Fanuc Corporation

Masanori Itou

Tatsuhiro Uchiyama

Hiroyuki Uchida

Yoshiharu Inaba

Zheng Tong

Yasuhiko Kurosumi

Hikaru Yamane

Taiki Endou

A control device of a transfer device has: a mark relative position calculation unit which calculates a relative position of the three compensation marks relative to the cart, based on a captured image of the camera; a posture calculation unit which calculates a posture of the robot arm which arranges the article at the delivery position, based on a relative position of the three compensation marks calculated by the mark relative position calculation unit, and a teaching positional relationship which is taught in advance as a positional relationship between the three compensation marks and the delivery position; a reference positional relationship determination unit which determines whether a mutual positional relationship between the three compensation marks matches with a reference positional relationship set in advance, based on the relative positions of the three compensation marks calculated by the mark relative position calculation unit; and a displacement notification unit which notifies to outside of a possibility of displacement of the three compensation marks, in a case of the reference positional relationship determination unit determining that the mutual positional relationship of the three compensation marks does not match with the reference positional relationship.

Transfer device and delivery system

A cooling mechanism for a machine of the present invention comprises a cooler for cooling the inside of a control board of the machine including a machine controller for controlling a drive unit based on commands contained in an applications, includes a pre-fetcher for pre-fetching commands contained in the applications, a heat value predictor for predicting a heat value to be generated inside the control board based on a command pre-fetched by the pre-fetcher, and a cooling controller for controlling an operation of the cooler based on the heat value inside the control board thus predicted by the heat value predictor.

Cooling mechanism for machine

A machining system comprises a machine tool, a machine tool controller that controls the machine tool, an auxiliary device that assists the machine tool, and an auxiliary device controller that controls the auxiliary device. The machine tool and the auxiliary device work cooperatively for machining. The machining system comprises a signal management unit that receives a first signal and a second signal. The first signal indicates information about the machine tool as a criterion used for determining whether the machine tool and the auxiliary device are operable or inoperable. The second signal indicates information about the auxiliary device as a criterion used for determining whether the machine tool and the auxiliary device are operable or inoperable. The signal management unit outputs a third signal indicating an operable state or an inoperable state of the machine tool and the auxiliary device to the machine tool controller and the auxiliary device controller based on the first signal and the second signal.

Machining system

A machine tool system includes a machine tool main body for machining a workpiece supported on a table by using a tool detachably attached to a spindle, and an information processing apparatus. The machine tool main body includes a rotary tool magazine in which multiple grips each capable of holding the tool to be attached to the spindle are provided along the circumferential direction, and an image pickup device that is arranged in the tool magazine and configured to take an image of multiple members in a machining area of the machine tool main body. The information processing apparatus includes a geometric feature calculating unit configured to calculate the shapes and the arrangement state of the multiple members in the machining area, based on image data of the image taken by the image pickup device.

Machine tool system

A robot base stand includes: a first support table configured to mount a robot thereon; a second support table configured to place thereon objects to be handled by the robot; and a relative distance adjusting mechanism that adjusts the relative distance between the first support table and the second support table.

Robot base stand

An internal cleaning device of a machine tool includes: a chip removing device that removes chips; a moving device that is capable of holding the chip removing device; a detecting device that detects the buildup status of chips in the machine tool; an information processing device that processes information related to the chip buildup status obtained by the detecting device and determines a spot requiring a removal of chips; and a control device of the moving device that moves the chip removing device to the spot on which a determination has been made by the information processing device that the spot requires a removal of chips.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Masanori Itou