Amada Company, Limited

Kazunari Imai

Hitoshi Omata

Junichi Koyama

Osamu Hayama

Hidekatsu Ikeda

Tokuro Takehara

Tetsuya Anzai

Hirohito Nagahashi

Satoru Uesugi

An actual plate thickness and actual material constants are measured during punching before bending. The measured information is reflected on the bending, so that the bending is performed efficiently and accurately. Punching is carried out for each blank developed based on a nominal plate thickness and nominal material constants in blanking before the bending of a work W. Then, an actual plate thickness distribution and an actual material constant distribution of the work W are calculated based on various data containing a ram stroke and a pressure detected in the punching.

Sheet working method, sheet working system, and various devices related to such system

In bending a workpiece, a position of the workpiece relatively pressed down by a punch is directly detected by a plurality of position detectors provided in a V-groove of a die, and a bending speed calculation section obtains a bending speed from a change in this position. If bending speeds at position of the respective position detectors differ, a uniform speed arithmetic operation section calculates a bending speed to make the bending speeds at the positions of all of the position detectors, and a driving shaft instruction section controls driving shafts to bend the workpiece at the uniform bending speed.

Bending method and bending device

A bending method includes determining a provisional bending stroke value that resulted in a predetermined angle during test bending. The bending method also includes calculating a stroke value correction amount for correcting the provisional bending stroke value, based on the number of times a test piece was contacted to obtain the predetermined angle during test bending. The stroke value correction amount is added to the provisional stroke value to obtain a corrected stroke value, so as to obtain the predetermined angle during operational bending using the corrected stroke value.

Bending method and device therefor

A bending apparatus for bending a workpiece W according to cooperation of a punch P and a die D previously carries out various step bending or makes simulation of step bending, and calculates an approximation formula based on a correlation between a ratio % of a one-sided elongation value &agr; to a plate thickness t and a step bending angle &thgr; based on a relationship among the plate thickness t, the step bending angle &thgr; and the one-sided elongation value &agr; of the workpiece W so as to store the formula as a database. The more accurate one-sided elongation value &agr; of the step bending is calculated by small parameters including only two data including the plate thickness t and the step bending angle &thgr; previously input at the time of actual bending based on the approximation formula in the data base so that the bending is carried out easily.

Bending method and single elongation value specifying device of bending apparatus

A plate thickness detector for a bending machine causes a punch to make a relative stroke and bend a workpiece mounted on an upper surface of a die cooperatively by the punch and the die. A displacement gauge is provided in the die, is always urged upward from a V-groove of the die, and measures a distance from the upper surface of the die to a lower surface of the workpiece. A ram position detector detects a relative stroke quantity of the punch to the die. The punch is caused to bend the workpiece from a position away from the die by a reference inter-blade distance. A plate thickness arithmetic operation section inputs the relative stroke quantity of the punch at a point at which descent of the workpiece is detected by the displacement gauge or a predetermined point after the point, inputs the displacement quantity of the displacement gauge at this time using ram position detector, and detects the plate thickness of the workpiece by subtracting the detected relative stroke quantity from the reference inter-blade distance and adding the displacement quantity detected by the displacement gauge to the subtraction result.

Sheet thickness detecting method and device therefor in bending machine, reference inter-blade distance detecting method and device therefor, and bending method and bending device

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