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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Yamazaki Mazak Corporation, Niwa-gun, JP;
Toru Yamamoto, Niwa-gun, JP;
Yasuyuki Hara, Niwa-gun, JP;
Kouichi Shouji, Niwa-gun, JP;
Tetsuya Nakanishi, Niwa-gun, JP;
Reiji Maekawa, Niwa-gun, JP;
Jumpei Kitayama, Niwa-gun, JP;
YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATION, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A tool magazine includes a magazine arm and a gripper plate. The magazine arm has a tool pot to hold a tool. The magazine arm is pivotable around a pivotal axis such that the tool pot pivots around the pivotal axis. The gripper plate has at least one gripper to hold the tool at a holding position on a circular arc track along which the tool moves when the magazine arm pivots. The at least one gripper is open in a tangent direction of the circular arc track at the holding position.