Abstract: A camera is located at a position deviated from directly above a center of a placement location of a workpiece. When a photographed image is generated by photographing, with the camera, the placement location at which the workpiece is placed, an image processing device specifies, by using a preliminarily determined conversion parameter, to which pixels in the photographed image two-dimensional coordinates within a photographed three-dimensional space correspond, aligns the specified pixels corresponding to the respective coordinates in a two-dimensional manner, and generates a corrected photographed image in which a trapezoidal distortion in the photographed image is corrected. A robot control device detects a position of the workpiece at the placement location based on the corrected photographed image, and controls a workpiece retention robot so as to retain the workpiece and transport the workpiece to a processing machine.

Abstract: A laser processing machine includes a laser processing unit that irradiates a workpiece with a laser beam to carry out laser processing on the workpiece, a control unit that controls the laser processing unit in accordance with a processing condition under which the workpiece is processed, a beam detection unit that detects a beam from a processing portion of the workpiece irradiated with the laser beam, and a processing determination unit connected to the beam detection unit. The control unit controls the laser processing unit in a product processing mode for carrying out product processing of the workpiece and in a preliminary processing mode for carrying out preliminary processing of the workpiece prior to the product processing. The beam detection unit is capable of detecting a light intensity distribution of the beam in a predetermined wavelength band.

Abstract: A bending method includes acquiring a reference value of an original position of a punch with respect to a die for each processed part before an operation of bending of a workpiece by a bending machine including the punch and the die is started, storing each of the acquired reference values in association with each of the processed parts, reading the reference value associated with the processed part to which the bending is to be executed, acquiring a measurement value of the original position after the operation of the bending of the workpiece is started, calculating, based on the acquired measurement value, a secular change amount from the reference value or a previous measurement value as a secular change correction value for a pushing amount of the punch with respect to the die or the original position of the punch, and resetting, for each predetermined trigger condition, the pushing amount or the original position by using the secular change correction value during an automatic operation of the bending o

Abstract: In a first step, a pulling operation is performed with respect to four tools by retaining, in an immovable state, a leftmost tool from among the four tools lined up on a tool mounting unit by means of a left ATC and by moving, toward the left ATC, a rightmost tool from among the four tools by means of a right ATC. In a second step, a movement of the right ATC is stopped when a torque of a motor for moving the right ATC in a left-right direction reaches a preset set value. The first step includes a choosing step of choosing, for the respective left and right ATCs, whether to perform the pulling operation in a state of being abutted against respective side surfaces of the tools or to perform the pulling operation in a state of being engaged with respective engagement holes of the tools.

Abstract: An NC device controls a processing machine body so as to form an opening by cutting the periphery of an opening forming area in a material. In a case where a skid interferes with the opening forming area and the interfering skid is positioned within a margin from a first gravity center of the opening forming area in an alignment direction of the skid, the NC device controls the processing machine body so as to cut the opening forming area with a dividing line set at a position that is apart by a predetermined distance from the skid in the alignment direction of the skid. The predetermined distance is a distance in which the material is not welded to the skid, and is a distance in which a second gravity center of a scrap interfering with the skid is positioned at a distance longer than the margin from the skid.

Abstract: In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by using a tool changer, a round bar-shaped finger provided in the tool changer is engaged in a circular engagement hole provided at a central portion in the lateral direction of each divided upper tool. The divided upper tool is temporarily positioned in a gap between an upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed, and an adjacent upper tool holder. The temporarily positioned divided upper tool is moved in the left-right direction to be installed to the upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed.

Abstract: A laser machining apparatus includes a laser oscillator, a laser machining head including a housing, first and second optical elements configured to change a beam profile of a laser beam supplied into the housing to first and second beam profiles, a selector driving member configured to move each of the first and second optical elements between an advanced position and a retracted position relative to a luminous flux, and a control device configured to control the selector driving member to selectively shift to a first mode to maintain the first and second optical elements at the retracted position, a second mode to maintain only the first optical element at the advanced position, and a third mode to maintain only the second optical element at the advanced position, the control device being configured to stop the laser beam when the first and second optical elements move.

Abstract: A control data creation device includes a specifying unit configured to change suction positions at which carrying-out arms suction a product P by moving the carrying-out arms on product data so as to specify an index for evaluating a suction state for each of the suction positions, and a layout setting unit configured to create control data in which the suction position is laid out to the product P based on each index specified for each of the suction positions.

Abstract: A laser processing machine includes a processing head that emits a laser beam from an opening; a focusing lens that focuses the laser beam on a surface of sheet metal; a carriage that moves a position of the processing head; a galvano scanner unit that moves the laser beam emitted from the opening; an assist gas supply device and an NC device. The NC device controls the galvano scanner unit such that the center of the laser beam that is emitted from the opening moves by a predetermined movement distance, from the center of the opening to the front of the traveling route of an irradiation position for the laser beam, and performs control for a mark-off line to be marked on the sheet metal by controlling the carriage in such a way as to move the irradiation position for the laser beam along the traveling route.

Abstract: An attachment base extending in a left-right direction is provided on a lower end side of a front surface of an upper table of a press brake. On the attachment base, a plurality of protruding tabs protruding downward are formed at intervals in the left-right direction. An upper tool holder is disposed between the protruding tabs adjacent to each other in the left-right direction in the front surface of the attachment base. A connecting member is attached to a back surface of each protruding tab, and the connecting member includes a distal end located on a back side of the upper table. A guide member supporting a moving body movably in the left-right direction is coupled to a distal-end face of the connecting member.

