Noncircular working device
AssigneeYamazaki Mazak Corporation
InventorsNoriyasu Hayashi, Masaki Hibino, Norio Naganuma, Kiyokazu Kainuma
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Abstract
A working device of a noncircular workpiece, such as a piston of an internal combustion engine, is improved. A workpiece 10 is held by a work spindle and rotated. A noncircular working device 100 has a noncircular working unit base 110 and is provided with a servo motor 104. A noncircular working unit 120 is positioned along a Y axis, and an arbitrary cutting tool 133 is selected from a cutting tool group 130. A servo motor 112 reciprocates the noncircular working unit 120 on an X2 axis in synchronization with the rotation of the work spindle and performs noncircular working of the workpiece 10.
Claims2
A working device having a work head provided with a work spindle which rotates a workpiece, and a noncircular working device,
- the noncircular working device, comprising:
- a noncircular working unit provided with multiple cutting tools;
- a noncircular working unit base which turnably supports the noncircular working unit;
- a motor for noncircular working which is attached to a housing and reciprocates the noncircular working unit and the noncircular working unit base;
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- motorized means for rotating the turnably supported noncircular working unit and thereby indexing the noncircular working unit around an axis line parallel to the axis line of the workpiece, the motorized means being mounted separate from the noncircular working unit and the noncircular working unit base, and thereby not reciprocated by the motor for noncircular working,
- wherein the cutting tools mounted on the noncircular working unit are attached radially to the turning direction of the noncircular working unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.