Machine tool, management system, and tool deterioration detection method
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorGaku ISOBE
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Abstract
A machine tool includes: a tool magazine that stores a plurality of tools; a spindle that holds one of the plurality of tools stored in the tool magazine; a glossiness measurement unit that measures glossiness of a tapered outer surface of a taper shank of each of the plurality of tools; a deterioration determination unit that determines whether or not the tapered outer surface is deteriorated on the basis of the glossiness measured by the glossiness measurement unit; and a notification unit that notifies an operator of deterioration of the tapered outer surface if it is determined by the deterioration determination unit that the tapered outer surface is deteriorated.
Claims11
A machine tool comprising:
- a tool magazine that stores a plurality of tools;
- a spindle that holds one of the plurality of tools stored in the tool magazine;
- a glossiness measurement unit that measures glossiness of a tapered outer surface of a taper shank of each of the plurality of tools;
- a deterioration determination unit that determines whether or not the tapered outer surface is deteriorated on the basis of the glossiness measured by the glossiness measurement unit;
- and
- a notification unit that notifies an operator of deterioration of the tapered outer surface if it is determined by the deterioration determination unit that the tapered outer surface is deteriorated.
A tool deterioration detection method in a machine tool including a tool magazine that stores a plurality of tools, and a spindle that holds one of the plurality of tools stored in the tool magazine, the method comprising:
- measuring glossiness of a tapered outer surface of a taper shank of each of the plurality of tools;
- determining whether or not the tapered outer surface is deteriorated on the basis of the measured glossiness;
- and
- notifying an operator of deterioration of the tapered outer surface if it is determined that the tapered outer surface is deteriorated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.