Cutting Fluid Tank Layout for Stable Coolant Temperature
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Solution Overview
Problem
The temperature of cutting fluid varies when recovered from different positions in a machine tool, affecting processing accuracy due to temperature differences, which is undesirable.
Innovation Solution
A cutting fluid tank with parallel passages and communication passages that flow cutting fluid in opposite directions, along with conveyor mounters to separate chips and manage fluid flow, ensuring consistent temperature by directing fluid flow from different directions through inflow and outflow portions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cutting fluid is recovered from different recovery positions, then the cutting fluid can be collected from various locations, but the temperature of the cutting fluid varies and processing accuracy is adversely affected
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting fluid tank is divided into multiple recovery chambers (first recovery chamber, second recovery chamber, etc.) with separate recovery passages for different recovery positions. This segmentation allows cutting fluid from different positions to be collected independently and then mixed in a mixing chamber, enabling flexible recovery position selection while maintaining temperature consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple recovery passages from different positions are merged into a common mixing chamber. The cutting fluid from various recovery positions flows into the mixing chamber where temperatures are equalized through thermal interaction, combining the benefits of multiple recovery positions while eliminating temperature variation issues.
2Device complexity
If cutting fluid flows through a single passage, then the structure is simple, but temperature differences occur when recovering from different positions
Solution Approach 1:
The single passage is segmented into multiple parallel recovery passages (first recovery passage, second recovery passage, etc.), each serving different recovery positions. This segmentation allows independent temperature control and mixing capabilities while maintaining reasonable structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
A mixing chamber is introduced as an intermediary component between the multiple recovery passages and the supply passage. This mixing chamber serves as a thermal buffer where cutting fluid from different temperatures mixes and equalizes, acting as a mediator that eliminates temperature differences before the fluid is supplied back to the machining area.
3Manufacturing precision
If cutting fluid temperature is kept constant, then processing accuracy is improved, but temperature varies when recovered from different positions
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple recovery passages carrying cutting fluid at different temperatures are merged into a common mixing chamber. The thermal interaction in the mixing chamber combines the heat content from different streams, producing a mixed fluid with consistent temperature that is then supplied back to the machining area, ensuring processing accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The temperature parameter of the cutting fluid is changed and equalized through the mixing process in the mixing chamber. By allowing thermal interaction and mixing, the temperature parameter transitions from variable (at different recovery positions) to constant (after mixing), enabling consistent processing accuracy.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration reduces temperature differences in the cutting fluid, maintaining consistent temperature and improving machining accuracy by stabilizing the cutting fluid temperature regardless of recovery position.
Implementation Method 1
a first parallel passage and a second parallel passage configured to recover the cutting fluid discharged from the machine tool and parallelly arranged to each other... the cutting fluid tank flows the cutting fluid through the first parallel passage and the second parallel passage in opposite directions to each other
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AI summary
A cutting fluid tank configured to recover cutting fluid from a machine tool includes a first parallel passage and a second parallel passage configured to recover the cutting fluid discharged from the machine tool and parallelly arranged to each other, and a communication passage configured to communicate the first parallel passage and the second parallel passage at ends of the first parallel passage and the second parallel passage, wherein the cutting fluid tank flows the cutting fluid through the first parallel passage and the second parallel passage in opposite directions to each other, and supplies the cutting fluid from the end of the second parallel passage to the machine tool, two inflow and outflow portions are adjacently arranged configured to flow the recovered cutting fluid to the first parallel passage, and each of inflow and outflow portions formed so as to flow the cutting fluid from different direction to each other, and flow the cutting fluid to the first parallel passage.