Abstract: A vibration characteristic estimation system in a machine tool for machining by relatively moving a tool and a workpiece includes: a first vibration characteristic acquisition unit that acquires a first vibration characteristic based on an output of a sensor; a machine information acquisition unit that acquires machine information; a gripping tool information acquisition unit that acquires gripping tool information; a machined portion information acquisition unit that acquires at least one of tool information and workpiece information; a compensation factor acquisition unit that acquires a compensation factor based on at least one of the machine information, the gripping tool information, the tool information, and the workpiece information; and a second vibration characteristic estimation unit that estimates a second vibration characteristic by compensating the first vibration characteristic using the compensation factor, the second vibration characteristic being based on an amount of vibration at a machining

Abstract: A position control apparatus detects currents of processing object phases which flow through the three-phase AC motor, applies offset compensation processing to current detected values of the processing object phases based on offset compensation amounts, and controls the three-phase AC motor based on the current detected values of the processing object phases after the offset compensation processing. Processing of obtaining the offset compensation amounts includes processing of obtaining a Fourier coefficient of a frequency component of a torque ripple based on a torque command value signal, processing of obtaining torque amplitude components of the processing object phases, and processing of obtaining the offset compensation amounts with respect to the processing object phases based on the torque amplitude components of the processing object phases.

Abstract: Provided is a cell controller for controlling an operation of a machining cell including two or more machines and one or more robots as work resources, the cell controller being configured to control the operation of the machining cell based on a production program recorded with one or more processes to be executed at the time of producing only one article of a corresponding item in the machining cell among production programs prepared corresponding to one or more items produced in the machining cell.

Abstract: A tool management system includes a tool management device and an information input and output terminal. The tool management device manages an assembled tool including a tool holder and a cutting tool mounted on the tool holder. The information input and output terminal is configured to input and output data to/from the tool management device. The tool management device includes a tool information database and a data retrieval unit. The data retrieval unit retrieves the assembled tool ID including the input tool holder ID to make information relating to the same assembled tool referable when the assembled tool determination unit has determined that the tool holder is holding the cutting tool, and retrieves the input tool holder ID to make information relating to the same tool holder referable when the assembled tool determination unit has determined that the tool holder is not holding the cutting tool.

Abstract: A diagnostic device includes an error transition recording unit, an error transition input unit, an error cause recording unit, a cause diagnosis unit, and a display portion. A plurality of types of error transition information with different temporal transitions of the machining error caused by repeating the machining are recorded in the error transition recording unit. The error transition input unit selects one or a plurality of pieces of error transition information from the plurality of types of error transition information. A plurality of types of the causes are each recorded in association with the error transition information in the error cause recording unit. The cause diagnosis unit refers to the error cause recording unit and identifies the causes based on the error transition information selected by the error transition input unit. The display portion displays the causes identified by the cause diagnosis unit.

Abstract: In a position control device that controls a rotational speed and a rotational angle of a three-phase synchronous motor by calculating a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value based on a position command and causing a inverter to adjust current values of respective phases of the three-phase synchronous motor, a processor calculates a d-axis additional current value to be added to the d-axis current command value. The d-axis additional current value oscillates in such a manner that the polarity changes according to an electrical angle and crosses a zero level with an inclination whose polarity is opposite the polarity of a first q-axis current command value at a zero-cross electrical angle. As a result, positional deviation ripples caused by dead time can be suppressed.

Abstract: A method for estimating a cause of a bearing failure includes: calculating a magnitude of a vibration with respect to a frequency calculating a vibration mean value by removing an influence of the rotation speed and calculating a mean value of the magnitudes of the vibrations having a same ratio of the frequency with respect to a rotational frequency from a result of the frequency analysis at the plurality of rotation speeds obtained in the calculating of the magnitude; extracting a bearing-caused vibration value of a characteristic ratio frequency from the vibration mean values; determining whether or not the bearing is abnormal based on the bearing-caused vibration value; and estimating a failure occurrence cause based on a relation of the bearing-caused vibration values in the integer multiplied characteristic ratio frequencies at which the vibrations are caused by the bearing when the bearing is determined to be abnormal in the determining.

Abstract: A tap machining method includes: forming a female thread by cutting while synchronizing a rotation phase of a main spindle with positions of a workpiece to be machined by the tap and the main spindle in a rotation axis direction of the main spindle, the main spindle rotating while holding a tap with a tool holder mounted on a distal end portion; and adding or subtracting an angle amount of torsional deformation of the tap generated according to a cutting speed to or from the rotation phase of the main spindle during the synchronization.

Abstract: A cutting fluid circulation device includes a first tank reservoir, a primary filter, and a first pump. The tank reservoir stores cutting fluid discharged from a machine tool. The primary filter is provided in the first tank reservoir and filters the cutting fluid. The first pump pumps up the cutting fluid filtered by the primary filter in the first tank reservoir. The first tank reservoir is partitioned into a filtration tank in which the primary filter is disposed, a pumping-up tank in which the first pump is disposed, and a connecting channel in which the cutting fluid in the filtration tank is allowed to flow into the pumping-up tank. The connecting channel has an identical channel width along an entire length thereof, or at least a portion of the channel width is narrowed stepwise or continuously from the filtration tank to the pumping-up tank.

Abstract: A gripper device includes a plurality of gripper claws, a plurality of linear motion units, each of which is disposed on corresponding one of the plurality of gripper claws, a synchronization mechanism configured to synchronize movement of the plurality of linear motion units, a first cylinder configured to apply a driving force thereof to the linear motion unit or the synchronization mechanism, a second cylinder having a shorter stroke and a greater driving force as compared to those of the first cylinder, and a transmission mechanism having a clutch which is configured to establish or release mechanical connection between the second cylinder and the synchronization mechanism.

Abstract: A motor control device includes an abnormality determination unit that determines the presence of any abnormality in a current detector. The abnormality determination unit includes, for example, a U-phase abnormality determination device. The U-phase abnormality determination device calculates, as a voltage command threshold, a value obtained by adding a dead time voltage error, which is a voltage error occurring due to a dead time, to an ideal voltage command threshold, which is a value obtained by multiplying a prescribed reference current value by a motor resistance value, and outputs a signal indicating an abnormality in the current detector when the effective value of a voltage command value is equal to or greater than the voltage command threshold and the effective value of a current detection value is equal to or less than a current detection threshold that is lower than the reference current value.

Abstract: Provided is a bonded body of copper alloy and steel material that has high bonding property at the interface of the copper alloy and the steel material, and is capable of maintaining a high strength without carrying out the subsequent precipitation hardening process accompanied by solution annealing (or by carrying out only the precipitation hardening process that is not accompanied by the solution annealing). This bonded body includes a first member composed of a precipitation-hardenable copper alloy and a second member including an additively manufactured object made of a steel material bonded to the first member at at least one bonding interface. The bonded body, when the cross section perpendicular to the bonding interface is observed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), is free of voids having a length of 50 ?m or more at the bonding interface in a direction parallel to the bonding interface.

Abstract: A thermal displacement estimating method includes: detecting each temperature of a predetermined heat generating portion and a predetermined main body structure portion by a temperature measurement device; and estimating a thermal displacement of the heat generating portion by an estimation model based on a detected temperature.

Abstract: A method for diagnosing an abnormality of rolling bearing includes: measuring a vibration of a rotator; performing a frequency analysis on the vibration to calculate a magnitude of a vibration at each frequency; calculating a characteristic frequency as a frequency of a vibration from a specification of the rolling bearing and a rotation speed of the rotator at a vibration measurement in the measuring; calculating a vibration value from which an effect of the rotation speed is removed by dividing a magnitude of a vibration at the characteristic frequency by a value including a base and an exponent, the base being a predetermined physical quantity in a proportional relation with an angular velocity of the rotator at the vibration measurement in the measuring, the exponent being a positive number; calculating an evaluation index based on the vibration value; and determining an existence of an abnormality based on the evaluation index.

Abstract: A robot mounting base for an industrial robot includes a mounting base main body having a top surface on which the industrial robot is disposed. The robot mounting base allows the industrial robot to work on a machine tool in an installation state close to an outer surface of the machine tool. A cutoff portion is formed at least at one end portion in the mounting base main body in a horizontal direction along the outer surface in the installation state, and the cutoff portion positions so that a surface on the machine tool side is away from the machine tool with respect to another end portion.

Abstract: An accuracy diagnostic device for a machine tool diagnoses an accuracy of the machine tool. The machine tool includes a change amount detection unit that measures a change amount. The change amount changes due to an installation environment and an operational motion. The accuracy diagnostic device includes a change-amount-reference-value recording unit that records a reference value of the change amount. The accuracy diagnostic device obtains the change amount measured by the change amount detection unit. The accuracy diagnostic device diagnoses a change of the accuracy of the machine tool based on a first change index derived from a magnitude of a change of the change amount per a predetermined period and a second change index derived from the current change amount and the reference value.

Abstract: An accuracy diagnostic device that diagnoses an influence on an accuracy of a machine tool due to a thermal deformation includes a temperature change rate calculation unit, an accuracy influence degree calculation unit, and an accuracy stabilization time period calculation unit. The temperature change rate calculation unit calculates a rate of a temperature change in a predetermined portion of the machine tool as a temperature change rate. The accuracy influence degree calculation unit calculates an influence degree on the machine tool accuracy due to the thermal deformation as an accuracy influence degree, based on the temperature change rate. The accuracy stabilization time period calculation unit calculates a time period until the machine tool accuracy is stabilized as an accuracy stabilization time period, based on the temperature change rate.

Abstract: A main spindle monitoring device determines an abnormality of a main spindle in a machine tool. The main spindle monitoring device includes a main spindle operation monitoring unit and a feed axis operation monitoring unit. The main spindle operation monitoring unit monitors a change of an operation condition of the main spindle based on a main spindle load. The feed axis operation monitoring unit monitors a change of an operation condition of a feed axis based on a feed axis load. The abnormality of the main spindle is determined when the main spindle operation monitoring unit detects the change of the operation condition of the main spindle and the feed axis operation monitoring unit does not detect the change of the operation condition of the feed axis in a state where a constant rotation speed is commanded to the main spindle while the feed axis is driving.

Abstract: A moisture intrusion detection system includes: an industrial robot that has a closed space defined thereinside; an air supply mechanism that supplies compressed air to the closed space; an air vent passage that is provided in the industrial robot to establish communication between an external space outside the industrial robot and the closed space, and guides, to the external space, air ejected from the closed space upon supply of the compressed air; a humidity sensor that detects a humidity of ejected air that is ejected from the air vent passage to the external space upon supply of the compressed air; and a controller that determines presence or absence of moisture intruding into the closed space based on a detected humidity of the ejected air, the detected humidity being detected by the humidity sensor.

Abstract: An environmental temperature change prediction device includes an environmental temperature acquisition unit, an outside temperature acquisition unit, a plant environment pattern setting unit, a prediction model generating unit, and an environmental temperature change prediction unit. The environmental temperature acquisition unit measures a machine body temperature. The plant environment pattern setting unit defines in advance a classification rule for classifying change trends of the environmental temperature into a plurality of patterns based on data of the environmental temperature and the plant outside temperature and environmental temperature prediction models. The prediction model generating unit selects the applicable plant environment pattern and determines a parameter of the environmental temperature prediction model corresponding to the selected plant environment pattern.