| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 264325000 | Utilizing closed mold cavity | 35 |
| 20080277830 | Apparatus for Transferring Doses of Plastics to the Dies of a Compression Moulding Machine - An apparatus comprising a forming arrangement that is movable along a path for compression moulding of doses of plastics, a transferring device for transferring the doses to the forming arrangement, a liquid cooling arrangement for cooling the transferring device, an arm arrangement associated with the transferring device for moving the transferring device along a further path having a portion substantially coinciding with a further portion of said path. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090146343 | Film Profile Forming Method - A film thermoforming method includes inserting a film prefabricated material need to be thermoformed into a lower die of a thermoforming device. The thermoforming device includes an upper die movable to-and-fro opposite to the lower die based on the shape of a film product. The upper die moves downwards gradually to press from a predetermined manufacturing height and then moves upwards to release the prefabricated material by a cycle mode, and the method decreases gradually the manufacturing height of the upper die for thermoforming the film product in a predetermined time. The present method can improve the precision and the quality of the film product, and can decrease largely the manufacturing time. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090236773 | Manufacture of Inflatable Member for Bifurcation Catheter Assembly - A catheter inflatable member forming mold can include first and second frames that mate to define a mold cavity, the mold cavity defining a main cavity portion and a bulge cavity portion, the mold cavity being sized to receive an elongated tube member therein. The mold can also include a pin member with a head portion positioned in the mold cavity, the pin member extending into the mold cavity, the head portion of the pin member being moveable in a first direction to contact and move the tube member towards the bulge cavity portion of the mold cavity during molding. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100102483 | FLEXIBLE CARRIER MOLD - A carrier mold having prongs that produces shaped tampons is provided. When subjected to pressure the prongs of the carrier mold flex to completely or substantially close one end of the carrier mold. A method of forming a shaped tampon using the carrier mold is also provided. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100148400 | Mold and Method for the Manufacture of Holders Such as Tub-Shaped Containers - This invention relates to a mold for the manufacture of holders, comprising at least two mold halves moveable relatively to each other in a first direction of movement and a mold cavity, the mold being substantially defined by a female part and a matching male part, while at least the female part and/or the male part is arranged so as to be moveable such that within the mold, the male part and/or the female part can be brought into a first position wherein between a forward end, facing, in a first direction of movement, towards the mold cavity, and an opposite bottom part of the female part, there is a relatively large, first distance, and a second position wherein between said forward end and said bottom part there is relatively small second distance. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100155994 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING MOLDED CONTAINER USING COMPRESSION MOLDING MACHINE - A method of fabricating a container using a compression molding machine is disclosed comprising supplying raw material into a hopper, which is disposed at one side of the compression molding machine; regulating the supply of the raw material by providing a pair of intercepting screens at the upper and lower portions, so that the intercepting screens can regulate the supply of the raw material by means of a gate cylinder; supplying the raw material to a lower mold so that the raw material introduced from the step of regulating the supply of the raw material is guided into the inside of a molding portion of the lower mold; and, separating and recovering the upper mold for elevating the upper mold from the transported upper and lower molds so that the upper mold can be returned to its initial position. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100314801 | TOOL FOR FORMING CONSTRUCT - A forming tool for forming a container from a blank is disclosed. The forming tool has a cavity and a core. The cavity has an articulating portion moveably connected to a cavity base. The core has a nose moveably connected to a nose base. When the container is formed from the blank, the nose is moved relative to the nose base prior to moving the articulating portion relative to the cavity base. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110068507 | MOLDED NON-WOVEN FABRICS AND METHODS OF MOLDING - Methods of molding a non-woven fabric are provided. The methods include selecting a non-woven fabric having a web of fibers having a uniform fiber orientation in all directions, compressing the non-woven fabric between a top mold and a bottom mold, and maintaining the non-woven fabric between the top and bottom molds for a predetermined dwell time to define a molded depth and a molded diameter in the non-woven fabric. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110272859 | DYNAMIC SEAL FOR MOLDING PROCESS AND METHOD OF USING - The invention relates to a dynamic mold seal for use in a method of molding apparatus to mold a polymeric frame or gasket onto the periphery of a glass sheet. The seal and method are preferably utilized to form a vehicle window. