TY - GEN
T1 - Method for producing three-dimensional designs in film insert molding
AU - Fujii, Shoko
AU - Aoyama, Hideki
AU - Mori, Yukio
AU - Azagami, Youichi
AU - Harada, Syouji
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Plastic is an important material in product design because it easily transforms, is very light, and has multifarious structural characteristics. Nevertheless, it gives the customer the impression of a cheap product. Therefore, decorative techniques are often applied to plastic products. Decorative techniques can improve the appearance of a plastic product while making use of its beneficial characteristics. At present, film insert molding method is predominantly used in decorating plastic products. In general, a designer creates a three-dimensional design but the film insert molding method uses a two-dimensional pattern. Thus, it is difficult to reproduce a three-dimensional design with a two-dimensional film; no study has been conducted on the reproduction of three-dimensional design using film insert molding method to-date. The objective of this study is to develop a design generation method to reproduce a three-dimensional design with a twodimensional film pattern. The effectiveness of the proposed method is experimentally validated.
AB - Plastic is an important material in product design because it easily transforms, is very light, and has multifarious structural characteristics. Nevertheless, it gives the customer the impression of a cheap product. Therefore, decorative techniques are often applied to plastic products. Decorative techniques can improve the appearance of a plastic product while making use of its beneficial characteristics. At present, film insert molding method is predominantly used in decorating plastic products. In general, a designer creates a three-dimensional design but the film insert molding method uses a two-dimensional pattern. Thus, it is difficult to reproduce a three-dimensional design with a two-dimensional film; no study has been conducted on the reproduction of three-dimensional design using film insert molding method to-date. The objective of this study is to develop a design generation method to reproduce a three-dimensional design with a twodimensional film pattern. The effectiveness of the proposed method is experimentally validated.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2017-70636
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2017-70636
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040948044
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
BT - Systems, Design, and Complexity
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2017
Y2 - 3 November 2017 through 9 November 2017
ER -