Fanuc Corporation

Hajime Ogawa

Junichi Tezuka

Yasusuke Iwashita

Kenichi Takayama

A data measuring device includes a communicating part capable of communicating with a plurality of numerical control devices which control a plurality of machine tools through communication cables, a physical data measuring part which measures physical data relating to operations of drive shafts of the machine tools corresponding to the numerical control devices which communicate with the communicating part through such numerical control devices, and a destination determining part which successively determines a numerical control device which should be the destination of the communicating part. The communicating part successively switches the destination so as to communicate with the numerical control device which should be the destination determined by the destination determining part, when the physical data measuring part measures the physical data.

Data measuring device switching communication destination for measuring physical data

A vibration analysis device calculates a vibration cycle which occurs during a period in which a workpiece is processed by a machine tool, and includes a tangential velocity calculation unit which calculates a velocity in a tangential direction of a movement path of a processing point by using positional information of a drive axis. The vibration analysis device comprises a movement distance calculation unit which calculates a first movement distance of the processing point on the movement path by using the velocity in the tangential direction. The vibration analysis device comprises a vibration cycle calculation unit which calculates a vibration cycle corresponding to streaks on the basis of previously measured streak intervals on the workpiece and the first movement distance of the processing point.

Vibration analysis device which calculates cycle of vibration of tool with respect to workpiece

A waveform display device includes a position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of a drive shaft of a machine tool in a time series manner, a time designation unit for designating a time section that is a display target in a time series of the position information, a tangent direction speed calculation unit for calculating a tangent direction speed of a tool tip end point of the machine tool based on the position information and configuration information of the machine tool, a distance calculation unit for converting the time section into a distance between two points on a machined surface of the machine tool based on the tangent direction speed, and a display unit for displaying the distance between the two points.

Waveform display device for displaying length by converting frequency into length on machined surface

An automatic parameter adjustment device capable of quantitatively determine the degree of importance of a processing time and a processing accuracy, and effectively adjusting a parameter in accordance with a processing condition. The adjustment device includes: a parameter changing part which changes a control parameter; a test program executing part which transmits a test program to a numerical controller for executing the test program; an execution result obtaining part which obtains an execution result of the test program; a storing part which stores the execution result and the parameter corresponding thereto; a weighting part which determines weighting coefficients of the processing time and processing accuracy as evaluation criteria based on input or setting by an operator; and a parameter extracting part which evaluates the execution result based on the weighted evaluation criteria, and extracts an optimum parameter from the storing part based on the evaluated execution result.

Automatic parameter adjustment device for adjusting parameter corresponding to processing condition

A tool track display device includes a position information acquisition unit which acquires position information of at least one drive axle from a numerical control device and a position sensor provided on the at least one drive axle, a tool coordinate calculation unit which calculates coordinate values of the tool based on the position information of the at least one drive axle and information regarding the mechanical structure of a machine tool, a display attribute modification unit which modifies the display attribute of the tool track in accordance with the motion direction of the tool, and a display unit which displays the tool track based on the coordinate values of the tool calculated by the tool coordinate calculation unit and the display attribute modified by the display attribute modification unit.

Tool track display device for displaying track of tool

A numerical control device, in a motor drive system which drives a motor part which has a cooling fan motor and is provided with the numerical control device to drive the motor part, which acquires the temperature of the component elements of the motor part from the temperature detectors, ambient temperature, input energy to the component elements, and output energy from the component elements, estimates the heat radiation characteristic of the component elements from the data of the temperature of the component elements, ambient temperature, and input/output energy, compares the estimated value of the heat radiation characteristic of the component elements with a normal value, judges that the cooling fan motor is abnormal when the heat radiation characteristic is below the normal value, and thereby prevents trouble due to overheating of the component elements of the motor part.

Numerical control device provided with heat radiation characteristic estimation part

A trajectory display device comprises a position information acquisition part acquiring position information of a drive axis of a machine tool, a tool coordinate calculation part calculating the coordinate value of a tool tip point based on the position information, and a tool vector calculation part setting a tool vector along the tool axis with the tool tip point as the starting point. The trajectory display device comprises an intersection calculation part calculating the coordinate values of the intersection points of the tool vector with preset flat planes and a display part displaying the tool axis trajectories represented by a line connecting the intersection points.

