Modular Machining System with Intersecting Maintenance Tracks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing machining systems with multiple working machines, including machine tools, face challenges in practicality due to complex maintenance and the need for multiple bases, which increases system length and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A machining system with modular working machine modules that can be drawn out along intersecting tracks, allowing for easy maintenance and reducing the number of bases required, while maintaining a compact system length by arranging modules closely adjacent on a single base.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of repair
If multiple working machines are disposed in a line on separate bases, then each machine body can be drawn out for maintenance, but the system length increases and the number of bases increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple working machine modules onto a single common base structure, merging what would traditionally be separate base units. This allows the modules to be maintained individually while drawn out along tracks, but eliminates the need for multiple separate bases, thereby reducing system length while preserving maintenance accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces drawing-out tracks that extend in a direction intersecting with the arrangement direction of the modules. This dimensional change allows modules to be extracted perpendicular to the main system axis, enabling maintenance access without increasing the system's length in the arrangement direction.
2Ease of repair
If multiple working machines are disposed in a line on separate bases, then each machine body can be drawn out for maintenance, but the number of bases increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple base functions into a single common base structure that supports multiple working machine modules. This merging reduces the number of base units from multiple to one, simplifying the overall system structure while maintaining the ability to individually access and maintain each module through the drawing-out mechanism.
3Length of stationary object
If modules are arranged closely adjacent on one base, then system length is reduced, but maintenance may be interfered with by adjacent modules
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves the maintenance interference problem by changing the dimension in which modules are extracted. Instead of moving modules parallel to the arrangement direction where adjacent modules would block access, the drawing-out tracks extend in an intersecting direction, allowing modules to be drawn out perpendicular to their neighbors, thus eliminating interference while maintaining compact arrangement.
4Ease of repair
If multiple bases are provided for multiple working machines, then each machine can be independently maintained, but the system becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent base structures into a single integrated common base that supports multiple working machine modules. This consolidation reduces system complexity by eliminating redundant base components while preserving independent maintenance capability through the drawing-out mechanism that allows each module to be individually accessed along intersecting tracks.
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AI summary
A machining system with a configuration in which working machines, including a machine tool, are configured to be disposed in a line, and in which multiple working machines perform operations on one work in order, is provided. The machining system includes: a base; and multiple working machine modules which are mounted on the base and are arranged in an arrangement direction, and has a configuration in which each of the multiple working machine modules is capable of being drawn out from the base along a track extending in an intersecting direction intersecting with the arrangement direction.