Abrégé

In order to configure a multi-spindle machine tool comprising a machine frame, a spindle drum arranged on the machine frame to be rotatable about a spindle drum axis and having a plurality of workpiece spindles, each of which is provided with a workpiece receptacle for a workpiece that is to be machined in a working area, a plurality of tool carriers arranged in the working area, in particular associated with individual spindle stations, and each having a tool holder receptacle into which a tool holder is insertable, as well as a machine control system for controlling the machine tool to be more efficient, it is proposed that a handling apparatus is arranged on the machine frame, that with the handling device, also controlled by the machine control system, at least one tool holder is insertable into at least one of the tool holder receptacles and/or removable therefrom.

Classes IPC  ?

• B23Q 3/155 - Agencements pour insérer ou retirer automatiquement les outils
• B23Q 7/04 - Agencements pour la manipulation des pièces, spécialement combinés aux machines-outils ou disposés dans ces machines ou spécialement conçus pour être utilisés en relation avec ces machines, p.ex. pour le transport, le chargement, le positionnement, l au moyen de pinces

Abrégé

Multispindle lathe comprising a machine frame (12), a spindle drum (14) which is arranged in the machine frame (12), is rotatable about a spindle drum axis (16) and is made up at least partially of segments (80) which are cut out from flat material in a stacking direction (82) parallel to the spindle drum axis (16) and extend in stacking planes (88) transverse to the stacking direction (82), these segments having receiving cutouts (90) and cooling channel cutouts (92, 96, 106) which overlap with one another such that the spindle drum (14) has spindle motor receptacles (30) for spindle motors (32) and a cooling channel system (120, 130, 180) separated therefrom by wall webs (98), characterized in that the cooling channel system has several channel subsystems (120, 130, 180) for a liquid cooling medium which are fed in parallel.

Classes IPC  ?

• B23Q 11/12 - Dispositions pour le refroidissement ou la lubrification des parties des machines
• B23B 3/30 - Machines à tourner à plusieurs broches de travail, p.ex. fixées d'une façon permanente
• B23B 9/00 - Machines à tourner automatiques ou semi-automatiques à plusieurs broches de travail, p.ex. machines automatiques multibroches dont les broches sont disposées sur un chariot à tambour susceptible d'être placé dans des positions prédéterminées; Equipement de ces machines
• H02K 16/00 - Machines avec plus d'un rotor ou d'un stator
• B23Q 39/04 - Machines pour le travail des métaux incorporant un grand nombre de sous-ensembles capables chacun de réaliser une opération de travail du métal les sous-ensembles étant disposés pour fonctionner simultanément à différents postes de travail, p.ex. avec une table de travail annulaire se déplaçant par paliers
• H02K 1/20 - Parties fixes du circuit magnétique avec des canaux ou des conduits pour l'écoulement d'un agent de refroidissement

Abrégé

A lathe is provided that can produce complex shapes. The lathe includes a turret movement system with a B axis, which can be activated by a control. The turret axis may be designed as an H axis, which extends in a place at right angles to the B axis and can be activated by the control.

Classes IPC  ?

• B23B 3/22 - Machines ou dispositifs à tourner à têtes porte-outils rotatives
• B23B 3/30 - Machines à tourner à plusieurs broches de travail, p.ex. fixées d'une façon permanente
• B23B 3/16 - Tours-revolver pour tourner des pièces montées individuellement sur mandrin
• B23Q 1/48 - Supports mobiles ou réglables d'outils ou de pièces utilisant des mécanismes particuliers avec des guidages en translation et des guidages en rotation
• B23Q 39/02 - Machines pour le travail des métaux incorporant un grand nombre de sous-ensembles capables chacun de réaliser une opération de travail du métal les sous-ensembles étant susceptibles d'être mis en fonctionnement à un seul poste de travail
• B23Q 39/00 - Machines pour le travail des métaux incorporant un grand nombre de sous-ensembles capables chacun de réaliser une opération de travail du métal

Abrégé

It is proposed that an interaction unit which allows a manual interaction is associated with a visualization unit, that a function selection unit which allows an association of a function of a machine tool with this manual interaction is associated with the visualization unit, and that a function data generator unit is provided that generates operating data which correspond to the manual interaction, while taking the associated function into account, and transmits these operating data to a visualization controller in order to represent, on the visualization unit, using visualization elements, the function specified by the manual interaction.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06F 19/00 - Équipement ou méthodes de traitement de données ou de calcul numérique, spécialement adaptés à des applications spécifiques (spécialement adaptés à des fonctions spécifiques G06F 17/00;systèmes ou méthodes de traitement de données spécialement adaptés à des fins administratives, commerciales, financières, de gestion, de surveillance ou de prévision G06Q;informatique médicale G16H)
• G05B 11/01 - Commandes automatiques électriques
• G05B 15/00 - Systèmes commandés par un calculateur

