{"id":615,"date":"2019-01-02T14:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:10:20","slug":"guidelines-for-gate-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for Gate Location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects. Here, we are going to talk about our considerations about gate location in injection mold<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Place the gate at the heaviest cross section, which allows for better part packing and less voids and sinks defects.<\/li>
  2. Place the gate away from cores and pins to minimize obstructions in the flow path.<\/li>
  3. Place the gate far away from the part\u2019s function and aesthetics areas.<\/li>
  4. Place the gate in a area which allow for easy manual or automatic degating.<\/li>
  5. Gate should be in short flow path length to avoid cosmetic flow marks.<\/li>
  6.  In some cases such as for big part or thin walled part, it may be necessary to add one or more second gate to properly fill the part.<\/li>
  7.  For the thin walled part, if short shot problem occurs, and one or more second gate doesn\u2019t work, add flow channels or make wall thickness adjustments to correct the flow.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Depending on the type of plastic being molded and the size of part, the gate vary differently in size and shape. TEAM Rapid is a professional tool maker and Injection Molding Supplier<\/strong> in China. In the past 2017, we helped 238 customers worldwide to build their tool and mold their products successfully. We understand what their need and can provide the best solution for them. Want to know more about us? Contact our team at sales@teamrapidtooling.com<\/a> today and get a free quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects. Here, we are going to talk about our considerations about gate location in injection mold. Place the gate at the heaviest cross section, which allows for better part packing and less voids and sinks defects….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nGuidelines for Gate Location -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guidelines for Gate Location\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-02T06:17:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-25T04:10:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180814142928_13523.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Senior Engineer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Senior Engineer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Senior Engineer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f3c61c33ac7f9ac142df8d31fd03ff79\"},\"headline\":\"Guidelines for Gate Location\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-02T06:17:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-25T04:10:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":257,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/20180814142928_13523.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/\",\"name\":\"Guidelines for Gate Location -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/20180814142928_13523.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-02T06:17:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-25T04:10:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f3c61c33ac7f9ac142df8d31fd03ff79\"},\"description\":\"Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/20180814142928_13523.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/20180814142928_13523.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"TEAM Rapid\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/guidelines-for-gate-location\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Guidelines for Gate Location\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f3c61c33ac7f9ac142df8d31fd03ff79\",\"name\":\"Senior Engineer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ab0ed560e49385e9d2c6b59166ee2a5372651985f0199bf8de6f7af0e0011b44?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ab0ed560e49385e9d2c6b59166ee2a5372651985f0199bf8de6f7af0e0011b44?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ab0ed560e49385e9d2c6b59166ee2a5372651985f0199bf8de6f7af0e0011b44?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Senior Engineer\"},\"description\":\"Bachelor\u2019s degree with 15 years of manufacturing experience, working with start-up companies, R&D teams, design firms, and Fortune 500 companies. Providing technical support in product design, material and process selection, and manufacturing optimization to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/senior-engineer\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Guidelines for Gate Location -","description":"Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Guidelines for Gate Location","og_description":"Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/","article_published_time":"2019-01-02T06:17:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-25T04:10:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180814142928_13523.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Senior Engineer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Senior Engineer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/"},"author":{"name":"Senior Engineer","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f3c61c33ac7f9ac142df8d31fd03ff79"},"headline":"Guidelines for Gate Location","datePublished":"2019-01-02T06:17:49+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-25T04:10:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/"},"wordCount":257,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180814142928_13523.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/","url":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/","name":"Guidelines for Gate Location -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180814142928_13523.jpg","datePublished":"2019-01-02T06:17:49+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-25T04:10:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f3c61c33ac7f9ac142df8d31fd03ff79"},"description":"Gate location is a key point of mold design. The proper gate location can shoot down lots of injection defects.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180814142928_13523.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180814142928_13523.jpg","width":600,"height":400,"caption":"TEAM Rapid"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/guidelines-for-gate-location\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Guidelines for Gate Location"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f3c61c33ac7f9ac142df8d31fd03ff79","name":"Senior Engineer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ab0ed560e49385e9d2c6b59166ee2a5372651985f0199bf8de6f7af0e0011b44?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ab0ed560e49385e9d2c6b59166ee2a5372651985f0199bf8de6f7af0e0011b44?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ab0ed560e49385e9d2c6b59166ee2a5372651985f0199bf8de6f7af0e0011b44?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Senior Engineer"},"description":"Bachelor\u2019s degree with 15 years of manufacturing experience, working with start-up companies, R&D teams, design firms, and Fortune 500 companies. Providing technical support in product design, material and process selection, and manufacturing optimization to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/author\/senior-engineer\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamrapidtooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}