BORING TOOL

• US 20150273591A1
• Filed: 03/24/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: NAKAMURA, Kazuto
• Application Number:
  US14/666,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20150273591A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 2260/034 Drawbars
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 29/03446 by means of inclined planes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/85 to move radially
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/8588 Axially slidable moving-means

Abstract

A boring tool includes: a cutter provided on an outer peripheral portion of a tool main body; a draw bar supported to be slidable in a tool axial direction in a center hole of the tool main body; cutting edge position adjusting means for adjusting a cutting edge position of the cutter in a tool radial direction depending on a position of the draw bar in the tool axial direction; and a spring for biasing and positioning the draw bar in the tool axial direction in mounting of the tool main body on a main spindle of a machine tool.

Claims

1. A boring tool comprising:

a cutter provided on an outer peripheral portion of a tool main body;

a draw bar supported to be slidable in a tool axial direction in a center hole of the tool main body;

cutting edge position adjusting means for adjusting a cutting edge position of the cutter in a tool radial direction depending on a position of the draw bar in the tool axial direction; and

positioning means for positioning the draw bar in the tool axial direction in mounting of the tool main body on a main spindle of a machine tool.

2. The boring tool according to claim 1, wherein the positioning means is biasing means, interposed between the center hole and the draw bar, for biasing the draw bar in the tool axial direction.

3. The boring tool according to claim 1, wherein the positioning means includes:

an engagement member supported to be capable of advancing to and retreating from the center hole; and

a recess portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the draw bar and configured to engage with the engagement member.

4. The boring tool according to claim 1, wherein the cutting edge position adjusting means includes:

a cutter supporting member to which the cutter is attached and which elastically deforms outward in the tool radial direction from the outer peripheral portion of the tool main body;

an inclined surface which is formed on the draw bar and which is inclined inward in the tool radial direction; and

a pushing pin which is supported to be slidable in the tool radial direction in the tool main body and which pushes the cutter supporting member outward in the tool radial direction by sliding on the inclined surface.

5. The boring tool according to claim 4, wherein the draw bar is configured such that a front end side shaft portion including the inclined surface is separable.

6. The boring tool according to claim 1, wherein the cutting edge position adjusting means includes:

a guide plate which slides in the tool axial direction together with the draw bar;

a guide groove which is formed in the guide plate and which is inclined with respect to the tool axial direction;

a cutter supporting member to which the cutter is attached and which is supported on the tool main body to be slidable in the tool radial direction; and

a slide pin which has one end slidably supported in the guide groove and another end fixed to the cutter supporting member.

7. The boring tool according to claim 6, wherein the guide plate is detachably attached to the draw bar.

8. The boring tool according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the cutting edge position adjusting means are provided in the tool axial direction.