Cutting machine and cutting method
AssigneesAmada Company, Limited, Amada Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorSusumu Tadano
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Abstract
A cutting machine includes a cutting machine main body configured to cut a material transported along a longitudinal direction of a material into a plurality of cut materials, a material supply device and a product carrying-out device configured to carry the material into the cutting machine main body and to sort and carry out each of the plurality of cut materials into a product yard for accommodating a product or a residual material yard for accommodating a residual material of the material, respectively, and an NC device configured to control the cutting machine main body, the material supply device, and the product carrying-out device. The NC device is provided with a first operation mode for causing all of the plurality of cut materials to be carried out to the product yard 45.
Claims6
A cutting method of cutting out a product having a predetermined product length from a material by using a cutting machine, the cutting method comprising:
- a first step of cutting, by the cutting machine, the material transported along a longitudinal direction of the material;
- and
- a second step of sorting and carrying out, by the cutting machine, a cut material cut from the material into any yard of a plurality of yards, wherein
- the plurality of yards include a product yard for accommodating the product and a residual material yard for accommodating a residual material of the material,
- when a predetermined first operation mode is selected, the second step causes all of a plurality of cut materials cut from the material to be carried out to the product yard, and
- when a predetermined second operation mode is selected, the second step causes a cut material corresponding to the product length to be carried out to the product yard and a cut material corresponding to the remaining portion of the material from which the cut material corresponding to the product length has been cut out to be carried out to the residual material yard, wherein the residual material yard is located on an upstream side of a cutting machine main body.
A cutting machine for cutting out a product having a predetermined product length from a material, the cutting machine comprising:
- a cutting machine main body configured to cut the material transported along a longitudinal direction of the material into a plurality of cut materials;
- a transport device configured to carry the material into the cutting machine main body and to sort and carry out each of the plurality of cut materials cut by the cutting machine main body into any yard of a plurality of yards;
- and
- a control device configured to control the cutting machine main body and the transport device, wherein
- the plurality of yards include a product yard for accommodating the product and a residual material yard for accommodating a residual material of the material,
- the control device is provided with a first operation mode for causing all of the plurality of cut materials to be carried out to the product yard and a second operation mode for causing a cut material corresponding to the product length to be carried out to the product yard and a cut material corresponding to the remaining portion of the material from which the cut material corresponding to the product length has been cut out to be carried out to the residual material yard, from among the plurality of cut material, wherein the residual material yard is located on an upstream side of the cutting machine main body, and the control device is configured
- to switch between the first operation mode and the second operation mode for execution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.