Control device and control method of five-axis control machine tool, program, and mold

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9164502-B2
Application number	US-201213352675-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2012
Priority date	Jan 20, 2011
Publication date	Oct 20, 2015
Grant date	Oct 20, 2015

Abstract

A five-axis control machine tool stores rotation-axis data indicating the inclination or runouts of each of a rotation axis A of a tilting table and a rotation axis C of a rotating table in association with rotation angles determined based on NC data, and calculates a correction rotation angle of each of the rotation angles A and C to correct the erroneous attitude of a tool. Five-axis control is performed based on the NC data by rotating the tilting table and the rotating table about the rotation axes A and C at the correction rotation angles, so that a workpiece is machined while eliminating the erroneous attitude of the tool.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device of a five-axis control machine tool which allows a relative movement of a tool and a workpiece by controlling five axes, which includes three linear axes and two rotation axes, based on NC data, the control device comprising:
a unit configured to store rotation-axis data including data of an axis direction of each of the two rotation axes in association with a rotation angle of each of the two rotation axes;
a unit configured to calculate a correction rotation angle of one of the two rotation axes and a correction rotation angle of another of the two rotation axes, based on the rotation-axis data; and
a unit configured to correct the attitude of the tool by rotating each of the two rotation axes at the correction rotation angles,
wherein the correction rotation angle of the one of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle β at which an angle γ formed by an axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes and an installation direction of the tool is equal to an angle formed by an axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes, and the correction rotation angle of the other of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle α formed by the axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the installation direction of the tool when the rotation axis of the one of the two rotation axes is rotated by the rotation angle β.

2. The control device of the five-axis control machine tool according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an NC-data rotation-and-conversion unit configured to rotate and convert the NC data in association with the correction rotation angles to obtain converted NC data; and
a unit configured to control the three linear axes and the two rotation axes based on the converted NC data.

3. The control device of the five-axis control machine tool according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a workpiece-origin storage unit configured to store data of an origin position of the workpiece, the origin position being determined based on the NC data;
a unit configured to calculate a corrected workpiece origin obtained by correcting a deviation of the origin position of the workpiece, the deviation occurring when each of the two rotation axes is rotated at the correction rotation angles based on the rotation-axis data of the two rotation axes; and
a unit configured to control the three linear axes and the two rotation axes based on the corrected workpiece origin and the converted NC data.

4. A control method of a five-axis control machine tool which causes relative movements of a tool and a workpiece by controlling five axes, which includes three linear axes and two rotation axes based on NC data, the control method comprising:
calculating a correction rotation angle of one of the two rotation axes and a correction rotation angle of another of the two rotation axes based on rotation-axis data including data of an axis direction of each of the two rotation axes in association with a rotation angle of each of the two rotation axes; and
correcting the attitude of the workpiece toward the tool by rotating each of the two rotation axes at the correction rotation angles,
wherein the correction rotation angle of the one of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle α at which an angle γ formed by an axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes and an installation direction of the tool is equal to an angle formed by an axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes, and the correction rotation angle of the other of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle α formed by the axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the installation direction of the tool when the rotation axis of the one of the two rotation axes is rotated by the rotation angle β.

5. The control method of the five-axis control machine tool according to claim 4 , further comprising controlling the three linear axes and the two rotation axes based on converted NC data obtained by rotating and converting the NC data in association with the correction rotation angles.

6. The control method of the five-axis control machine tool according to claim 5 , further comprising:
calculating a corrected workpiece origin obtained by correcting a deviation of a origin position of the workpiece based on the NC data, the deviation occurring when each of the two rotation axes is rotated at the correction rotation angles based on the rotation-axis data of the two rotation axes; and
controlling the three linear axes and the two rotation axes based on the corrected workpiece origin and the converted NC data.

7. A method causing an NC device to actuate a five-axis control machine tool which allows relative movements of a tool and a workpiece by controlling five axes, which includes three linear axes and two rotation axes, based on NC data, the method comprising:
causing the NC device to execute to calculate a correction rotation angle of one of the two rotation axes and a correction rotation angle of another of the two rotation axes based on rotation-axis data including data of an axis direction of each of the two rotation axes in association with a rotation angle of each of the two rotation axes; and
causing the NC device to execute to rotate each of the two rotation axes at the correction rotation angles,
wherein the correction rotation angle of the one of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle β at which an angle γ formed by an axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes and an installation direction of the tool is equal to an angle formed by an axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes, and the correction rotation angle of the other of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle α formed by the axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the installation direction of the tool when the rotation axis of the one of the two rotation axes is rotated by the rotation angle β.

8. An system causing an NC device to actuate a five-axis control machine tool which allows relative movements of a tool and a workpiece by controlling five axes, which includes three linear axes and two rotation axes, based on NC data, the system comprising:
unit configured to cause the NC device to execute to calculate a correction rotation angle of one of the two rotation axes and a correction rotation angle of another of the two rotation axes based on rotation-axis data including data of an axis direction of each of the two rotation axes in association with a rotation angle of each of the two rotation axes; and
unit configured to cause the NC device to execute to rotate each of the two rotation axes at the correction rotation angle,
wherein the correction rotation angle of the one of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle β at which an angle γ formed by an axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes and an installation direction of the tool is equal to an angle formed by an axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the axis direction of the other of the two rotation axes, and the correction rotation angle of the other of the two rotation axes is a rotation angle α formed by the axis direction of the one of the two rotation axes and the installation direction of the tool when the rotation axis of the one of the two rotation axes is rotated by the rotation angle β.

9. A mold machined by a five-axis control machine tool using the control device according to claim 1 or the control method according to claim 4 .

Assignees

• Sakai Yuichi
• Wakayama Hiroki
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Sakai Yuichi
• Wakayama Hiroki

Classifications

• G05B19/404 Primary

  characterised by control arrangements for compensation, e.g. for backlash, overshoot, tool offset, tool wear, temperature, machine construction errors, load, inertia (G05B19/19, G05B19/41 take precedence) · CPC title