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This paper is concerned with the development of plastic culture container in order to resolve the problems of conventional culture bottle, such as heavy weight, reduction of transmitted light amount after sterilization operation, and impossibility of stacking of bottles. The plastic culture container was developed by seeking the optimum molding conditions for the gate diameter, the melting temperature and the coolant temperature. The optimum conditions were sought by making use of Taguchi design experiments and injection molding analyses. The performance of developed plastic culture container was evaluated in terms of the dimension accuracy and the transmitted light amount after sterilization operations, and the weight of container. It has been verified that all the performances are remarkably improved, when compared with conventional culture bottle.
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Seong-Ryeol Han earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Pukyong National University in 2007. He now works as an Assistant Professor at Kongju National University. His research interests include injection molding, mold design and injection molding CAE.
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Han, SR., In, DS. & Cho, JR. Development of the plastic culture container to improve light transmission and stacking possibility. J Mech Sci Technol 31, 4395–4403 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-017-0839-0
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