Chip processing device for machine tool and chip processing method
AssigneeDmg Mori Co., Ltd.
InventorMasahiro SHIMOIKE
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Abstract
Disclosed is a chip processing device for a machine tool, including a cleaning nozzle control unit 30 that controls a cleaning nozzle for spraying a cleaning fluid onto chips scattered during machining so as to guide the chips to a chip collection portion, wherein the cleaning nozzle control unit 30 includes: a position estimation unit 31 that estimates an accumulation position of generated chips by analyzing machining conditions of a workpiece; and a nozzle orientation adjustment unit 34 that adjusts an orientation of the cleaning nozzle toward the accumulation position estimated by the position estimation unit 31.
Claims15
A chip processing device for a machine tool, comprising
- a cleaning nozzle control unit that controls a cleaning nozzle for spraying a cleaning fluid onto chips scattered during machining so as to guide the chips to a chip collection portion,
- wherein the cleaning nozzle control unit includes:
- a position estimation unit that estimates an accumulation position of generated chips by analyzing machining conditions of a workpiece;
- and
- a nozzle orientation adjustment unit that adjusts an orientation of the cleaning nozzle toward the accumulation position estimated by the position estimation unit.
A chip processing method for a machine tool, comprising
- a cleaning nozzle control step of controlling a cleaning nozzle for spraying a cleaning fluid onto chips scattered during machining so as to guide the chips to a chip collection portion,
- wherein the cleaning nozzle control step includes:
- a position estimation step of estimating an accumulation position of generated chips by analyzing machining conditions of a workpiece, and
- a nozzle orientation adjustment step of adjusting an orientation of the cleaning nozzle toward the accumulation position estimated in the position estimation step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.