Desk-top cutting machine

• US 5,572,916 A
• Filed: 10/20/1994
• Issued: 11/12/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi KOKI Company Limited (Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Koki Haramachi Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Takano, Shinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada, Rinaldi I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHROCK, ALLAN
• Application Number:
  US08/326,192
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• Field of Search: 83/74, 83/76, 83/72, 83/490, 83/471.3, 83/581, 83/62.1, 318/779, 318/381, 318/432
• US Class Current: 83/74
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 47/12 of drives for circular saw blades
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 11/04 Arrangements preventing overload of tools, e.g. restricting load
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 5/38 Devices for braking the circular saw blade or the saw spindle; Devices for damping vibrations of the circular saw blade, e.g. silencing B23D47/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/141 With means to monitor and control operation [e.g., self-regulating means]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/148 Including means to correct the sensed operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7697 Tool angularly adjustable relative to work-support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7788 Tool carrier oscillated or rotated

Abstract

In a desk-top cutting machine, a magnet 24 and a magnetic pickup 22 are attached to a motor shaft 12. A control circuit 28 is provided for controlling a TRIAC 23 in response to the signal from the detection means. Further, a dynamic braking coil 25 which serves as braking means for a motor 11 when power supply to the motor 11 is stopped is provided in the motor 11. The dynamic braking coil 25 stops within a time during which no slip is produced between the motor shaft 12 and endless belt 18 and between the cutting blade shaft 10 and endless belt 18. In this way, the rpm and torque of the motor are controlled from motor starting to cutting and motor stopping.

Claims

1. A desk-top cutting machine, comprising:

a base for supporting a workpiece;

a cutting blade portion which is provided above said base so as to be swingable vertically against said base, said cutting blade portion including a cutting blade, a motor and a driving force transmitting means for transmitting the driving force of said motor to said cutting blade, said driving force transmitting means including an endless belt;

soft start means for slowly boosting the rotation of said motor when starting said motor to control the torque of said motor during acceleration;

rpm detecting means for detecting one of the rpm of said motor and said cutting blade;

load current detecting means for detecting the load current of said motor;

motor control means which receives signals from said rpm detecting means and said load current detecting means during motor driving to control the rpm and torque of said motor so that the rpm and torque thereof do not exceed a permissible rpm and permissible transmission torque of said endless belt, respectively; and

braking means for stopping the rotation of said motor by a deceleration torque which does not exceed the permissible transmission torque of said endless belt when power supply to said motor is stopped.

2. A desk-top cutting machine according to claim 1, wherein said endless belt is made of elastic material.

3. A desk-top cutting machine according to claim 1, wherein said motor control means includes constant speed control means for regulating the rpm of said motor to an rpm that is outside of an rpm where said cutting blade resonates, regulating the load rpm in cutting and machining the workpiece by said cutting blade and non-load rpm to be approximately equal to each other, and performing feedback control of fixing the rpm of said cutting blade regardless of a change in the load.

4. A desk-top cutting machine according to claim 1, wherein said motor comprises a power braking coil which includes a series-wound type commutator motor, and said braking means comprises a field coil for generating a magnetic field braking the rotation of said motor and another field coil for generating, in a direction opposite to the direction of braking, a magnetic field weaker than that said field coil generates.

5. A desk-top cutting machine according to claim 3, wherein said motor comprises a power braking coil which includes a series-wound type commutator motor, and said braking means comprises a field coil for generating a magnetic field braking the rotation of said motor and another field coil for generating, in a direction opposite to the direction of braking, a magnetic field weaker than that said field coil generates.