Weld bead cutting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11919090-B2
Application number	US-201916592149-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2019
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	Mar 5, 2024
Grant date	Mar 5, 2024

Abstract

A weld bead cutting device is configured such that, a liner made as liner portions are abutted on and welded to each other is rotated around a rotation axis extending in a direction along an abutting direction, and a weld bead is cut with a cutting tool arranged among rollers in a state where the rollers are pressed against an outer peripheral surface of the liner, the rollers being arranged on both sides of the weld bead on the liner in a direction along an extending direction of the rotation axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A weld bead cutting device configured to cut a weld bead generated on an outer circumference of a welding portion, the weld bead being generated when end edges of two resin members are abutted on and welded to each other, each of the end edges having a ring shape on an open side, the weld bead cutting device comprising:
a rotation mechanism configured to rotate a workpiece formed as at least the two resin members are welded to each other, the workpiece being rotated around a rotation axis that extends along an abutting direction of the at least two resin members;
a cutting tool arranged on an outer peripheral side of the workpiece and configured to cut the weld bead;
at least two pressing rotors arranged on opposite sides of the cutting tool, the pressing rotors being configured to be pressed against an outer peripheral surface of the workpiece; and
a reciprocation unit configured to hold the cutting tool and the pressing rotors and reciprocate the cutting tool and the pressing rotors relative to the workpiece along a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis,
wherein the pressing rotors are arranged at four locations that surround a position where the cutting tool is arranged, and outer surfaces of the pressing rotors on a side facing the outer peripheral surface of the workpiece are positioned on a virtual plane extending in a same diretion as the rotation axis,
wherein, the at least two pressing rotors are arranged on opposite sides of the cutting tool, so that, in a side view, a height positin at which the cutting tool is located is lower than a height position of an upper side of the at least two pressing rotors and the height position at which the cutting tool is located is higher than a height position of a lower side of the at least two pressing rotors.

2. The weld bead cutting device according to claim 1 , wherein the pressing rotors are arranged at the four locations on the virtual plane that surround the position when the cutting tool is arranged, so that two of the four locations are at positions vertically higher than the cutting tool, and two of the of the four locations are at positions vertically lower than the cutting tool.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kimura Miki

Classifications

• B23B1/00 Primary

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

• B29C66/0326

  Cutting, e.g. by using waterjets, or perforating (using heat B29C66/0346) · CPC title

• B29C66/7212

  characterised by the composition of the fibres · CPC title

• B23B2215/72

  Tubes, pipes · CPC title

• B29K2307/04

  Carbon · CPC title