Abstract: In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by using a tool changer, a round bar-shaped finger provided in the tool changer is engaged in a circular engagement hole provided at a central portion in the lateral direction of each divided upper tool. The divided upper tool is temporarily positioned in a gap between an upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed, and an adjacent upper tool holder. The temporarily positioned divided upper tool is moved in the left-right direction to be installed to the upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed.

Abstract: In a bending system and a method for using the same, the bending system includes a bending robot provided between a press brake and a predetermined setting area that is arranged in front of the press brake to assist in bending a workpiece. The bending robot includes a robot hand for holding the workpiece on a pallet that is set in the predetermined setting area. An image pickup unit, which picks up an image of the workpiece on the pallet from an oblique upper direction, is provided above and anterior to the predetermined setting area. A first illumination unit, which illuminates an image pickup area of the image pickup unit, is erected on a left front side of the predetermined setting area. A second illumination stand, which illuminates the image pickup area of the image pickup unit, is erected on a right front side of the predetermined setting area.

Abstract: A cutting machine includes a cutting machine main body configured to cut a material transported along a longitudinal direction of a material into a plurality of cut materials, a material supply device and a product carrying-out device configured to carry the material into the cutting machine main body and to sort and carry out each of the plurality of cut materials into a product yard for accommodating a product or a residual material yard for accommodating a residual material of the material, respectively, and an NC device configured to control the cutting machine main body, the material supply device, and the product carrying-out device. The NC device is provided with a first operation mode for causing all of the plurality of cut materials to be carried out to the product yard 45.

Abstract: A structure body cutting system includes a cutter system mounted on a cutting side trailer and configured to cut a blade to be cut, and a feeder system mounted on a feeding side trailer and configured to send out the blade to the cutter system. The blade is placed so as to straddle between the cutter system and the feeder system. The feeder system sends out the blade to the cutter system as the feeding side trailer comes close to the cutting side trailer. The cutter system cuts the blade into a plurality of cut segments by cutting the blade sent out from the feeder system.

Abstract: A conversion element converts a beam profile of a laser beam that is supplied from outside and emitted from a nozzle. A holder holds the conversion element. The holder is connected to a tip end of a shaft. An actuator moves the shaft such that the conversion element enters a luminous flux of the laser beam and retracts therefrom. A first flow path that enables a fluid that is a refrigerant to flow from a base side of the shaft toward a holder side of the shaft is formed inside the shaft, and a second flow path that enables the fluid flowing through the first flow path to return from the holder side of the shaft to the base side is formed inside the shaft.

Abstract: A laser processing machine includes: a processing head that emits a laser beam from an opening; carriages that move the position of the processing head; a Galvano scanner unit that vibrates the laser beam emitted from the opening to vibrate the beam spot on the surface of the sheet metal; and a numerical control (NC) device. The NC device marks a marking-off line on the sheet metal by reading a processing program for marking the marking-off line on the surface of the sheet metal and information on the vibration range of the laser beam corresponding to a set thickness of the marking-off line, and controlling the carriages to advance the irradiation position of the laser beam in a predetermined direction while controlling the Galvano scanner unit to vibrate the beam spot on the surface of the sheet metal at the read vibration range.

Abstract: Provided is a laser processing machine including a laser head capable of irradiating a workpiece with laser beam, a belt conveyor provided away in an irradiation direction of the laser beam, and a control unit configured to control operations of the laser head and the belt conveyor. The laser head is configured to be movable along at least a rotating direction of the belt conveyor. The control unit is configured to control, in a case where a moving direction and a moving speed of the laser head match the rotating direction and a rotating speed of the belt conveyor during the irradiation with the laser beam, the operation of at least one of the laser head and the belt conveyor in order to avoid the matching.

Abstract: A horizontal band saw machine includes a fixing vise jaw and a cutting head configured to cut a workpiece while descending along a guide post extending in a vertical direction. The cutting head includes a housing to which a driving wheel and a driven wheel are rotatably attached, and an endless band saw blade tightly stretched between the driving wheel and the driven wheel. When the workpiece a is cut with the band saw blade, a center of the driving wheel is located above a center of the driven wheel and the housing moves linearly up and down along the guide post. A fixing vise reference, which is a vertical plane on which the fixing vise jaw fixes the workpiece, shares a cutting end point at which the band saw blade ends cutting of the workpiece.

Abstract: A received beam amount acquisition section 60 acquires a received beam amount per unit time of a beam receiver 52 at certain sampling time intervals. A beam shielding detection section 66 detects presence or absence of beam shielding of a monitoring beam B by determining whether or not the acquired received beam amount per unit time of the beam receiver is lower than a determination threshold Th for detecting the presence of beam shielding of the monitoring beam B. A detection sensitivity of the beam shielding detection section 66 is configured to be switched from a normal sensitivity mode to a high sensitivity mode when bending is initial processing based on a predetermined processing program, and an acquired height position of the beam receiver 52 is lower than a predetermined second height position LP2.

Abstract: A digital projector according to one aspect includes: a light source that irradiates an object to be machined with light; a low-magnification camera mechanism that captures a projected image of the object to be machined, generated by the irradiation by the light source; a beam splitter provided on a light path of the projected image; a high-magnification camera mechanism that captures the projected image, split by the beam splitter, in a range narrower than the low-magnification camera mechanism and at a magnification higher than the low-magnification camera mechanism; and a display that displays a low-magnification image captured by the low-magnification camera mechanism and a high-magnification image captured by the high-magnification camera mechanism.