Kobe University

Makino Milling Machine Company, Ltd

Miki Pulley Co., Ltd.

Ryuta Sato

Mitsunari Oda

Nobu Nakayama

Takumi Nakanishi

Taichi Sasaki

Yuki Sato

Takeshi Hashimoto

Masaharu Hirosawa

Takayuki Satomi

Atsushi Nagao

Makoto Taniyama

To provide a characteristic evaluation device that can properly evaluate a characteristic of a shaft coupling while considering a delay in a response of a motor, a characteristic evaluation device of a shaft coupling includes: a motor system including a drive motor, a rotation angle sensor configured to acquire a rotation angle of a drive shaft, and a motor control unit configured to control the drive motor based on a torque command; a rotational load connected to a driven shaft; and a processor configured to output the torque command and calculate a frequency response of a gain of an amplitude of an angular velocity ω of the rotation angle, wherein the processor is configured to calculate a characteristic of the shaft coupling based on a response characteristic of the motor system and the frequency response.

Characteristic evaluation device and characteristic evaluation method of shaft coupling

In the design of a mechanical component for a mechanical device driven by a feedback controlled electric motor, the user is enabled to easily know how the properties of mechanical component affect the generation of abnormal vibrations of the mechanical device. In a design assist apparatus (), the processor () is configured to set a plurality of parameters of a mathematical model of an analysis target component selected from one or more mechanical components () forming the mechanical device, compute a pole of a transfer function of the mechanical device associated with one or more vibration modes of the mechanical device according to the parameters, and create a stability determination diagram including an isoline of a real part of the pole of the transfer function.

Design assist apparatus, design assist method, and design assist program for a mechanical device driven by a feedback controlled electric motor

A parameter indicating a surface property of an object surface is plotted on the horizontal axis, a normal direction change rate of the shape of the object surface is plotted on the vertical axis, the minimum normal direction change rate visible to a person is associated with the parameter indicating the surface property of the object surface to create a visible area map, the relationship between the parameter indicating the surface property of a machining surface of a workpiece, and the maximum value of the normal direction change rate of the shape of the machining surface of the workpiece is displayed on the visible area map, and the object surface is evaluated.

Object surface evaluation method, evaluation device, workpiece machining method using said evaluation method, and machine tool

In the present invention: a plurality of meshes are defined on an object surface; the luminance of the object surface when the object surface is viewed from a viewpoint position is calculated for each of the plurality of meshes on the basis of data concerning a processed shape, a surface roughness curve, the viewpoint position, the direction, angle distribution, and intensity of incident light onto the object surface, and a reflectance and scattering characteristics for each wavelength on the object surface; the shape of the object surface is displayed on the basis of the luminances; and data concerning at least the object shape or the surface roughness curve is corrected so as to obtain a desired appearance of the object surface.

Object-surface correcting method, and processing method and processing system for workpiece

A shape evaluation method includes a shape error calculation step that calculates a shape error, which is an error between a designed shape and a shape to be evaluated, and a visible error detection step that detects visible shape errors on the basis of the shape error and predetermined visual characteristic data.

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Kobe, Japan

Ryuta Sato