Abstract: An information processing device to process a two-dimensional image generated by an imaging unit in a machine tool including an attachment unit to which the imaging unit or a tool is attachable, the attachment unit moving to image an image of a workpiece placed in the machine tool, the imaging unit imaging the image of the workpiece at an imaging position, the information processing device including a computation unit for (i) calculating a position of the workpiece based on an image imaged after the imaging unit has moved to a predetermined position based on machine coordinates of the machine tool, and (ii) detecting an edge of the workpiece from the two-dimensional image imaged by the imaging unit at an imaging position after the imaging unit has been moved from the predetermined position to the imaging position, and calculating a length of the workpiece from detected edges.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an imaging execution unit that captures a first partial image including a part of a tool by a camera, a position specifying unit that specifies a next imaging position on the basis of a partial shape of the tool included in the first partial image, and a position control unit that changes the relative positions of the tool and the camera to the specified imaging position. The imaging execution unit captures a second partial image including a part of the tool at the next imaging position.

Abstract: A display control system for displaying and controlling a screen, including: a first display instruction means that instructs the screen to display a first mode of the first machine tool; a second display instruction means that instructs the screen to display a second mode of the second machine tool; a third display instruction means that instructs the screen to display an image captured by the camera; and a control means that displays and controls, in response to receiving input of tool related information regarding a tool in the first mode, an image regarding the tool related information, which is obtained from the camera. The tool related information includes any one of a tool number, a pot number of a magazine accommodating the tool, a station number of a turret to which the tool is attached, and a tool correction value.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing device (10) configured to identify a position of a detection target from image data imaged by an imaging unit configured to image an interior of a machine tool including the imaging unit, the information processing device including: an image generation unit (102) configured to generate a mesh image obtained by partitioning at least a portion of the image data into a plurality of mesh regions; and an identification unit (103) configured to identify the position of the detection target for a first mesh region of the mesh image, wherein the identification unit is configured to identify the position using the first mesh region, and a second mesh region shifted from the first mesh region by a predetermined amount and partially overlapping with the first mesh region.

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: A machine tool includes: a movable body that supports a tool; a feed drive unit that feed-drives the movable body; a numerical control unit that controls the feed drive by the feed drive unit to perform cutting by the tool; an acceleration sensor that is provided on the movable body and detects acceleration of the movable body; and a command unit that outputs a stop command to stop driving of the feed drive unit to the numerical control unit when the acceleration of the movable body exceeds a threshold value set in advance on the basis of an output of the acceleration sensor. The command unit sets the threshold value to a first threshold value in a cutting control state, and sets the threshold value to a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value in a feed control in a non-cutting control state.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a mesh setting unit that sets a plurality of mesh zones in a captured image including a scattering range of a substance scattered during machining by a machine tool; an accepting unit that accepts a selection of one or more mesh zones corresponding to an area for removing the substance from the plurality of mesh zones; a substance recognition unit that recognizes a substance state in the mesh zones corresponding to the area with respect to the captured image; and a display instruction unit that instructs display of indicators based on the substance state recognized in the area in time series.

Abstract: A process includes: (i) receiving image data, dividing a portion of the image data into a plurality of grids including a first grid, a second grid, a third grid, and a fourth grid, dividing the portion of the image data into a plurality of areas including (a) a first area including the first grid and the third grid, and (b) a second area including the second grid and the fourth grid; (ii) detecting an object relating to the first grid; and (iii) when the object is detected in the first grid, generating a signal for controlling discharge of fluid from a fluid discharging unit so that fluid flows through the first area including the first grid.

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: An image processing device (10) includes: a reception unit (101) configured to receive a plurality of pieces of image data of a tool imaged by an imaging unit attached inside a machine tool that machines a workpiece by using the tool; a point cloud data generating unit (102) configured to generate, from the plurality of pieces of image data received by the reception unit, point cloud data that is profile information relating to a profile of the tool; and a profile image forming unit (103) configured to generate, from the point cloud data, profile image data indicating a two- or three-dimensional profile of the tool.

Abstract: There is a need for technology that enables accurate movement of chips without performing huge image processing. Provided is a display device for displaying an image captured by an imaging unit included in a machine tool. The machine tool includes a liquid ejection unit that ejects a liquid so as to move chips generated from a workpiece and the imaging unit that captures an image inside the machine tool. The display device includes: a display unit that displays the image captured by the imaging unit; a detection unit that detects an input to a predetermined position in the image displayed on the display unit; and a transmission unit that transmits an ejection signal for ejecting a liquid from the liquid ejection unit to a related area inside the machine tool related to the predetermined position, based on a detection signal according to the detection.

