Abstract: An information processing device includes a CL data acquiring unit for acquiring CL data including an instructed position of a tool leading end point and an instructed angle of a tool posture; and an NC program generating unit for calculating a movement position on the linear axis corresponding to the instructed position and a rotational position about the rotation axis corresponding to the instructed angle. The NC program generating unit generates (i) first instructed point data calculated with an initial value of the rotational position and (ii) second instructed point data, which is different from the first instructed point data, calculated with the initial value of the rotational position, and the NC program generating unit counts number of inversions of the rotational position for each of the first instructed point data and the second instructed point data and generates the NC program in which the number of inversions is smaller.

Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment controls display of a state of a machine tool that includes (i) an attachment portion to which a tool is attachable, (ii) a numerical control unit for controlling (a) movement of the attachment portion and (b) a rotating speed of the tool in accordance with a machining program and (iii) a vibration detection unit for detecting vibration of the tool. This display control device includes a display control unit for controlling display of time-series data indicating (i) a change in a vibration level detected by the vibration detection unit and (ii) a change in the rotating speed of the tool. Upon receiving an instruction to change the rotating speed, the display control unit controls the display so that a marker indicating the change instruction is superimposed on the time-series data.

Abstract: A display control device includes a calculation unit for calculating a first rotating speed on the basis of a vibration level detected by a vibration detection unit when the vibration level has exceeded a predetermined value, a change receiving unit for receiving a change instruction for changing a second rotating speed that is a rotating speed when the vibration level has exceeded the predetermined value to the first rotating speed, and a display control unit for performing control to display, on an operation screen, the first rotating speed, the second rotating speed, and a ratio display unit indicating a change ratio to a third rotating speed specified by a machining program, and performing control to display the first rotating speed at a position in the ratio display unit corresponding to a change ratio of the first rotating speed to the third rotating speed.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a nozzle body discharging a powder and a carrier gas from an opening, a powder supply supplying the powder and the carrier gas to the nozzle body, a flow rate adjuster provided in a supply path of the powder supply to cause a part of a flow of the carrier gas containing the powder to flow into a branch flow path branching from the supply path to adjust a flow rate of the carrier gas containing the powder to be supplied to the nozzle body, and the branch flow path connected to the flow rate adjuster. The branch flow path is connected to a flow path leading to the nozzle body and has a separator for separating the powder and the carrier gas. The carrier gas separated from the powder by the separator is supplied to the nozzle body through the branch flow path.

Abstract: A technique for assisting a task of determining a tool that is a cause of a decrease in workpiece processing accuracy is provided. A machine tool capable of processing a workpiece using a plurality of tools includes a display and a control unit for controlling the machine tool. The control unit executes: a process of acquiring processing information that specifies a tool used in processing the workpiece and a processing route of the tool; a process of displaying, on the display, a three-dimensional model of the workpiece created based on the processing information; a process of receiving designation of a site with respect to the three-dimensional model displayed on the display; a process of determining, based on the processing information, an employed tool that has been involved in processing the designated site; and a process of displaying information on the employed tool on the display.

Abstract: An operation panel for a machine tool includes: a blower device that includes a plurality of blade sections and a center axis section, the plurality of blade sections rotating around a center axis, the center axis section having a circular columnar shape around the center axis and being disposed on a radial-directional inside about the center axis relative to the plurality of blade sections the blower device sucking air in an axial direction about the center axis and blowing out the air in the axial direction about the center axis an opposed wall that is disposed on an air suction side of the blower device and that is disposed so as to face the blower device in the axial direction about the center axis; and an intermediate member that is provided between the opposed wall and the center axis section in the axial direction about the center axis.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for improving the transport efficiency of workpieces by a transport system compared to before. A transport system of workpiece includes a transport device, a storage, which is one of transport destinations of workpiece by the transport device, a work station, which is one of transport destinations of workpiece by the transport device, a machine tool, which is one of transport destinations of workpiece by the transport device, and a controller. The controller executes a processing of acquiring a first weight of a workpiece to be transported to the storage from the work station, and a processing of determining a storage destination inside the storage for the workpiece to be transported based on the first weight, and the storage destination is determined so as to be closer to the machine tool as the first weight increases.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus for measuring a planar relative motion between a tool attacher and a work attacher of a machine tool includes at least one image capturing element capable of performing image capturing at a first position, a second position, and a third position, which are not located on the same line. The image capturing elements at the first position, the second position, and the third position are caused to capture a first point, a second point, and a third point, respectively, arranged on at least one plane of an XY-plane, an XZ-plane, and a YZ-plane. The image capturing element at the second position and the image capturing element at the third position are caused to capture the first point, the image capturing element at the first position and the image capturing element at the third position are caused to capture the second point, and the image capturing element at the first position and the image capturing element at the second position are caused to capture the third point.

Abstract: This invention provides a position detection apparatus that improves the position detection accuracy. A position detection apparatus includes an absolute track in which when N is an integer of not less than 2, a recording binary sequence created based on a position detection binary sequence in which identical sequences do not exist no matter which N continuous terms are extracted is recorded, and an absolute sensor unit that reads the recording binary sequence from the absolute track, wherein a plurality of terms included in the recording binary sequence consist of two binary values, and when the two binary values are assumed to be 1 and 0, the recording binary sequence is a sequence obtained by replacing one of two values included in the position detection binary sequence with 10 and the other value in the position detection binary sequence with 01.

