Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshihiro Tsutsui

Tomoyasu Imai

Ryouhei Mukai

Shinji Soma

Hiroyuki Nakano

Masato Kitajima

Ryohei Mukai

Takayuki Yoshimi

Toshiharu Takashima

Akihiro Matsuura

Takani Yoshimi

A workpiece and a grinding wheel are rotated and the grinding wheel is moved in a direction parallel to the rotational axis of the workplace so as to grind a cylindrical surface of the workpiece. After a part of the cylindrical surface is ground, a rest device is advanced towards the workpiece so as to support the part of the cylindrical surface of the workpiece which has been ground. Under the condition, the remaining portion of the cylindrical surface of the workpiece is ground.

Method of grinding a workpiece

A machine tool having a grinding wheel for grinding a workpiece mounted on a table. The machine tool is provided with a truing apparatus for truing the grinding wheel and a measuring device for measuring the diameter of the grinding wheel after every truing operation. Both of the truing apparatus and the measuring device are mounted on a movable base. The movable base is moved between its retract position at the outside of the table and a forward position above the table. The movable base is move to the forward position to bring the truing apparatus and the touch sensor into predetermined positions for truing and measuring operations. After the truing and measuring operations, the movable base is moved away from the table and is retracted to its retract position. The truing apparatus is provided with a truer support shaft whose rotational shaft intersects with a horizontal plane with an angle of 45.degree., and a truer attached to the truer support shaft. The truer has a cylindrical abrasive layer formed at periphery thereof and extending along a conical plane having a top angle of 90.degree..

Machine tool capable of grinding a workpiece with a truing apparatus

A rotary diamond tool for truing a grinding wheel, comprising one or two circular vapor-deposited base plates each having a thin diamond layer formed by a vapor deposition process such as electron assisted chemical vapor deposition or direct current plasma chemical vapor deposition. The diamond truing tool is further provided with a pair of backup plates brazed on both side surfaces of the one or two circular vapor-deposited base plates so that the stiffness of the diamond truing tool is increased.

Rotary diamond tool for truing grinding wheel

A grinding wheel which is formed from super hard abrasive grains is trued by traverse-feeding a truing tool a plurality of times (n). Among the (n) traverse feeds of the truing tool, every traverse feed except for the final (i.e., from the first to the (n-l)th traverse feed) is carried out with an infeed which is set at a relatively small value in order to remove any deflection of the grinding wheel. In the final traverse feed, the infeed of the truing tool is set at a relatively large value in order to form an excellent cutting edge on the grinding wheel. Accordingly, any deflection of the grinding wheel is removed by a plurality of traverse feeds of the truing tool carried out with a relatively small infeed, and a cutting face having an excellent cutting ability is formed on the grinding wheel by the final traverse feed carried out with a relatively large infeed.

Method of truing grinding wheel

A cam grinding machine of the type in which a grinding wheel is moved toward and away from a cam shaft rotatably supported on a table, thereby to shape intake and exhaust cams of said cam shaft to predetermined profiles, the cam grinding machine comprising: means for detecting the machined condition of the cams in spark-out grinding; means for setting spark-out ending conditions separately for the intake and exhaust cams; means for judging whether the machined condition in spark-out has reached a level complying with the spark-out ending condition, separately with respect to the intake and exhaust cams; and means for stopping the spark-out when the machined condition comes into compliance with the spark-out ending condition.

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Nishio, Japan

Toshihiro Tsutsui