Patents Assigned to Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaiha
  • Patent number: 4473883
    Abstract: A machining system includes machine tools each capable of performing, in a working area thereof, machining on a workpiece carried on a pallet, a pallet magazine including movable stations each capable of carrying and conveying a pallet and having pallet change positions each associated with each of the machine tools, pallet changers each associated with each of the machine tools and each capable of transferring a pallet between the working area of the associated machine tool and the associated pallet change position, numerical control devices each associated with each of the machine tools and each capable of storing part programs and of controlling the associated machine tool, and a system controller comprising first memory for storing, in relation to each of schedule numbers indicating order of machining, an indicium of a pallet carrying a workpiece to be machined in the related order and an indicium of a part program to be used for machining the related pallet, and second memory for storing, in relation to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaiha
    Inventors: Tetsu Yoshida, Isao Morimoto