Universal roller swaging machine with tool wear monitor
AssigneeEaton Corporation
InventorsAnand Aravindan, Sameer Sureshrao Nagpure, Kenneth Maynard Spink, Srinivas B. Suresh
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Abstract
A roller swaging machine is provided for swaging first and second work pieces together. The roller swaging machine may include a base, a work piece support assembly, a tool carriage assembly, a spline feed assembly, and a linear sensor. In an embodiment, a tool carriage assembly may be configured to support an expander tool having a tapered mandrel, the spline feed assembly may be configured to be coupled to the tapered mandrel of the expander tool, and the linear sensor may be configured to measure axial movement of the tapered mandrel.
Claims20
A roller swaging machine comprising:
- a base;
- a work piece support assembly supported on or above the base;
- a tool carriage assembly supported on or above the base, the tool carriage assembly configured to support an expander tool having a tapered mandrel;
- a spline feed assembly supported on or above the base, the spline feed assembly configured for connection to the tapered mandrel of the expander tool;
- and
- a linear sensor configured to measure axial movement of the tapered mandrel.
A method for swaging work pieces together comprising:
- installing an expander tool on a tool carriage assembly of a roller swaging machine, the expander tool including a tapered mandrel supported for axial movement relative to a plurality of rollers;
- coupling a spline feed assembly provided on the roller swaging machine to the tapered mandrel of the expander tool;
- installing a first work piece relative to a second work piece on a work piece support assembly provided on the roller swaging machine;
- calibrating a linear sensor provided on the roller swaging machine to determine a relationship between axial movement of the tapered mandrel and an instantaneous outer diameter of the rollers;
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- swaging the first and second work pieces to a post swage inner diameter (PSID) based on the axial movement of the tapered mandrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.