Subaru Corporation

Toshio Nishino

Masao Watanabe

Tatsuo Nakahata

Manabu Saito

Hideharu Takahashi

A tool feeding mechanism for a tool driving device includes a cylinder mechanism, a positioning mechanism, and a holding mechanism. The cylinder mechanism moves a tool rotation driving device to hold and rotate a tool, in a tool axis direction on an exterior of a cylinder tube using power of a piston. The positioning mechanism is connected to the cylinder tube side of the cylinder mechanism either directly or indirectly in order to position the cylinder mechanism relative to a workpiece. The holding mechanism holds the tool rotation driving device such that the power of the piston in the cylinder mechanism is transmitted to the tool rotation driving device.

Tool driving device, tool driving method, and tool feeding mechanism for tool driving device

According to one implementation, a drill has at least one cutting edge. A projected shape of a passing area of a ridgeline of the at least one cutting edge when the at least one cutting edge is rotated around a tool axis becomes a line-symmetric and discontinuous line along a parabola, two parabolas, an ellipse or two ellipses. The projected shape is drawn on a projection plane parallel to the tool axis.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Nishino