Rotating tool having an electric data carrier

• US 7,641,537 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2007
• Issued: 01/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Reishauer AG
• Original Assignee: Reishauer AG
• Inventors: Gretler, Markus, Thyssen, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Cadugan; Erica E
• Application Number:
  US11/708,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20070199983A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,049 Days
• Field of Search: 483/5, 483/6, 483 7- 12, 451/5, 451/6, 451/8, 451/47, 451/900, 700/164, 409/2, 409/80, 408/16, 408/9, 408/11, 408/8, 407/120
• US Class Current: 451/5
• CPC Class Codes: B23F 23/00 Accessories or equipment combined with or arranged in, or specially designed to form part of, gear-cutting machines accessories or equipment not restricted to gear-cutting machines B23Q
• CPC Class Codes: B23F 23/1225 Arrangements of abrasive wheel dressing devices on gear-cutting machines dressing devices per se B24B53/00
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 1/0009 Energy-transferring means or control lines for movable machine parts; Control panels or boxes; Control parts control handles for driving or feeding mechanisms B23Q5/54
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/49305 Store, memory on tool with control and maintenance data
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/20 for measuring, monitoring, testing, protecting or switching rectifiers H02K11/04; power electronics H02K11/33
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 451/90 Gear abrader

Abstract

A rotating cutting tool (2, 14, 16) for machining a workpiece on a machine tool, in particular for dressing the grinding worm of a tooth flank grinding machine, having an electronic data carrier for storing data relevant to the use of the tool, has an annular data carrier (7) arranged concentrically to the rotation axis of the tool and having an above-average storage capacity, and said data carrier (7), during the machining process, with the tool (2, 14, 16) rotating, exchanges tool-relevant data, at a high transmission rate, with a likewise annular write/read head (10) arranged concentrically thereto on the machine.

Claims

1. A machine tool comprising:

a rotating cutting tool (2, 14, 16) for machining a workpiece held on the machine tool, wherein the cutting tool (2, 14, 16) is a tool for producing gears.

an electronic data carrier (7) connected to the cutting tool (2, 14, 16) for storing data relevant to the use of the cutting tool, and

means (10) for performing the non-contact roll-in and/or roll-out of data of the electronic data carrier (7) provided on the machine tool,

said means permitting a transmission of data from the electronic data carrier (7) to the machine tool and receipt of data by the electronic data carrier (7) from the machine tool during the machining process when the cutting tool (2, 14, 16) is rotating,

the electronic data carrier (7) and the means (10) being arranged concentrically to the rotation axis (6) of the cutting tool (2, 14, 16), and

wherein the data transmitted between the electronic data carrier (7) and the means (10) for the roll-in and roll-out of data of the electronic data carrier (7) comprise at least one of the following tool-specific items of information;

tool-geometry data,

tool-coating characteristic data,

tool-life data,

tool-use technological data, and

technological data of previous uses of the tool.

2. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a tool-holding fixture (15) to which the cutting tool (16) is firmly connected, wherein the electronic data carrier (7) is attached to the tool-holding fixture (15).

3. The machine tool as claimed in claim 2, further comprising an actuating means comprising a switch (19), arranged on the tool-holding fixture (15) of the cutting tool (16) in such a way that the data of the electronic data carrier (7) is erased automatically when the cutting tool (16) is released from the tool-holding fixture (15).

4. machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic data carrier (7) is directly attached to the cutting tool (2, 14).

5. The machine tool as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a tool spindle (4) to accommodate the tool (2), a tool spindle housing (5) surrounding the tool spindle (4), and wherein the electronic data carrier (7) is arranged on an end face, facing the tool spindle housing (5), of the tool (2).

6. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic data carrier (7) has an annular shape that is arranged concentrically to the rotation axis (6) of the cutting tool (2, 14, 16), and wherein the electronic data carrier (7) has an annular data transmission area (8), via which the data are exchanged between the electronic data carrier (7) and the roll-in and roll-out means (10) in a non-contact manner.

7. machine tool as claimed in claim 6, wherein the data transmission area (8) is arranged on an end face of the electronic data carrier (7).

8. The machine tool as claimed in claim 6, wherein the data transmission area (8) is arranged on an outer circumferential side of the electronic data carrier (7).

9. The machine tool as claimed in claim 6, wherein the means (10) for the non-contact roll-in and roll-out of data of the electronic data carrier (7) comprises a data transmission area (9), said means (10) for the non- contact roll-in and roll-out of data are rigidly connected to the machine tool and are designed and arranged in such a way that said data transmission area (9) of said means (10) is located opposite to the data transmission area (8) of the electronic data carrier (7) with a slight gap in between.

10. The machine tool as claimed in claim 9, wherein the means for the non-contact roll-in and roll-out of data of the electronic data carrier (7) comprise a write/read head (10), wherein the write/read head (10) is of annular design, and wherein the write/read head (10) is arranged coaxially to the electronic data carrier (7) and is separated from the electronic data carrier (7) by an axial transmission gap (11) between the data transmission areas (8, 9).

11. The machine tool as claimed in claim 10, wherein the means for the non-contact roll-in and roll-out of data of the electronic data carrier (7) work in an inductive manner.

12. The machine tool as claimed in claim 10, wherein the transmission gap (11) has a width of less than 1 mm.

13. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic data carrier (7) is supplied with electrical energy in a non-contact manner by the means (10) for the roll-in and roll-out of data of the electronic data carrier (7).

14. A cutting tool with the machine tool as claimed in claim 1, the cutting tool connected to the electronic data carrier (7) for storing the data relevant to the use of the cutting tool, wherein the electronic data carrier (7) is designed for the non-contact roll-in and/or roll-out of data during the machining process when the cutting tool is rotating.

15. The cutting tool with the machine tool as claimed in claim 14, wherein the cutting tool is firmly connected to a tool-holding fixture (15), and wherein the electronic data carrier (7) is attached to the tool-holding fixture (15), wherein the tool holding fixture is configured such that the data are automatically erased from the electronic data carrier when the cutting tool is released from the tool holding fixture, wherein the release of the cutting tool from the tool holding fixture causes a switch to perform the automatic erasure, and wherein the cutting tool is a grinding worm.

16. The cutting tool with the machine tool as claimed in claim 14, wherein the data carrier (7) is directly attached to the cutting tool (2, 14) and wherein the cutting tool is a dressing tool.

17. The cutting tool with the machine tool as claimed in claim 14, wherein the electronic data carrier (7) that is arranged concentrically to the rotation axis of the cutting tool is of annular design , and wherein the electronic data carrier (7) has an annular data transmission area (8), via which the data are exchanged between the electronic data carrier (7) and the roll-in and roll-out means (10) in a non-contact inductive manner.

18. The cutting tool with the machine tool as claimed in claim 17, wherein the data transmission area (8) is arranged on a face of the electronic data carrier (7).

19. The cutting tool with the machine tool as claimed in claim 17, wherein the data transmission area (8) is arranged on an outer circumferential side of the electronic data carrier (7).

20. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cutting tool is a diamond dressing roll (2).

21. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cutting tool is a diamond dressing gear (14).

22. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cutting tool is a grinding worm.