Cargando…

Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens

Liquid silicone rubber (LSR) techniques are experiencing exponential growth, particularly in the field of high technology due to the low-temperature flexibility, superior heat stability, chemical resistance, and aging resistance of LSR components. Enhancing the curing rate of LSR parts in liquid sil...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kuo, Chil-Chyuan, Tasi, Qing-Zhou, Hunag, Song-Hua, Tseng, Shih-Feng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10346709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37447514
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15132869
_version_ 1785073377437810688
author Kuo, Chil-Chyuan
Tasi, Qing-Zhou
Hunag, Song-Hua
Tseng, Shih-Feng
author_facet Kuo, Chil-Chyuan
Tasi, Qing-Zhou
Hunag, Song-Hua
Tseng, Shih-Feng
author_sort Kuo, Chil-Chyuan
collection PubMed
description Liquid silicone rubber (LSR) techniques are experiencing exponential growth, particularly in the field of high technology due to the low-temperature flexibility, superior heat stability, chemical resistance, and aging resistance of LSR components. Enhancing the curing rate of LSR parts in liquid silicone rubber injection molding is an important research topic. In this study, an injection mold with high energy efficiency of vulcanization for the liquid silicone rubber injection molding of a fisheye lens was developed and implemented. The LSR injection mold has a conformal heating channel (CHC) and conformal cooling channel (CCC) simultaneously. The function of CHC is to enhance the curing rate of a fisheye lens in the LSR injection molding to meet the requirements of sustainable manufacturing. The curing rates of a fisheye lens were numerically examined using the Moldex3D molding simulation software. It was found that the curing rate of the fisheye optical lens cured by injection mold with CHC was better than that of the injection mold with a conventional heating channel. The curing efficiency could be increased by about 19.12% when the heating oil temperature of 180 °C was used to cure the fisheye optical lens. The simulation results showed that the equation y = −0.0026x(3) + 1.3483x(2) − 232.11x + 13,770 was the most suitable equation for predicting the curing time (y) through the heating oil temperature (x). It was found that the trend of the experimental results was consistent with the simulation results. In addition, the equation y = −0.0656x(2) + 1.5827x − 0.894 with the correlation coefficient of 0.9974 was the most suitable equation for predicting the volumetric shrinkage of the fisheye optical lens (y) through the heating oil temperature (x). The volume shrinkage of the fisheye optical lens cured by injection mold with CHC was very similar to that of the injection mold with a conventional heating channel. The maximum volume shrinkage of the fisheye optical lens cured at 180 °C was about 8.5%.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-10346709
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-103467092023-07-15 Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens Kuo, Chil-Chyuan Tasi, Qing-Zhou Hunag, Song-Hua Tseng, Shih-Feng Polymers (Basel) Article Liquid silicone rubber (LSR) techniques are experiencing exponential growth, particularly in the field of high technology due to the low-temperature flexibility, superior heat stability, chemical resistance, and aging resistance of LSR components. Enhancing the curing rate of LSR parts in liquid silicone rubber injection molding is an important research topic. In this study, an injection mold with high energy efficiency of vulcanization for the liquid silicone rubber injection molding of a fisheye lens was developed and implemented. The LSR injection mold has a conformal heating channel (CHC) and conformal cooling channel (CCC) simultaneously. The function of CHC is to enhance the curing rate of a fisheye lens in the LSR injection molding to meet the requirements of sustainable manufacturing. The curing rates of a fisheye lens were numerically examined using the Moldex3D molding simulation software. It was found that the curing rate of the fisheye optical lens cured by injection mold with CHC was better than that of the injection mold with a conventional heating channel. The curing efficiency could be increased by about 19.12% when the heating oil temperature of 180 °C was used to cure the fisheye optical lens. The simulation results showed that the equation y = −0.0026x(3) + 1.3483x(2) − 232.11x + 13,770 was the most suitable equation for predicting the curing time (y) through the heating oil temperature (x). It was found that the trend of the experimental results was consistent with the simulation results. In addition, the equation y = −0.0656x(2) + 1.5827x − 0.894 with the correlation coefficient of 0.9974 was the most suitable equation for predicting the volumetric shrinkage of the fisheye optical lens (y) through the heating oil temperature (x). The volume shrinkage of the fisheye optical lens cured by injection mold with CHC was very similar to that of the injection mold with a conventional heating channel. The maximum volume shrinkage of the fisheye optical lens cured at 180 °C was about 8.5%. MDPI 2023-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10346709/ /pubmed/37447514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15132869 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Kuo, Chil-Chyuan
Tasi, Qing-Zhou
Hunag, Song-Hua
Tseng, Shih-Feng
Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens
title Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens
title_full Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens
title_fullStr Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens
title_full_unstemmed Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens
title_short Development of an Injection Mold with High Energy Efficiency of Vulcanization for Liquid Silicone Rubber Injection Molding of the Fisheye Optical Lens
title_sort development of an injection mold with high energy efficiency of vulcanization for liquid silicone rubber injection molding of the fisheye optical lens
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10346709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37447514
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15132869
work_keys_str_mv AT kuochilchyuan developmentofaninjectionmoldwithhighenergyefficiencyofvulcanizationforliquidsiliconerubberinjectionmoldingofthefisheyeopticallens
AT tasiqingzhou developmentofaninjectionmoldwithhighenergyefficiencyofvulcanizationforliquidsiliconerubberinjectionmoldingofthefisheyeopticallens
AT hunagsonghua developmentofaninjectionmoldwithhighenergyefficiencyofvulcanizationforliquidsiliconerubberinjectionmoldingofthefisheyeopticallens
AT tsengshihfeng developmentofaninjectionmoldwithhighenergyefficiencyofvulcanizationforliquidsiliconerubberinjectionmoldingofthefisheyeopticallens