Method for manufacturing substrate-integrated gasket
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a substrate-integrated gasket, the method integrating a fiber substrate which is constructed by a pulp fiber having cellulose as a main component and a gasket body which is constructed by a rubber-like elastic body according to a rubber impregnation, wherein a plurality of substrate-integrated gaskets are obtained by executing an injection molding by plural stages of rubber metal molds. Further, the rubber material is filled in plural stages of metal mold cavities by passing the rubber material through the fiber substrate in which a rubber material flow channel in the metal mold is closed at its injection pressure. The invention can reduce a man hour for removing burr and cleaning a metal mold by suppressing generation of rubber burr at the molding time and can reduce an amount of disposal of a molding material, thereby achieving a good manufacturing efficiency.
1. A method for manufacturing a substrate-integrated gasket, comprising:
providing a metal mold including a plurality of split molds, wherein adjacent split molds collectively define cavities that are configured for receipt of an injection molded rubber material;
providing a plurality of fiber substrates that are each constructed by a pulp fiber having cellulose as a main component between the adjacent split molds;
forming gasket bodies that are constructed by the rubber material by injecting the rubber material into the cavities between the split molds, the rubber material being impregnated into the fiber substrates at the cavities;
removing the fiber substrates including the impregnated rubber material from the metal mold; and
removing portions of the fiber substrates that are not impregnated by the rubber material.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the impregnated rubber material immobilizes fiber entanglement of the fiber substrate after cross-linking.