Abstract: A device for a machine tool, which is detachable from an attachment part of the machine tool, includes: a data generating unit that generates data; a first communication unit that transmits the data generated by the data generating unit to an information processing device; a first control unit that activates and controls the first communication unit; a power receiving unit that receives power supplied from outside and transmits the power to the first control unit; a second communication unit capable of constantly communicating with the information processing device; a battery that supplies power to the second communication unit; and a second control unit that supplies power from the battery to the first control unit to activate the first control unit when the second communication unit has received an activation command from the information processing device.

Abstract: A self-propelled device includes a traveling body and a robot arm that is mounted on traveling body. Robot arm includes a base portion that is turnably connected to traveling body; an arm portion that is connected to base portion; and an end effector that is detachably attached to a distal end of arm portion and performs work on a target. Self-propelled device further includes an additional apparatus that includes at least one of an antenna, an imaging device, a laser sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, and a lighting device, and is attached to arm portion.

Abstract: An autonomous traveling apparatus includes a traveling body. The traveling body includes a first wheel portion and a second wheel portion each provided along a traveling direction of the autonomous traveling apparatus in the traveling body with a predetermined space being interposed between the first wheel portion and the second wheel portion. The second wheel portion has a pair of wheels. The autonomous traveling apparatus further includes a laser sensor. The laser sensor is configured to detect an object around the laser sensor, and is provided on the traveling body to avoid a portion above each of the pair of wheels such that a scanning plane is lower than a maximum reach point of a range of an upward/downward movement of each of the pair of wheels, the scanning plane being a range in which the laser light passes while rotating the laser light.

Abstract: An operation panel for operating a machine tool includes a first display unit for displaying information related to the machine tool, a keyboard, and a plurality of buttons. The button includes a second display unit and a transparent cover. The second display unit displays a first key image indicating a first function and is able to be switched to display a second key image indicating a second function depending on an application screen displayed on the first display unit.

Abstract: An information processing device that generates a fluid discharge path for discharging fluid into a machine to move chips, includes: a detecting unit for detecting a first input signal for a first position on an image of the machine and a second input signal for a second position on the image of the machine; and a display control unit for performing control to display (i) the first position, (ii) the second position, and (iii) a discharge path connecting the first position with the second position to be superimposed on image data of the machine.

Abstract: A touchscreen device includes a touchscreen (2), support parts (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) supporting a periphery of the touchscreen (2), and an information output unit outputting information corresponding to an external force acting on the touchscreen (2). Each support part (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) has thereon a pressure sensor (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d) arranged such that a pressure sensing surface thereof is in contact with the periphery of the touchscreen (2) and has a predetermined angle with respect to a planar surface of the touchscreen (2). The information output unit is configured to recognize, based on detected values detected by the pressure sensors (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d), an acting direction along the planer surface of the touchscreen (2) of the external force acting on the touchscreen (2) and output, to the outside, information on the acting direction and positional information detected by the touchscreen (2) for a position on the touchscreen where the external force is acting.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for more reliably detecting clogging of a filter with chips over conventional techniques. A machine tool that can machine a workpiece includes a storage tank; a discharge unit that discharges coolant stored in the storage tank toward chips resulting from the machining of the workpiece; a filter that removes the chips from the coolant; a collecting pump that brings the coolant back to the storage tank; a first obtaining unit that obtains a first index value indicating an amount of coolant discharged per predetermined time; a second obtaining unit that obtains a second index value indicating an amount of coolant that is brought back to the storage tank per predetermined time; and a notifying unit that notifies of an abnormality in the filter when a result of comparison of the first index value with the second index value satisfies a predetermined abnormality condition.

Abstract: A machining system includes a cover body having an opening and defining a machining area of a workpiece, a door portion provided in the opening, an actuator that operates the door portion between a first position at which the opening is closed and a second position at which the opening is opened, a controller that controls the actuator, and a robot arm that operates through the opening to convey a workpiece between the machining area and an external area outside the machining area. The controller controls the actuator such that the door portion is positioned at a third position when the robot arm conveys the workpiece. An opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the third position is smaller than an opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the second position.

Abstract: There is provided a technique to estimate a cutting force by a new method other than use of a dynamometer. A machine tool capable of cutting a workpiece using a tool includes a first surface that receives a force due to the cutting of the workpiece, the first surface being located in the machine tool; and a second surface that receives a force due to the cutting of the workpiece, the second surface being located in the machine tool. The second surface is not parallel to the first surface, and the machine tool includes: a first strain sensor coupled to the first surface and the second surface; and an estimation unit that estimates a force applied to the tool, based on an output value of the first strain sensor during the cutting of the workpiece.

Abstract: Data is utilized more efficiently and effectively. A position detection device includes a plurality of scales that each record absolute data embedded with a scale ID for identifying a scale, a detector that detects the absolute data from each of the plurality of scales, and an extractor that extracts, from the detected absolute data, the scale ID and position data representing the position of the scale.

Abstract: A cutting tool rest (31) includes a clamping mechanism part (131) and a first piston (61). First piston (61) includes a first facing section (63) and a second facing section (64), and clamping mechanism part (131) includes a lever (135). First piston (61) reciprocates between a first position at which lever (135) and first facing section (63) are in contact with each other to operate clamping mechanism part (131) in a clamped state and a second position at which lever (135) and second facing section (64) are in contact with each other to operate clamping mechanism part (131) in an unclamped state. Cutting tool rest (31) includes a second piston (71) that moves first piston (61) to a third position between the first position and the second position. When first piston (61) is located at the third position, lever (135) is separated from first facing section (63) and second facing section (64).