Cutting machine with a temperature compensation
AssigneeZüNd Systemtechnik AG
InventorChristian MAUERMANN
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Abstract
Disclosed is a cutting machine and a method for controlling a cutting machine with a retrieval of a cutting job for processing an object on a working surface of the cutting machine with a cutting device, a defining of a cutting path based on the cutting job, a continuous retrieval of position data, and a guidance based on the position data, of the cutting device along the cutting path for processing, in particular cutting, the object, characterized by a temperature compensation functionality with continuous retrieval of temperature data from one or more temperature sensors, and using the temperature data for defining the cutting path and/or for adjusting the cutting path.
Claims15
A cutting machine comprising
- a working surface configured to accommodate at least one object to be cut,
- a gantry travel system arranged above the working surface and comprising a beam and a working group, and
- a computer unit comprising a processor with computing capacity and algorithms for controlling the cutting machine,
- wherein
- the working group comprises a cutting device and is movable along at least one guide rail of the beam in a first direction, and
- the beam is movable in a second direction, in particular wherein the first and the second direction are orthogonal to each other,
- wherein
- one or more temperature sensors are attached to the beam along the first direction, and
- the cutting machine has a temperature compensation functionality, in the context of which the computer unit is designed to receive temperature data from the temperature sensors in real time and to use them for controlling the cutting machine.
A computer-implemented method for controlling a cutting machine, comprising
- a retrieval of a cutting job for processing, in particular cutting, an object on a working surface of the cutting machine with a tool inserted into a cutting device,
- a defining of a cutting path for the cutting device based on the cutting job,
- a continuous retrieval of position data of the cutting device from position sensors of a gantry travel system arranged above the working surface, wherein the position data comprises coordinates in at least a first direction and a second direction, and
- a guidance, based on the position data, of the cutting device in at least the first direction and the second direction along the cutting path for processing, in particular cutting, the object, further comprising:
- a temperature compensation functionality with
- a continuous retrieval of temperature data from one or more temperature sensors, and
- using the temperature data to define the cutting path and/or to adjust the cutting path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.