Abstract: A balancing machine protective cover for an at least temporary closing of a balancing chamber of a balancing machine, comprises at least one first transparent element, at least one second transparent element and a frame unit, wherein the transparent elements are shaped and/or arranged in such a way that they can delimit the balancing chamber to at least one side, and wherein the two transparent elements are held by the frame unit in such a way that they together form a double-walled delimitation of the balancing chamber to the at least one side.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of a tool holder, includes: an induction heating unit comprising one induction coil configured, in a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping process, to heat-expand a portion of a tool holder arranged in a receiving region of the induction heating unit; a magnetic flux conducting unit comprising one magnetic flux conducting element for conduction of magnetic flux generated by the induction coil; and a bearing unit configured for a movable support of the magnetic flux conducting element, wherein a large portion of all points of the magnetic flux conducting element each have a respective movement path predetermined partially by the bearing unit, wherein each of the movement paths has an essential movement component oriented perpendicularly to a radial direction of the receiving region and at the same time perpendicularly to an axial direction of the receiving region.

Abstract: A shrink-clamping cooling device at least for an, in particular contour-independent, tempering of tool holders and/or tools, which were in particular heated previously, with at least one cooling container, which forms a receiving space for receiving at least one tool unit comprising a tool holder and a tool, and with at least one climate-control apparatus, which is configured for essentially tempering, preferably actively cooling, a cooling gas or cooling gas mixture, in particular cooling air, which is contained in the receiving space of the cooling container, and/or a cooling gas or cooling gas mixture, in particular cooling air, fed to the receiving space of the cooling container, for the purpose of cooling the tool unit.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of a tool holder has an induction heating unit having at least one induction coil configured to thermally expand at least a portion of the tool holder arranged in a receiving region of the induction heating unit. The induction heating device further has at least one magnetic flux conducting unit for a conduction of a magnetic flux generated by the induction coil, the magnetic flux conducting unit having at least one magnetic flux conducting element. The induction heating device further has a sleeve element, arranged on the magnetic flux conducting element and covering the magnetic flux conducting element on at least one side of the magnetic flux conducting element that faces toward the receiving region in at least one operating state of the magnetic flux conducting unit.

Abstract: A reprocessing apparatus, in particular a cleaning and/or preserving apparatus, for tools, tool holders and/or tool units is proposed, with at least one reprocessing unit, in particular for a reprocessing of used and/or contaminated tools, tool holders and/or tool units, with at least one holding unit for an exchangeable holding of the tools, tool holders and/or tool units, and with at least one handling unit which is configured, for an execution of a cleaning process on the tools, tool holders and/or tool units, to bring the holding unit and at least one cleaning region of the reprocessing unit together in an at least semiautomated manner, and after execution of the cleaning process, to remove the holding unit and the cleaning region of the reprocessing unit from each other in an at least semiautomated manner, and/or after execution of the cleaning process, to bring the holding unit and at least one further cleaning region of the reprocessing unit together for an execution of a further cleaning process.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of tool holders has an induction heating unit with at least one first inductor and at least one second inductor, which is preferably realized separately from the first inductor, wherein the first inductor and the second inductor are configured to respectively expand at least a portion, in particular different portions, of the tool holder by inductive heating in a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping process, and has an electric supply unit, wherein the inductors are configured to output respectively different energies to different subregions of a tool holder, which are in a heating operating respectively encompassed by the inductors, as one of the inductors has more windings than the other inductor, in particular by at least 10%, preferably by at least 20% and preferentially by at least 30% more windings, and/or as the electric supply unit is at least configured to operate the first inductor and the sec

Abstract: A tool presetting and/or tool measuring apparatus device includes a carrier unit and a spindle unit, in particular motor spindle unit, which is supported by the carrier unit, which is at least configured for a rotation of an object inserted in the spindle unit, in particular a tool and/or a tool holder, around a spindle axis of the spindle unit and which comprises at least one drive unit for generating the rotation movement of the object, wherein the spindle unit includes a coupling unit which is configured, in particular for the purpose of changing a maximally achievable spindle torque, to drive the spindle unit in at least two differing modes.

Abstract: An automated tool clamping device, in particular a fully automated tool clamping device is configured for a clamping-in of at least one tool in a tool chuck by a tightening of a union nut of the tool chuck and/or for a declamping of the tool out of the tool chuck by a release of the union nut, and comprises a clamp element, which is at least configured to generate a connection, in particular a clamp connection, with the union nut of the tool chuck, and comprises a torque receiving element, which is at least configured to receive at least a large portion of a torque occurring during a tool clamping process, in particular during a tool clamping-in process and/or a tool declamping process.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of a tool holder, includes an induction heating unit having at least one induction coil configured to thermally expand at least a portion of a tool holder arranged in a receiving region of the induction heating unit, and includes at least one magnetic flux conducting unit for a conduction of a magnetic flux generated by the induction coil, having at least one magnetic flux conducting element, preferably supported movably relative to the receiving region and implemented at least to a large extent of a ferrite material, and includes a sleeve element, arranged on the magnetic flux conducting element and covers the magnetic flux conducting element on at least one side of the magnetic flux conducting element that faces toward the receiving region in at least one operating state of the magnetic flux conducting unit.

