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).

Abstract: Provided is an information processing method capable of effectively utilizing a variety of types of information collected from a machine tool. The information processing method includes the step of communicating with a plurality of machine tools (S10). The plurality of machine tools each include a sensor to sense information about the machine tool as sensed information. The step of communicating (S10) includes the step of receiving as collected data from each of the plurality of machine tools part information about a part of the machine tool and the sensed information obtained by the sensor. The information processing method further includes the steps of storing in a storage unit the collected data received from each of the plurality of machine tools (S20A, S20B); and based on the plurality of collected data stored in the storage unit, learning a correlation between part information of a machine tool and sensed information obtained by the sensor internal to that machine tool (S32).

Abstract: Provided is a technique of transporting an object to be transported to a machine tool more securely. A transport system includes a transport path, and a storage portion. The storage portion stores an object, and has a first reference shape. The transport system includes machine tools, and a transport device that moves on and the transport path and transports an object. The control unit executes a process of making a camera photograph the first reference shape to acquire a first image from the camera, and a process of correcting a control parameter to be used in transporting an object to be transported stored in the storage portion to the machine tool that is a transport destination on the basis of a position of the first reference shape in the first image.

Abstract: A cutting tool rest includes: a plurality of tool holding portions; and a base provided with a plurality of tool holding portions, the base being operable to move each of the tool holding portions between a plurality of positions including a tool change position and a workpiece processing position. Each of the tool holding portions has: a clamping mechanism portion that is operated between a clamping state and an unclamping state when supplied with a hydraulic pressure, the clamping state being a state in which the tool is clamped, the unclamping state being a state in which the tool is unclamped; and a valve that controls a hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the clamping mechanism portion. The cutting tool rest further includes an actuator that operates the valve of the tool holding portion positioned at the tool change position when connected to the tool holding portion positioned at the tool change position.

Abstract: The present invention includes two guide rails (15, 16) arranged in parallel in a feeding direction, sliders (17, 19, 21, 23) arranged on the guide rails (15, 16), a movable carriage (3) mounted on the sliders (17, 19, 21, 23) and moved in the feeding direction, and a drive mechanism (11) moving the movable carriage (3). The present invention further includes a scale arranged along the feeding direction on the guide rails (15, 16), read heads (18, 20, 22, 24) respectively arranged on the sliders (17, 19, 21, 23) and detecting a position in the feeding direction and a position in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction by reading information given to the scale, and a motion error calculator (70) calculating a motion error of the movable carriage (3) based on position information in two directions detected by the read heads (18, 20, 22, 24).

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a machine tool including a machine tool body including a spindle device, a feed device, and a machining auxiliary device, an additional device, a main operation panel, a sub-operation panel for manual operation of the additional device, and a controller, wherein when a predetermined abnormality occurs in the machine tool body while an operator is working at the additional device, the predetermined abnormality is quickly avoided without damaging a workpiece due to interference with a tool.

Abstract: A workpiece stocker houses a workpiece setting member such that the workpiece setting member is able to be pulled out from a housed position to a vehicle working position side and an opposite vehicle working position side. An automated transport system identifies a target workpiece stocker and a target workpiece setting member for an operation to be performed by a robot mounted on an automated guided vehicle and drives a pullout restriction mechanism unit to prevent the workpiece setting member from being pulled out to the opposite vehicle working position side or being pulled out to the vehicle working position side before the automated guided vehicle arrives at a working position and the robot pulls out the workpiece setting member to the vehicle working position side after the identification.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a headstock for supporting a workpiece spindle to allow the workpiece spindle to rotate and a camera for imaging a tool held in a predetermined area. The camera is fixed to the headstock above the workpiece spindle with an optical axis of the camera inclined with respect to a vertical direction. The machine tool may further include an illumination unit arranged to face the camera. In this case, the area is formed between the camera and the illumination unit. The camera is arranged to be closer to the headstock than the illumination unit is.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a workpiece holding device including: a plurality of first claw portions capable of linearly moving in a direction parallel to a predetermined plane; a second claw portion and a third claw portion disposed to face each other in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined plane; and a motion conversion mechanism portion that converts a linear motion associated with movement of the first claw portion into a linear motion in the direction orthogonal to the predetermined plane, transmits the linear motion to the second claw portion. The first claw portion, the second claw portion, and the third claw portion each have a grasping surface to abut against a workpiece to be held, and the grasping surface of the first claw portion is different in shape from the grasping surfaces of the second claw portion and the third claw portion.

