Development of a High Efficiency Degassing System for Making Silicone Rubber Mold

Abstract:

Silicone rubber mold is regarded as an important method of reducing the cost and time to market in a new product development process. Commercial automatic vacuum machine is widely used to degas in the manufacturing of silicone rubber mold, but the cost of hardware is very expensive. A high efficiency degassing system is designed and implemented from regular vacuum machine. It is found that degassing process includes explosion phase, balance phase and convergence phase. The maximum saving in the degassing time is about 63.7%. The advantages of this system include reducing human error of operator, reducing noise and air pollutions derived from the vacuum pump.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 664)
• Pages: 835-840
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.664.835
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Chil Chyuan Kuo, Chuan Ming Huang
• Keywords: Air Bubbles, Degassing, Rapid Tooling, Silicone Rubber Mold

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