Advantages of Laser Cleaning Engine Molds

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The working principle of laser cleaning machine

An engine is a machine that can convert other forms of energy into mechanical energy, including internal combustion engines (gasoline engines, etc.), external combustion engines (Stirling engines, steam engines, etc.), electric motors, and the like. For example, internal combustion engines usually convert chemical energy into mechanical energy.

The engine applies to both the power generation device and the entire machine including the power device (eg gasoline engine, aero engine). The engine was first born in the United Kingdom, so the concept of the engine is also derived from English, and its original meaning refers to the kind of “mechanical device that generates power”.

Injection molding companies are often troubled by the oil on the mold, and a good mold is indispensable for the production of a good engine. Only a clean mold can produce a qualified engine. With the progress of the production plan, all kinds of oil pollution will accumulate around the mold, which not only damages the service life of the mold, but also greatly affects the qualified rate of finished products. Therefore, it is imperative to remove oil and glue. The cleaning of the mold can better serve the production, and the bright and oil-free workpiece products cannot be without the support of the mold.

There are more or less disadvantages in the traditional method of cleaning molds. Finding a more suitable cleaning method can bring benefits to enterprises. With the development of the laser cleaning industry, laser cleaning components have begun to be applied in the mold industry.

The principle of laser cleaning is to use high-frequency high-energy laser pulses to irradiate the surface of the workpiece, and the coating layer can instantly absorb the focused laser energy, so that the oil stains, rust spots or coatings on the surface are instantly evaporated or peeled off, and the surface attachments or surfaces can be removed efficiently at high speed. The coating is cleaned in a way that the laser pulses with very short action time will not harm the metal substrate under the proper parameters.

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Why choose The laser cleaning machine

The laser cleaning mold takes advantage of the characteristics of high brightness and small divergence angle of the laser. The laser beam with sufficient power is concentrated and irradiated to the appropriate part. The material absorbs light energy, converts the light energy into heat energy, and causes the material to produce a series of physical and chemical process to remove surface contamination.

In addition to the cleaning of the engine mold, the laser cleaning machine is also suitable for the cleaning of various molds, such as tire molds, rubber molds, injection molds, glass bottle molds, shoe molds, perfume bottle molds, and so on.

Laser cleaning has been able to effectively clean planes, curved surfaces, holes, and gaps. The common handheld laser cleaning machine is more than enough to deal with the rust of general metal molds, and the cleaning time may only be one tenth of the traditional cleaning.

The other is to deal with the residual raw materials on the mold, especially the mold on the production line. The efficiency of manual digging is relatively low. If it is replaced by laser cleaning, the efficiency is much higher. If the laser cleaning can be synchronized to the mold production line to monitor and automatically clean the residual raw materials on the mold, the problem of long-term shutdown and delay in production can be well solved.

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Advantages of laser cleaning machine:

1. Green cleaning: completely solve the problem of environmental pollution caused by chemical cleaning;

2. Non-damaging cleaning: no grinding, non-contact, no damage to the substrate, only surface contaminants are removed;

3. Low-cost cleaning: no consumables, only a small amount of electricity is consumed during operation;

4. Precise and precise cleaning: precise and precise cleaning operations can be performed on designated areas;

5. Improve the working environment: reduce manpower and solve the problem of labor difficulties;

6. Automatic cleaning: It is equipped with automatic equipment, which is easy to detect and control, and realizes automatic cleaning.

laser cleaning mold

The above are the advantages of laser cleaning molds. Nowadays, many people in the cleaning industry choose to use mechanical cleaning, chemical cleaning and ultrasonic cleaning to clean molds. However, under the constraints of environmental protection and the requirements of the high-precision market, these cleaning methods Due to great restrictions, the application of laser cleaning machines in various industries has obvious advantages, and laser cleaning machines will be more and more widely used in the cleaning industry in the future.

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