IP Library Granted Patent US 9,886,021
Granted Patent B2
US 9,886,021 · App. 14/410,008 · Granted Feb 6, 2018

Control device for coordinating translation and revolution movement in a machine tool

Inventor: Tomohiro Takabe (Aiko-gun, JP)
Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
G05B19/19B23C3/28
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Patent No.
US 9,886,021
App. No.
14/410,008
Granted
Feb 6, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A control device for a machine tool for machining a workpiece while orbital movement is performed for causing an auto-rotating rotary tool to move in a circular manner, the control device comprising: a reading and interpreting unit for reading a machining program containing input information; and a computing unit for combining a first tool pathway along which a rotary tool travels and which has been set on the basis of input information about the travel of the rotary tool, and a second tool pathway along which the rotary tool orbits and which has been set on the basis of input information about the orbital movement, and for setting a third tool pathway along which the rotary tool travels in a machining shape while moving in an orbital manner.

Claims (8)

1. A control device of a machine tool which makes a rotary tool rotate around a rotation axis that is in the rotary tool, and makes the rotation axis of the rotary tool revolve around another rotation axis that is not the rotation axis of the rotary tool, the machine tool comprising a plurality of feed axes that perform a revolution movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool and a translation movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool along a surface of a workpiece so as to machine the workpiece, the control device comprising:

a reading and interpreting part which reads a machining program in which a command of a first system relating to the translation movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool along the surface of the workpiece and a command of a second system relating to the revolution movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool are set; and

an operating part which combines, for each axis, a control amount of the first system which drives a corresponding axis so that the translation movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool is performed based on the command of the first system and a control amount of the second system which drives a corresponding axis so that the revolution movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool is performed based on the command of the second system, and calculates a control amount so that both the translation movement and the revolution movement are performed at the same time.

2. The control device of a machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein at a start of machining the workpiece, the operating part calculates the control amount in which the control amount of the first system and the control amount of the second system are combined so that the rotation axis of the rotary tool translates along the surface of the workpiece after the rotation axis of the rotary tool revolves by a predetermined rotational angle of the control amount of the second system.

3. A machine tool which makes a rotary tool rotate around a rotation axis that is in the rotary tool, and makes the rotation axis of the rotary tool revolve around another rotation axis that is not the rotation axis of the rotary tool, the machine tool comprising a plurality of feed axes that perform a revolution movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool and a translation movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool along a surface of a workpiece so as to machine the workpiece, the machine tool comprising:

a reading and interpreting part which reads a machining program in which a command of a first system relating to the translation movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool along the surface of the workpiece and a command of a second system relating to the revolution movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool are set; and

an operating part which combines, for each axis, a control amount of the first system which drives a corresponding axis so that the translation movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool is performed based on the command of the first system and a control amount of the second system which drives a corresponding axis so that the revolution movement of the rotation axis of the rotary tool is performed based on the command of the second system, and calculates a control amount so that both the translation movement and the revolution movement are performed at the same time; and

a movement device which uses the control amount which is combined at the operating part as the basis to make the rotary tool and workpiece relatively move.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 21, 2015
From: TAKABE, TOMOHIRO
To: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
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Continuity (1)
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