Abstract:
A conveyer for transporting a box and a conveyer for transporting a bottle are driven along a follow-up target axis and a follow-up axis, respectively. The follow-up axis is accelerated from a synchronization start position, and, when the follow-up axis velocity catches up with the conveyer, performs the constant velocity operation. An advanced operation, performed by an asynchronous axis (moving the bottle closer to the box), is started before synchronization completes, and is completed when synchronization completes, then immediately an operation by a synchronous axis (follow-up target axis or follow-up axis) is started (insertion operation). The point of time when the advanced operation is started is determined by processing of the numerical controller, as a point of time when the time required for the follow-up axis in the current status to reach the synchronization completion status becomes the same as the time required for the advanced operation (preset).
Abstract:
A die cushion controller uses position control to position die cushion members for placement of a metal sheet. A pressing process starts and the upper die is lowered. When a position detector detects a position at which the upper die touches the sheet metal, the die cushion controller switches over from position control to pressure control and applies a preset pressure to the sheet metal. When the position detector detects that the upper die has risen to a preset position, the die cushion controller clears the positional deviation accumulated in position control to zero, then moves the die cushion members to preset positions and holds them there.
Abstract:
A die cushion controller uses position control to position die cushion members for placement of a metal sheet. A pressing process starts and the upper die is lowered. When a position detector detects a position at which the upper die touches the sheet metal, the die cushion controller switches over from position control to pressure control and applies a preset pressure to the sheet metal. When the position detector detects that the upper die has risen to a preset position, the die cushion controller clears the positional deviation accumulated in position control to zero, then moves the die cushion members to preset positions and holds them there.
Abstract:
A conveyer 1 for transporting a box and a conveyer 2 for transporting a bottle are driven along a follow-up target axis and a follow-up axis respectively. The follow-up axis is accelerated from a synchronization start position, and when the follow-up axis velocity catches up with the conveyer 1, the follow-up axis performs the constant velocity operation. An advanced operation, performed by an asynchronous axis (moving the bottle closer to the box), is started before synchronization completes, and is completed when synchronization completes, then immediately an operation by a synchronous axis (follow-up target axis or follow-up axis) is started (insertion operation). The point of time when the advanced operation is started is determined by processing of the numerical controller, as a point of time when the time required for the follow-up axis in the current status to reach the synchronization completion status becomes the same as the time required for the advanced operation (preset).
Abstract:
Die cushion control device that implements die cushion control while making a switch between position control and pressure control by using servomotors, and reduces the impact caused by a collision between a press axis and a die cushion axis during position control. Die cushion members are controlled by servomotors Md. The changeover switch is connected to the “a”-side, to thereby control the position (velocity) of the servomotors Md by commands from a numerical controller and control the position of the die cushion members. During position control, the output torque of the servomotors Md is limited by torque limit means. During position control, even if the press axis hits the die cushion members due to erroneous setting, wrong operation or the like, the servomotors Md merely output only a limited torque or less, so that impact force is reduced, which prevents damage to the die cushion members and the press axis. During press operation, when a position detector detects that the press axis moves downward to reach a predetermined position, the changeover switch is connected to the “b”-side, to thereby implement pressure control.
Abstract:
A drilling machine comprises a quill, pneumatic cylinder for reciprocating the quill in the forward and backward direction, a feed control device which includes a liquid cylinder parallelly disposed to the quill and provided with a piston assembly with a projecting portion engageable with the quill for controlling the advancing speed of the quill, one-way clutch for allowing the piston assembly only the forward movement thereof by engaging with the projecting portion of the piston assembly, and an operation control device for repeatedly reciprocating the quill. The quill is advanced firstly at a rapid speed; upon engaging with the projecting portion of the piston assembly, the quill is advanced at a regulated speed by the liquid cylinder. When the quill has completed several times of reciprocation movement under the control of the operation control device, one working cycle is finished. When the quill assembly has reached the forwardmost position the operation control device is suspended of its controlling function for returning the quill to the original position. Returning of the quill to the original position releases the one-way clutch accompanied by the returning of the projecting portion of the piston assembly with the aid of a return spring.
Abstract:
A machine tool with a vertically reciprocating spindle head has an automatic tool changer including a rotatingly indexable tool support connected to the machine tool frame and vertically movable independently of the spindle head, a first cam-and-crank mechanism activated by spindle head vertical movement to move the tool support with the spindle head during a portion of the tool changing operation, a second cam-and-crank mechanism also activated by spindle head vertical movement for opening and closing a tool holder on the tool support during another portion of the tool changing operation, and a vertical stop for preventing vertical movement of the tool support with the spindle head into the machining region.
Abstract:
The machine tool provided with a machine frame adapted to be attachable to a stand, a pneumatic cylinder for reciprocating a quill on the machine frame, and a feed control device for controlling the forward moving speed of the quill comprising a hydraulic cylinder which is parallelly disposed to the quill and includes a piston assembly having a projecting portion engageable with the quill and a liquid tank. The quill is moved, until it is engaged with the projecting portion in the forward moving thereof, at a rapid feed speed and after the engagement at a controlled feed speed by the feed control device. The liquid tank has a pair of openings arranged such that either one of the two may constantly come under the liquid surface in the tank no matter in what posture the machine frame may be attached to the stand. The feed control device comprises a connecting device including two passages respectively communicated with each of the two openings and a joining device for selectively joining one of the two passages which is in communication with one of the pair of openings situated under the liquid surface with a cylinder chamber of the hydraulic cylinder.
Abstract:
When machining of a workpiece mounted on a first pallet by a machine tool is ended, power of a driving motor is transmitted through a cylindrical cam and a cam follower to a clamp member to unclamp a first pallet clamped on a table of the machine tool by the clamp member. Then, the power is transmitted to a swing arm to unload the first pallet from the table to a stand-by position and a second pallet, mounting thereon a workpiece to be machined, is loaded from the stand-by position to the table by the swing arm. The second pallet is the clamped on the table by the clamp member and the pallet exchange operation is complete.