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110309551 | Footwear Mold Heating System and Method - Mold assemblies for compression molding of footwear components include molds, heating elements, conductor plates, insulating layers and carrier trays. An upper mold assembly is placed into a fixture attached to an upper press platen. A lower mold assembly slides into and out of a fixture attached to a lower press platen. Heating elements within the mold assemblies connect to electrical contacts in the fixtures when the mold assemblies are installed in the fixtures, thereby providing electrical power to the heating elements and heating the molds. A conveyor is positioned to receive a mold assembly from (or transfer a mold assembly to) the lower press platen fixture when the lower platen is in a lowered position. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20140167322 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOLDING ELASTOMER PARTS USING A TEMPERATURE-ACTIVATED PRESSURE APPLICATOR - This invention provides a method and system for manufacturing rubber parts that utilize a high temperature and high pressure molding process. In this method and system, uncured rubber in sheet form is contained within a metallic or other type of rigid mold cavity along with a pressure applicator which expands due to the heating and pressurizes the mold cavity. The pressure applicator may be made from silicone rubber, or other types of rubber exhibiting high coefficient of thermal expansion, and resistance to high temperatures. The assembly of the uncured rubber sheet, the pressure applicator, and the mold is heated to a specified temperature, and the thermal expansion of the pressure applicator consolidates the rubber sheet into the desired form as the rubber cures. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140246810 | MOLDING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - In a molding method and an apparatus for the method, a base material is placed on mounting portions of bottom support pins, which protrude from a first inner surface of a lower mold in an open state. Pressing portions of top support pins, which protrude from a second inner surface of an upper mold, are brought into contact with the base material. Consequently, the base material is sandwiched between the mounting portions and the pressing portions. Thereafter, pre-forming preferably is carried out. For example, the bottom support pins and the top support pins are lowered toward the lower mold, such that the base material is brought into contact with the first inner surface. Then, the lower mold and the upper mold are closed, and the base material is molded into a molded article. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20150069661 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSION-FORMING OF THERMOPLASTIC OBJECTS - The process includes a die comprising a bottom die ( | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150102527 | PRESSURE-FORMING PROCESS FOR THERMOPLASTIC OBJECTS - A compression forming process includes use of a die comprising: a bottom die ( | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160031149 | MOLDING PROCESS FOR INSULATION PRODUCT - A molding process includes the operation of placing insulation material comprising fibers and binder on the fibers in a mold cavity. The molding process further includes the operation of transferring heat to the insulation material to cause the binder to cure. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160167314 | MOULD ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSION MOULDING FIBER REINFORCED PREFORMS | 06-16-2016 |
| 264326000 | Toroidal work (e.g., tire, etc.) | 19 |
| 20080237929 | Systems and methods for tire construction - In various embodiments, different sections of a tire may be preformed and bonded together. The preformed sections may include at least one fixing lug formed thereon. The preformed sections may be placed into a bonding mold where the preformed sections may be aligned in the bonding mold by aligning the fixing lugs on the preformed sections with corresponding features in the bonding molds. In some embodiments, bonding material may be placed on bonding areas between the preformed sections and the preformed sections may be placed in the bonding mold. In some embodiments, compressed air may be supplied through the air intake valve to the preformed sections in the bonding mold. Thermal energy may be applied to the preformed sections to form the tire. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090309265 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOULDING AND CURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A method of moulding and curing tyres for vehicle wheels includes the steps of disposing a tyre being processed on a toroidal support, enclosing the tyre and the toroidal support inside a moulding cavity defined in a vulcanization mould, pressing the outer surface of the tyre against the moulding cavity walls, and administering heat to the tyre to cause molecular crosslinking of the tyre. The pressing step includes the steps of compressing side portions of the tyre between the moulding cavity walls and the outer surface of the toroidal support, concurrently with the closing step, and imposing an expansion to a radially-outer portion of the tyre to bring the radially-outer portion of the tyre against the walls of the moulding cavity. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20110042852 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VULCANIZING PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided are a apparatus and a method for vulcanizing a pneumatic tire, where are capable of: smoothly releasing a vulcanized pneumatic tire from multiple sectors separated from one another in a circumferential direction in each of an upper mold and a lower mold; and thereby lightening load on each mold. In addition to springs for biasing the sectors to always move into a smaller diameter, respectively, pushpins for moving the sectors into larger and smaller diameters are actuated by the respective cylinder rods of drive cylinders, and thereby the movements of the individual sectors into the larger and smaller diameters are controlled. Accordingly, even though the sectors would otherwise move abruptly into the smaller diameter due to biasing forces of the springs after the vulcanized tire is released from the sectors at the larger diameter, a radius-reducing movement speed of the sectors is control led by the cylinder rods in contact with rear ends of the push pins. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110062631 | Curing Pin Material Optimization - A method to cure a non-uniform rubber article uses one or more high thermal diffusivity pins in a mold to direct heat to the cure-limiting parts of the article to reduce the total cure time in the mold and increase the uniformity of the cure of the article. Reductions in cure time of up to 20% or more are achieved without substantially changing the function or degrading the performance of the article. The method is particularly useful for curing tires and treads for tires. Finite element analysis or thermocouple probes can used to determine the cure-limiting part(s) for the tire or tread. Using this knowledge, one or more of the high thermal diffusivity pins are located in the mold at positions to transfer heat into the cure-limiting part(s). | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110068508 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE - An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a pneumatic tire, that does not cause an air-in phenomenon between an inner liner and an insulation or carcass by preventing adhesion of an inner liner to a bladder. The method for producing a pneumatic tire according to the present invention includes the following steps. A green tire using, as an inner liner, a polymer composition in which a polymer component contains 100 to 60% by mass of a styrene-isobutylene-styrene triblock copolymer and 0 to 40% by mass of a polyamide-based polymer that contains polyamide in the molecular chain and has a Shore D hardness of 70 or less is prepared. The green tire is mounted in a mold and vulcanized while being pressurized by a bladder. The resultant vulcanized tire is cooled at 10 to 120° C. for 10 to 300 seconds. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110133363 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR MOULDING AND CURING TYRES - A process for moulding and curing tyres, includes introducing a green tyre into a curing mould, the mould including a first sidewall plate and a second sidewall plate, a ring of circumferential sectors circumscribing a mould cavity, an expandable bladder delimited by a membrane, and at least one bead moulding ring which is movable between a first contracted operating position and a second extended operating position; and moulding and curing the green tyre in the curing mould; and between introducing the green tyre and moulding and curing it, the process includes extending the at least one bead moulding ring from the first contracted operating position to the second extended operating position; forming a circumferential bearing surface which bears against a first axially inner surface portion of a first annular fixing structure of the green tyre; pressing a second axially inner surface portion of the first annular fixing structure by expanding the membrane at a pre-moulding pressure which is lower than a moulding pressure, so as to bring the first annular fixing structure into contact with the first sidewall plate thus shaping an axially outer surface portion of the first annular fixing structure by means of the first sidewall plate and shaping the first axially inner surface portion of the first annular fixing structure by means of the circumferential surface of the at least one bead moulding ring. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110156313 | CONTOURED FLAT MOLD - Particular embodiments of the present invention include a contoured tire tread, and a mold and method for forming the contoured tread. In a particular embodiment, a mold is provided for forming a contoured tread, the mold including a first mold member and a second mold member. The first and second mold members are reversibly displaceable from each other from a first, closed position in which the first and second members substantially enclose a mold cavity, to a second open position in which the first and second members are displaced from each other. The first mold member contains a mold cavity adapted to contain a polymeric material and having inner wall members and sipe-forming members. The first mold member having a contoured mold cavity bottom surface, and the second mold member having a contoured molding surface. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120133081 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING TIRE | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120256349 | TIRE MOLD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PNEUMATIC TIRE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - A tire mold has a tire molding surface. The tire molding surface is pressed against an outer surface of an uncured tire. A vent hole is provided in the tire molding surface. A surface of an outer edge region surrounding an opening of the vent hole is formed by a smooth surface. The smooth surface is smoother than a surface in a peripheral region of the outer edge region. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120299217 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PNEUMATIC TIRE - A green tire of a pneumatic tire, including a cylindrical annular structure, an unvulcanized rubber layer, which will become a tread portion, provided along a circumferential direction of the annular structure on an outer side of the annular structure, and a carcass portion including fibers covered with rubber, provided on at least both sides in the width direction of a cylindrical structure including the annular structure and the unvulcanized rubber layer, is disposed in a vulcanization mold. The vulcanization mold is split into the side plates and the sector at a position on the inner side in the width direction of the annular structure. Next, the bladder inside the green tire is pressurized after closing the side plates and prior to closing the sector. Then the sector is closed and vulcanization is started. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120319330 | TIRE VULCANIZER AND TIRE VULCANIZING METHOD - In a tire vulcanizer having two sets of portions, each of which includes a lower mold, an upper mold, and a center mechanism provided with a bladder, a nitrogen gas heated in a first heating device is supplied to an interior of the bladder of the center mechanism which is placed on the upstream side in the circulating direction of the nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas discharged from the interior of the bladder of the center mechanism is used for vulcanization and patterning and a temperature thereof is lowered. However, this nitrogen gas is heated again in a second heating device, so that the temperature is increased. Therefore, the nitrogen gas heated in the second heating device is supplied to an interior of the bladder of the center mechanism which is placed on the downstream side in the circulating direction of the nitrogen gas. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130001828 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE - A primary formed body is formed by fitting bead rings to outside end portions of a cylindrical body having an inner liner, a film layered on an outer peripheral side of the inner liner, and a carcass material disposed on an outer peripheral side of the film. A green tire is formed on an outer peripheral surface of a rigid inner mold by prevulcanizing the inner liner in a state where a center portion of the primary formed body bulges toward an outer peripheral side, and is held by suction on an inner peripheral surface of a transferring/holding mold to the outer peripheral surface of the rigid inner mold, placing the rigid inner mold inside the primary formed body, then suspending the suction with the transferring/holding mold, and transferring the primary formed body to the outer peripheral surface of the rigid inner mold. The green tire is vulcanized. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130009344 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PNEUMATIC TIRE - A primary formed body is formed by fitting bead rings to outside end portions of a cylindrical body having a film and a carcass material disposed on an outer peripheral side of the film. A green tire is formed on a rigid inner mold by causing a center portion of the primary formed body to bulge toward an outer peripheral side, and holding the center portion by suction on the inner peripheral surface of the transferring/holding mold having a similar shape to the outer peripheral surface of the rigid inner mold, and suspending the suction with the transferring/holding mold, and transferring the primary formed body to an outer peripheral surface of a bladder. The bladder has a uniform thickness and an outer peripheral surface in a neutral state similar to a profile of an inner peripheral surface of a tire to be produced. The green tire is vulcanized. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130099419 | CONVERTIBLE TWO PIECE SIDEPLATE - Provided is a tire mold. The tire mold may comprise a top primary plate, a bottom primary plate, a first sidewall mold part, and a second sidewall mold part. The first sidewall mold part may comprise a first sidewall mold plate adapted for interchangeable engagement with both the top primary plate and the bottom primary plate, or a first sidewall removable component adapted for interchangeable engagement with both the top primary plate and the bottom primary plate. The second sidewall mold part may comprise a second interchangeable sidewall mold plate adapted for interchangeable engagement with both the top primary plate and the bottom primary plate, or a second sidewall removable component adapted for interchangeable engagement with both the top primary plate and the bottom primary plate. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20140103577 | MOLD PIN, TIRE MOLD AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A mold pin fixed to a tread mold for a tire tread and forming a stud hole is disclosed. The mold pin is provided at one end of its main shaft portion with an expanded portion having a larger outer diameter. The expanded portion comprises a supporting part formed integrally with the main shaft portion, and an outer-shell part disposed on the outer surface of the supporting part to define the maximum outer diameter of the expanded portion. when a force directed from the main shaft portion toward the expanded portion is applied to the outer-shell part, the outer-shell part is moved so as to reduce the maximum outer diameter. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20150097314 | TIRE CURING MOLD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TIRE - A tire curing mold comprises a plurality of vent holes provided on a side forming surface coming into contact with a side wall portion of a tire. The side forming portion is provided with a recess portion which is recessed toward an outer side in a tire width direction from a profile of the side forming surface. A diameter of a vent hole which is open within the recess portion is set to be larger than a diameter of a vent hole which is open on the profile of the side forming surface. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20160167326 | MOLD AND METHOD FOR VULCANIZING TIRES | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160250814 | RIGID CORE FOR FORMING TIRE AND TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160375644 | MOLD WITH SECTROS FOR A TIRE INCLUDING INSULATING SUPPORTING PLATES, AND ASSOCIATED MOLDING METHOD - A mold for a tire comprises first and second shells that are intended to mold lateral sidewalk of the tire, a plurality of sectors that are distributed in the circumferential direction and are intended to mold a tread of said tire, a first and a second support plate that each comprise a bearing face with which the associated shell is mounted axially in contact, and a plurality of first and second heating means for heating at least the first and the second shell, respectively. | 12-29-2016 |
