Abstract: A friction stir welding attachment includes a body configured to be attached to a spindle of a machine tool, a metalworking shaft rotatably supported by the body and including an attachment portion configured to attach a welding tool at an end thereof, and a pair of press components supported by the body and provided at respective sides across the attachment portion. The press components are each made of disc-shaped elastic material and are each supported in a manner rotatable around a rotation axis diagonally intersecting a rotation axis of the metalworking shaft.

Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus includes a housing unit that houses at least one workpiece, a placement device in which the workpiece is placed such that the workpiece is substantially orthogonal to a normal direction of an outer peripheral surface of a rotating shaft extending in a horizontal direction, and faces outward, a first rotating device that rotates the placement device) around the rotating shaft in a state where the placement device is housed in the housing unit, a surface treatment device that extends inside the housing unit and in parallel with the rotating shaft and performs surface treatment by supplying gas to a surface of the workpiece, and an exhaust device that is provided inside the housing unit at a position different from a position where the surface treatment device is provided, and adjusts pressure and exhausts gas inside the housing unit.

Abstract: A rotary shaft clamp device configured to clamp a first member to a second member, the first and second members being relatively rotatable around a predetermined center axis, the rotary shaft clamp device including: a pair of contact surfaces annularly formed in an outer periphery of a disk provided for a rotary shaft that is a first member at a predetermined distance from the center axis and opposed to each other at a regular interval; and a press-contact member that is supported by a support body that is a second member and is configured to come into press-contact with the pair of contact surfaces, the press-contact member having a pair of surfaces located between the pair of contact surfaces to face the contact surfaces, the pair of surfaces being configured to advance in directions along the center axis.

Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus (10) performs film formation on a surface of a workpiece (W) in a chamber (20), and includes: an HCD electrode (210) (electrode) that supplies reaction gas to the workpiece (W) or a sputtering electrode (220) (electrode) that releases target particles to the workpiece (W), the HCD electrode (210) or the sputtering electrode (220) being placed facing the workpiece (W); a gas supply pipe (90) that is installed along an outer periphery of the electrode and has, along a longitudinal direction of the pipe, a plurality of gas ejection ports (91) through which film-forming gas, or an inert gas or a reactive gas for performing sputtering is supplied to an electrode surface of the electrode; and an exhaust device (51) (gas discharge unit) that discharges residual gas after film formation is ended, and the plurality of gas ejection ports (91) are arranged such that gas supplied from the gas supply pipe (90) is uniformly distributed on the electrode surface of the electrode.

Abstract: A run-around circuit makes a hydraulic fluid discharged from a rod-side chamber along with a forward movement of a piston in an injection cylinder flow into a head-side chamber. A servo valve is provided in the run-around circuit and is connected to a tank. In a first state, the servo valve permits flow from the rod-side chamber to the head-side chamber, while prohibits flow from the rod-side chamber to the tank. In a second state, the servo valve prohibits flow from the rod-side chamber to the head-side chamber, while permits flow from the rod-side chamber to the tank. The servo valve can control the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid discharged from the rod-side chamber in each of the first state and second state.

Abstract: A molded foam manufacturing apparatus 1 includes a cylinder 2 in which a plasticization zone 21 where a thermoplastic resin is plasticized and melted, a starvation zone 22 where the molten resin is put into a starvation state and an injected physical foaming agent is dissolved in the molten resin, and a feeding zone 23 where the molten resin in which the physical foaming agent is dissolved is compressed and metered are provided in this order from an upstream side, and a screw 3 that is installed inside the cylinder 2 so as to be freely rotatable around an axis of the cylinder and has flights formed in a spiral shape on an outer circumference of a shaft 31, wherein a lead angle R of the flights of the screw 3 corresponding to the feeding zone 23 is set smaller than a lead angle ? of the flight corresponding to the starvation zone 22, and the number of pieces of the flight of the screw 3 corresponding to the feeding zone 23 is set smaller than the number of pieces of the flight corresponding to the starvation z

Abstract: In a processing machine, a drive part makes a movable part move in a first direction. A position sensor detects the position of the movable part in the first direction. The rotation sensor detects the rotation of the spindle. At the time of processing of a workpiece by a tool in a state where the spindle is rotating, a control part controls the drive part based on the detection value of the position sensor so as to the movable part move in the first direction to a relative position set with respect to a predetermined reference position. Further, the control part acquires, as the reference position, a position detected by the position sensor at the time of detection of cessation of rotation of the spindle by the rotation sensor in a situation where the movable part moves in the first direction in a state where the spindle is rotating, and the tool and the workpiece contact in the first direction.

Abstract: A method for processing a workpiece with a tool is provided with holding the workpiece, holding the tool, and moving the held tool relative to the held workpiece in accordance with an NC program including an arithmetic expression to calculate a position of the held tool.

Abstract: There is provided a barrel support apparatus of an injection apparatus which can effectively reduce bending of the barrel due to its own weight. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a barrel support apparatus includes: a barrel support member for supporting a barrel from below; and a leg portion which supports the barrel support member, and can move following the forward and backward movement of the barrel.

Abstract: An injection molding machine pass/fail determination system includes: a monitoring data extraction module that extracts non-defective article monitoring data and defective article monitoring data from basic data in which a pass/fail determination result on a molded article formed by an injection molding machine is associated with monitoring data; a high-influence monitoring data extraction module that extracts high-influence monitoring data having a high influence on a defect type from among the extracted monitoring data; a molding parameter calculation module that calculates a molding parameter being a parameter to be used when pass/fail determination of the molded article during molding performed by the injection molding machine is performed based on the monitoring data of the same type as the high-influence monitoring data; and a pass/fail determination module that compares the molding parameter with a determination threshold being a threshold for the molding parameter and determines whether a defective ar

Abstract: A method for processing a workpiece with a tool is provided with holding the workpiece, holding the tool, and moving the held tool relative to the held workpiece in accordance with an NC program including an arithmetic expression to calculate a position of the held tool.

