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Basics of Injection Molding Design - injection molding for dummies

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Optimized for superior performance, OUCO’s high-pressure oil cylinders deliver precise, swift, and stable operations for our multi-component injection molding machines. This ensures increased efficiency and accuracy in molding complex, multi-material products.

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OUCO’s multi-component machines accommodate a diverse range of thermoplastics, providing you with wide-ranging production options. To discuss your material specifics, feel free to get in touch.

The vertical turntable in OUCO’s multi-component injection molding machines allows quick and precise component alignment, ensuring flawless multi-material integration during the molding process. This feature enables efficient production flow, making the process of complex assembly easier and more reliable.

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Microfluidics has been widely used in biological, chemical, medical and environmental fields for the precise control of liquid in micro/nanoscale. Various fabrication methods have been invented based on polymer materials in the past decade. Currently, under the circumstance of massive fabrication of microfluidic devices, injection molding is still the cheapest and fastest approaches. Injection molding products have been widely used in everyday life, however, the injection molding of polymer-based microfluidics has not been extensively investigated in the previous studies. In this study, we proposed a relatively comprehensive fabrication procedure for the injection molding of polymer microfluidic chips: the testing microfluidic chip with typical microfluidic components were designed, followed with mold design and fabrication; a single screw injection molding machine was used for the fabrication of PMMA-based microfluidic chips under different processing parameters; finally, another layer of polymer sheet was bonded to seal the microchannel and chip’s functionality was tested. The profile of the fabricated microchannels, as well as surface quality under difference injection molding parameters was also discussed in this study. This study is trying to provide a comprehensive injection molding approach for polymer-based microfluidics, the chip and injection mold design process, as well as the injection molding parameters, could have reference value for the future massive production of polymer microfluidic chips for biological and medical applications.

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At OUCO, our multi-component injection molding machines are designed to bring unmatched flexibility and precision to your production process. Equipped with cutting-edge technology, our machines enable seamless multi-material integration and high-quality multi-color molding, ensuring your products stand out in a competitive market. Our multi-component injection molding machines cater to a wide range of industries, delivering unparalleled solutions for complex product designs.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51804014) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (2182055).

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