Patent ID: 8647100

Claim:
An injection moulding machine, comprising: an injection unit with a plasticising screw and drive units for the movement of the injection unit and for the injection and after-pressure stroke of the plasticising screw, a fixed and a moveable tool clamping plate, a mould closing unit with a drive unit for generating the mould closing and opening movement of the moveable tool clamping plate and the tool closing force during injection, and a drive unit for a workpiece ejector device, wherein at least one of the drive units is a hydraulic drive unit with a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic cylinder configured as two-way cylinder and at least one control valve to activate the hydraulic cylinder, wherein the hydraulic fluid of the hydraulic drive unit is an electrorheological fluid, and the at least one control valve for the hydraulic cylinder is an electrorheological valve with at least one through-flow gap for the electrorheological fluid and a plate capacitor arrangement for applying an electric control field across the through-flow gap; and an H-valve full bridge consisting of four electrorheological valves, said H-valve full bridge activating the two way cylinder.