Pascal Engineering Corporation

Aioi Seiki, Inc.

Pascal Kabushiki Kaisha

Ichiro Kitaura

Takayuki Munechika

Seiji Kimura

Takayuki Kawakami

Takayuki Kuroda

Kouryu Ro

Yoshio Aoyama

Akitake Hashidate

Hiroo Hashimoto

Taichiro Kitaura

Takashi Ninomiya

Yoshihiro Machida

A magnetic clamping device is provided with a magnetic force generating mechanism at which a housing cover body comprising soft magnetic material is arranged centrally at a hollow housing portion, a nonmagnetic metal frame body comprising a nonmagnetic body is made to engage with the outside circumference thereof, a plurality of arcuate nonreversible permanent magnets are arranged in annular fashion within an annular magnet housing space at the back of this nonmagnetic metal frame body, a reversible permanent magnet and a magnetic polarity switching coil disposed peripherally with respect thereto are provided at the back of the housing cover body, and a base cover body that blocks a back opening of the hollow housing portion is provided, the magnetic clamping device being characterized in that the metal frame body is joined in integral fashion to the housing cover body and the baseplate.

Magnetic clamping device, and magnetic force generating mechanism for magnetic clamping device

An injection machine which includes a mold falling prevention device that prevents a mold fixed to a mold fixing surface from falling off from the mold fixing surface and in which are provided a bottom edge restriction member at a lower portion of said mold fixing surface so that its vertical position is variable, for implementing restriction so that the bottom edge portion of the mold does not separate from the mold fixing surface, first and second intermediate restriction members at intermediate level portions of the mold fixing surface so that their horizontal positions are variable, for respectively implementing restrictions so that a one edge portion of the mold and an other edge portion thereof in the horizontal direction do not separate from the mold fixing surface, and a vertical direction position determination mechanism that receives and stops a bottom edge surface of the mold and determines a position of the mold in the vertical direction.

Injection molding machine

In a mold conveyance trolley, a trolley body includes vertical first and second side plates, first and second structural frames capable of providing rigidity in vertical planes to the front portion and the rear portion of the trolley body; and a plurality of plate members intersecting the first and second structural frames; each of the first and second structural frames includes a plurality of linking members disposed at different height positions and linked to the first and second side plates, and a plurality of steel pipe members fitted over each of the plurality of linking members and have a spacer function.

Mold conveyance trolley

A hydraulic cylinder includes a rod insertion hole formed in a piston member, an auxiliary rod provided to a head side end wall member and capable of being inserted into the rod insertion hole, a rod fitting hole formed to pass through the head side end wall member and the auxiliary rod, a movable rod installed in the rod fitting hole and whose end portion toward a head side end wall projects to the exterior, a movement restriction mechanism that prohibits shifting of the movable rod in an unclamping state and permits shifting of the movable rod in a clamping state.

Hydraulic cylinder and clamp device

A balancer mechanism for a rotating shaft is configured to prevent deviation of the axis of the rotating shaft. The balancer mechanism () has an assistance torque generation device () for generating an assistance torque. The assistance torque generation device () includes a cam member () fixed to the rotating shaft (), a cam follower member () and a gas spring (). The balancer mechanism has a reaction force generation device () provided for generating, a balancing moment on the rotating shaft that cancels out a tilting moment that tilts the rotating shaft () around a bearing member () in a direction to separate it from the assistance torque generation device () and which is caused by the biasing force of the gas spring ().

Balancer mechanism for rotating shaft

A slide lock apparatus for a press machine includes: a flange member fixed over the shaft member for driving the slide, and having a flange portion; an annular main member fixed to the main frame, and having an annular member facing the flange portion; a plurality of reception holes formed in the annular member; a plurality of pin members installed in the plurality of reception holes so as to be shiftable therein; a plurality of actuators for driving the plurality of pin members between retracted positions and advanced positions penetrating into admission holes in the flange portion; a first locking member for locking the plurality of pin members in retracted positions; a first drive device for rotationally driving the first locking member; a second locking member for locking the plurality of pin members in their advanced positions; and a second drive device for rotationally driving the second locking member.

