查看更多>>摘要：2024 FEB 02 (NewsRx) – By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx jour- nalists, a patent by the inventors Ewald, Marius (Pfullingen, DE), Giesler, Steffen (Albstadt, DE), filed on January 7, 2020, was published online on January 16, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 11872639, is Kolibri Beteiligungsgesellschaft Mbh & Co. KGaA (Kleinmachnow, Germany). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Tool turrets having a swiveling tool disk with a plurality of work stations on the outer circumference of the tool disk, to which tool holders for machining tools can be secured in a precisely fitting position, are state of the art in various designs, cf. for instance DE 10 2005 033 890 A1 or DE 10 2014 003 336 A1. Such tool turrets usually have a base body, which can be connected to the corresponding machine tool and on which the tool disk is mounted rotatably about the turret axis. The work stations equipped with tool holders can be pivoted into a working position by rotating the tool disk. The machining tools to be used with the tool holders are mainly tools for metal cutting, such as rotatory driven drilling or turning tools, or static tools, such as lathe tools. For certain manufacturing tasks, such as workpieces for the production of small series, the machining tools have to be changed frequently, resulting in a considerable amount of work for the operating personnel. To reduce the resulting high machining costs, efforts are made to provide mechanical support for the process of changing the tool. A post-published state of the art to this effect is disclosed in patent application DE 10 2018 004 677.0. In the tool turret shown there, the fixing devices, which are usually provided in such tool turrets for attaching the tool holders to the work stations and releasing them therefrom, can be actuated under machine control. In this way, in automatic operation the change process can be performed by a handling robot, which removes the released tool holder and inserts another tool holder in the work station. When the tool change is performed fully automatically, an at least partially automated operation of the entire concerning machining system is feasible as well, which provides for a reduction in set-up costs and results in a corresponding reduction of man hours and labor costs.
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