solve an instability problem that occurs as the head of an ink droplet reaches the end of the solution domain during simulation. The consistent back pressure formul... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7208112 | Concrete block and method of making same Molds and processes that permit high-speed, mass production of retaining wall blocks having patterned or other processed front faces, as well as retaining wall blocks formed by such processes. The invention permits the front face of the block to be impressed with a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7191032 | Methods of and apparatus for forming hollow metal articles In hydroforming of hollow metal articles in a die, such as pressure-ram-forming procedures, a method of decreasing cycle time of the forming process, while ensuring acceptable product properties and avoiding failures, by modeling the process using finite element ana... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181311 | Identification of a modular machine component A plastics processing machine, in particular injection molding machine or extruder, includes at least one component represented by a clamping unit, feed and metering apparatus, plasticizing unit, injection unit, or separate injection apparatus, and characterized by ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174236 | Ultra-precise processing method and apparatus for inhomogeneous material (A) V-CAD data of an object (1) is prepared. (B) A processed surface shape after NC processing is predicted by simulation using the V-CAD data. (C) The object is subjected to NC processing by a predetermined NC program, and a processed surface shape after NC ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174282 | Design methodology for tissue engineering scaffolds and biomaterial implants A design methodology is provided for creating biomaterial scaffolds optimized for in vivo function with any 3D anatomic shape. The method creates all designs using voxel based design techniques. It also provides for optimization of implant and scaffold microstructur... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162449 | Automated banking machine apparatus and system An automated banking machine (12) is operative to conduct transactions in response to HTML documents and TCP/IP messages exchanged with a local computer system (14) through an intranet (16), as well as in response to messages exchanged with fore... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158854 | Universal mold vacuum system A controller for a mold vacuum unit uses a programmable logic controller to provide flexible translation of pre-existing signals present on the injection-molding machine avoiding the need for modification of that machine by the addition of limit switches or the like... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151978 | System and method for the control of a production machine The disclosure comprises methods for controlling a production machine having a converter controlled drive wherein the applicable converter receives data from its associated drive as well as additional data from the machine and wherein the converter provides actuatio... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7125234 | Set of compaction rams and/or die-plates for a tabletting machine A set of compaction rams and/or die-plates for a tabletting machine has all of the compaction rams and/or die-plates of the set furnished with a code containing at least the following information: (a) a label for the set of compaction rams and die-plates; (b) an ind... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123985 | Design build test cycle reduction An ophthalmic lens design and modeling system comprises a user interface providing functionality for generating a template associated with a desired lens design to be manufactured, the template comprising design information sufficient for generating three-dimensiona... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123986 | Family molding A customer sends CAD files for two or more parts to be molded in a family to the system. The system provides the customer with a quotation form that allows the customer to select several family-level parameters which are independent of the shape of the part, such as... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120510 | Method and device for executing work consisting of a plurality of steps under computer control A method of executing a plurality of steps that are performed sequentially in temporal order under computer control. Each of the plurality of steps is executed by one of a plurality of terminal computers. When a terminal computer assigned to a step has completed the... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117138 | Coupled quadrilateral grid level set scheme for piezoelectric ink-jet simulation Methods for finite-difference-based inkjet simulation enable more precise control of ink droplet size and shape. A discrete transformation (mapping) is constructed so that a quadrilateral grid in physical space is transferred to the uniform square grid in a computat... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7096083 | Design support apparatus and method for supporting design of resin mold product A design support apparatus including: a flow analyzer for analyzing a flow of thermosetting resin injected into a resin filling cavity to mold a resin mold product made of the thermosetting resin, using a finite difference method or a finite element method; a residu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089082 | Automated multi-customer molding A first customer provides a CAD file defining the surface profile for a part to be molded to the system, and a second customer does the same for a second part. The system determines whether the materials match and the run dates overlap, thereby qualifying the parts ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082342 | System and method for management of mold design and production A mold design and production management system includes a server (2), client computers (4), design computers (5), machining computers (6), testing computers (7), and customer service computers (10). The server receives mold ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079920 | Plastic lens systems, compositions, and methods An apparatus for preparing a plastic eyeglass lens includes a coating unit and a lens curing unit. The apparatus is preferably configured to allow the operation of both the coating unit and the lens curing unit. The apparatus may also include a post-cure unit and a ... | 07/18/2006 |
