Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Masahiro Ido

Tomoyasu Imai

Koji Nishi

Shoichi Sano

Hisashi Nakamura

Yutaka Hayashi

Ryouhei Mukai

Hideki Nagano

Eiji Fukuta

A grinding machine includes a spindle head for rotatably driving a crankshaft around a journal center as a rotational axis and, two wheel heads that support respective two grinding wheels and that advance and retract in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis independently with each other. Two of plural pin portions of the rotating crankshaft are simultaneously ground by the respective two grinding wheels, in which rotational phases of the two pin portions are different from each other. Further, the rotational phases of the two pin portions are stored as a combination in a memory. The two pin portions are simultaneously ground in accordance with the combination by the respective two grinding wheels.

Apparatus for and a method of machining two portions

A grinding wheel is for use in a grinding machine, and is attached on a wheel spindle of the grinding machine for simultaneously grinding at least two parts of a workpiece. The grinding wheel includes at least two wheel cores. Each of wheel cores has a disk-like shape. An abrasive layer is disposed on a circumferential surface of each of the wheel cores. A spacer portion is inseparably fixed on at least one of the wheel cores for keeping a space between the abrasive layers of the wheel cores. And a first labyrinth portion located on one of side surfaces of one of the wheel cores for forming a labyrinth seal with a second labyrinth portion arranged on the grinding machine. The number of separable parts of the grinding wheel are extremely decreased in consideration of imbalance of every part. The spacer portion is integral with at least one of the wheel cores. Since the grinding wheel is easily accurately balanced, vibration of the grinding wheel is decreased and stability is enhanced when the wheel spindle is driven at very high speed. As a result, machining accuracy for grinding is enhanced.

Grinding wheel with at least two wheel cores for circumferential grinding

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Satoshi Yamaguchi