Seventeen Injection Mould Design Tips

The mold industry is a basic industry in the manufacturing industry, the basis for the transformation of technological achievements, and an important field of high-tech industries. Here are seventeen injection mould design tips listed:

1. Mold opening direction and parting line

At the beginning of the design of each injection moulding product, its mold opening direction and parting line must be determined first to ensure that the core-pulling slider mechanism is minimized and the influence of the parting line on the appearance is eliminated.

1. After the mold opening direction is determined, the product's ribs, buckles, protrusions, and other structures are designed to be consistent with the mold opening direction as much as possible, so as to avoid core pulling and reduce stitching lines, prolonging the life of the mold.

2. After the mold opening direction is determined, an appropriate parting line can be selected to avoid undercuts in the mold opening direction to improve appearance and performance.

2. Drafting slope

1. Appropriate demoulding slope can avoid product pulling (garbage). The demoulding slope of the smooth surface should be ≥ 0.5 degrees, the surface of the fine grain (sand surface) should be greater than 1 degree, and the surface of the rough grain should be greater than 1.5 degrees.

2. Appropriate demoulding slope can avoid product top damage, such as top whitening, top deformation, and top breaking.

3. The slope of the outer surface should be greater than the slope of the inner surface in the design of deep cavity structure products, so as to ensure that the mold core does not deviate during injection moulding, obtain uniform product wall thickness, and ensure the material strength of the product opening.

3. Product wall thickness

1. All kinds of plastics have a certain range of wall thickness, generally 0.5 ~ 4mm, when the wall thickness exceeds 4mm, it will cause the cooling time to be too long, and problems such as shrinkage printing will occur. Consider changing the product structure.

2. Uneven wall thickness will cause surface shrinkage.

3. Uneven wall thickness will cause pores and weld marks.

4. Reinforcing ribs

1. Reasonable application of ribs can increase product rigidity and reduce deformation.

2. The thickness of the reinforcing rib must be ≤ (0.5-0.7)T product wall thickness, otherwise the surface will shrink.

3. The single-side slope of the reinforcing rib should be greater than 1.5° to avoid top damage.

5. Fillet

1. If the fillet is too small, it may cause stress concentration of the product, resulting in cracking of the product.

2. If the fillet is too small, it may cause stress concentration in the mold cavity, resulting in cracking of the cavity.

3. Setting reasonably rounded corners can also improve the processing technology of the mold. For example, the cavity can be directly milled with an R cutter to avoid low-efficiency electric machining.

4. Different rounded corners may cause the movement of the parting line, and different rounded corners or clear corners should be selected according to the actual situation.

Six, hole

1. The shape of the hole should be as simple as possible, generally round.

2. The axial direction of the hole is consistent with the mold opening direction, which can avoid core pulling.

3. When the aspect ratio of the hole is greater than 2, the draft should be set. At this time, the diameter of the hole should be calculated according to the minor diameter size (maximum physical size).

4. The length-to-diameter ratio of blind holes generally does not exceed 4. Anti-hole needle punching

5. The distance between the hole and the edge of the product is generally greater than the hole size.

7. Core pulling, slider mechanism, and avoidance of injection mould

1. When the plastic part cannot be demoulded smoothly according to the mold opening direction, a core-pulling slider mechanism should be designed. The slider of the core-pulling mechanism can form a complex product structure, but it is easy to cause defects such as stitching lines and shrinkage of the product, increase the cost of the mold and shorten the life of the mold.

2. When designing injection moulding products, if there is no special requirement, try to avoid the core-pulling structure. For example, the direction of the axial direction of the hole and the direction of the rib is changed to the direction of the mold opening, and methods such as cavity core penetration are used.

8. Integrated hinge

1. Using the toughness of PP material, the hinge can be designed to be integrated with the product.

2. The size of the film used as a hinge should be less than 0.5mm and kept uniform.

3. When injecting an integrated hinge, the gate can only be designed on one side of the hinge.

9. Inserts

1. Inserting inserts in injection moulding products can increase local strength, hardness, dimensional accuracy and set small threaded holes (shafts) to meet various special needs. At the same time, it will increase the product cost.