Abrégé

A machine tool having a machine frame. A first workpiece carrier unit is disposed on the machine frame and has a workpiece receiving mechanism. At least one tool carrier unit is disposed on the machine frame, on which at least one tool for machining a workpiece held in the workpiece receiving mechanism is disposed. In an embodiment, there is a working space, in which a workpiece, held in the workpiece receiving means, can be machined with the tool. In an embodiment, the tool carrier unit has a tool carrier base and a tool carrier head, which is movable in relation to the tool carrier base along an axis of advance via a guiding arm. The tool carrier head is rotatable about an axis of rotation coincident or parallel to the axis of advance, by the tool carrier head being fixedly connected to the guiding arm and by the tool carrier head being formed as a multiple tool carrier which has at least two tool planes, in which at least one respective tool extends in at least one of its tool directions.

Classes IPC  ?

• B23P 23/00 - Machines ou agencements de machines réalisant des combinaisons déterminées de différentes opérations d'usinage, non couverts par une seule autre sous-classe
• B23B 29/32 - Tourelles actionnées par un moteur

Abrégé

In order to improve a machine tool for machining a workpiece by a relative movement between the workpiece and a tool, comprising a first receiving device for the workpiece or the tool, a compound slide system with a second receiving device for the tool or the workpiece and comprising a drive device for moving the second receiving device in relation to the first receiving device, which drive device acts at least two spaced-apart points of application by at least three drive struts extending parallel to at least two different directions and each with a pivot joint, and with which drive device the at least two points of application can be positioned by means of the at least three drive struts, in such a way that exact positioning of the second slide element can be achieved by structural measures, it is proposed that four drive struts of invariant length, each with a pivot joint, act on the slide element, each of which struts is pivotally connected to a guiding slide, which is guided in a linearly movable manner transversely in relation to the longitudinal direction of the respective drive struts, and a maximum of two of which drive struts run parallel to one another.

Classes IPC  ?

• B23P 23/00 - Machines ou agencements de machines réalisant des combinaisons déterminées de différentes opérations d'usinage, non couverts par une seule autre sous-classe

Abrégé

In order to improve a simulation system for representing actions of machining units of a machine tool, in particular actions in the machining of a workpiece, in accordance with a CNC machining program complex by means of at least one first visualization unit in the form of actions of virtual machining units of a virtual machine tool, comprising an action control, which has at least one first data processing unit, which establishes control commands for actions of the virtual machining units by a control program processing CNC blocks of the CNC machining program complex, and a visualization control, which has at least one second data processing unit, which represents actions of the virtual machining units on the first visualization unit by a visualization program on the basis of configuration data of a stored machine model and the control commands determined by the action control, in such a way that it can be operated more easily, it is proposed that the simulation system comprises an operating control with a third data processing unit, which operates the action control by an operating program, and that the operating program has a program management function, which transfers at least program parts of the CNC machining program complex in a workpiece-related manner from said CNC machining program complex stored in a memory of the third data processing unit to the action control for executing said program complex.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06F 19/00 - Équipement ou méthodes de traitement de données ou de calcul numérique, spécialement adaptés à des applications spécifiques (spécialement adaptés à des fonctions spécifiques G06F 17/00;systèmes ou méthodes de traitement de données spécialement adaptés à des fins administratives, commerciales, financières, de gestion, de surveillance ou de prévision G06Q;informatique médicale G16H)

Abrégé

In order, in a multi-spindle lathe, comprising a lathe frame, a spindle drum, which is mounted on the lathe frame such that it can rotate about a spindle drum axis and has an end face facing a working space, a multiplicity of workpiece spindles, which are mounted in the spindle drum in such a manner that they can rotate about spindle axes and have workpiece-accommodating means, which are disposed so as to face the working space and into which workpieces which are to be machined in the working space can be inserted, also to ensure that the points in time and time durations for handling workpieces involve the minimum possible loss of machining time, it is proposed that there is a pivot-arm handling device, the foot of which is disposed on an opposite side of the working space from the end face of the spindle drum and which is formed in such a way that it can be used to insert workpieces into the workpiece-accommodating means of the workpiece spindles or to remove them therefrom, through the working space.

Classes IPC  ?

• B23B 7/16 - Machines automatiques ou semi-automatiques pour tourner des produits semi-finis à broche de travail verticale