Patents Assigned to Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH
  • Publication number: 20190232389
    Abstract: A method or device for monitoring a work spindle's tool clamping system of a numerically controlled machine tool with a control device controlling the processing of a workpiece with a tool clamped to the work spindle by a tool interface when a tool is clamped to the work spindle's tool interface holder by a tool interface, wherein the work spindle has a plurality of force sensors on a tool interface holder's bearing areas of the work spindle and force sensors' sensor values of the work spindle are provided on the control device with the tool clamped by means of the tool interface to the work spindle's tool interface holder, including monitoring the work spindle's tool clamping system when the tool is clamped by means of the tool interface to the work spindle's tool interface holder at the control device on the basis of a determined force distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf KETTEMER
  • Patent number: 10322484
    Abstract: A machine tool, in particular a multi-spindle and/or double-spindle milling machine, comprising a machine frame, a workpiece clamping device for clamping a workpiece, an axis slide assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and is configured to linearly move the workpiece clamped on the workpiece clamping device by way of two controllable linear axes in a Y-direction and a Z-direction, and a spindle carrier assembly, which is arranged on the machine frame and has at least two tool-carrying work spindles that can be moved independently of each other in an X-direction which is perpendicular to the Y-direction and Z-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Geissler, Robert Jung, Martin Rinderle
  • Patent number: 10245695
    Abstract: A machine tool for machining a workpiece clamped in the working space of the machine tool by means of a tool. The machine tool includes a machine bed, which has a chip collection region having at least one conveying channel open on the working space side for collecting chips that drop during the machining of the workpiece, and a conveying device for leading away chips that have dropped into the chip collection region in the at least one conveying channel. The conveying device has a stationary supporting shaft, which extends in the at least one conveying channel in the longitudinal direction of the conveying channel, wherein a spiral element is rotatably supported on the stationary supporting shaft, and wherein the conveying device also comprises a drive for driving the rotational motion of the spiral element about the stationary supporting shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Roland Köchl, Wolfgang Dietenhauser
  • Patent number: 10239131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to embodiments of a machine tool, in particular a multi-spindle milling machine, comprise a machine frame, a workpiece clamping device for clamping a workpiece, an axis slide assembly arranged on the machine frame, and a spindle carrier assembly which is arranged on the machine frame and has at least two tool-carrying work spindles. The axis slide assembly is configured to linearly move the workpiece clamped at the workpiece clamping device by way of three controllable linear axes X, Y and Z. The work spindles are arranged at a turret which can be rotated or swiveled about a turret axis at respectively equal distance from the turret axis, and the spindle axes of the work spindles are aligned or can be aligned in parallel to one another and in parallel to the turret axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH
    Inventor: Alfred Geissler
  • Publication number: 20190084106
    Abstract: A system for changing and inserting or placing tools on a machine tool, including: a tool changer with a manipulator which is configured to remove a tool to be introduced from a tool magazine of the machine tool at a removal position and to transfer it to a work spindle of the machine tool at a tool change position in an automatic tool changing operation, and a tool diameter measuring apparatus, which is configured to determine a tool diameter or a tool radius of the tool to be introduced that has been removed from the tool magazine of the machine tool by the manipulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Rolf KETTEMER, Daniel BELONI
  • Patent number: 10222781
    Abstract: Apparatus for monitoring and providing visual representations of the operating conditions of machine tool parameters, in particular for program-controlled turning, milling, and drilling machines, which have a machining unit displaceable in a plurality of coordinate axes, in which a work spindle for exchangeable receiving a machining tool and an electric motor for driving the work spindle are mounted. The machine tool includes a control unit and means for monitoring the operating state of the machine tool. The monitoring apparatus has at least one sensor for detecting at least one operating parameter of the machine tool. An evaluating unit is connected to both the sensor and the control unit and processes the measurement values detected by the sensor. An optical display is provided in the direct viewing range of the operator, which viewing range includes the machine operating spindle, tool holder, tool, and workplace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Bornemann, Reinhold Seitz, Hans Gronbach, Peter Pruschek
  • Patent number: 10166639