2. The insert is generally copper, but it can also be other metal or plastic parts.

3. The part of the insert embedded in the plastic should be designed with anti-rotation and pull-out prevention structures. Such as: knurling, hole, bending, flattening, shoulder, etc.

4. The plastic around the insert should be properly thickened to prevent stress cracking of the plastic part.

5. When designing an insert, its positioning method in the mold (hole, pin, magnetism) should be fully considered

10. Identification

The product logo is generally set on the relatively flat part of the inner surface of the product and adopts a raised form, and the logo is set on the surface where the normal direction is likely to be consistent with the mold opening direction ruler, which can avoid strain.

11. Precision of injection moulded parts

Due to the unevenness and uncertainty of the shrinkage rate during injection moulding, the precision of injection moulded parts is obviously lower than that of metal parts, and the dimensional tolerances of mechanical parts cannot be simply applied. Appropriate tolerance requirements should be selected according to the standard. my country also issued GB in 1993. /T14486-93 "Dimensional Tolerance of Engineering Plastic Molded Plastic Parts", the designer can determine the dimensional tolerance of the part according to the requirements of the plastic raw materials used and the use requirements of the part according to the regulations in the standard. At the same time, it is necessary to determine the appropriate design tolerance accuracy based on the comprehensive strength of the factory and the design accuracy of peer products.

12. Deformation of injection moulded parts

Improve the rigidity of the injection moulded product structure and reduce deformation. Avoid the flat structure as much as possible, and set the flanging and concave-convex structure reasonably. Set reasonable stiffeners.

Thirteen, deduction

1. The buckle device is designed to be shared by multiple buckles at the same time, so that the overall device will not fail to operate due to damage to individual buckles, thereby increasing its service life, and adding rounded corners to increase strength.

2. The tolerance requirements for the relevant dimensions of the buckle are very strict. If there are too many undercut positions, it will easily cause damage to the buckle; on the contrary, if there are too few undercut positions, it will be difficult to control the assembly position or the combination part will be too loose. The solution is to reserve a way to modify the mold and add glue easily.

14. Welding (hot plate welding, ultrasonic welding, vibration welding)

1. Welding can improve connection strength.

2. Using welding can simplify product design.

15. Reasonably consider the contradiction between process and product performance

1. When designing injection moulding products, the contradiction between product appearance, performance, and craftsmanship must be considered comprehensively. Sometimes a good appearance or performance can be obtained by sacrificing part of the manufacturability.

2. When the structural design cannot avoid injection defects, try to make the defects occur in hidden parts of the product.

Sixteen, the relationship between the hole diameter of the screw column and the diameter of the self-tapping screw

Self-tapping screw hole diameter

M2 1.7mm/ M2.3 2.0mm /M2.6 2.2mm /M3 2.5mm

17. Design principles of BOSS:

1. The pillar should not be used alone as much as possible. It should be connected to the outer wall or used together with the reinforcing rib. The purpose is to strengthen the strength of the pillar and make the rubber flow more smoothly.

2. The height of the pillar is generally not more than two and a half times the diameter of the pillar. Excessively high pillars will cause air trapping during molding of plastic parts (too long will cause air holes, burns, insufficient filling, etc.).

3. If the height of the pillar exceeds two and a half times the diameter of the pillar, especially the pillar far away from the outer wall, the method to strengthen the strength of the pillar is to use reinforcing ribs.

4. The shape of BOSS is mainly round, and other shapes are not easy to process.

5. The position of the BOSS should not be too close to the corner of the outer wall and should keep a certain distance from the outer wall of the product.

6) Part of the thickness of the flesh can be removed around the BOSS (that is, the crater) to prevent shrinkage and subsidence.

7), BOSS's drawing angle: usually take 0.5° outside, take 0.5° or 1 inside.