Nippon Pneumatic Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Lobster Tool Co., Ltd.

Yasuo Umemura

Tsutomu Aoki

Masaaki Hiraoka

Fukuo Wakano

Akira Kamata

Osamu Date

Hirohumi Tsuyuguchi

Hitomi Nakai

Yoshiyuki Kubo

A vibrating cutting tool capable of making uniform micro-vibrations at the cutter edge generated during machining. The vibrations at the cutter edge are transmitted to balls biassed by springs, compressing the springs. The vibrations are transmitted from the balls through the output shaft back to the cutter edge. While the cutting force is small, the amplitude of vibration of balls is relatively large. When it increases, the holder acts on the balls more than the spring does so that vibration is suppressed. As a result, the amplitude of vibration becomes uniform.

Vibrating cutting tool

The present invention relates to improvements in a hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts used for integrally securing, for example, two panels to each other with a nut. In the hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts, an air piston fitted in air cylinder is moved to pressurize oil housed in the gun body, causing an oil piston to be retracted, so that a screw mandrel attached to the oil piston at its tip is retracted to the inner part of the gun body, thereby to exert a deforming force to a sleeve of a nut threadedly mounted on the screw mandrel. The hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts comprises an air motor to be rotated by compressed air, an air motor driving air guide passage, an air motor forward/reverse rotation direction changeover mechanism for switching the rotation direction of the air motor, and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting an air motor driving force to the screw mandrel. According to the present invention, a series of operations of the screw mandrel such as forward rotation, stop of the rotation, retraction, reverse rotation and advancement can be carried out smoothly and sequentially.

Hydropneumatic gun for setting blind-rivet nuts

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Osaka, Japan

Yasuo Umemura