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Spindle device of machine tool

US6926478B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 2001
Grant dateAug 9, 2005
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Expiry dateAug 20, 2021

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T409/309408
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A spindle device of a machine tool capable of stably injecting atomized cutting fluid from the tip of a tool device 13 when a variation in fluidity of the atomized cutting fluid occurs temporarily in atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2 or the supply of the atomized cutting fluid into the atomized cutting fluid passage e1 is stopped and restarted, wherein the atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2 having a single passage cross section are formed in the area ranging from the spindle 1 to the tip of the tool device 13 through the atomized cutting fluid passages e1, e2, and a vacant chamber group transmission layer part 14 having a large number of vacant chambers 142 stacked thereon in multiple stages or in the state of communicating with each other and allowing the atomized cutting fluid to pass therethrough through the groups of the vacant chambers 142 is formed in the atomized cutting fluid passage e1 or e2.

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