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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2017
Sauer Gmbh, Stipshausen, DE;
Jens Ketelaer, Wiesbaden, DE;
SAUER GMPH, Stipshausen, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device applying surface structuring to a surface of a workpiece on a machine tool, performing a feed motion of a milling cutter which is rotationally driven by a work spindle of the machine tool, received in a tool head of the machine tool and has at least one protruding cutting edge along the surface of the workpiece; applying the surface structuring in accordance with a predetermined pattern to the surface of the workpiece during the feed motion of the milling cutter on the basis of a control signal to an actuator which is integrated in the tool head and is configured to drive a vibration of the milling cutter on the basis of the control signal, wherein the control signal contains high-frequency carrier signal and a useful signal which modulates the carrier signal and which is generated on the basis of data indicating the predetermined pattern.