CNC machine tool

• US 7,147,595 B1
• Filed: 12/13/2005
• Issued: 12/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hsi-Kuan Chen
• Original Assignee: Hsi-Kuan Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Hsi-Kuan
• Primary Examiner(s): CADUGAN, ERICA E
• Application Number:
  US11/301,954
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• Field of Search: 483/14, 483 30- 31, 483/36, 483 39- 41, 409/237, 409/235, 409/159, 409/172, 409/238, 408/235, 408/234, 29/33.P
• US Class Current: 483/14
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 1/06 with one vertical working-spindle
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 1/626 followed perpendicularly by a single sliding pair
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 1/66 Worktables interchangeably movable into operating positions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5196 Multiple station with conveyor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/92 with counterweight mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 409/30532 with means to advance work or product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 409/309576 Machine frame
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 409/309688 including counterbalancing means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 483/16 with means to transfer work
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 483/1736 Tool having specific mounting or work treating feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 483/1748 Tool changer between spindle and matrix
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 483/1755 Plural tool holders pivotable about common axis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 483/176 Intermediate tool changer includes tool holder pivotable about axis

Abstract

A CNC machine tool includes a worktable supporting two workpieces and rotatable on a base so as to exchange the positions of the workpieces. A post member is fixed on the base. A first horizontal rail unit is movable vertically on the post member. A second horizontal rail unit is movable on the first horizontal rail unit along a first horizontal direction. A spindle head unit is movable on the second horizontal rail unit along a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction.

Claims

1. A machine tool including:

a base having a front portion and a rear portion;

a worktable unit on said front portion of said base adapted for mounting a workpiece thereon;

a support post unit including a post member disposed fixedly on said rear portion of said base, two vertical Z-axis sliding rails disposed fixedly on said post member and parallel to each other, a vertical first threaded rod journalled in a middle portion of said post member, a first driving member for driving said first threaded rod to rotate in said post member, and a counterweight, said first threaded rod having a first threaded portion of a first hand thread and a second threaded portion of an opposite hand thread;

a first horizontal rail unit including a first sliding seat driven by said first threaded rod to move along said Z-axis sliding rails, two horizontal X-axis sliding rails disposed fixedly on said first sliding seat and parallel to each other, a second threaded rod journalled on a middle portion of said first sliding seat, and a second driving member for driving said second threaded rod to rotate on said first sliding seat;

a second horizontal rail unit including a second sliding seat driven by said second threaded rod to move along said X-axis sliding rails, two horizontal Y-axis sliding rails disposed fixedly on said second sliding seat and parallel to each other, a third threaded rod journalled on a middle portion of said second sliding seat, and a third driving member for driving said third threaded rod to rotate on said second sliding seat, said Y-axis sliding rails being perpendicular to said X-axis sliding rails; and

a spindle head unit including a spindle seat driven by said third threaded rod to move along said Y-axis sliding rails, and a driving motor disposed on an upper end of said spindle seat;

and wherein said first sliding seat is mounted threadedly on one of said first and second threaded portions, and wherein said counterweight is mounted on the other of said first and second threaded portions.

2. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein said support post unit further includes:

a mounting member disposed fixedly on a side of said post member and formed with a vertical slide slot, said first sliding seat having an end received slidably within said slide slot in said mounting member; and

a cutter-storing bin disposed on said mounting member.

3. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first threaded portion is a left-hand threaded portion and said second threaded portion is a right-hand threaded portion, and wherein the arrangement of the first sliding seat and the counterweight on the first and second threaded portions are such that said first sliding seat and said counterweight move in opposite directions when said first threaded rod rotates on said post member.

4. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second sliding seat is generally L-shaped, and has a base plate portion bridging and movable on said X-axis sliding rails of said first horizontal rail unit, and a sliding rail portion extending perpendicularly from an end of said base plate portion, said Y-axis sliding rails being disposed fixedly on said sliding rail portion of said second sliding seat.

5. The machine tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein said worktable unit includes a vertical rotating shaft journalled on said front portion of said base, and a horizontal support plate disposed fixedly on an upper end of said rotating shaft, said support plate having opposite front and rear mounting portions each adapted for mounting a workpiece thereon, said rotating shaft being rotatable so as to exchange positions of the workpieces relative to said base.