Abstract: A tool transport system includes a machine tool, a tool storage unit that stores a plurality of tool holders, a work station, a transport device (300) that transports a designated tool holder to a designated transport destination, and a controller that controls the tool transport system. On the basis of receiving a collection instruction for tool holder, the controller executes a process of specifying a tool holder holding a tool in an unusable state among tool holders in the machine tool, a process of controlling the transport device so as to carry the tool holder out of the machine tool at a higher priority than other tool holders in the machine tool, and a process of controlling the transport device so as to transport the carried-out tool holder to the tool storage unit or the work station.

Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment includes a display control unit that controls display of a setup screen for performing setup for machining in a machine tool, the setup screen including (i) a menu display part displaying a plurality of setup items in a selectable manner and (ii) a detail display part displaying an operation for each of the setup items. In control of display of the setup screen, while the setup screen is displayed, display of the setup items on the menu display part is maintained and display of the operation screens is switched on the detail display part in response to an operation input by an operator.

Abstract: Based on a second identification position as a position of an identification figure when an image of the identification figure is captured by a camera (31) at a second device position different from a first device position, when the second identification position is within a predetermined range from the second device position, the position of a hand unit (29) is adjusted, and when the second identification position is out of the predetermined range from the second device position, the position of a moving unit (35) is adjusted by moving the moving unit (35).

Abstract: A tool transport system includes a display unit, a plurality of machine tools, a tool storage unit, a transport device for transporting a designated tool among tools stored in the tool storage unit to a designated machine tool among the plurality of machine tools and a controller for controlling the tool transport system. The controller executes a process of acquiring stocked tool information defining identification information of each tool stocked by the tool transport system, a process of specifying a plurality of tools to be used in the plurality of machine tools on the basis of a machining schedule of workpiece in the plurality of machine tools, a process of specifying an unstocked tool that is not defined in the stocked tool information among the plurality of tools to be used, and a process of displaying identification information of the unstocked tool on the display unit.

Abstract: A machine tool includes an imaging portion for imaging a tool in an imaging area, a tool holding unit capable of holding the tool in the imaging area, a shutter provided between a machining area and the imaging area, and being movable between an open state and a closed state, a cover for covering a light-receiving surface of the imaging portion, and a purge mechanism for performing purge by causing fluid to flow between a light-receiving surface of the imaging portion and the cover. (i) After the purge by the purge mechanism is performed, the machine tool (ii) moves the shutter, and (iii) moves the cover after start of moving of the shutter.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a camera fixed to a predetermined imaging area and for imaging a tool inserted into the imaging area, a tool holding portion to which a tool is attachable, and a machining control portion for controlling the tool holding portion in accordance with a machining program and machining a workpiece with the tool. The machining control portion moves the tool toward the imaging area after rotating the tool to image the tool.

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 running device including a frame (11) and a first wheel part (15) and a second wheel part (35) arranged with an appropriate distance therebetween along a running direction (R). The first wheel part (15) includes a first left support arm (17) and a first right support arm (26) arranged on the frame (11) in a manner to be swingable within a plane extending along the running direction (R). The second wheel part (35) includes a second support arm (36) arranged on the frame (11) in a manner to be swingable within a plane perpendicular to the running direction (R). The first left support arm (17) has first left wheels (19, 21) respectively on both sides thereof, and the first right support arm (26) has first right wheels (28, 30) respectively on both sides thereof. The second support arm (36) has a second left wheel (38) and a second right wheel (40) respectively on both sides thereof.

Abstract: In a system (1) including a robot (25), a transportation device (35) moving with the robot (25) mounted thereon, and a controller, an operating pose of the robot (25) and an operation position of the transportation device (35) in a three-dimensional space formed by first, second, and third axes orthogonal to one another are set by a teaching operation. The transportation device (35) is moved to a predetermined operation position and this operation position is stored as a provisional operation position, and the robot (25) is brought into a predetermined operating pose and this operating pose is stored as a provisional operating pose. Subsequently, an acting part (29) of the robot (25) is moved along the first axis and the second axis to confirm whether movable amounts of the acting part (29) exceed positioning error amounts in the same directions of the transportation device (35).

Abstract: An operation panel for a machine tool includes: a first case that accommodates a cooling target object; a blower device that is disposed in the first case; and an air guide member that forms an air flow passage in the first case and that guides air blown out from the blower device toward the cooling target object through the air flow passage. The air flow passage includes an expanded flow passage section in which a flow passage area of the air flow passage increases from an upstream side of an airflow toward a downstream side of the airflow.

Abstract: A tool management device includes a data storage unit for storing (i) tool information including a location of a tool and (ii) a tool-bench information including at least a correspondence between a machine tool and a tool bench, a tool management unit for changing data in the tool information, and a reception unit for receiving a detachment notification when a tool is detached from the machine tool. If the detachment notification is received, the tool management unit changes the location of the tool in the tool information from (a) the machine tool to (b) the tool bench corresponding to the machine tool in the tool-bench information.