Abstract: In a processing machine, a machine body drives at least one of a workpiece and a tool to process the workpiece by the tool. A processing chamber isolates the workpiece, the tool, and a nozzle from at least part of the machine body while housing the workpiece, the tool, and the nozzle. An internal temperature sensor measures a temperature of an atmosphere in the processing chamber. An external temperature sensor measures a temperature of an atmosphere around the processing machine. A temperature adjustment part raises a temperature of the processing fluid to be supplied to the nozzle when a measured temperature of the internal temperature sensor is lower than a measured temperature of the external temperature sensor, and/or the temperature adjustment part lowers the temperature of the processing fluid to be supplied to the nozzle when the measured temperature of the internal temperature sensor is higher than the measured temperature of the external temperature sensor.

Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus includes a placement part on which a workpiece is placed, a first housing part, a second housing part, and a conveyance part. The first housing part houses the workpiece placed on the placement part. The second housing part houses the workpiece placed on the placement part. The second housing part includes a surface treatment part performing at least one type of surface treatment. The conveyance part conveys the workpiece placed on the placement part in a longitudinal direction of the first housing part or the second housing part. The surface treatment apparatus performs surface treatment on the workpiece in a state where the second housing part is a single body or in a state where the first housing part and the second housing part are plurally coupled in a conveyance direction of the conveyance part.

Abstract: A kneading state detection device includes an acquisition unit that, when an extrusion molding machine that kneads a raw material or kneads a raw material and an additive is in operation, acquires an output of an AE sensor installed on a housing of the extrusion molding machine, and a determination unit that determines a kneading state of the raw material, based on a comparison between a change in intensity of the output of the AE sensor acquired by the acquisition unit and a threshold.

Abstract: A foam molding method includes: moving a screw backward to take air into a heating barrel through a nozzle part in a state in which a shut-off nozzle is opened, the shut-off nozzle that opens or closes the nozzle part for injecting the molten resin and is disposed on a heating barrel; closing the shut-off nozzle and moving the screw forward, to diffuse the air taken into the heating barrel, in the molten resin in the heating barrel; feeding the molten resin forward while dispersing the air as the air bubbles in the molten resin by moving the screw backward while rotating it in a state in which the shut-off nozzle is closed; and opening the shut-off nozzle, to inject the molten resin containing the dispersed air bubbles into the cavity.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes: a timing belt wound around a driving-side rotation member and a driven-side rotation member and configured to transmit power from the driving-side rotation member to the driven-side rotation member; a driving-side rotation detecting unit configured to detect a rotational speed of the driving-side rotation member; a driven-side rotation detecting unit configured to detect a rotational speed of the driven-side rotation member; and an abnormality detecting unit configured to detect an abnormality in the timing belt based on a relative speed difference between the rotational speed of the driving-side rotation member detected by the driving-side rotation detecting unit and the rotational speed of the driven-side rotation member detected by the driven-side rotation detecting unit in a predetermined period after the driving-side rotation member starts to rotate from a stopped state.

Abstract: A control method for an injection molding machine including a measurement process of measuring molten resin by moving a screw backward while rotating the screw in a heating barrel for melting a resin material, a rotational speed of the screw is reduced from a timing when a backward movement speed of the screw is reduced at the measurement process before the measurement process is completed, for stopping backward movement of the screw when the measurement process is completed, and the rotational speed and a rotation direction of the screw are controlled such that a back pressure as a pressure of the molten resin measured at the measurement process becomes a target pressure lower than the back pressure of when the measurement process is completed, when a target time comes.

Abstract: A friction stir welding device includes a table that has a placement surface on which a workpiece is to be placed and is rotatable about a table rotation axis intersecting the placement surface, a tool holder movable relative to the table in a direction along the placement surface and rotatable about a holder rotation axis parallel to the table rotation axis, and a welding tool supported by the tool holder and rotating about a tool rotation axis intersecting the holder rotation axis. A control device has a biaxial operation mode in which the welding tool in a rotating state is pressed against a welding portion of a side surface of the workpiece, the welding tool is relatively moved along the welding portion by rotating the table, and the tool holder is rotated so that the welding tool is directed in a normal direction of the welding portion.

Abstract: A workpiece machining device includes a positional deviation correction unit configured to correct a positional deviation of a radius end mill by detecting a positional deviation between a real contour line and an ideal contour line of the radius end mill. The positional deviation correction unit calculates a first correction value configured to make a center of a first arc section formed into an arc shape at a corner portion of the ideal contour line and a center of a second arc section formed into an arc shape at a corner portion of the real contour line to be identical to each other in a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis, and corrects a machining point by the radius end mill using the first correction value.

Abstract: A processing apparatus for processing a workpiece includes a tool holding part 9 for holding a tool 3 for processing a workpiece 5, a transferring part 11 for transferring the tool 3 for processing the workpiece 5 with the tool 3, and a control unit 13 for controlling the transferring part 11 so as to transfer the tool 3 with respect to the workpiece 5 on the basis of an NC program, and in the NC program, an arithmetic expression for calculating the position of the tool 3 is incorporated and the program is corrected on the basis of the relationship between the cutting transferring distance, the wear amount, and the deflection amount in addition to the contour error of the tool 3.