MOLDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a molding machine capable of highly efficiently molding a high-quality molded article without complicating the constitution. SOLUTION: The molding machine is composed of: a mold opening/closing device 2 for opening/closing a mold 1; an injection device 3 for injecting a molding material in the mold 1 to be closed; a heating medium supply device 6 for supplying the heating medium into the mold 1; a cooling medium supply device 7 for supplying the cooling medium into the mold; and a control device 8 for executing a molding cycle which controls starting and stopping of these respective devices, and comprises closing of the mold 1, heating of the mold, injection and pressure keeping of the molding material, cooling of the mold, opening of the mold, and extracting the molded article. The control means 9 outputs a heating start command signal s8 to the heating medium supply device 6 and starts the heating of the mold 1 after outputting a mold opening command signal s5 to the mold opening/closing device 2, and before outputting a mold closing command signal s6 to the mold opening/closing device 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT