Method of calculating a stable spindle rotation number and an apparatus for calculating a stable spindle rotation number

A method of informing an operator of a stable spindle rotation number capable of suppressing regenerative chatter vibration in cutting using a machine tool, comprising:

• a vibration frequency calculating process of calculating a vibration frequency of a tool by obtaining data on vibration caused by the tool in cutting and analyzing the obtained vibration data;
• a regenerative chatter detecting process of comparing the vibration frequency of the tool calculated in the vibration frequency calculating process with a spindle rotation frequency band, and at least when the vibration frequency of the tool is out of the spindle rotation frequency band, determining that regenerative chatter vibration occurs in the tool, the spindle rotation frequency band being obtained by adding a predetermined margin to a frequency corresponding to a product of multiplication of a spindle rotation number and the number of teeth of the tool;
• a rotation number changing process of gradually decreasing or increasing the spindle rotation number in a case where occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration is detected in the regenerative chatter detecting process;
• a stable rotation number calculating process of monitoring variation of the vibration frequency of the tool calculated in the vibration frequency calculating process varied in accordance with the spindle rotation number changed in the rotation number changing process, and determining a spindle rotation number when the variation of the vibration frequency exceeds a predetermined reference value to be a stable spindle rotation number;
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• an informing process of informing the operator of the stable rotation number calculated in the stable rotation number calculating process.

A method of controlling a spindle rotation number to a stable rotation number capable of suppressing regenerative chatter vibration of a tool in cutting using a machine tool, comprising:

• a vibration frequency calculating process of calculating a vibration frequency of the tool by obtaining data on vibration caused by the tool in cutting and analyzing the obtained vibration data;
• a regenerative chatter detecting process of comparing the vibration frequency of the tool calculated in the vibration frequency calculating process with a spindle rotation frequency band, and at least when the vibration frequency of the tool is out of the spindle rotation frequency band, determining that regenerative chatter vibration occurs in the tool, the spindle rotation frequency band being obtained by adding a predetermined margin to a frequency corresponding to a product of multiplication of the spindle rotation number and the number of teeth of the tool;
• a rotation number changing process of gradually decreasing or increasing the spindle rotation number in a case where occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration is detected in the regenerative chatter detecting process;
• a stable rotation number calculating process of monitoring variation of the vibration frequency of the tool calculated in the vibration frequency calculating process varied in accordance with the spindle rotation number changed in the rotation number changing process, and determining a spindle rotation number when the variation of the vibration frequency exceeds a predetermined reference value to be a stable spindle rotation number;
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• a rotation number correcting process of correcting the spindle rotation number in cutting to the stable rotation number calculated in the stable rotation number calculating process.

An NC program editing method of correcting a spindle rotation number set in an NC program to a stable rotation number capable of suppressing regenerative chatter vibration of a tool in cutting on a numerically controlled machine tool using the NC program, comprising:

• a vibration frequency calculating process of calculating a vibration frequency of the tool by obtaining data on vibration caused by the tool in cutting and analyzing the obtained vibration data;
• a regenerative chatter detecting process of comparing the vibration frequency of the tool calculated in the vibration frequency calculating process with a spindle rotation frequency band, and at least when the vibration frequency of the tool is out of the spindle rotation frequency band, determining that regenerative chatter vibration occurs in the tool, the spindle rotation frequency band being obtained by adding a predetermined margin to a frequency corresponding to a product of multiplication of a spindle rotation number and the number of teeth of the tool;
• a rotation number changing process of gradually decreasing or increasing the spindle rotation number in a case where occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration is detected in the regenerative chatter detecting process;
• a stable rotation number calculating process of monitoring variation of the vibration frequency of the tool calculated in the vibration frequency calculating process varied in accordance with the spindle rotation number changed in the rotation number changing process, and determining a spindle rotation number when the variation of the vibration frequency exceeds a predetermined reference value to be a stable spindle rotation number;
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• an NC program editing process of changing the spindle rotation number set in the NC program to the stable rotation number calculated in the stable rotation number calculating process.

An apparatus for calculating a stable spindle rotation number capable of suppressing regenerative chatter vibration in cutting using a machine tool, comprising:

• a vibration data obtainer obtaining data on vibration caused by a tool in cutting;
• a vibration frequency calculator calculating a vibration frequency of the tool by analyzing the vibration data obtained by the vibration data obtainer;
• a regenerative chatter detector comparing the vibration frequency of the tool calculated by the vibration frequency calculator with a spindle rotation frequency band, and at least when the vibration frequency of the tool is out of the spindle rotation frequency band, determining that regenerative chatter vibration occurs in the tool, the spindle rotation frequency band being obtained by adding a predetermined margin to a frequency corresponding to a product of multiplication of a spindle rotation number and the number of teeth of the tool;
• a spindle rotation controller gradually decreasing or increasing the spindle rotation number in a case where occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration is detected by the regenerative chatter detector;
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• a stable rotation number calculator monitoring variation of the vibration frequency of the tool calculated by the vibration frequency calculator varied in accordance with the spindle rotation number changed by the spindle rotation controller, and determining a spindle rotation number when the variation of the vibration frequency exceeds a predetermined reference value to be a stable spindle rotation number.

An apparatus for controlling a spindle rotation number to a stable rotation number capable of suppressing regenerative chatter vibration of a tool in cutting using a machine tool, comprising:

• a vibration data obtainer obtaining data on vibration caused by the tool in cutting;
• a vibration frequency calculator calculating a vibration frequency of the tool by analyzing the vibration data obtained by the vibration data obtainer;
• a regenerative chatter detector comparing the vibration frequency of the tool calculated by the vibration frequency calculator with a spindle rotation frequency band, and at least when the vibration frequency of the tool is out of the spindle rotation frequency band, determining that regenerative chatter vibration occurs in the tool, the spindle rotation frequency band being obtained by adding a predetermined margin to a frequency corresponding to a product of multiplication of the spindle rotation number and the number of teeth of the tool;
• a spindle rotation controller gradually decreasing or increasing the spindle rotation number in a case where occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration is detected by the regenerative chatter detector;
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• a stable rotation number calculator monitoring variation of the vibration frequency of the tool calculated by the vibration frequency calculator varied in accordance with the spindle rotation number changed by the spindle rotation controller, and determining a spindle rotation number when the variation of the vibration frequency exceeds a predetermined reference value to be a stable spindle rotation number,
• the spindle rotation controller being further configured to correct the spindle rotation number in cutting to the stable rotation number calculated by the stable rotation number calculator.

An NC program editing apparatus correcting a spindle rotation number set in an NC program to a stable rotation number capable of suppressing regenerative chatter vibration of a tool in cutting on a numerically controlled machine tool using the NC program, comprising:

• a vibration data obtainer obtaining data on vibration caused by the tool in cutting;
• a vibration frequency calculator calculating a vibration frequency of the tool by analyzing the vibration data obtained by the vibration data obtainer;
• a regenerative chatter detector comparing the vibration frequency of the tool calculated by the vibration frequency calculator with a spindle rotation frequency band, and at least when the vibration frequency of the tool is out of the spindle rotation frequency band, determining that regenerative chatter vibration occurs in the tool, the spindle rotation frequency band being obtained by adding a predetermined margin to a frequency corresponding to a product of multiplication of the spindle rotation number and the number of teeth of the tool;
• a spindle rotation controller gradually decreasing or increasing the spindle rotation number in a case where occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration is detected by the regenerative chatter detector;
• a stable rotation number calculator monitoring variation of the vibration frequency of the tool calculated by the vibration frequency calculator varied in accordance with the spindle rotation number changed by the spindle rotation controller, and determining a spindle rotation number when the variation of the vibration frequency exceeds a predetermined reference value to be a stable spindle rotation number;
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• an NC program editor correcting the spindle rotation number set in the NC program to the stable rotation number calculated by the stable rotation number calculator.