Magazine and Machine Tool
AssigneeDmg Mori Co., Ltd.
InventorsIsao HIKITA, Kenichi MIZUKOSHI, Nobuhiko HIRAIWA
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Abstract
A magazine includes: a first driving mechanism unit that rotates tool pots so as to position, at a first position, an identifier in a tool pot placed at a transportation position different from a magazine-side tool change position and so as to position, at a second position, an identifier in a tool pot placed at the magazine-side tool change position; and a second driving mechanism unit that moves a reading device so as to position the reading device at a third position when reading the identifier by the reading device and so as to position the reading device at a fourth position when transporting the tool pots.
Claims8
A magazine comprising:
- a transporting device that has a plurality of tool holding units and that transports the plurality of tool holding units, each of the plurality of tool holding units detachably holding a tool inserted along a predetermined axis:
- a reading device that reads an identifier accompanied with a tool in a tool holding unit transported to a predetermined transportation position:
- a first driving mechanism unit that rotates each of the tool holding units about the predetermined axis so as to position, at a first position, an identifier in a tool holding unit placed at a transportation position different from the predetermined transportation position, and so as to position, at a second position, the identifier in the tool holding unit placed at the predetermined transportation position, the second position being displaced from the first position in a circumferential direction of the predetermined axis;
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- a second driving mechanism unit that moves the reading device so as to position the reading device at a third position when reading the identifier by the reading device and so as to position the reading device at a fourth position when transporting the plurality of tool holding units by the transporting device, the third position being a position facing the identifier positioned at the second position, the fourth position being a position away from the tool holding units with respect to the third position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.