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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2018
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Shuichi Watabe, Fujimino, JP;
Hitoshi Matsumoto, Kawagoe, JP;
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A control device for a machine tool to efficiently and successively produce a plurality of different-shaped products is provided. In the control device, each driving shaft of modules is assigned to different control systems. The device includes a multi-system program storage part for storing a plurality of multi-system programs to machine a workpiece in different shapes, a multi-system program dividing part for dividing the multi-system programs into machining programs, a divided program storage part for storing the divided machining programs individually, a system-based program storage part for storing the machining programs each corresponding to each of the control systems, and a machining program selection part for selecting a predetermined machining program from the divided program storage part in accordance with the machining step to be performed and for alternately storing the selected machining programs in two program storage parts of the system-based program storage part for the respective control systems.