Trajectory display device for displaying trajectory of tool axis

A numerical control device wherein a sinusoidal signal generated by a sine wave generation part is input by a control loop excitation part to a control loop of the control object, the input signal input to the control loop and the output signal from the control object are sampled by the data acquisition part periodically, and the sampling data is used by the frequency characteristic calculation part to calculate the frequency characteristic of the control loop to control the control object, wherein the frequency characteristic calculation part uses data obtained by inputting a sinusoidal signal obtained by shifting an initial phase of the sinusoidal signal by a phase shift part provided at a sine wave generation part by exactly a certain amount to the control loop a plurality of times to calculate the frequency characteristic of the control loop to thereby improve the measurement precision regardless of the sampling frequency.

Numerical control device having function of calculating frequency characteristic of control loop

A numerical control device comprising an acceleration/deceleration characteristic acquisition part which acquires predetermined acceleration/deceleration characteristic information showing a correspondence between a command speed and a maximum acceleration of a spindle, a rotation amount acquisition part which acquires predetermined rotation amount information showing the rotation amount of the spindle for a period from when feed operation of the spindle is started to when a tapping tool reaches a bottom of the hole of a workpiece, a machining time calculation part which calculates a correspondence between the command speed and a machining time required to reach the rotation amount, based on the acceleration/deceleration characteristic information and the rotation amount information, and a speed determination part which determines an optimum value of the command speed for minimizing the machining time, based on the correspondence calculated by the machining time calculation part.

Numerical control device of machine tool

A time series data display device calculates position data in time-series of a movement point on drive axes based on the position feedback data, generates a command movement trajectory of the machine end based on the position command data, generates an actual movement trajectory of the machine end based on the actual position data, calculates position data of the machine end which are intersection points between straight lines, which are perpendicular to the command movement trajectory and pass through the movement point, and the actual movement trajectory, converts the position data of the machine end to position data with respect to drive axes, and displays the position feedback data in time-series and the position data in time-series.

Time series data display device converting point sequence data to time series data regarding drive axes to be displayed

A numerical controller having a display function for comparing data at a predetermined position regardless of a change in a processing condition. The numerical controller comprises a numerical controlling part which controls each drive axis based on a predetermined position command; a position data obtaining part which obtains position data of each axis and a tool representative point of the machine tool; a movement distance calculating part which calculates movement distance of the axis and the tool representative point based on the obtained position data and dimensional information of each component of the machine tool; a physical data obtaining part which obtains physical data of each axis and the tool; a data converting part which converts the obtained time axis-based physical data into movement distance-based data; a distance-based data storing part which stores the movement distance-based data; and a displaying part which displays the movement distance-based data.

Numerical controller having display function of physical data of machine tool

The tool trajectory display device () includes: a start point coordinate storing unit () that stores a plurality of coordinate positions of a drive shaft as start point coordinate positions; a movement amount determining unit () that determines a movement amount of the drive shaft from a first start point coordinate position to a second start point coordinate position; a trajectory calculation unit () that calculates a first actual trajectory of a tool tip point of the machine tool from the actual position based on the first start point coordinate position after adding the movement amount and the repetition portion, and that calculates a second actual trajectory of the tool tip point from the actual position based on the second start point coordinate position and the repetition portion; and a display unit () that superimposedly displays the first and the second actual trajectories.

Tool trajectory display device including display unit for trajectory data

A trajectory display device, by which an operator can visually and easily compare actual trajectories of a motor end and a machine end, and can easily determine a reason for deviation between the trajectories. The device has a motor-side position obtaining part which obtains positional information of a motor at predetermined sampling periods of time; a motor end actual coordinate calculating part which calculates an actual coordinate value of the motor end based on mechanical information and the positional information of the motor; a machine end data obtaining part which obtains point sequence data on an actual trajectory of the machine end; and a displaying part which displays and overlaps the actual coordinate of the motor end and the point sequence data of the machine end, as actual trajectories of the motor end and the machine end, so that central coordinates of the trajectories coincide with each other.

Trajectory display device for displaying trajectories of motor end and machine end

A numerical control device according to the present invention includes a display part for displaying a program coordinate and a command coordinate such that they can be compared with each other. The display part may be adapted to further display an actual coordinate. The display part may also be adapted to further display a program trajectory, a command trajectory and an actual trajectory, which are obtained from a machining program and the program coordinate, the command coordinate and the actual coordinate, respectively.

Numerical control device including display part for displaying information for evaluation of machining process

A data acquisition device includes an operational information acquiring part for acquiring operational data from a numerical control device, an active portion acquiring part for acquiring an active portion of a machining program from the numerical control device, a stopping cause acquiring part for acquiring stopping cause information representative of cause of stoppage when the drive axis is stopped, from the numerical control device, and storing part for storing the operational data, the active portion, and the stopping cause information, in association with time of their acquisition, respectively.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Hajime Ogawa