Application of Taguchi Method to the Optimal Parameters of Injection Molding for the Plastic Components of the Braille Display Cell

Abstract

The paper studies the optimal parameters of injection molding to avoid the deformation, warping, short shot, and surface defects for the plastic components of Braille display cell. At first the Pro/Engineer parametric software is applied for the entity design and rendering. Then the Mold-Flow software is used for mold flow analysis on the influence of each injection parameters. The results show mold temperature, melt temperature, injection pressure, and filling time are the most influential factors on reducing component deformation. Besides, the L9 orthogonal array of Taguchi method is applied to find out the optimal parameters of injection molding. The deformation, short shot and surface defects of the plastic components in Braille display cell are reduced.