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure including: a mesh division unit (102) that divides at least part of first and second images captured at different times of a target area for detecting chips generated from a workpiece, into a plurality of mesh regions, the images each being an inside image of a machine tool; and an information processing unit (103) that performs processing to associate (a) information on a first chip corresponding to a specific mesh region among the plurality of the mesh regions corresponding to the first image, (b) information on a second chip corresponding to the specific mesh region among the plurality of the mesh regions corresponding to the second image, (c) a first time related to the first image, and (d) a second time related to the second image.

Abstract: A machining system includes an information processing system, a first machine tool communicable with the information processing system, and a second machine tool communicable with the information processing system. The information processing system includes a reception unit that receives setting data set in the first machine tool, a storage device that stores the setting data received from the first machine tool, and a transmission unit that transmits the setting data of the first machine tool stored in the storage device to the second machine tool in response to a setting data acquisition request, when the setting data is inheritable to the second machine tool. The second machine tool includes a setting unit that allows the second machine tool to inherit the setting data received from the information processing system.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a workpiece spindle unit (15) including a workpiece spindle (17) and a workpiece spindle motor (20) and includes a tool spindle unit (25) including a tool spindle (27) and a tool spindle motor. The machine tool further includes a first-axis movement mechanism (6) and a second-axis movement mechanism (9) relatively moving, in a plane including an axis of the workpiece spindle (17) and an axis of the tool spindle (27), the workpiece spindle unit (15) and the tool spindle unit (25) in a first axis direction and a second axis direction intersecting the first axis direction, respectively, and further includes a controller. The tool spindle unit (25) is arranged such that the axis of the tool spindle (27) intersects the axis of the workpiece spindle (17).

Abstract: A tool magazine as a conveyance device includes a first conveyance unit that conveys a plurality of tools along a first route, a second conveyance unit that conveys a plurality of tools along a second route, and a cover body. A first opening used to attach and detach the tool in a first section of first route and a second opening used to attach and detach the tool a third section of second route are provided in cover body. A second section of first route is located between first section of first route and second conveyance unit in a direction in which first conveyance unit and second conveyance unit are arranged. A fourth section of second route is located between third section of second route and first conveyance unit in the direction in which first conveyance unit and second conveyance unit are arranged.

Abstract: A machine tool that visualizes the state of a ball screw in an easy-to-understand way includes a detector that detects at least one sensed value among vibrations, sound, and a current, heat, light, and power value applied to drive a ball screw during warming-up, a feature amount extractor that extracts a first feature amount and a second feature amount from the sensed value obtained by the detector, and a display that displays a point plotting the sensed value, and at least two boundaries laid out like contour lines to represent the possibility of generation of an anomaly in the ball screw, on a plane having a first axis defined by numerical values regarding the first feature amount and a second axis defined by numerical values regarding the second feature amount.

Abstract: A composite member is manufactured by a manufacturing method including adding, on a surface of a base member composed of a first material, a second material different from the first material, using additive manufacturing employing directed energy deposition as an additive manufacturing process. The manufacturing method is performed by placing the base member in a machining area of a machine tool configured to perform subtractive machining. Accordingly, a composite member can be obtained that is manufactured through additive manufacturing and that is in a state in which the composite member can be promptly machined.

Abstract: A display device, a machine tool, and a liquid ejection method with which a liquid ejection path for efficient chip removal can be created, without performing huge control process. The display device is for displaying an image in order to eject a liquid and move chips generated from a workpiece in a machine tool. The machine tool includes a liquid ejection unit that ejects a liquid so as to move chips generated from a workpiece, and an imaging unit that captures an image of a target area in which chips generated from a workpiece are to be detected in the machine tool. The liquid is ejected to the target area, based on a first position and a second position in the image captured by the imaging unit.

Abstract: A displacement detection device is capable of stably and accurately detecting an amount of displacement. A polarization maintaining fiber has a length not to be equal to a length obtained by dividing, a product of an integral multiple of twice a length of a resonator times a refractive index of the resonator and a beat length obtained from a difference between propagation constants of two polarization modes, by a wavelength of the light source, is selected from a range including a length equal to the above length. The polarization maintaining fiber includes multiple polarization maintaining fibers fitted to each other by removable connectors.