Tool Spindle Loading Mechanism for Single-Clamp Multi-Step Machining
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current machine tools lack the capability to perform extensive machining options on workpieces with optimized quality and minimized time expenditure, as they often require multiple clamping positions and tool changes for different machining processes.
Innovation Solution
A machine tool design that allows relative movement between the tool spindle and workpiece carrier, enabling oscillating lifting movements and transverse adjustments via a displaceable rod, which can be coupled to a motor device for precise positioning and adjustment of cutting tools, allowing for combined machining processes like fine boring and honing without changing the clamping position.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple clamping positions and tool changes are used for different machining processes, then machining versatility is improved, but machining time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The machine tool is designed with a universal workpiece carrier that can accommodate multiple machining processes (turning, drilling, milling, threading) in a single clamping position. The carrier includes integrated tool holders and positioning mechanisms that enable different operations without requiring workpiece removal or repositioning, thus eliminating time loss while maintaining versatility
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple machining functions are merged into a single integrated workpiece carrier system. The carrier combines turning tools, drilling apparatus, milling mechanisms, and threading devices in one unified structure, allowing all these operations to be performed on the workpiece without changing clamping positions or performing tool changes, thereby reducing total machining time
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple clamping positions are used for different machining processes, then machining versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single universal workpiece carrier is designed to perform multiple machining operations through integrated mechanisms rather than requiring multiple specialized clamping devices. The carrier includes adjustable tool holders, positioning systems, and cutting mechanisms that can be reconfigured for different operations, providing versatility while maintaining a unified, manageable system structure
Solution Approach 2:
The workpiece carrier incorporates dynamic, adjustable components that can be repositioned and reconfigured for different machining operations. Tool holders can be moved to various positions, cutting tools can be adjusted, and the carrier itself can be reoriented, providing the versatility of multiple clamping positions through a single dynamic system rather than multiple static devices
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
This design enables high-quality machining of workpieces with minimized time and tool changes, allowing for various machining processes such as fine boring, reaming, and honing to be performed in the same clamping position, optimizing processing quality and efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
coupled to a motor device for precise positioning and adjustment of cutting tools
Implementation Method 2
enabling oscillating lifting movements and transverse adjustments
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AI summary
The invention relates to a machine tool, comprising at least one tool spindle (18a, 18b; 52) on which a tool (56; 80; 82) can be detachably fixed and by means of which the tool (56; 80; 82) can be rotated, and a workpiece support (32), the at least one tool spindle (18a; 18b; 52) and the at least one workpiece support (32) being able to be slid relative to each other, characterized in that the at least one tool spindle (52) comprises a loading device (60; 164) acting on at least one linearly displaceable bar (64) of a tool (56) fixed to the at least one tool spindle (52), and that the at least one tool spindle comprises a motor device (66) coupled to the loading device (60) and driving a linear displacement of the at least one bar (64) by means of the loading device (60), and that a set of tools (56) is provided, comprising at least one first tool (78) and one second tool (82), by which different machining steps can be carried out on a workpiece, wherein the tools (56) can each be fixed to the at least one tool spindle (52) and the tools (56) each comprise at least one bar (64) on which the loading device (60) of the at least one tool spindle (52) acts when a tool (56) is fixed to the at least one tool spindle (52).