MOTOR-DRIVEN WORKING DEVICE

• US 20110251727A1
• Filed: 05/05/2009
• Published: 10/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Platzer, Joachim, Koeder, Thilo, Koegel, Jan, Hoffmann, Ulli
• Application Number:
  US13/001,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20110251727A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/279
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 49/167 with means to adjust the guide plate or with means to adjust the plane in which the saw blade moves
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 51/02 of beds; of guiding arrangements for work-tables or saw carriers; of frames
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 59/002 for the position of the saw blade B27B5/36 and B27B9/02 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/044 Seam tracking
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/702 Auxiliary equipment
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 5/005 Computer numerical control means
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 5/007 Control means comprising cameras, vision or image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 5/34 scanning being effected by a photosensitive device
• CPC Class Codes: B26F 3/004 by means of a fluid jet methods for use of abrasive blasting for cutting B24C1/045; guns for abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; perforating by non-mechanical means, e.g. by fluid jet B26F1/26

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor-driven working device in the form of a machine tool (1) or a working apparatus, for which a semi-autonomous working operation is made possible by means of an auxiliary device (50). In said semi-autonomous working operation, the user must only carry out the rough alignment of the working device on a working line (27). The necessary guidance of the working means (48) of the working device on the working line (27) is provided by an auxiliary device (50).

Claims

1. Motor-driven working device, particularly an electrically operated machine tool or an electrically operated working apparatus, having a driven and/or displaceable working means and having an auxiliary device, which supports the user in the guidance of the working device when following a predetermined working line, thereby characterized in that said working device is provided with a working means, which is guided so as to follow the working line during a non-directional operation and in that the auxiliary device is provided with a sensor system for detecting said working line specified for the working means, the sensor system being thereby aligned on a detection surface, which results from the position of said sensor system with respect to said working means, with an arithmetic and logic unit for the characteristic data of said working line detected via the sensor system and with a control and actuating unit for processing said characteristic data, via which said working means is guided such that it is aligned to said working line.

2. Working device according to claim 1, characterized by the design thereof as a machine tool, particularly in the form of a milling machine, a rodent, a shears or a tacker, or by the design thereof as a working apparatus, particularly in the form of a metering apparatus for applying adhesive beads or sealing seams, of a welding robot, of a cutting tool, such as working as a laser cutter or water jet apparatus, or by the design thereof as an apparatus for local plasma pretreatment, wherein the working device in each case is configured with a non-directionally operating working means.

3. Working device according to claim 1, wherein the working device is configured to be hand-held, hand-guided or mechanically guided, particularly as a working device which is secured to a table.

4. Working device according to claim 1, wherein the sensor system is a structurally integrated component of the working device.

5. Working device according to claim 1, wherein the sensor system is separately disposed as part of the working device.

6. Working device according to claim 1, wherein the working means can be displaced transversely to the working line on the device side and can be adjusted onto the working line.

7. Working device according to claim 6, wherein the working means is guided such that it can be displaced transversely to the working line.

8. Working device according to claim 6, wherein the working means is disposed so as to be pivotable transversely to the working line.

9. Working device according to claim 6, wherein the working means is formed by a rotary working tool, in particular a milling cutter, the axis of rotation of which lies offset to the pivoting axis.

10. Working device according to claim 6, wherein the working means is formed by a nozzle, a laser head or by working parts operating otherwise as emitting, suctioning, brushing or abradant parts.

11. Working device according to claim 1, wherein the working device has a supporting structure to be arranged in the region of the respective working line, in particular a base or foot plate.

12. Working device, particularly according to claim 1, which is configured as a milling machine, in particular as a hand-held milling machine, and has a milling cutter, thereby characterized in that the milling cutter is disposed such that it can be displaced transversely to the respective direction of work of the milling machine.

13. Working device according to claim 12, wherein the milling machine has a base plate, which is penetrated by the milling cutter and said milling cutter can be displaced transversely to the respective working position of the milling machine with respect to the base plate.

14. Working device according to claim 12, wherein the base plate forms the manipulating part of the milling machine.

15. Working device according to claim 12, wherein the milling cutter can be displaced with respect to the base place so as to be pivotally movable in the direction of extension of the same.

16. Working device according to claim 12, wherein the milling machine has a milling head comprising the drive of the milling cutter and is supported by the milling head via a pivot arm mounted on the base plate.

17. Working device according to claim 12, wherein the pivot arm is displaced via the auxiliary device in accordance with the course of the working line and is adjusted with the milling cutter to its working position with respect to the working line.