IP Library Granted Patent US 9,682,521
Granted Patent B2
US 9,682,521 · App. 13/870,608 · Granted Jun 20, 2017

Metal mold forming method for indoor illuminating lamp lens for motor vehicle and indoor illuminating lamp lens

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Patent No.
US 9,682,521
App. No.
13/870,608
Granted
Jun 20, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A metal mold forming method for an indoor illuminating lamp lens for a motor vehicle using a metal mold having a cavity having a form of the indoor illuminating lamp lens to be provided with an entire surface as a designed part, the indoor illuminating lamp lens having a prescribed thickness and a rib in a back surface thereof, comprises providing a gate to the rib and the thickness, injecting a molten resin into the cavity of the metal mold from the gate, separating the rib from the gate by inserting a cut pin having a same width as a width of the gate into the rib and the gate at a root of the gate after the step of injecting is completed, and taking out the lens from the metal mold by moving the cut pin backward after the step of separating is completed.

Claims (9)

1. A metal mold forming method for an indoor illuminating lamp lens for a motor vehicle using a metal mold having a cavity having a form of the indoor illuminating lamp lens to be provided with an entire surface as a designed part, the indoor illuminating lamp lens having a prescribed thickness and a rib in a back surface thereof, the lens having a lens control surface as a back surface of the thickness, the method comprising steps of:

providing a gate to the rib and the thickness;

preparing a cut pin having a same width as a width of the gate;

injecting a molten resin into the cavity of the metal mold from the gate;

separating the rib from the gate by inserting the cut pin into the rib and through the gate at a root of the gate after the step of injecting is completed such that the cut pin forms a gate setting surface that is recessed away from the lens control surface and the gate setting surface interrupts the lens control surface; and

taking out the lens from the metal mold by moving the cut pin backward after the step of separating is completed.

2. The metal mold forming method according to claim 1 , wherein a crepe work is applied to an end of the cut pin.

3. The metal mold forming method according to claim 1 , wherein

the gate setting surface is formed by inserting the cut pin to a part of the thickness during a molding.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →