Machining tool with numerical control device

• US 10,474,122 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2015
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
• Inventors: Nakahama, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dhakal, Bickey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cook, Cortez
• Application Number:
  US14/818,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041546A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,560 Days
• Field of Search: 29833, 700245
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/19 characterised by positioning or contouring control systems, e.g. to control position from one programmed point to another or to control movement along a programmed continuous path
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/402 characterised by control arrangements for positioning, e.g. centring a tool relative to a hole in the workpiece, additional detection means to correct position G05B19/19 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/41114 Compensation for gravity, counter balance gravity

Abstract

A machining tool with a numerical control device includes an actual gravity center calculation unit configured to calculate an actual gravity center, the actual gravity center being a whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load, a target gravity center position set unit, a movable part position correction unit configured to correct the relative position of the movable part to the fixed part, to make the target gravity center position and the whole center gravity center position of the machining tool and the load coincident.

Claims

1. A machining tool, comprising:

a numerical control device configured to control operation of the machining tool,

a fixed part, and

a movable part which is movable relative to the fixed part and on which a load is to be loaded, the numerical control device comprising;

a storage unit configured to store a weight and a gravity center position of each of the fixed part, the movable part, and the load;

an actual gravity center calculation unit configured to, when a weight of the load changes each time, calculate an actual gravity center, the actual gravity center being a whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load, based on

the gravity center position and the weight of the fixed part stored in the storage unit,

the gravity center position and the weight of the movable part stored in the storage unit,

a relative position of the movable part to the fixed part, and

the gravity center position and the weight of the load stored in the storage unit;

a target gravity center position set unit configured to set an arbitrary point based on data through an input unit as a target gravity center position for the whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load; and

a movable part position correction unit configured to cause the movable part to move relative to the fixed part to the arbitrary point to make a position of the whole center gravity center of the machining tool and the load coincide with the target gravity center position set by the target gravity center position set unit.

2. The machining tool according to claim 1, wherein the movable part is configured to move in response to activation of an electrical power of the machining tool.

3. The machining tool according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit is configured to store the target gravity center position.

4. The machining tool according to claim 1, further comprising a display configured to display the target gravity center position.

5. The machining tool according to claim 1, wherein

the fixed part includes a base and a column,

the movable part includes a spindle head and a table,

the spindle is movable relative to the column, and

the table is movable relative to the base.

6. The machining tool according to claim 1, further comprising a device configured to issue a warning in response to the movable part moving beyond a movable range of the movable part.

7. The machining tool according to claim 1, wherein the numerical control device further includes the input unit configured to receive the data of the arbitrary point input by an operator.

8. The machining tool according to claim 1, wherein the movable part position correction unit is further configured to

calculate a moveable part correction amount based on the whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load and the target gravity center position, and

issue a command based on the calculated movable part correction amount to correct a position of the movable part.

9. The machining tool according to claim 1, wherein the numerical control device is configured to estimate the gravity center position and the weight of the load based on values of parameters in acceleration or deceleration of the moveable part.