Integrated Guide Processing Device for Profile Sections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing processing devices for long profile sections, such as pipe sections, suffer from significant backlash due to their multi-part and open structure, leading to reduced precision during machining.
Innovation Solution
A compact and rigid processing device with integrated guides for the machining tool and clamping device, where the guides are molded into a single central component, allowing for precise movement without play, and a position determination device with distance sensors for accurate positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If separate clamping device and processing tool are used, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to backlash
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the clamping device and processing tool into a single integrated processing device with a common base structure. The clamping device (16, 17) and processing tool (6) are both mounted on the same base (5), sharing common guide rails (7, 10, 11) and positioning systems, eliminating the backlash issues between separate components while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design
2Manufacturing precision
If integrated guides are molded into central component, then manufacturing precision is improved through stable positioning, but device complexity increases due to monolithic structure
Solution Approach 1:
The guides (7, 10, 11) are integrally molded into the central component (5), creating a rigid monolithic structure that eliminates play and ensures stable relative positioning between the clamping device and processing tool. This integral design provides high positioning accuracy while the modular functional sections keep the overall system manageable
3Manufacturing precision
If compact rigid design is used, then manufacturing precision is improved through reduced play, but ease of manufacture deteriorates due to integrated component production
Solution Approach 1:
The central component (5) is produced as a single integrated piece using wire EDM technology, which allows complex three-dimensional guide structures to be precisely manufactured in one operation. This approach achieves high relative movement precision between components while the additive manufacturing capability handles the production complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables high-precision machining of long profile sections by ensuring stable and precise relative movement between the processing tool and clamping device, achieving micron-level accuracy in processing operations like chamfering.
Implementation Method 1
a distance sensor (32, 33) with a scanning beam (38) aligned in the measuring direction, which is aligned on a measuring surface (34, 35)
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AI summary
The invention relates to a processing device (1) for elongate profile sections (2) comprising a clamping device (4) by means of which the elongate profile section (2) can be secured in a positionally stable manner, and a processing tool (6) by means of which the secured elongate profile (2) can be processed, a central component (5) being provided that has at least one first integrated guide (7) for the processing tool (6) and at least one second integrated guide (10, 11) for the clamping device (4).