Abstract: A method for transmitting at least one tool presetting data set of a machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium, at least one tool measuring data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium and/or at least one tool processing data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium to a machine tool that is controlled via Computerized Numerical Control [CNC machine tool], with a data communication unit, wherein in a tool delivery step at least the machining tool is delivered to the CNC machine tool and wherein in a tool identification step the delivered machining tool is identified via a tool identification unit, which is in particular allocated to the CNC machine tool, the method including a read-out step, which is in particular situated temporally after the tool identification step, in which at least the tool presetting data set of the machining tool, the tool measuring data set of the machin

Abstract: A loading device for a loading of an installation, in particular a multi-clamping and measuring and/or presetting station for tools and/or tool holders, and/or a machine tool, in particular includes at least one handling robot, having at least tool holders and/or tool assemblies, having a rollable undercarriage unit and having a storage unit, arranged on the rollable undercarriage unit, for a storage of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies, wherein the storage unit has at least one holding device at least for an oblique-positioned holding of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies relative to a put-up direction of the storage unit.

Abstract: A reprocessing apparatus (54), in particular a cleaning and/or preserving apparatus, for tools (10), tool holders (12) and/or tool units (14) is proposed, with at least one reprocessing unit (16), in particular for a reprocessing of used and/or contaminated tools (10), tool holders (12) and/or tool units (14), with at least one holding unit (18) for an exchangeable holding of the tools (10), tool holders (12) and/or tool units (14), and with at least one handling unit (20) which is configured, for an execution of a cleaning process on the tools (10), tool holders (12) and/or tool units (14), to bring the holding unit (18) and at least one cleaning region (22) of the reprocessing unit (16) together in an at least semiautomated manner, and after execution of the cleaning process, to remove the holding unit (18) and the cleaning region (22) of the reprocessing unit (16) from each other in an at least semiautomated manner, and/or after execution of the cleaning process, to bring the holding unit (18) and at least

Abstract: A shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping station for tools, for an at least largely automated shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or from tool holders includes an induction heating unit and a cooling unit. The cooling unit can in an automated manner be brought into a heat-conductive contact with a tool holder previously heated by the induction heating unit.

Abstract: A shrink-clamping cooling device at least for an, in particular contour-independent, tempering of tool holders and/or tools, which were in particular heated previously, with at least one cooling container, which forms a receiving space for receiving at least one tool unit comprising a tool holder and a tool, and with at least one climate-control apparatus, which is configured for essentially tempering, preferably actively cooling, a cooling gas or cooling gas mixture, in particular cooling air, which is contained in the receiving space of the cooling container, and/or a cooling gas or cooling gas mixture, in particular cooling air, fed to the receiving space of the cooling container, for the purpose of cooling the tool unit.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of tool holders has an induction heating unit with at least one first inductor and at least one second inductor, which is preferably realized separately from the first inductor, wherein the first inductor and the second inductor are configured to respectively expand at least a portion, in particular different portions, of the tool holder by inductor heating in a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping process, and has an electric supply unit, wherein the inductors are configured to output respectively different energies to different subregions of a tool holder, which are in a heating operation respectively encompassed by the inductors, as one of the inductors has more windings than the other inductor, in particular by at least 10%, preferably by at least 20% and preferentially by at least 30% more windings, and/or as the electric supply unit is at least configured to operate the first inductor and the s

Abstract: A method for transmitting at least one tool presetting data set of a machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium, at least one tool measuring data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium and/or at least one tool processing data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium to a machine tool that is controlled via Computerized Numerical Control [CNC machine tool], with a data communication unit, wherein in a tool delivery step at least the machining tool is delivered to the CNC machine tool and wherein in a tool identification step the delivered machining tool is identified via a tool identification unit, which is in particular allocated to the CNC machine tool, the method including a read-out step, which is in particular situated temporally after the tool identification step, in which at least the tool presetting data set of the machining tool, the tool measuring data set of the machin

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of a tool holder, includes: an induction heating unit comprising one induction coil configured, in a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping process, to heat-expand a portion of a tool holder arranged in a receiving region of the induction heating unit; magnetic flux conducting unit comprising one magnetic flux conducting element for conduction of magnetic flux generated by the induction coil; and a bearing unit configured for a movable support of the magnetic flux conducting element, wherein a large portion of all points of the magnetic flux conducting element each have a respective movement path predetermined partially by the bearing unit, wherein each of the movement paths has an essential movement component oriented perpendicularly to a radial direction of the receiving region and at the same time perpendicularly to an axial direction of the receiving region.

Abstract: A tool presetting and/or tool measuring apparatus device includes a carrier unit and a spindle unit, in particular motor spindle unit, which is supported by the carrier unit, which is at least configured for a rotation of an object inserted in the spindle unit, in particular a tool and/or a tool holder, around a spindle axis of the spindle unit and which comprises at least one drive unit for generating the rotation movement of the object the spindle unit includes a coupling unit which is configured, in particular for the purpose of changing a maximally achievable spindle torque, to drive the spindle unit in at least two differing modes.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or from tool holders, in particular an induction heating unit of a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping station for tools, comprises an induction heating unit comprising at least one induction coil which is configured to expand, by heating, at least a portion of the tool holder during a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping process, and includes at least one shielding unit which is at least configured for a shielding of an induction magnetic field generated by the induction heating unit at least substantially at least in an axial direction of the induction coil, wherein the induction heating unit and the shielding unit form structural units which can be operatively decoupled from each other and can thus be moved relative to each other at least in the axial direction.

Abstract: A shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping station for tools, for an at least largely automated shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or from tool holders includes an induction heating unit and a cooling unit. The cooling unit can in an automated manner be brought into a heat-conductive contact with a tool holder previously heated by the induction heating unit.