    Abstract: A system is provided for changing and inserting tools into or presenting tools at a machine tool. The system includes at least n rotatable tool magazines for receiving a plurality of tools, where n?2, which are arranged in tandem in the direction of a rotational axis. At least one of the n tool magazines can be driven independently of the other tool magazines to perform a rotational movement about the rotational axis. The system further includes a manipulator for removing the tools from the magazine. The tools are held in tool mounts along the circumference of the n tool magazines such that the longitudinal axes of the tools in each case of one of the n tool magazines are located in one plane and project from the circumference of the tool magazine, and the tools can be moved along the circumference of the respective tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventor: Robert Jung
  • Patent number: 10118267
    Abstract: Provided is a machine tool with a machine rack constructed of structural parts and components mounted thereon, the components including functional components. The functional components generate heat during the operation of the machine tool which is input into the structural parts and/or the components by heat transport. The machine tool may also include a flow channel system disposed on the structural parts and/or the components of the machine tool in which a tempering medium is circulated such that the heat generated by the functional components is distributed in the machine rack and/or the components as a result of the passage of the tempering medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Gronbach
  • Patent number: 10099330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system, an apparatus and a method for providing tools on a machine tool. The system includes a first tool magazine for accommodating a plurality of tools; a first feeding device which is adapted to remove tools from the first tool magazine and feed them to the spindle; at least one second tool magazine for accommodating a plurality of tools; a second feeding device which is adapted to remove tools from the second tool magazine and provide them at a predetermined transfer position; and a transfer apparatus which is adapted to feed tools removed from the second tool magazine to the first tool magazine, with the result that the second tool magazine serves as a supply magazine for the first tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Kraft, Sebastian Riedel, Michael Trenkle
  • Publication number: 20180290249
    Abstract: A machine tool for machining a workpiece has a spindle arm with a spindle for receiving a tool or workpiece. The spindle arm is movably attached to a spindle arm receiving section. The spindle arm has a first spindle arm section, being a longitudinal element, having a first rotational axis with respect to the spindle arm receiving section and is hinged to the spindle arm receiving section; a second spindle arm section, rotatable about a second rotational axis with respect to and is hinged to the first. The spindle arm receiving section has a first subsection and a second subsection, arranged on the machine column at a distance from one another to receive the spindle arm. The first spindle arm section has first and second subsections, which are arranged on the spindle arm receiving section at a distance from each other to receive the second spindle arm section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe KSCHIER, Alfred GEISSLER
  • Publication number: 20180071892
    Abstract: A grinding tool with a coolant supply device for a machine tool and such a coolant supply device. The coolant supply device for the grinding tool has a main body with engagement portions or holes and a line unit for redirecting coolant to a predeterminable processing area of the grinding tool. Using a clamping device, it is possible to releasably secure the coolant supply device to the shaft of the grinding tool. As a result of the attachment of the coolant supply device on the grinding tool, it is possible to tap the coolant of the machine tool via an additional valve device on the connector ring of the machine tool from the standard cooling circuit and supply it to the grinding location in a predeterminable processing area of the grinding tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Robert JUNG, Florian LAU
  • Publication number: 20180065192
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a machine bed, a tool clamping portion which is arranged on the machine bed and serves to clamp a workpiece on the machine tool, a swivel arm receiving portion arranged on the machine bed, a first swivel arm pivotally mounted on the swivel arm receiving portion about a first axis of rotation, a second swivel arm pivotally mounted on the first swivel arm about a second axis of rotation, a spindle carrier arm rotatably mounted on the second swivel arm about a third axis of rotation, a milling head rotatably mounted on the spindle carrier arm about a fourth axis of rotation, and a work spindle which is held on the milling head and serves to receive a tool, wherein the third axis of rotation is aligned perpendicularly or transversely to the fourth axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe KSCHIER, Alfred GEISSLER
  • Publication number: 20180021908
    Abstract: A machining unit for a program-controlled machine tool. In particular, a spindle device for a program-controlled machine tool including a spindle housing; a working spindle which is mounted in the spindle housing in a rotatable manner about a spindle axis and which includes a clamping device for clamping a tool interface that is inserted in a tool receiving section of the spindle device and is configured to hold a milling or boring tool; and a sensor device which is arranged on the spindle housing and which includes at least one structure-borne sound sensor configured to detect structure-borne sounds or vibrations occurring during grinding operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH
    Inventor: Hans VEITTINGER
  • Publication number: 20180010297
