Fanuc Corporation

Takashi Okamoto

Hiroyuki Uchida

Hidetoshi Uematsu

Yuuki Morita

Tomonaga Yamamoto

Takuya Maeda

Takeshi Tamaki

Makoto Funakubo

Tsuyoshi Furuya

Yasusuke Iwashita

Shinichi Horikoshi

Shunsuke Matsubara

Yuuichi Yamada

Yuichi Endo

Katsuhiko Imabori

The purpose of the present invention concerns a control command for a machine tool, and is to make it possible to adopt a high-frequency repetitive oscillation command, without restrictions on communication capacity, when acquiring a control command created by superimposing a command with repeatability on a normal move command such as a move command having no repeatability. The purpose can be achieved by: acquiring, from an higher-order control device, only information about the form of a command, and parameter information on numerical information relating to an amplitude, a period, and other feature amount; creating a repetitive movement command that is a command with repeatability only from the parameter information; and superimposing the repetitive movement command on a normal move command such as a move command having no repeatability.

Servo control device

A control apparatus of a machine tool including a feed axis, which is driven by a feed axis motor, includes a load torque estimation unit configured to estimate a load torque acting on a spindle motor, based on a torque command to the spindle motor which drives a spindle axis of the machine tool, and a speed of the spindle motor; and a speed control unit configured to control a speed of a feed axis motor such that the load torque estimated by the load torque estimation unit follows a prescribed load torque target value.

Control apparatus of machine tool including spindle axis and feed axis

A pole direction detection device for detecting a pole direction of a synchronous motor having saliency comprises a high-frequency voltage application unit that applies a high-frequency voltage to the motor; an excitation phase change unit that changes an excitation phase of the motor to an arbitrary phase; a driving current detection unit that detects a driving current value of the motor; a pole direction estimation unit that detects a pole direction based on the excitation phase and the driving current value; a measurement unit that measures an inductance value of the motor; and a control unit that changes a frequency of the high-frequency voltage to be applied by the high-frequency voltage application unit based on the inductance value measured by the measurement unit.

Pole direction detection device and pole direction detection method

A rotor of an electric motor, including a rotor core having a plurality of magnet-retaining apertures, a plurality of permanent magnets individually received and retained in the magnet-retaining apertures of the rotor core, and a resinous filler filling a gap defined between each magnet-retaining aperture and each permanent magnet and fixing the permanent magnets to the magnet-retaining apertures. The rotor also includes an engaging projection provided in the rotor core, the engaging projection tightly engaged with each of the permanent magnets received in the magnet-retaining apertures and temporarily holding each permanent magnet at a predetermined position in a corresponding magnet-retaining aperture, in an unfinished state of the rotor where the resinous filler is not arranged in the gap.

Electric motor rotor and method of manufacturing the same

A mold used in a manufacturing process of a rotor of an electric motor, the rotor including a rotor core with a plurality of magnet-retaining apertures and a plurality of permanent magnets individually retained in the magnet-retaining apertures of the rotor core, for pouring a resinous material into gaps defined between the magnet-retaining apertures and the permanent magnets. The mold includes a cavity for accommodating the rotor core at a predetermined position, with the rotor core receiving the permanent magnets individually in the magnet-retaining apertures; and a deformation inhibiting surface provided in the cavity and coming into at least local contact with an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, during a period when the resinous material is poured into the gaps, to inhibit the bulging deformation of the outer circumferential surface.

Mold used for manufacturing electric motor rotor

A die cushion drive system provided with a servo motor serving as a source of drive power for a die cushion of a press machine and a power circuit with a regeneration function which regenerates energy from the servo motor and returns it to an AC power supply, whereby it is possible to power the die cushion drive system by a servo motor and return the regenerated energy of this servo motor to the power source so as to save on energy.

Die cushion drive system

A method of expanding types of synchronous motors capable of reducing the number of required stator types to use stators in common, and a synchronous motor produced by the method. A group of stators are prepared by stacking stator cores of identical shape so that heights of the stators are different from one another to be multiples of a fundamental height. A plurality of groups of rotors are prepared so that lengths of the rotors in each group are different from one another to be multiples of a fundamental length. The rotors in each group are provided with permanent magnets having a residual magnetic flux density different from that of the permanent magnets for the rotors in the other groups. A stator and a rotor corresponding to a preset output torque specification value and a preset rotor inertia specification value are respectively selected from the group of stators and the rotor groups and are combined with each other, whereby an expanded type of motor is obtained.

Method of expanding types of synchronous motors and synchronous motors produced by the method

At least one cavity is formed extending along the axis of rotation of a rotor. One or more elastic members are fitted into the cavity to balance the rotor. Once the elastic members are inserted in the cavity, they apply their own elasticity to the inner wall of the cavity, so that they are stably held in the cavity.

Electric motor and manufacturing method therefor

An electric motor capable of securing sufficient degree of freedom in selecting a direction of approaching and connecting electric cables to internal cables of the electric motor. A cable introducing member is in the form of a hollow rectangular prism having four side walls and a through hole formed on one of the side walls. The cable introducing member is detachably mounted on a base member fixed on a body of the electric motor by screws to have one of four orientations angularly displaced by 90&deg; so that the through hole is positioned in conformity with the approach direction of the electric cables. The position of the through hole can be changed by detaching the cable introducing member from the base member and remounting the member to have a different orientation. A terminal rest is provided on the base for connection of the electric cables with the internal cables. The terminal rest has upper terminals to which the electric cables are connected and lower terminals to which the internal cables are connected. The terminal rest may receive the electric cables from two opposite directions in conformity with the position of the through hole. The cable introducing member may have a octagonal cross section or an annular cross section to further increase degree of freedom of orientations of the cable introducing member.

Electric motor

A method of expanding types of synchronous motors capable of reducing the number of required stator types to use stators in common, and a synchronous motor produced by the method. A group of stators are prepared by stacking stator cores of identical shape so that heights of the stators are different from one another to be multiples of a fundamental height. A plurality of groups of rotors are prepared so that lengths of the rotors in each group are different from one another to be multiples of a fundamental length. The rotors in each group are provided with permanent magnets having a residual magnetic flux density different from that of the permanent magnets of the rotors in the other groups. A stator and a rotor corresponding to a preset output torque specification value and a preset rotor inertia specification value are respectively selected from the group of stators and the rotor groups and are combined with each other, whereby an expanded type of motor is obtained.

Synchronous motors of different kinds

A rotor (10) includes a plurality of permanent magnets (14) disposed around a shaft (12) at generally equal intervals, and a plurality of laminated core members (16) disposed between the permanent magnets (14) so as to form magnetic poles. The laminated core members (16) are formed by stacking a plurality of core-laminations (26) made of magnetic materials and an integral core-lamination, and joining them to each other. The integral core-lamination includes a plurality of core-lamination sections each having a shape the same as that of the core-lamination (26), and connecting portions (46) for connecting adjacent core-lamination sections with each other. When the large number of core-laminations (26) and the integral core-lamination are integrally joined by a press-fitting process, the laminated core members (16) are connected with each other in such a relative arrangement of a finished assembly that a space for locating the permanent magnet (14) is defined between the adjacent laminated core members (16), and thus an integral laminated rotor core (48) is formed.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Takashi Okamoto