Setup changing method and machining system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorYoshiaki Dohi
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Abstract
A machine tool setup changing method includes mounting a master workpiece onto a tool spindle axis, deforming a gripping part by gripping, with the gripping part of a jig, a mock clamped portion of the master workpiece mounted on the tool spindle axis, and removing the master workpiece from the tool spindle axis and mounting a tool supported on a tool support device onto the tool spindle axis, wherein the workpiece gripped at the clamped portion by the gripping part, which was deformed in accordance with the mock clamped portion, can be machined with the tool.
Claims9
A setup changing method for a machine tool including a tool spindle axis, a tool support device which supports a tool which is exchangeably attachable to the tool spindle axis, and a jig having a gripping part which deforms in accordance with a shape of a clamped portion of a workpiece, the method comprising:
- mounting, onto the tool spindle axis, a master workpiece having a mock clamped portion which has the same shape as the shape of the clamped portion of the workpiece;
- deforming the gripping part by gripping, with the gripping part of the jig, the mock clamped portion of the master workpiece mounted on the tool spindle axis;
- and
- removing the master workpiece mounted on the tool spindle axis and mounting the tool supported on the tool support device onto the tool spindle axis, wherein
- the workpiece, the clamped portion of which is gripped by the gripping part deformed in accordance with the mock clamped portion, can be machined with the tool.
A machining system, comprising:
- a machine tool including a tool spindle axis, a tool support device which supports a tool which is exchangeably attachable to the tool spindle axis, and a jig having a gripping part which deforms in accordance with a shape of a clamped portion of a workpiece;
- and
- a controller that controls the machine tool, wherein
- the controller causes:
- a master workpiece, which includes a mock clamped portion having the same shape as the shape of the clamped portion of the workpiece and which is held on the tool support device, to be mounted onto the tool spindle axis;
- the gripping part to be deformed by gripping the mock clamped portion of the master workpiece, which is mounted on the tool spindle axis, with the gripping part of the jig;
- and
- the master workpiece mounted on the tool spindle axis to be removed, and the tool supported on the tool support device to be mounted onto the tool spindle axis, and wherein
- the workpiece, the clamped portion of which is gripped by the gripping part deformed in accordance with the mock clamped portion, can be machined with the tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.