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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2011
Takayuki Nishioka, Sakurai, JP;
Yoshihiro Takiguchi, Nabari, JP;
Takayuki Nishioka, Sakurai, JP;
Yoshihiro Takiguchi, Nabari, JP;
DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD., Yamatokoriyama-Shi, Nara, JP;
Abstract
To provide a tool changer of a machine tool that makes it possible to surely execute machining as designated in a machining program without any need for the editing of the machining program or the replacement of tools and without complicating the device structure. The tool changerincludes a tool correspondence table A showing a correspondence relation between a program-designated tool Tdesignated in a machining program Oand an actual use tool Tactually used according to the machining contents designated in the machining program, wherein the actual use tool corresponding to the program-designated tool is found by using the tool correspondence table A and the found actual use tool is decided as a subsequent process tool.