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Method of and equipment for exchanging tools of machine tool

US5131136A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 24, 1991
Grant dateJul 21, 1992
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Expiry dateJul 24, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T483/1771
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An equipment of a machine tool for exchanging one tool attached to a main spindle into the other tool in a tool pot by memorizing a relative location between a terminated position of the cross rail and an elevator position of the tool pot of the tool-pot magazine mounted at one side of a gate-type column of the machine tool and being provided with corresponding detachable tool therein, calculating necessary movement distance of the tool pot with reference to the relative location, operating the tool-pot magazine by the calculated movement distance by a servo motor, and exchanging one tool attached to a main spindle into the other tool.

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