Magazine and machine tool
AssigneeDmg Mori Co., Ltd.
InventorsIsao Hikita, Kenichi Mizukoshi, Nobuhiko Hiraiwa
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Abstract
A magazine includes: a first driving mechanism unit that rotates tool pots so as to position, at a first position, an identifier in a tool pot placed at a transportation position different from a magazine-side tool change position and so as to position, at a second position, an identifier in a tool pot placed at the magazine-side tool change position; and a second driving mechanism unit that moves a reading device so as to position the reading device at a third position when reading the identifier by the reading device and so as to position the reading device at a fourth position when transporting the tool pots.
Claims8
A magazine comprising:
- a first tool holding unit and a second tool holding unit;
- a transporting device being configured to transport the first tool holding unit and the second tool holding unit that are configured thereon, the first tool holding unit and the second tool holding unit detachably holding a first tool and a second tool respectively, the transporting device including a support plate that is rotatable about a pivot center axis, the first and second tool holding units being disposed on the support plate, the first and second tools being inserted in the first and second tool holding units respectively in a direction which extends parallel to the pivot center axis, the first tool having a first identifier and the second tool having a second identifier;
- a reader device being configured to read at least the first identifier after the first tool holding unit has been transported to a predetermined transportation position;
- a first driving mechanism unit being configured to rotate the first tool holding unit about the direction which extends parallel to the pivot center axis so as to move the first identifier from a first position to a second position, the first tool holding unit being rotated by the first driving mechanism with respect to the support plate, and the second position being angularly displaced from the first position in a circumferential rotation direction of the first tool holding unit;
- and
- a second driving mechanism unit being configured to move the reader device from a third position to a fourth position,
- wherein the reader device is configured to read the first identifier when the reader device is at the third position facing the identifier at the second position, and
- wherein the fourth position is further away from the first tool holding unit than is the third position from the first tool holding unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.