EXTRUDER TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EXTRUDER TEMPERATURE

摘要

The invention is an extruder temperature controller for an extruder barrel. The invention includes means for determining an actual screw speed and has means for storing a plurality of screw speeds. Each member of the plurality of stored screw speeds has a corresponding stored temperature reset value. The extruder temperature controller has a means for comparing and selecting that compares the actual screw speed to each of the plurality of stored screw speeds and selects a default screw speed. The default screw speed has a smaller deviation from the actual screw speed than any other member of the compared, stored screw speeds. The invention further includes a means for generating a control output driver signal to the heat exchange means. The control output driver signal is the corresponding stored temperature reset value for the default screw speed. The invention includes a method for controlling the temperature of an extruder barrel. The adaptive reset value for a specific speed is derived for each extruder barrel zone for each profile table section of setpoints and parameters for a particular extrusion material and particular process.