Machining tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11654494-B2
Application number	US-201917260581-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2019
Priority date	Jul 20, 2018
Publication date	May 23, 2023
Grant date	May 23, 2023

Abstract

A machining tool forms a first relief surface, a valve seat surface, and a second relief surface by cutting the inner periphery of a valve seat blank having an opening. The machining tool is provided with: a tool body rotationally driven about an axis; a plurality of cutting tools rotating with the tool body; a cartridge mounted to the tool body so as to be capable of moving forward and backward along the axis; and a cam in contact with the base end surface of the cartridge and moving the cartridge forward and backward. At least one of the plurality of cutting tools is mounted to the cartridge.

First claim

What is claim is:

1. A machining tool for performing cutting operation on an inner periphery of a workpiece including an opening to form a plurality of machined surfaces, the machining tool comprising:
a tool body configured to be driven to rotate around an axis line;
a plurality of cutting tools configured to rotate together with the tool body;
a cartridge configured to be attached to the tool body so as to advance and retreat along the axis line; and
a cam configured to come into contact with a proximal end surface of the cartridge to thereby cause the cartridge to advance and retreat,
at least one of the plurality of cutting tools being attached to the cartridge; wherein
the cam has a circular arc surface extending along an outer circumference of a circular arc and a cut surface formed by cutting off a segment of the circular arc, and the cam is configured to rotate around a center of the circular arc as a center of rotation so that the circular arc surface and the cut surface are selectively brought into contact with the proximal end surface of the cartridge,
the cartridge is advanced when the circular arc surface comes in contact with the proximal end surface, and
the cartridge is retreated when the cut surface comes in contact with the proximal end surface.

2. The machining tool according to claim 1 , further comprising a cam urging member configured to elastically urge the cartridge in a retreating direction,
wherein the cartridge is advanced against elastic force of the cam urging member when the circular arc surface comes in contact with the proximal end surface, and
the cartridge is retreated under elastic urging action of the cam urging member when the cut surface comes in contact with the proximal end surface.

3. The machining tool according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a rod configured to rotate the cam by advancing and retreating in an interior of the tool body along the axis line; and
a cylinder chamber formed in the interior of the tool body and configured to be supplied with a fluid,
wherein the rod includes a piston configured to be movable along the axis line in the cylinder chamber, and
the rod advances and retreats as the piston is displaced by a pressure of the fluid in the cylinder chamber.

4. The machining tool according to claim 3 , wherein
the rod advances and retreats between an advanced position at a distal end of a moving direction and a retreated position at a proximal end of the moving direction,
the piston is elastically urged by a piston urging member toward a distal end of the cylinder chamber,
the cylinder chamber communicates with a supply passage formed in the rod,
before the fluid is supplied into the cylinder chamber, the rod is in the advanced position under elastic urging action of the piston urging member, and
when the fluid is supplied into the cylinder chamber through the supply passage to thereby increase the pressure of the fluid in the cylinder chamber, the rod retreats against elastic force of the piston urging member.

5. The machining tool according to claim 4 , wherein
the rod includes:
a connection passage configured to communicate with the cylinder chamber when the rod retreats from the advanced position to a communicating position and shut off communication with the cylinder chamber when the rod is placed forward of the communicating position; and
a distal passage that communicates with the connection passage and extends forward from the connection passage, and
the fluid is supplied into the distal passage, when the fluid is supplied into the cylinder chamber through the supply passage and the rod retreats to the communicating position to establish communication between the cylinder chamber and the connection passage.

6. The machining tool according to claim 5 , wherein the rod has the connection passage situated forward of the piston, and a swelled portion that is situated forward of the connection passage and that swells from an outer peripheral surface of the rod, and
the cam has a concave portion into which the swelled portion enters,
and wherein, when the rod is advanced to the advanced position with the swelled portion being in contact with an inner surface of the concave portion, the cam is rotated so that the circular arc surface comes in contact with the proximal end surface of the cartridge, and when the rod is retreated to the retreated position with the swelled portion being in contact with the inner surface of the concave portion, the cam is rotated so that the cut surface comes in contact with the proximal end surface of the cartridge.

7. The machining tool according to claim 5 , wherein a distance that the rod retreats from the advanced position to a position at which the cut surface of the cam comes in contact with the proximal end surface of the cartridge is shorter than a distance that the rod retreats from the advanced position to the communicating position.

8. The machining tool according to claim 3 , wherein the fluid is a coolant that is supplied to a machined point of the workpiece.

9. The machining tool according to claim 3 , further comprising a fluid sensor configured to detect at least one of a flow rate and the pressure of the fluid supplied into the cylinder chamber.

10. The machining tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the cartridge is slidably mounted in a groove formed in the tool body along the axis line,
the groove has a first inner wall surface that is in contact with an end surface of the cartridge that is situated in a backward position in a rotation direction in which the cartridge rotates together with the tool body, and a second inner wall surface that is in contact with an end surface of the cartridge that is situated closer to the axis line, and
the tool body is provided with a pressing member configured to press the cartridge from forward in the rotation direction of the cartridge, along a direction that is inclined with respect to both of the first inner wall surface and the second inner wall surface.

11. The machining tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of machined surfaces include a valve seat surface of a cylinder head, and a first relief surface and a second relief surface that are provided respectively on both sides of the valve seat surface in an axial direction,
the plurality of cutting tools include a first cutting tool configured to form the first relief surface, a second cutting tool configured to form the second relief surface, and a third cutting tool configured to form the valve seat surface,
wherein the first cutting tool and the second cutting tool are directly attached to a distal end portion of the tool body, and
the third cutting tool is attached to a distal end portion of the cartridge.

12. The machining tool according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of machined surfaces include a valve seat surface of a cylinder head, and a first relief surface and a second relief surface that are provided respectively on both sides of the valve seat surface in an axial direction,
the plurality of cutting tools include a first cutting tool configured to form the first relief surface, a second cutting tool configured to form the second relief surface, and a third cutting tool configured to form the valve seat surface,
wherein the first cutting tool and the second cutting tool are attached to a distal end portion of the cartridge, and
the third cutting tool is directly attached to a distal end portion of the tool body.

13. The machining tool according to claim 1 , wherein a reamer for machining a valve guide hole is fixed at a tip of the tool body.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Oka Hideki
• Hatayama Tadatomo
• KOIDE Masaya

Classifications

• B23D2277/081

  for axial adjustment of the cutting edge, cutting insert or cutting bit · CPC title

• Y10T408/859

  Rotary cam · CPC title

• B23D77/14

  Reamers for special use, e.g. for working cylinder ridges · CPC title

• B23B51/10 Primary

  Bits for countersinking · CPC title

• B23D2277/085

  comprising hydraulics · CPC title