    Abstract: A machining unit for use on a machining tool has a head carrier that is attachable to the machine tool and has a head carrier housing , a swivel head that is provided to swivel relative to the head carrier about a swivel head rotation axis and has a swivel head housing, a spindle head that is attached to the swivel head and has a working spindle , and a cable run that extends inside the head carrier housing to the swivel head and has a plurality of members that are arranged in succession along the cable run and are connected movably together. Adjacent members are in this case able to rotate and swivel relative to one another and each member has a central piece and a sheathing spaced apart therefrom. The central piece is connected to the sheathing via one or more connection elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH
    Inventor: Florian GARBARSKY
  • Publication number: 20170368654
    Abstract: A machine tool for machining a workpiece clamped in the working space of the machine tool by means of a tool. The machine tool includes a machine bed, which has a chip collection region having at least one conveying channel open on the working space side for collecting chips that drop during the machining of the workpiece, and a conveying device for leading away chips that have dropped into the chip collection region in the at least one conveying channel. The conveying device has a stationary supporting shaft, which extends in the at least one conveying channel in the longitudinal direction of the conveying channel, wherein a spiral element is rotatably supported on the stationary supporting shaft, and wherein the conveying device also comprises a drive for driving the rotational motion of the spiral element about the stationary supporting shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Roland KÖCHL, Wolfgang DIETENHAUSER
  • Patent number: 9789576
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tool holder to receive and lock a tool taper on a tool magazine, an unlocking device to unlock a tool taper that is received and is locked in a tool holder of this type, and a tool magazine for a machine tool comprising one or more tool holders of this type and an unlocking device of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Lechleiter, Matthias Mayr, Michael Trenkle
  • Patent number: 9505060
    Abstract: A device for employment in a machine tool, including: a first unit; a second unit connected to the first unit, wherein the first unit is rotatable around a rotational axis relative to the second unit; a motor spindle connected to the second unit; a line feed-through extending along the rotational axis from the first to the second unit; lines extending from the interior of the first unit through the line feed-through as well as through the second unit into the motor spindle; and a line guiding device formed in the first unit and serving for guiding a part of the lines disposed in the first unit immediately in front of the line feed-through, wherein the line guiding device is formed in a plane oriented perpendicularly to the rotational axis, and wherein the line guiding device feeds the lines upon rotation of the second unit with respect to the first unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventor: Robert Jung
  • Publication number: 20160147216
    Abstract: Apparatus for monitoring and providing visual representations of the operating conditions of machine tool parameters, in particular for program-controlled turning, milling, and drilling machines, which have a machining unit displaceable in a plurality of coordinate axes, in which a work spindle for exchangeable receiving a machining tool and an electric motor for driving the work spindle are mounted. The machine tool includes a control unit and means for monitoring the operating state of the machine tool. The monitoring apparatus has at least one sensor for detecting at least one operating parameter of the machine tool. An evaluating unit is connected to both the sensor and the control unit and processes the measurement values detected by the sensor. An optical display is provided in the direct viewing range of the operator, which viewing range includes the machine operating spindle, tool holder, tool, and workplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH
    Inventors: Armin BORNEMANN, Reinhold SEITZ, Hans GRONBACH, Peter PRUSCHEK
  • Patent number: 9346138
    Abstract: A program controlled machine tool, including a bed-like substructure, a machine frame having two vertical and parallel side walls, and a compound slide having a longitudinal slide which can travel in the direction of the Y-coordinate axis on the two side walls of the machine frame. A cross slide is guided in such a way that it can travel in the direction of the X-coordinate axis. A machining unit can travel in the direction of the vertical Z-coordinate axis and has a working spindle. A workpiece table arrangement arranged on the substructure in front of the side walls. The workpiece table arrangement is arranged on the front partial area of the flat base and the cross slide has a length in the direction of the Y-coordinate axis which corresponds approximately to the diameter of the workpiece table and/or the working space in the Y-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventor: Karl Lechleiter
  • Patent number: 9314891
    Abstract: A machining unit for a program-controlled machine tool having a measuring and monitoring device for monitoring the position and condition of a tool shaft in the tool holder. This measuring and monitoring device includes a plurality of axial sensors and radial sensors and an evaluating unit for the measurement results detected by the sensors. An outer ring is releasably fastened to the spindle housing and contains an electronic transmission element and terminals for energy and data cables. A rotor is assigned to this stationary outer ring and contains the sensors and is coupled to the outer ring for the non-contact data transmission. The rotor is releasably fastened to the front end face of the spindle by bolted connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventor: Hans Veittinger