Numerical control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9791846-B2
Application number	US-201314759436-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2013
Priority date	Feb 12, 2013
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

To include an analysis processing unit that obtains a movement command for moving on a movement path in a machining program, and vibration conditions for vibrating along the movement path, a command-movement-amount calculation unit that calculates a command-movement amount per unit time, a vibrational-movement-amount calculation unit that uses the vibration conditions to calculate a vibrational-movement amount per unit time at a time corresponding to the movement command, and a movement-amount combining unit that combines the command-movement amount with the vibrational-movement amount to calculate a combined movement amount, and that acquires a movement amount within the unit time such that a position, which has moved from a reference position for calculating the combined movement amount by the combined movement amount, is located on the movement path.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A numerical control device by which machining is performed on a machining object while moving a tool and the machining object relative to each other by two or more drive shafts provided in at least one of the tool and the machining object, the numerical control device comprising:
an analysis processing unit that obtains a movement command for moving on a curved movement path in a machining program, and vibration conditions for vibrating along the curved movement path;
a command-movement-amount calculation unit that calculates a command-movement amount that is a movement amount per unit time according to the movement command;
a vibrational-movement-amount calculation unit that uses the vibration conditions to calculate a vibrational-movement amount that is a movement amount due to vibrations per the unit time at a time corresponding to the movement command; and
a movement-amount combining unit that combines the command-movement amount with the vibrational-movement amount to calculate a combined movement amount, and that acquires a target position within the unit time such that the target position, which has moved from a reference position for calculating the combined movement amount by the combined movement amount, is located on the curved movement path.

2. The numerical control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the vibration conditions include frequency and amplitude, and
the vibrational-movement-amount calculation unit generates a sine wave from the vibration conditions, and uses the sine wave to calculate the vibrational-movement amount at a time corresponding to the movement command.

3. A numerical control device comprising:
a drive-shaft control unit that controls motors connected respectively to two or more drive shafts provided in at least one of a tool and a machining object, and that is provided to each of the motors; and
a control computation unit that instructs the drive-shaft control unit to perform machining on the machining object, while moving the tool and the machining object relative to each other, wherein
the control computation unit includes:
an analysis processing unit that obtains a movement command for moving on a movement path in a machining program, and vibration conditions for vibrating along the movement path,
a command-movement-amount calculation unit that calculates a command-movement amount that is a movement amount per unit time according to the movement command, and
a vibration-condition calculation unit that calculates, from the vibration conditions and a ratio between axial command-movement amounts obtained by decomposing the command-movement amount into directions of the two or more drive shafts, vibration conditions for each of the drive shafts, and

the drive-shaft control unit includes:
an axial vibrational-movement-amount calculation unit that calculates an axial vibrational-movement amount that is a movement amount due to vibrations per the unit time from the vibration conditions for each of the drive shafts received from the control computation unit, and
a movement-amount combining unit that calculates a combined movement amount by combining one of the axial command-movement amounts with the axial vibrational-movement amount.

4. The numerical control device according to claim 3 , wherein
the vibration conditions include frequency and amplitude, and
the vibration-condition calculation unit in the control computation unit generates a sine wave from the vibration conditions, and uses the sine wave to calculate the vibration conditions for each of the drive shafts at a time corresponding to the movement command.

Assignees

• Watanabe Mitsuo
• Sagasaki Masakazu
• Kamata Junichi
• Shinohara Hiroshi
• Matsumaru Hajime
• Matsumoto Hitoshi
• Shinohara Takanori
• Shinohara Akihiko
• Yanagidaira Shigeo
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp
• Citizen Watch Co Ltd
• Citizen Machinery Co Ltd

Inventors

• Watanabe Mitsuo
• Sagasaki Masakazu
• Kamata Junichi
• Shinohara Hiroshi
• Matsumaru Hajime
• Matsumoto Hitoshi
• Shinohara Takanori
• Shinohara Akihiko
• Yanagidaira Shigeo

Classifications

• G05B19/4103 Primary

  Digital interpolation · CPC title

• G05B2219/36204

  Lathe, turning · CPC title

• G05B2219/37077

  Relative movement · CPC title

• G05B2219/34123

  Sine cosine generator · CPC title

• G05B19/19 Primary

  characterised by positioning or contouring control systems, e.g. to control position from one programmed point to another or to control movement along a programmed continuous path · CPC title