How to design gas vent in injection mold.

When molten plastics fills up the mold. The air or molten plastics left in the mold will generate gas. If they can not go out of mold, appearance of samples will not good: have gas, fire, ... So we must make several ways that air and molten plastic can go out of mold and those ways are gas vent.


There are several ways to place a gas vent to the mold, but it can be classified broadly into the following three ways. 
            ・  Gas venting from the divided face of the mold 
            ・  Gas venting from the cavity and core part 
            ・  Gas venting by other special way 
1. Gas venting from the divided face of the mold (parting line) 
Vent depth should be 0.005mm to 0.02mm, and generally placed on the following location. 
 +  Preferably far from the gate. 
 +  Place where weld lines tend to occur. 
 +  End part of the runner or sub runner. 
gas vent from parting line
Example: Gas venting from the divided face of the mold  
   
2.  Gas venting from the cavity and core part.
2.1  Using ejector pin 
Ejector pin and its hole clearance is used in this method. The clearance of pin and its hole should be 
0.02mm to 0.03mm if the pin diameter is about 5mm to 10mm. If it is thinner than this, 0.01mm to 0.02mm 
is general for the clearance.
gas vent use ejector pin
gas vent use ejector pin
2.2 Using core pin 
If there is tall boss or rib on the part of the product, vent by making clearance around the core pin.
gasvent use core pin
gasvent use core pin

2.3 Layered nesting block. 
As  a  method  of  gas  venting  of  tall  rib,  use  the  clearance  made by layered nesting composed of thin 
blocks. Also, insert a flat part of the cavity as layered nesting, and vent from the clearance of that thin 
plates.
 lgasvent by layered nesting 
3. Gas venting by other special way. 
There is a method that ventilates a gas instantaneously by making high-vacuum state inside the 
cavity, using the vacuum pump. This method is an ideal as a gas venting method, and also effective 
for transfer accuracy upgrading against the mold cavity, but as disadvantage, the cost of equipment 
will be expensive, and mold construction will be complicated.

Source  http://www.m-ep.co.jp


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