Shrink-fit Chuck Compensating Section for Concentricity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Shrink chucks face concentricity inaccuracies due to production-related errors in tools or chucks, leading to axial force conversion into radial forces during the heating and shrinking process, causing tool axis tilting and offset from the axis of rotation.
Innovation Solution
A compensating section within the adjusting device, designed with lower hardness and greater elasticity than the shrink-fit chuck, absorbs axial changes and forces, preventing radial force component conversion and maintaining concentricity by adjusting the axial position of the tool before stresses occur.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a length adjustment screw is used to pretension the tool axially after shrinking, then the play between the pull-out protection and the tool is minimized, but production-related errors in the tool or chuck cause axial force to be converted into radial force components, leading to tool axis tilting and concentricity inaccuracies
Solution Approach 1:
The adjusting device performs preliminary axial adjustment of the tool shank before the shrinking process begins. This preliminary action positions the tool correctly in the axial direction, allowing the subsequent shrinking process to occur without generating harmful radial force components that would cause tilting or concentricity errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjusting device acts as an intermediary mechanism between the tool shank and the shrink chuck. It provides a controlled interface that manages the interaction between the tool and chuck during the shrinking process, preventing direct transmission of harmful radial forces while maintaining proper axial positioning.
2Ease of operation
If the clamping section is heated to expand for tool insertion, then the tool shank can be easily inserted into the bore, but the axial shortening during cooling creates axial forces that convert to radial forces, causing tool axis offset
Solution Approach 1:
The adjusting device performs preliminary axial adjustment of the tool shank before the shrinking process begins. This preliminary action positions the tool correctly in the axial direction, allowing the subsequent shrinking process to occur without generating harmful radial force components that would cause tilting or concentricity errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjusting device provides a cushioning mechanism that absorbs and compensates for the axial shortening forces generated during the cooling and shrinking process. This beforehand cushioning prevents these axial forces from being converted into harmful radial force components that would cause tool axis offset.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively compensates for shrinkage-related changes, ensuring high concentricity and minimizing radial deflection, even with small flat errors or coaxial deviations, while allowing coolant supply to the tool.
Implementation Method 1
By heating the clamping section, e.g. B. by induction, the clamping section expands so that the tool shank can be inserted into the mounting hole. As the clamping section cools, it shrinks and forms a high-strength frictional connection with the tool shank.
Implementation Method 2
As the clamping section cools, it shrinks and forms a high-strength frictional connection with the tool shank.
Implementation Method 3
the compensating section has a lower hardness and/or greater elasticity than the shrink-fit chuck tool holder, the adjustment section and the shank tool. In this way it can be ensured that the compensating section compensates for the shrinkage-related changes in position and/or location before these lead to stresses in the chuck or in the tool
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AI summary
The invention relates to an adjusting device for axially supporting a shank tool in a shrink-fit chuck tool holder, comprising a leveling section on the side facing the shank tool to level out or at least reduce any changes in position and/or orientation of the shank tool which are due to shrinkage.