Automatic design of conformal cooling channels in injection molding tooling
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Zhang, Yingming; Hou, Binkui; Wang, Qian; and, Yang Li; Huang, Zhigao
- Source
- IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering; February 2018, Vol. 307 Issue: 1 p012025-012025, 1p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 17578981; 1757899X
The generation of cooling system plays an important role in injection molding design. A conformal cooling system can effectively improve molding efficiency and product quality. This paper provides a generic approach for building conformal cooling channels. The centrelines of these channels are generated in two steps. First, we extract conformal loops based on geometric information of product. Second, centrelines in spiral shape are built by blending these loops. We devise algorithms to implement the entire design process. A case study verifies the feasibility of this approach.