Control device of machine tool
AssigneeMakino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorsTadashi Kasahara, Kazunari Ishii
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Abstract
This control device of a machine tool is provided with: a storage unit which stores in advance a nominal diameter and a nominal length of a blade part of a rotary tool; an image-capturing instruction unit which outputs an image-capturing instruction to an image-capturing device; a model creation unit which generates model data of the blade part of the tool on the basis of the nominal diameter and the nominal length stored in the storage unit, generates model data of a tool shank and holder on the basis of an image stored in the image-capturing device, and creates model data of the rotary tool on the basis of the generated model data of the blade part and the generated model data of the tool shank and holder.
Claims5
A machine tool controller which comprises an imaging device for imaging a rotary tool and which performs control by referencing image data of the imaged rotary tool and model data of the rotary tool, the controller comprising:
- a storage unit which stores in advance a nominal diameter and nominal length of a blade of the rotary tool,
- an imaging command unit which outputs an imaging command to the imaging device,
- a blade model generation unit which generates blade model data of the tool from the nominal diameter and nominal length stored in the storage unit,
- a tool shank/holder model generation unit which generates tool shank/holder model data from the image captured with the imaging device, and
- a model creation unit which creates model data of the rotary tool from the blade model data and the tool shank/holder model data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.