Weld bead cutting device and weld bead cutting method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021170512-A1
Application number	US-202017005716-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 28, 2020
Priority date	Dec 10, 2019
Publication date	Jun 10, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

Positions of both end edges of a weld bead in a bead width direction are measured over the entire circumference of a liner in a circumferential direction of the liner. Based on information on the position of the end edge, bead profile information being information on a shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the liner in the circumferential direction is created. Based on this bead profile information, machining information of the liner per rotation of the liner being position information of a cutting tool in the bead width direction per phase in the circumferential direction of the liner is created so that a moving locus of the cutting tool relative to the liner along the circumferential direction of the liner approximates the shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the liner in the circumferential direction.

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 when annular end edges of two resin members on open sides of the two resin members are butted and welded to each other, the weld bead cutting device configured to cut the weld bead by rotating a workpiece, formed by at least the two resin members welded to each other, about a central axis extending in a direction along a butting direction of the two resin members, and by moving a cutting tool at a predetermined feed pitch along a bead width direction being the direction along the butting direction per rotation of the workpiece, the weld bead cutting device comprising:
a bead end edge position measuring device configured to measure a position of at least one of both end edges of the weld bead in the bead width direction over an entire circumference of the workpiece in a circumferential direction of the workpiece; a bead profile information creation part configured to, based on information on the position of the end edge of the weld bead in the bead width direction over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction measured by the bead end edge position measuring device, create bead profile information being information on a shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction; a machining information creation part configured to, based on the bead profile information created by the bead profile information creation part, create machining information of the workpiece per rotation of the workpiece being position information of the cutting tool in the bead width direction per phase in the circumferential direction of the workpiece so that a moving locus of the cutting tool relative to the workpiece along the circumferential direction of the workpiece approximates the shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction per rotation of the workpiece rotating about the central axis; and a cutting tool feed control part configured to, according to the machining information created by the machining information creation part, control a position of the cutting tool in the bead width direction per rotation of the workpiece rotating about the central axis.

2 . The weld bead cutting device according to claim 1 , wherein the machining information creation part is configured to create machining information in which the feed pitch of the cutting tool per rotation of the workpiece is set to a dimension that causes a width of a cutting chip to become equal to or less than a predetermined dimension, the cutting chip generated to have the width corresponding to the feed pitch, and in which the feed pitch of the cutting tool per rotation of the workpiece is set to be constant from a cutting start position of the cutting tool to a cutting end position of the cutting tool in the bead width direction.

3 . The weld bead cutting device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the bead end edge position measuring device is configured to measure the positions of both end edges of the weld bead in the bead width direction over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction; the bead profile information creation part is configured to, based on information on the positions of both end edges of the weld bead in the bead width direction over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction measured by the bead end edge position measuring device, create bead profile information being information on the shapes of both end edges of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction; and the machining information creation part is configured to create machining information in which the feed pitch of the cutting tool per phase in the circumferential direction of the workpiece is changed so that the position of the cutting tool in the bead width direction per phase in the circumferential direction of the workpiece from a cutting start position to a cutting end position in the bead width direction is located closer to a center side of the weld bead than the positions of both end edges of the weld bead per rotation of the workpiece.

4 . The weld bead cutting device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
surface position measuring devices configured to respectively measure, along the circumferential direction, positions of outer peripheral surfaces of the two resin members on both sides of the welding portion in the direction along the butting direction; a profile machining data creation part configured to, based on information on the positions of the outer peripheral surfaces on both sides of the welding portion measured by the surface position measuring devices, create profile machining data by comparing information on the positions of the outer peripheral surfaces in a same phase in the circumferential direction and extracting the information on the position of the outer peripheral surface located on an outer peripheral side; and a cutting tool advance and retreat control part configured to, according to the profile machining data created by the profile machining data creation part or machining data obtained by correcting the profile machining data, adjust an advance-retreat position of the cutting tool relative to the outer peripheral surface of the workpiece rotating about the central axis so that a distance between the position of the outer peripheral surface per phase in the circumferential direction in the data and a position of a cutting blade of the cutting tool is maintained constant.

5 . The weld bead cutting device according to claim 1 , wherein the workpiece is a liner used for a hydrogen tank.

6 . A weld bead cutting method configured to cut a weld bead generated on an outer circumference of a welding portion when annular end edges of two resin members on open sides of the two resin members are butted and welded to each other, the weld bead cutting method configured to cut the weld bead by rotating a workpiece, formed by at least the two resin members welded to each other, about a central axis extending in a direction along a butting direction of the two resin members, and by moving a cutting tool at a predetermined feed pitch along a bead width direction being the direction along the butting direction per rotation of the workpiece, the weld bead cutting method comprising:
a bead end edge position measuring step of measuring a position of at least one of both end edges of the weld bead in the bead width direction over an entire circumference of the workpiece in a circumferential direction of the workpiece; a bead profile information creation step of, based on information on the position of the end edge of the weld bead in the bead width direction over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction measured by the bead end edge position measuring step, creating bead profile information being information on a shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential direction; a machining information creation step of, based on the bead profile information created by the bead profile information creation step, creating machining information of the workpiece per rotation of the workpiece being position information of the cutting tool in the bead width direction per phase in the circumferential direction of the workpiece so that a moving locus of the cutting tool relative to the workpiece along the circumferential direction of the workpiece approximates the shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the workpiece in the circumferential d

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kimura Miki

Classifications

• G05B2219/49386

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• B23D79/021

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• B21C37/0811

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• B21C37/0807

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