Machine tool control device and machine tool equipped with said control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10610993-B2
Application number	US-201615761474-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2016
Priority date	Sep 24, 2015
Publication date	Apr 7, 2020
Grant date	Apr 7, 2020

Abstract

A control apparatus for machine tool, in accordance with user set conditions, feeds a cutting tool in a feeding direction while reciprocatively vibrating the cutting tool, smoothly cuts a workpiece, and achieves a machined surface having an improved appearance. In a machine tool and a control apparatus thereof, a control means is configured to set the number of rotations of relative rotation and the number of vibrations of reciprocating vibration during one rotation of the relative rotation in accordance with a vibration frequency attributable to a cycle during which an operation instruction can be issued, and the control means includes adjusting means configured to adjust the number of rotations or the number of vibrations set by the control means.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control apparatus of a machine tool, the control apparatus being provided in a machine tool that includes:
a cutting tool configured to cut a workpiece;
rotating means configured to rotate the cutting tool and the workpiece relative to each other;
feeding means configured to feed the cutting tool and the workpiece in a predetermined feeding direction; and
vibration means configured to cause relative reciprocating vibration between the cutting tool and the workpiece in the feeding direction such that a cut portion during a forward movement overlaps with a cut portion during a backward movement;
the control apparatus comprising control means configured to cause the machine tool to machine the workpiece by relative rotation between the cutting tool and the workpiece and by feed movement of the cutting tool toward the workpiece with reciprocating vibration thereof;
wherein the control means is configured to set the number of rotations of the relative rotation and the number of vibrations of the reciprocating vibration during one rotation of the relative rotation in a relation where the number of rotations and the number of vibrations are inversely related to each other with a constant being a vibration frequency at which the reciprocating vibration can be performed based on a cycle during which an operation instruction by which the feeding means are controlled to be driven can be issued; and
wherein the control means includes adjusting means configured to adjust the number of rotations and the number of vibrations set by the control means while maintaining the vibration frequency within a range where overlapping of the cut portion during the forward movement with the cut portion during the backward movement is maintained.

2. The control apparatus of the machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the control means includes:
setting means configured to set a value of at least one of a group of parameters to the control means, said parameters being the number of rotations of the relative rotation, the number of vibrations of the reciprocating vibration, and the vibration frequency; and
correction means configured to set an unset value of said parameters to a predetermined value and to correct, on the basis of the set predetermined value, the value of the parameter that is set by the setting means; and
wherein the adjusting means is configured to adjust the number of rotations of the relative rotation which has been corrected by the correction means, or the number of vibrations which has been corrected by the correction means.

3. The control apparatus of the machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein an adjustment value for adjusting the number of rotations of the relative rotation or the number of vibrations is set by the setting means, and the adjusting means is configured to perform the adjustment on the basis of the adjustment value.

4. The control apparatus of the machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein the correction means is configured to set the unset value of the parameters to the predetermined value so that the number of rotations and the number of vibrations are inversely related to each other by a constant based on the vibration frequency, and to correct the value of the parameter that is set by the setting means.

5. The control apparatus of the machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein the number of rotations is set as the parameter by the setting means, and the correction means is configured to set the number of vibrations to a plurality of pre-set predetermined values, to set the vibration frequency to a predetermined value specifically included in the control apparatus, and to correct the value of the number of rotations set by the setting means, on the basis of each of the predetermined values of the number of vibrations and the set vibration frequency.

6. The control apparatus of the machine tool according to claim 2 , wherein the number of rotations and the number of vibrations are set as the parameters by the setting means, and the correction means is configured to correct the set number of rotations and the set number of vibrations to respective values of the number of rotations and the number of vibrations, which are set on the basis of the vibration frequency.

7. A machine tool comprising the control apparatus according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Citizen Watch Co Ltd
• Citizen Machinery Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakaya Takaichi
• Sannomiya Kazuhiko
• Kitakaze Ayako

Classifications

• 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

• G05B19/4093

  characterised by part programming, e.g. entry of geometrical information as taken from a technical drawing, combining this with machining and material information to obtain control information, named part program, for the NC machine · CPC title

• B23B29/125

  Vibratory toolholders · CPC title

• B23Q15/013 Primary

  Control or regulation of feed movement (B23Q15/12 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B23B1/00

  Methods for turning or working essentially requiring the use of turning-machines; Use of auxiliary equipment in connection with such methods · CPC title