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Hot plate welding is a kind of thermoplastic joining method which uses heated metal platens to melt the joining surface of two plastic halves, then keeps two plastic halves pressed together under pressure until molten material became resolidified and form permanent molecular bond.
Hot plate welding offers high joint strength, excellent hermetic sealing, reliable repeatability and airtightness. It can be applied for the joining to thermoplastic parts in large size or complex-shape.

The steps of hot plate welding
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Key Advantages Hot Plate Welding:
1. Superior Welding performance: high welding strength and airtight sealing, meeting challenging requirement;
2. Super Welding Capability and Possibility: ideal for large parts, dual-shell designs and intricate 3D contours;
3. Broad Material Compatibility: workable with almost thermoplastics, especially semi-crystalline ones like PP and PE, and can also join some dissimilar materials;
4. Stable & Repeatable Quality: Process parameters (temperature, time, pressure & depth) are precisely controllable;
5. Good Tolerance Accommodation: Compensates well for dimensional variations from prior processes like injection molding.
The Key Components:
1. Clamping Fixture: position plastic work-pieces and ensure its precision alignment, mostly material is Aluminum for light weight;
2. Heating Tool: Hot platen for melting plastic material, normally made in aluminum, copper (such as bronze), Iron or steel;
3. Pressure System: pneumatic system, hydraulic system or servo system;
4. Temperature Control System: Heaters, temperature sensor, heating power supply system, temperature regulation system (temperature regulators or temperature control PLC module), etc.
Speed Precision Max Force Stability Environment Pollution
Pneumatic Medum Low-control precision is low. Position control is mechanical, speed and force control by regulator Low-depends Low-impacted by air source deeply
Servo Fast High- can precision control peed, motion distance, torque and stop position Medium High Pure Electrical energy
Hydraulic Low High- can precision control peed, motion distance, torque and stop position High High Wasted hydraulic cased after replacement
Critical Parameters:
1. Melting temperature: normally from 150°C to 500°C, depends on material;
2. Hot Platen Melting Pressure: the pressure forcing plastic halves onto hot platen;
3. Fusing Pressure: the pressure forcing two plastic halves together until material cool down to resolidify and form joining. Note:the pressure needs to according to material, welding area size, parts size and geometric shape design as well as fixture weight, etc. And normally pressure value is not constant but dynamic according to material manner.
4. Melting depth: the fixtures motion distance during hot platen melting;
5. Fusing depth: the fixture Note: the depths control should ensure enough molten material replacement to ensure enough bonding to reach target welding strength and airtightness;
6. Meling time: the time of hot platen heating to plastic material until the melting reach to target volume;
7.Fusing time: means cooling time, which machine keeps two plastic halves pressed together until temperature cools down and forms bonding.
It is very important that temperature, force pressure, depth and time should be controlled in co-working, but not independently. Moreover, to achieve perfect operation result and operation efficiency, the motion speed of machine should be controlled accordingly in different steps, thus it is necessary to Consider the precision control of fixture motion speed and hot platen motion speed as well as tooling change-over time.

MP SONIC HOT PLATE WELDER SPECIFICATION

Hot Plate Welder designed welding fixtures motion in horizontal direction. Hortizontal machine constructin normally designed for parts to be welded in super length or products requests welding at two sides. Horizontal hot plate welder normally designed according to customer requirment. The hot platen motion can be horizontal direction (frontward & backward) or vertical direction (ascend or descend).

MSH-IR13075 is a infrared plastic welding machine designed by MP Sonic in large specification for big size parts welding, such as fuel tank of truck.

Hot plate welder MSH-8060S is designed to weld large thermoplastic by heating. Machine max welding square is 800*600 (mm), and effective welding square is 750*600 (mm). This hot plate welding machine tooling action forced by servo motors in high precision in 0.02mm.

MSH-6550 is a hot plate welding machine applying  pneumatic cylinder systems to control action in precision, which can weld plastic in square max to 652*400 (mm). With pneumatic cylinder, machine is with advantages of fast action and economical cost of machine and maintenance.

Hot plate welding is a kinds of thermal plastic welding technique capable of high welding strength and perfect air-tightness plastic joining. It is mostly applied for challenge welding plastic joining in large size and complex geometric design.During hot platen plastic welding, two plastic halves are held by jigs and move to be molten by heating by hot platen, after which the two plastic halves become re-solidified to achieve joining under high pressure.

MSH-5030S is a servo hot plate welding machine in small specification designed and manufactured by MP-SONIC. Machine applied servo motor to control the action of the upper jig, lower jig and hot platen.

MSH-5030 is a pneumatic hot plate welding machine in small specification designed and manufactured by MP-SONIC. Machine applied pneumatic cylinders to control the action of the upper jig, lower jig and hot platen.