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US 5,588,344 AGranted
Electric servo motor punch press ram drive
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorVictor L. Chun
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Abstract
A punch press ram drive is described in which a reversible electrical servo motor is coupled to a crankshaft having an eccentric journal driving a pitman arm connected to the ram. The electrical servo motor is operated by program controls so as to either cause rotation or oscillation of the crankshaft to drive the ram through various programmed stroking modes, in which punch position, velocity, acceleration, varying over the course of a stroke may be programmed.
Claims10
A punch press comprising:
- a punch press frame;
- a punch ram slidably mounted on said punch frame and adapted to be coupled to a punch tool for carrying out punching operations;
- a crankshaft rotatably mounted on said press frame, said crankshaft having an eccentric journal;
- a pitman arm having an upper end rotatably received over said crankshaft eccentric journal, and a lower end coupled to said ram, stroking of said ram caused by rotation of said crankshaft;
- a reversible electrical servo motor having an output shaft and means drivingly connecting said servo motor output shaft and said crankshaft to enable rotation of said crankshaft to a controlled angular position;
- position feedback signal generator means, generating feedback signals corresponding to the position of said ram;
- punch program control means receiving said feedback signals and causing said reversible electrical servo motor to rotate said crankshaft through a programmed sequence of positions corresponding to a punching program to selectively either rotate said crankshaft through full revolutions or to oscillate said crankshaft between rotated positions less than a full revolution apart.
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A method of driving a ram of a punch press through a programmed punching operation comprising the steps of:
- coupling a reversible electrical servo motor to a crankshaft having an eccentric journal, the journal receiving an upper end of a pitman arm which has a lower end coupled to said ram;
- rotating the electrical servo motor under program control to cause the crankshaft to oscillate through a range of rotation corresponding to a ram punching stroke;
- wherein said crankshaft is oscillated through a range of movement through bottom dead center from a position partially rotated before bottom dead center to a position partially rotated past bottom dead center, corresponding to a punching stroke between a partially retracted hover height and a fully extended ram position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.