Monitoring method and monitoring apparatus for machine tool, and machine tool

• US 9,186,765 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2011
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Okuma Corporation
• Original Assignee: Okuma Corporation
• Inventors: Ando, Tomoharu, Ueno, Hiroshi, Hamaguchi, Akihide
• Primary Examiner(s): SAINT SURIN, JACQUES M
• Application Number:
  US13/252,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20120093598A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: 736/58, 735/93, 736/59, 736/60, 735/87, 700/159, 700/160
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 17/007 for managing machine functions not concerning the tool
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 17/12 for indicating or measuring vibration
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/37435 Vibration of machine
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/21 with signal, indicator, illuminator or optical means

Abstract

The monitoring apparatus includes vibration sensors that detect vibration accompanying machining, a rotation detector and a rotation detection section that detect rotation of a main spindle, and a stability limit and vibration distribution calculation section that creates, on the basis of vibration information obtained from the vibration sensors and a rotation speed of the main spindle detected by the rotation detector and rotation detection section, both a stability limit diagram illustrating a relationship between the rotation speed and a stability limit of the machining and a vibration distribution diagram illustrating a relationship between the rotation speed and the vibration, and displays the created diagrams on a monitor in a vertical arrangement.

Claims

1. A monitoring method for monitoring a machining state relating to vibration in a machine tool that performs machining by rotating a tool or a work piece mounted on a main spindle, the monitoring method comprising the steps of:

detecting vibration accompanying the machining;

detecting a rotation speed of the main spindle;

creating a stability limit diagram illustrating a relationship between the rotation speed and a stability limit of the machining on the basis of vibration information obtained in the vibration detection step and the rotation speed detected in the rotation detection step, and displaying the created stability limit diagram on a display unit; and

displaying a current rotation speed on the stability limit diagram in the form of a straight line that is orthogonal to a rotation speed axis.

2. The monitoring method for a machine tool according to claim 1, wherein, in the diagram drawing and displaying step, a vibration distribution diagram illustrating a relationship between the rotation speed and the vibration is created in addition to the stability limit diagram such that a range and a length of the rotation speed axis of the stability limit diagram are identical to those of the rotation speed axis of the vibration distribution diagram, and

in the current speed display step, the straight line is displayed so as to straddle the stability limit diagram and the vibration distribution diagram.

3. The monitoring method for a machine tool according to claim 2, further comprising the step of recording the created diagrams together with information relating to the used tool.

4. The monitoring method for a machine tool according to claim 1, further comprising the step of recording the created diagrams together with information relating to the used tool.

5. A monitoring apparatus for a machine tool that includes a display section and monitors a machining state relating to vibration in a machine tool that performs machining by rotating a tool or a work piece mounted on a main spindle, the monitoring apparatus comprising:

a vibration detection unit that detects vibration accompanying the machining;

a rotation detection unit that detects a rotation speed of the main spindle;

a diagram drawing and displaying unit that creates a stability limit diagram illustrating a relationship between the rotation speed and a stability limit of the machining on the basis of vibration information obtained by the vibration detection unit and the rotation speed detected by the rotation detection unit, and displays the created stability limit diagram on the display section; and

a current speed display unit that displays a current rotation speed on the stability limit diagram in the form of a straight line that is orthogonal to a rotation speed axis.

6. The monitoring apparatus for a machine tool according to claim 5, wherein the diagram drawing and displaying unit creates a vibration distribution diagram illustrating a relationship between the rotation speed and the vibration in addition to the stability limit diagram such that a range and a length of the rotation speed axis of the stability limit diagram are identical to those of the rotation speed axis of the vibration distribution diagram, and

the current speed display unit displays the straight line so as to straddle the stability limit diagram and the vibration distribution diagram.

7. The monitoring apparatus for a machine tool according to claim 6, further comprising a recording unit that records the created diagrams together with information relating to the used tool.

8. A machine tool that performs machining by rotating a tool or a work piece mounted on a main spindle, comprising the monitoring apparatus according to claim 6.

9. A machine tool that performs machining by rotating a tool or a work piece mounted on a main spindle, comprising the monitoring apparatus according to claim 7.

10. The monitoring apparatus for a machine tool according to claim 5, further comprising a recording unit that records the created diagrams together with information relating to the used tool.

11. A machine tool that performs machining by rotating a tool or a work piece mounted on a main spindle, comprising the monitoring apparatus according to claim 10.

12. A machine tool that performs machining by rotating a tool or a work piece mounted on a main spindle, comprising the monitoring apparatus according to claim 5.