Makino Milling Machine Company, Ltd

Masaaki Miyazaki

Yoshitaka Yamaguchi

Tomoya Murakami

A pallet transport system of a machine tool promoting transport of a pallet for workpiece mounting use from a first stand to an adjoining second stand, wherein the first stand has a first mounting part which defines a first mounting surface, the second stand has a second mounting part which defines a second mounting surface, and the pallet has a mounted part attachable to the first and second mounting parts, along a transport direction of the pallet, includes a support mechanism turnably supporting at least one of the first stand, the second stand, and the pallet so that the orientations of a mounted surface defined by the mounted part and the second mounting surface match due to contact force between the mounted part and the second mounting part along with transport of the pallet from the first stand to the second stand along the first mounting surface.

Pallet transport system of machine tool

A machine tool facility includes the following: machine tools; a first pallet stocker in which a plurality of pallets are arranged in parallel with a predetermined space therebetween; a second pallet stocker in which a plurality of pallets are arranged in parallel with a predetermined space therebetween, and which is disposed in parallel with the first pallet stocker; a conveyance car that conveys a pallet in a direction parallel to the row of the pallets of the first pallet stocker; a first transfer device for transferring the pallet between the first pallet stocker and the conveyance car; and a second transfer device for transferring, by horizontal movement, the pallet between the first pallet stocker and the second pallet stocker.

Machine tool facility

Machine tool () comprises spindle supporting side structure () erected on a floor surface for supporting spindle () having tool (T) mounted thereon and work supporting side structure () erected on the floor surface in opposition to spindle supporting side structure () for supporting work (W), and is used to machine the work by relative motion of tool (T) and work (W). An upper end of spindle supporting side structure () and an upper end of work supporting side structure () are connected to interconnection member ().

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