Claims
- 1. A control system for automatically controlling a continuous vulcanization line for sponge rubber materials comprising:
- an extruder for pre-forming said sponge rubber material;
- a primary heating means arranged downstream of said extruder for primary heating of the pre-formed sponge rubber material:
- a secondary heating means for finally heating the sponge rubber material downstream of said primary heating means;
- sensor means for monitoring a temperature in said primary heating means;
- discrimination means for determining whether said monitored temperature is within a predetermined criterion defined by designated upper and lower temperature limits whose limits correlate to upper and lower limits of an outside dimension of an acceptable sponge rubber product;
- arithmetic means for deriving an offset temperature of said monitored temperature, offsetting from said criterion, to generate an offset temperature indicative signal;
- said primary heating means including a microwave generating means for internally heating the pre-formed sponge rubber material; and
- control means for controlling an output power of microwave generated by said microwave generating means, in response to said offset temperature indicative signal, such that the output power of said microwave generating means is increased to increasingly compensate an expansion ratio of the pre-formed sponge rubber material when the monitored temperature is less than said lower temperature limit and that the output power of said microwave generating means is decreased to decreasingly compensate said expansion ratio when the monitored temperature exceeds said upper temperature limit.
- 2. The control system, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said microwave generating means is comprised of a microwave vulcanizer for internally heating said pre-formed rubber material.
- 3. The control system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said control means controls the ,output power of microwave such that the output power is linearly increased in proportion to said offset temperature when said monitored temperature is less than said lower temperature limit and the output power is linearly decreased in proportion to said offset temperature when said monitored temperature exceeds said upper temperature limit.
- 4. The control system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said discrimination means includes a first circuit for discriminating whether said monitored temperature data is within a preset abnormal, outlying temperature range or within a preset normal temperature range, and a second circuit for deriving a mean value of a designated number of consecutively monitored normal temperature data when the number of the consecutively monitored normal temperature data reaches said designated number, to prevent malfunction of said control system, and said arithmetic means compares said mean value with said upper and lower temperature limits so as to derive said offset amount of said temperature, offsetting from said criterion.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 855,073, filed Mar. 23, 1992 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,328,348.
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