Patents Assigned to Posalux S.A.
  • Machine-tool provided with a single high storage capacity tool magazine, and tool magazine intended to be fitted to a machine-tool
    Patent number: 5971904
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a machine-tool (20) including at least one machining station able to accommodate selectively a tool, at least one tool magazine for storing the tools, a tool transfer device, and control means for driving the tool magazine. The machine-tool is characterised in that the tool magazine (21) is formed as a closed circuit of several interconnected main supports (30), in that each main support (30) can accommodate and hold several subsidiary supports (31) intended to carry at least two tools. The machine-tool (20) further includes an operator interface for loading/unloading the subsidiary supports (31) from outside the machine-tool (20), independently of the operating state of the machine-tool (20). The storage capacity of such a tool magazine (21) is advantageously high, and makes the machine-tool highly autonomous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Posalux S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Soltermann, Werner Imhof, Alexandre Faoro
  • Machine tool for machining printed circuit boards
    Patent number: 5230685
    Abstract: A machine tool has a work table movable in a first direction on a frame. Operating units such as drills fitted with rotating tools are mounted on the frame in a manner movable in a direction perpendicular to the said first direction. Means are provided to ensure individual mobility of the operating units namely individual motors incorporated within their casings. The invention is useful in the machining of printed circuits especially by drilling and shaping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Posalux S.A.
    Inventors: Erich Christen, Pierre-Andre Lautenschlager
  • Machine tool
    Patent number: 4520551
    Abstract: A machine tool has a work table movable along X and Y axes parallel to the plane of the table, at least one working unit with a rotary spindle being mounted above the table. A cartridge with a matrix of perforations contains a supply of tools. The latter are taken according to requirements by tool transporting grippers, provided two for each working unit, moving along the Z axis to retract themselves into receivers or, on the contrary, to protrude therefrom, these receivers being rigid with the table. By displacing the table along the X and Y axes, the tools are selected and brought by the grippers successively opposite the spindle of a working unit. They are then brought back into the cartridge in the same manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Posalux S.A.
    Inventor: Werner Imhof