Abstract: An end effector for a laser machine tool is configured to direct a laser beam onto a working surface along an optical axis of propagation of the laser beam. The end effector includes a supporting body having a duct with an axis parallel to at least one portion of the optical axis of propagation of the laser beam, and a further duct configured to be coupled to the supporting body and to provide an outlet for the laser beam.

Abstract: Laser operating machine for additive manufacturing of objects by laser sintering, comprising a transport structure (11), which is movable in a work space (100), operating according to a first system of movement axes (X, Y, Z) and configured to support one or more nozzles (34) for lid emitting sintering powder jets to be sintered on a work substrate (100, 110) and an optical laser assembly (20) for conveying a laser beam (L) in a laser spot (S) focused on said work substrate (100, 110) to sinter said powders, According to the invention, said optical laser assembly (20) is integrally associated with said transport structure (11) and a movable element (12) is also integrally associated with said transport structure (11) operating according to a second system of movement axes (u, v), said movable element (12) comprising a tool-carrier frame (30), on which one or more nozzles (34) for emitting sintering powder jets are arranged, associated with said second system of movement axes (u,v) and movable with respect to

Abstract: A method for monitoring the quality of laser-machining processes (500), in particular laser-cutting or laser-welding processes, including the operations of: acquiring via sensor means (540), in particular optical sensors, a machining-process signal (Xp) and calculating from said signal representing the process (Xp) parameters (E1, E2, DC) that represent the machining quality during the laser-machining process; and making available (130) corresponding reference parameters (E1r, E2r, DCr) representing a given machining quality, which are calculated from a process reference signal (Xr) acquired via said sensor means (540).

Abstract: A management method for a redundant axis laser machine of the type comprising a movable structure controlled by actuators and operated according to a first set of variables (X, Y, Z, A) and an operating head operated according to a second set of said variables (W, B, C), said first set of variables (X, Y, Z, A) and second set of variables (W, B, C) identifying one or more redundant variables. Such method envisions a filtering allowing the work trajectory to be decomposed into defined trajectories for a first low dynamic system made up of said first set of variables (X, Y, Z, A) and a second high dynamic system made up of said second set of said variables (W, B, C), respectively.

Abstract: Punching machine for the execution of holes on metal plates comprising a laser cutting head slidably supported by a pair of slides movable along a pair of Cartesian axes in a relatively restricted space with high velocities and accelerations. Movable balancing masses are operatively associated to the first and to the second slide.

Abstract: A method for monitoring the quality of laser-machining processes (500), in particular laser-cutting or laser-welding processes, including the operations of: acquiring via sensor means (540), in particular optical sensors, a machining-process signal (Xp) and calculating from said signal representing the process (Xp) parameters (E1, E2, DC) that represent the machining quality during the laser-machining process; and making available (130) corresponding reference parameters (E1r, E2r, DCr) representing a given machining quality, which are calculated from a process reference signal (Xr) acquired via said sensor means (540).

Abstract: A laser machine tool for carrying out cutting or welding operations includes a laser head carried by a moving member which is displaceable with respect to a workpiece along two horizontal cartesian axes in a relatively wide space with movements involving relatively low accelerations. The laser head is displaceable on the moving member, along a pair of horizontal cartesian axes in a relatively restricted space with high speeds and accelerations, via a pair of slides to which respective balancing weights are operatively associated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing systems provided with redundant actuators of the type comprising at least a first system operating according to a first set of variables, representative of a physical quantity to be controlled and a second system operating according to a second set of said variables, representative of a physical quantity to be controlled, said first set of variables and second set of variables identifying one or more redundant variables. The method comprises the operations of commanding the actuators of the system through a numeric control unit and a servo control module to follow trajectories of the variables as a function of a set sequence.

Abstract: A management method for a redundant axis laser machine of the type comprising a movable structure controlled by actuators and operated according to a first set of variables (X, Y, Z, A) and an operating head operated according to a second set of said variables (W, B, C), said first set of variables (X, Y, Z, A) and second set of variables (W, B, C) identifying one or more redundant variables. Such method envisions a filtering allowing the work trajectory to be decomposed into defined trajectories for a first low dynamic system made up of said first set of variables (X, Y, Z, A) and a second high dynamic system made up of said second set of said variables (W, B, C), respectively.

Abstract: A unidirectional ring laser oscillator has a travelling wave unstable mode in one transverse dimension and either a waveguide or freespace Gaussian mode in the orthogonal transverse dimension for coupling to large volumes of asymmetric cross section laser gain media. This device concept is shown to have unique and innovative features such as an exchange of left for right in the intracavity radiation profile without having to employ concave optics. Also, a high insensitivity to misalignment of one of the intracavity ring optics is achieved without having to suffer any deleterious effects associated with the high intensity of radiation normally encountered at an intracavity focal plane. Unidirectional operation of the laser is achieved using both intracavity and extracavity optical techniques.

