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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Dmg Mori Co., Ltd., Nara, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DMG MORI CO., LTD., Nara, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23Q 3/155 (2006.01); B23Q 3/157 (2006.01); B23B 29/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23Q 3/15539 (2016.11); B23Q 3/15534 (2016.11); B23Q 3/1554 (2013.01); B23Q 3/15722 (2016.11); B23B 29/24 (2013.01); B23Q 2003/155414 (2016.11); B23Q 2003/155418 (2016.11); B23Q 2003/155428 (2016.11); B23Q 2003/155435 (2016.11); B23Q 2003/15586 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention includes a tool magazine () storing a plurality of tools (T), a turret () to which a plurality of tools (T) are attached, and a tool changer () changing a tool (T) attached to the turret () for a tool (T) stored in the tool magazine (). The tool changer () has two tool grippers for gripping tools (T) and replaces tools (T) attached to the turret () with one another using the two tool grippers based on tool information stored in a tool information storage () under control by a tool change control unit ().