Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Tatsuhiko Tanaka

Motoki Uchikawa

Shugo Arakawa

Takayuki Motojima

Taro Nakamura

Katsumune Inaki

Kouichi Tanizaki

Takeshi Shibata

Masakazu Kubo

Tomoyoshi Miyagi

Kenichi Masuda

Yuki Yamaura

Tatsuya Koizumi

Shoji Shibata

A tool stocker includes main stockers for holding a plurality of tools detachably mounted on a main spindle for machining a workpiece, an auxiliary stocker for holding and transferring tools to and from the main stockers, and a tool transfer mechanism for transferring tools between the main stockers and the auxiliary stocker. The auxiliary stocker includes a plurality of tool pods for removably supporting the tools therein, a rail in sliding engagement with outer surfaces of the tool pods, a chain for moving the tool pods in sliding engagement with the rail, and a motor for actuating the chain. The rail has a recess defined therein in alignment with the tool transfer mechanism, such that the tools transferred by the tool transfer mechanism pass through the recess.

Tool stocker, machine tool system, and tool damage detecting apparatus

A machine tool has a Z table sliding in the Z direction in a horizontal plane, a support body provided on the Z table and sliding in the vertical direction, a rotation arm supported at the support body and endlessly rotatable in a vertical plane facing work, an arm motor for rotating the rotation arm, a processing spindle rotatably supported and placed at a position of a distance R from the center C of rotation of the rotation arm, and a spindle motor for rotating the processing spindle.

Machine tool including a Z-table and processing spindle rotatably supported on a rotation arm

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Tatsuhiko Tanaka