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US 2016/0089808 A1Published application
Cutting fluid jet machine
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorRikizou WATANABE
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Abstract
A cutting fluid jet machine includes: a cutting fluid jet nozzle; a nozzle-angle adjusting servo motor; a nozzle-length adjusting servo motor; a nozzle-location calculating unit; and a nozzle controlling unit for controlling an angle and a length of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in accordance with movement of a machine tool in a spindle direction based on a nozzle location calculated by the nozzle-location calculating unit.
Claims3
A cutting fluid jet machine disposed near a spindle of a machine tool and configured to supply cutting fluid onto a tool and a tool holder held by the spindle, the cutting fluid jet machine comprising:
- a cutting fluid jet nozzle having a variable jet angle and a variable nozzle length and configured to eject the cutting fluid onto a cutting point of a workpiece as an object of the tool;
- a nozzle-angle adjusting servo motor configured to change the jet angle of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in ejecting the cutting fluid onto the cutting point;
- a nozzle-length adjusting servo motor configured to change the length of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in ejecting the cutting fluid onto the cutting point;
- a nozzle-location calculating unit for obtaining an angle and a length of the cutting fluid jet nozzle based on a travelling amount of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in a spindle direction and a length and a radius of a tool to be used;
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- a nozzle controlling unit for controlling the angle and the length of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in accordance with movement of the machine tool in the spindle direction based on a nozzle location calculated by the nozzle-location calculating unit.
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