Machine tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10409267-B2
Application number	US-201615299814-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2016
Priority date	Nov 9, 2015
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

A main spindle controller of a machine tool varies a rotation speed of a main spindle that grips a workpiece to a varied maximum speed higher than a reference rotation speed set value as a set value of a reference rotation speed by a variation width set value as a set value of a variation width or a varied minimum speed lower than the reference rotation speed set value by the variation width set value in units of the tool path. At the same time, the main spindle controller refers to speed condition information that indicates a condition of the preliminarily stored reference rotation speed and variation width assuming that a chatter vibration is to be reduced, and when at least one of the reference rotation speed set value and the variation width set value does not satisfy the condition of the speed condition information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A machine tool, comprising:
a gripping unit configured to grip a shaft-shaped workpiece;
a tool movable in a radial direction and an axial direction with respect to the workpiece;
a processing control unit configured to perform a threading by repeating a tool path in which the tool cuts into the workpiece in the radial direction, moves in the axial direction of the workpiece, and moves away from the workpiece in the radial direction, while the workpiece and the tool are relatively rotated around an axis line of the workpiece;
a rotation speed control unit configured to vary the relative rotation speed of the workpiece and the tool in units of the tool path; and
a rotation speed calculation unit configured to calculate the rotation speed of each of the tool paths, wherein
the rotation speed control unit does not continuously vary the rotation speed within one path, but varies the rotation speed to a varied maximum speed higher than a reference rotation speed set value by a variation width set value or a varied minimum speed lower than the reference rotation speed set value by the variation width set value, or varies to any one of a plurality of rotation speed candidate values, and
the rotation speed control unit refers to speed condition information that indicates a condition of preliminarily stored reference rotation speed and variation width, or the rotation speed candidate value assuming that a chatter vibration is to be reduced, and when at least one of the reference rotation speed set value and the variation width set value, or the rotation speed candidate value does not satisfy the condition, the rotation speed control unit varies at least one of the reference rotation speed set value and the variation width set value, or varies the rotation speed candidate value so as to satisfy the condition, or the rotation speed control unit indicates on a display unit that varying should be made.

2. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the speed condition information indicates the condition of the reference rotation speed and the variation width, or the condition of the rotation speed candidate value such that the varied maximum speed does not exceed an upper limit rotation speed as an upper limit value of a predetermined rotation speed.

3. The machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein
the rotation speed control unit varies the reference rotation speed set value or the rotation speed candidate value such that the varied maximum speed or the rotation speed candidate value corresponds to the upper limit rotation speed, or the rotation speed control unit indicates that varying should be made.

4. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the speed condition information includes a recommended variation width as a predetermined recommended value of the variation width assuming that the chatter vibration is to be reduced, and
the rotation speed control unit varies the variation width set value so as to correspond to the recommended variation width, or indicates that varying should be made.

5. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the speed condition information indicates the condition of the reference rotation speed and the variation width, or the condition of the rotation speed candidate value such that the varied minimum speed or the rotation speed candidate value is equal to or more than a lower limit rotation speed as a lower limit value of a predetermined rotation speed.

6. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the display unit indicates the relation between the variation width and the reference rotation speed, or the rotation speed candidate value where the varied maximum speed or the rotation speed candidate value is equal to or less than the upper limit rotation speed.

7. The machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the display unit indicates the variation width and the reference rotation speed, or the rotation speed candidate value where the condition that the varied maximum speed or the rotation speed candidate value is equal to the upper limit rotation speed is satisfied.

8. The machine tool according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a vibration detector that detects the chatter vibration, wherein
the rotation speed control unit performs at least one of a variation for decreasing the reference rotation speed set value and a variation for approaching the variation width set value to the recommended variation width, or performs a variation of the rotation speed candidate value, or the rotation speed control unit indicates that varying should be made when a vibration detected by the vibration detector is equal to or more than a preliminarily stored threshold.

9. The machine tool according to claim 8 , wherein
the rotation speed control unit varies the variation width and the reference rotation speed in a state where the varied maximum speed is equal to the upper limit rotation speed.

Assignees

• Okuma Machinery Works Ltd

Inventors

• Nishimura Kohei

Classifications

• G05B2219/43145

  Machine first with low spindle speed, then with high speed, avoid chatter · CPC title

• G05B19/186

  Generation of screw- or gearlike surfaces · CPC title

• G05B19/402

  characterised by control arrangements for positioning, e.g. centring a tool relative to a hole in the workpiece, additional detection means to correct position (G05B19/19 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G05B19/416 Primary

  characterised by control of velocity, acceleration or deceleration (G05B19/19 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B23Q15/12 Primary

  Adaptive control, i.e. adjusting itself to have a performance which is optimum according to a preassigned criterion · CPC title