Slide lock apparatus for press machine

An article positioning mechanism for positioning an article comprising a component or a tool with respect to a mounting portion of a movable member of a mechanical device and also restraining rotation thereof includes a holder member to which the article is fixed and a frame shaped member that is fixed to the mounting portion, the holder member including position regulation surfaces and a tapered male engagement portion that is formed as a regular polygon and also is sloped so as to approach its axis in the direction towards the mounting portion, the frame shaped member including a reference surface that receives the position regulation surfaces and positions them in the axial direction, and a tapered female engagement portion that is formed as a regular polygon and also is sloped in the same direction as the tapered male engagement portion.

Article positioning mechanism

A positioning and fixing device positions a work pallet in the vertical and horizontal directions relative to a base member via a ring member, and also restricts its rotation around the vertical axis. The base member has Z reference surfaces that can stop a lower end reference surface of the ring member and position it in the vertical direction, and a tapered male engagement portion whose horizontal cross section is formed as a regular polygon having a plurality of outwardly convex circular arcuate vertex portions and a plurality of side portions, and that reduces in diameter upwards. The ring member has a tapered female engagement portion that can engage with the tapered male engagement portion so that its lower end reference surface is in contact against the Z reference surfaces. A clamp mechanism for fixing the ring member to the base member is provided, and the side portions of at least one of the tapered female engagement portion and the tapered male engagement portion are adapted to engage in close contact with the other via elastic deformation.

Work pallet positioning and fixing device

An object positioning/fixing device is capable of generating a clamping force by clamp bolts capable of being fastened manually and realizes high operability of the clamp bolts. A simple clamp mechanism comprises the clamp bolts as major components. The object positioning/fixing device has a cooperative assembly of the positioning mechanism and the clamp bolts.

Objecting positioning/fixing device

A fixing structure of a spindle balancer for a machine tool is described as having a flange member having a supported surface and provided fixedly to a cylinder body of a gas spring, a supporting member having a flange receiving surface and a fixing hole, and secured to the spindle head of a machine tool, and a plurality of fastening members for fastening the flange member to the supporting member so as to allow the supported surface of the flange member to abut against the flange receiving surface of the support member.

Fixing structure of spindle balancer for machine tool technical field

In a work pallet positioning and fixing device that positions a work pallet over a base member in the horizontal direction and in the vertical direction and fixes it thereto by pressing forces of clamp bolts, the base member is provided with first and second reference members for positioning, and a reference seating surface and, by making bolt head accommodation holes of bolt holes for four fitting bolts fitting flange portions of the reference members partially overlap with protruding engagement portions as seen in plan view, a plurality of tapered engagement surfaces on the external peripheries of the protruding engagement portions being segmented into four sections.

A tool unclamping device is a device capable of unclamping a tool clamped to a spindle of a machine tool, and comprises a casing, an output shaft set on this casing and capable of outputting power necessary for unclamping the tool, a motor serving as a power source capable of supplying power for driving the output shaft, a power transmission mechanism transmitting the power from the motor to the output shaft and a gas cylinder serving as an auxiliary power source capable of supplying auxiliary power to this power transmission mechanism.

Tool unclamping device

A tool unclamping device according to the present invention comprises a motor, a rotary shaft connected to the motor, a cam provided on the rotary shaft, a power transmission member, pressed by the cam to be axially movable, having a recess at the center in the radial direction thereof, a frame so provided as to enclose the power transmission mechanism, a support member inserted into the power transmission mechanism in the radial direction thereof and fixed to the frame, an elastic member set in the recess located between the power transmission member and the support member for urging the power transmission member toward the motor and an output shaft driven by power from the power transmission mechanism for unclamping a tool.

A workpiece support has a simplified structure and can operate with improved dependability and reliability. The workpiece support has a rod, a sleeve body externally fitted on the rod and elastically deformable so as to shrink in diameter, a case member supporting the sleeve body, and an external peripheral hydraulic chamber formed on the external periphery of the sleeve body. A hydraulic cylinder is provided for moving the rod in the axial direction and oil passage are provided for connecting the hydraulic operating chamber of the hydraulic cylinder with the external peripheral hydraulic chamber when the piston member of the hydraulic cylinder has moved up to or to the vicinity of the stroke end thereof.

Work support

The present invention presents a work pallet positioning and fixing device capable of positioning in both horizontal and vertical directions through elastic deformation of an annular engaging portion, wherein the engaging portion can elastically deform along the entire periphery and even locally in a circumferential direction thereof.

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Itami, Japan

Ichiro Kitaura