US 5,539,972 AGranted

Method of screwing a pipe to an object

AssigneeFanuc Corporation

InventorsTakao Sasaki, Toshiaki Otsuki, Ryouji Eguchi

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Abstract

Disclosed is a method of screwing a pipe having threads with a different pitch on the outside and inside thereof into an object and assembling the same thereto by using a CNC machine tool. A male thread provided to a spindle is moved to an initial point I and point R by a quick traverse and then moved downward from the point R at a given speed and RPM. More specifically, a pipe is screwed into the object in accordance with the pitch of the thread on the outside thereof and assembled to a female thread of the object. When the male thread reaches a point Z and the pipe is assembled to the female thread of the object, the male thread is moved upward to the point R at a given speed and RPM. More specifically, the male thread is relieved from the pipe in accordance with the pitch of the thread on the inside of the pipe. Only the male thread is moved upward by the movement thereof to enable the pipe to remain engaged with the female thread, whereby the assembly of the pipe to the object is completed.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A method of automatically screwing a pipe into a threaded bore of an object, said threaded bore having a desired diameter for tightly fitting said pipe therein, the method comprising the steps of, sequentially:

providing a pipe having threads on both inner and outer surfaces, wherein said thread on the inner surface has a different pitch from said thread on the outer surface, said pipe having an outer diameter substantially equal to the diameter of said threaded bore;
mounting said pipe on a spindle by screwing said spindle into said pipe via said thread on the inner surface of said pipe;
transferring said spindle having said pipe mounted thereon to an assembling station and aligning said pipe in an axially direction with said threaded bore of said object;
screwing said pipe into said threaded bore of the object by simultaneously rotating and feeding said spindle, in said axially direction, in accordance with the pitch of said thread on the outer surface of said pipe;
wherein said threaded bore having the same pitch as of said thread on the outer surface of said pipe;
and
relieving said spindle from said pipe by reversely rotating and simultaneously retreating said spindle, oppositely to said axially direction, in accordance with the pitch of said thread on the inner surface of said pipe and leaving said pipe secured to the object.

4 more elements

A method of automatically screwing a pipe over a threaded cylindrical core portion exposed from an object, said cylindrical core portion having a predetermined diameter for receiving said pipe thereon, the method comprising the steps of, sequentially:

providing a pipe having threads on both inner and outer surfaces, wherein said thread on the inner surface has a different pitch from said thread on the outer surface, said pipe having an inner diameter substantially equal to the diameter of said cylindrical core portion;
mounting said pipe on a spindle by screwing said spindle over said pipe via said thread on the outer surface of said pipe;
transferring said spindle having said pipe mounted thereon to an assembling station and aligning said pipe in an axially direction with said cylindrical core portion of said object;
screwing said pipe over said threaded cylindrical core portion of the object by simultaneously rotating and feeding said spindle, in said axially direction, in accordance with the pitch of said thread on the inner surface of said pipe;
wherein said threaded cylindrical core portion having the same pitch as of said thread on the inner surface of said pipe;
and
relieving said spindle from said pipe by reversely rotating and simultaneously retreating said spindle, oppositely to said axially direction, in accordance with the pitch of said thread on the outer surface of said pipe and leaving said pipe secured to the object.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/430,319Filed 28 Apr 1995 · continuation
Priority: JP 4-0486755 Mar 1992
Granted: 30 Jul 1996
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G05B 19/182
Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to…
G05B 2219/45203
Nc applications: screwing
G05B 2219/45216
Nc applications: tapping
G05B 2219/50225
Machine tool, machine tool null till machine tool work handling: synchronize feed and spindle speed as function of pitch of screw, thread