Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank
Translucent tank body with a filler neck, level-readable wall and molded mounting feet.
Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank
Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Translucent tank body with a filler neck, level-readable wall and molded mounting feet.
Where the geometry carries several side actions we prove the open-to-close sequence with a mold motion simulation before the design review closes.
Our engineering team reads customer mold standards and special requirements in English, so a specification written for a European or North American tool shop does not have to be rewritten for us.
Key Benefits
- Built for more than 1 million shots, so the tool outlives the first production year
- Full 3D design issued in your own CAD format
- CNC, EDM, grinding and CMM equipment under one roof
- MoldFlow filling, packing, warpage and cooling on mass production tooling
Problems It Solves
- Suppliers who cannot read a mold standard written in English
- A second source that has to be taught the program from the beginning
- Side actions that collide on the first close because the sequence was never simulated
Who It Is For
- Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers sourcing tools out of Asia
- Lighting specialists needing optical-grade cavity finishes
- Under-hood component makers with slide and lifter heavy geometry
- Interior trim suppliers with Class-A visible surfaces
Application Scenarios
- Front and rear lighting assemblies
- Air intake and air handling systems
- Cooling and coolant circuits
- Interior trim, vents and covers
How the Tool Behind Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank Is Built
- Design
Full 3D mold design completed to one hundred percent and checked in a design review meeting.
- DFM and MoldFlow
A written DFM for your comment, and filling, packing, warpage and cooling analysis on mass production tools.
- Machining
CNC and EDM work with steel inspected dimensionally after machining and electrodes inspected before burning.
- Trial and inspection
Mold trial with trial report and sample dimension report, then final mold and packing inspection.
Technical Data
The source material for this site records the part, its category and the photograph. Dimensions, resin grade, cavity count and tolerances are project data and are confirmed in the quotation.
| Product name | Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Automobile Part 4 |
| Category | Automotive Parts |
| Process | Plastic injection molding |
| Tooling built by | Dongguan JEC Mold Co., Limited, Dongguan, China |
| Designed tool life | More than 1 million shots |
| Mold standard | Customer standard, or DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI |
| Design data formats | STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks |
| Quality system | ISO 9001:2015 — Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts |
| Part dimensions | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Resin or alloy grade | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Cavity count | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Dimensional tolerance | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Surface finish | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Annual volume | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
What Is Checked
- Customer mold specification and requirement review and discussion during the kick-off meeting
- 3D and 2D mold design review meeting before the design is sent to you, and a final check before fabrication
- Incoming material inspection
- Steel hardness inspection and steel certification
- Electrode dimension and surface finish inspection
- Steel dimension inspection after machining
- Mold trial reports with a sample dimension report (FAI)
- Final mold inspection and packing inspection
Certification
ISO 9001:2015 — scope: Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts.
Customization
Mold standard, cavity count, gating strategy, surface finish and mold base supplier are all specified per project. Tell us what your own standard requires and it is folded into the DFM rather than handled as a change later.
Compared With a Prototype Tool
A production mold for Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank is built to run for more than 1 million shots and is documented with a trial report and a sample dimension report. A rapid prototype mold answers a different question — is the design right — at a lower price and a faster lead time, and is not built for that life. If the design is still moving, the prototype stage is usually the cheaper route into the production tool.
Rapid Prototype MoldsUse Guide
- Send 3D part data in STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks
- State the resin or alloy, the annual volume and the mold standard
- Comment on the DFM before fabrication — that is the cheapest point to change anything
- Review the trial report and sample dimension report against your own drawing before release
- Keep the mold standard on file so spares stay available locally
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View details →Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank — Buyer Questions
How do you inspect the steel used for Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank?
Incoming material inspection first, then steel hardness inspection with steel certification, then dimensional inspection after machining. Electrodes are inspected for dimension and surface finish before they are used.
How are molds packed for export?
Final mold inspection is followed by a packing inspection before the tool leaves. Ninety percent of our molds go to overseas markets, so export packing is the normal case here rather than the exception.
Do you run MoldFlow before building the mold for Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank?
For mass production molds, yes. We run the practical study in four stages — filling, then packing, then warpage, then cooling — and the cooling layout is designed from the result.
What will we receive when the mold for Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank is tried?
Mold trial reports together with a sample dimension report (FAI). Those documents are what any later dimensional discussion is settled against.
Quote Automotive Coolant Expansion Tank
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.