Abstract: A laser machine tool for carrying out cutting or welding operations includes a laser head carried by a moving member which is displaceable with respect to a workpiece along two horizontal cartesian axes in a relatively wide space with movements involving relatively low accelerations. The laser head is displaceable on the moving member, along a pair of horizontal cartesian axes in a relatively restricted space with high speeds and accelerations, via a pair of slides to which respective balancing weights are operatively associated.

Abstract: Punching machine for the execution of holes on metal plates comprising a laser cutting head slidably supported by a pair of slides movable along a pair of Cartesian axes in a relatively restricted space with high velocities and accelerations. Movable balancing masses are operatively associated to the first and to the second slide.

Abstract: A method for managing systems provided with redundant actuators of the type comprising at least a first system (3, 5) operating according to a first set of variables, representative of a physical quantity to be controlled (X, Y) and a second system (17) operating according to a second set of said variables, representative of a physical quantity to be controlled (u, v), said first set of variables (X, Y) and second set of variables (u, v) identifying one or more redundant variables, said method comprising the operations of commanding said actuators (13, 14) of said system through a numeric control unit (50) and a servo control module (53) to follow trajectories of said variables ((Xs, Ys), (X, Y), (u, v)) as a function of a set sequence (P).

Abstract: A manufacturing machine, in particular a laser machine including a base provided with a first guide extending along a first horizontal direction and an arm slidably mounted along the first guide and projecting in cantilever fashion from the base, the arm being provided with a second guide along which a manufacturing head is slidable. The arm is connected to the base by a hinge with a vertical axis and is movable between a normal operating position and a transport inclined position.

Abstract: A cartesian-type machine tool, particularly but not exclusively a laser machine, includes an operating head disposed at the end of a main beam which is cantilevered on a fixed support structure and is movable, relative to the fixed structure, in the direction of its own longitudinal axis. A considerable part of the weight of the main beam is supported by an auxiliary beam movable parallel to the main beam and cantilevered on the fixed structure, by support means which transmit the substantial part of the weight of the main beam to the auxiliary beam without rigid constraints of distance between the main beam and the auxiliary beam.

Abstract: A one-armed handling device having a single pick-up member designed to secure a metal sheet coplanar to a pick-up plane through the aforementioned pick-up member; which member is supported on a head so as to turn about two perpendicular axes by virtue of a first element designed to turn about a first axis perpendicular to the pick-up plane, and to which the pick-up member is secured directly, and a second element designed to turn about a second axis parallel with the pick-up plane and supporting the first element; the aforementioned head, in turn, being designed to travel along three cartesian axes, by means of an arm, with no variation in the position of the second axis (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A method whereby a pack of metal sheets adhering to one another is suspended on upper gripping elements of an upper vertically-mobile element beneath which is fed forward a lower transversely-mobile element having lower gripping elements. The upper and lower gripping elements are caused to interact in such a manner as to divide the pack into two parts by raising the upper element; and the lower element is backed up so as to feed on to a production line the part of the pack consisting of a single sheet, and/or to feed on to a reject bed the part of the pack consisting of a number of inseparable sheets.

Abstract: A manipulator device is described in which a pair of holding members mounted on extensible arms, are rotatable through 360.degree. about an axis parallel to the plane in which they lie and perpendicular to the axis of the arms, and in which the arms are actuated by motor means interconnected together in such a way as to link the holding members for simultaneous displacement in a symmetrical manner.

Abstract: A process is described which allows metal sheets of different dimensions to be manipulated in a automatic manner by means of a numerically controlled robot provided with a pair of mechanical pincers; it consists in positioning the metal sheet onto a support table carried by a rotatable base to effect rotation thereof parallel to its own plane having previously released the metal sheet by the pincers, and, for metal sheets of large dimensions, displacing, with the pincers, both the metal sheets and the table on which it is lying simultaneously, which table is removable from the said base.

Abstract: An automatic cutting machine including at least one mounting stand linearly movable in a first direction by a first driving structure; a powerful laser-beam generator; a head that sends out infrared ray flux generated in the laser-beam generator after the flux is condensed or focussed and a movable supporting structure for supporting the head above the mounting stand. The supporting means moves in the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a third direction perpendicular to both the first and second directions by means of a seocnd and third driving means. A connecting structure for rotating the supporting structure around the first direction or axis by a fourth driving structure in order to rotate the head around the second direction or axis perpendicular to the first direction or axis relative to the connecting structure by means of a fifth driving structure and an automatic control means for the driving means and the laser-beam generator.