Jtekt Corporation

Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hisanobu Kobayashi

Yoshio Wakazono

Masashi Yoritsune

Tetsuro Furuhata

A truing device of a grinding machine includes: a truer that corrects a shape of a grinding wheel; a swivel table that supports the truer such that the truer is swivelable about a swivel axis Ac; detecting means for directly detecting a distance from a truing edge position of the truer, which contacts the grinding wheel during correction of the shape of the grinding wheel, to a swivel center O of the swivel table; and control means for controlling the truing edge position of the truer with respect to the grinding wheel based on the distance L detected by the detecting means to true the grinding wheel.

Truing device of grinding machine

In a truing method and apparatus, an analyzing method is employed to calculate a truing shape from which a grinding surface having been trued with a grinding wheel being rotated at a low rotational speed during a truing operation is deformed to a desired shape due to centrifugal expansion depending on a rotational speed difference when the grinding wheel is rotated at a high rotational speed during a grinding operation. Then, with the grinding wheel being rotated at the low rotational speed, the grinding surface is trued with a truing roll to the calculated truing shape. As a result, the grinding surface of the grinding wheel being rotated at the low rotational speed is trued with the truing roll taking into consideration the centrifugal expansion of the grinding surface which takes place when the grinding wheel is rotatated at the high rotational speed during the grinding operation subsequent to the truing operation.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Hisanobu Kobayashi