EP0513023B1 - Unite de commande d'un centre d'usinage modulaire - Google Patents

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EP0513023B1
EP0513023B1 EP19910901786 EP91901786A EP0513023B1 EP 0513023 B1 EP0513023 B1 EP 0513023B1 EP 19910901786 EP19910901786 EP 19910901786 EP 91901786 A EP91901786 A EP 91901786A EP 0513023 B1 EP0513023 B1 EP 0513023B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21F—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE
    • B21F1/00—Bending wire other than coiling; Straightening wire
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/51—Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for metal shaping or assembling
    • Y10T29/5197—Multiple stations working strip material
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/444—Tool engages work during dwell of intermittent workfeed
    • Y10T83/447—Plural tools successively actuated at same station

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  • the invention relates to a drive unit for a modular machining center with various work modules, each of which is necessarily time-controlled tools such.
  • Machining centers of this type are known and are particularly distinguished by the fact that the work modules can be used in a multifunctional manner, which results in extremely economical possible uses.
  • the core element of such machining centers is conventionally a punching / bending tool unit, which has a main drive in a base, with which a central drive wheel, which is mounted above it in a separate housing part, is driven and which performs a large number of work units, such as bending slides, cutting punches, welding electrodes, etc. in time drives a predetermined sequence.
  • Other neighboring work units, such as B. (semi-finished) feeds or presses derive their drive from this main drive, which regularly requires more or less extensive drive means in the area of the interfaces between the work units. Attempts have therefore been made to accommodate some of these drive means in an enlarged base, but this has severely restricted the possibilities of a modular combination of several working modules.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide a drive unit for a modular machining center with various work modules, which can be integrated into the machining center in a space-saving and economical manner and opens up the possibility of changing work modules quickly and safely without having to move the modules laterally .
  • the main drive of the machining center is integrated into a press.
  • this has the advantage that the maximum power of the drive is available where the greatest reserves of power are required.
  • the further work modules no longer require a separate drive, as a result of which the base of these work modules can be constructed not only more simply, but with a unit grid dimension.
  • the base can also be used for storage and transport purposes for the first time, which makes replacement possible. of the work modules is greatly simplified and the time required for this is shortened.
  • the base, together with the module housing resting on it, can be gripped and handled by means of a forklift, the recesses on the base providing a favorable weight distribution contribute.
  • the adjacent work modules are equipped with locking devices with which the zero position of the tools relative to one another on the work modules in question when uncoupled can also be maintained during transport.
  • a drive unit for a modular machining center is already known from document DE-U-84 04 085, in which the drive of adjacent work modules via intermeshing gearwheels, i. H. Plug-in pinions take place that bridge the interface level between the work modules.
  • the drive unit is not designed as a press, so that the maximum power of the drive is not available where the greatest reserves of power are required.
  • the plug-in pinions for transmitting the driving force to the neighboring work modules are arranged in such a way that the meshing meshing takes place outside the relevant interface level between the neighboring work modules.
  • the development according to claim 3 enables a more flexible integration of the main drive in the machining center, while the functionality of the press is increased.
  • a particularly simple movement pattern when coupling and uncoupling the work modules results from the further development of claim 5. All that is required is to release locking devices in the opposite sides of the housing parts and to replace the work module, for. B. perpendicular to the plane of the central drive ring in the horizontal direction and parallel to the central axis of the central drive ring by means of transport, such as. B. to move the forklift away.
  • the bases of the work modules preferably have the same height as the base of the gear housing of the press.
  • reference number 2 denotes the base housing of a drive unit, which accommodates the main drive 4 of the machining center shown.
  • the machining center is constructed modularly from three working modules 6, 8 and 10, the working modules 6 and 8 functioning as punching / bending tool units and the working module 10 being designed as a press.
  • Each punching / bending tool unit 6, 8 carries a multiplicity of tools 12, which are designed, for example, as bending slides.
  • tools 12 are designed, for example, as bending slides.
  • other designs are also possible, such as a welding station or assembly tools.
  • the tools 12 are necessarily timed, i.e. they are actuated in a fixed cycle to one another, for which purpose a central drive ring 14 is used, which is in meshing engagement with corresponding pinions 16 of the tools.
  • the work modules 6, 8 do not require a separate, own drive.
  • the driving force is derived from the main drive 4 in the manner to be described in more detail below:
  • the main drive 4 is, for example, part of a press 10 which, in the exemplary embodiment shown, is designed as a twin press.
  • the drive force is directed upward via a chain hoist 18 into the area of a press stand 20 in which a main drive wheel 22, which is mounted essentially in the center, is mounted. From there, the driving force is transmitted to the two eccentric shafts 26, 28 via two coupling gears 30, 32 and intermediate gears 24.
  • the coupling of the adjacent work modules 6, 8 to the main drive designed as a press takes place via the coupling gearwheels 30, 32.
  • each central drive ring 14 is assigned intermediate pinions 34, 36, which can be brought directly into engagement with the coupling gearwheels.
  • the gearing engagement takes place at the vertical interface levels E S between the neighboring work modules.
  • the housing bases 38, 40 are hollow on the inside and they function exclusively as the basis for the actual work units 6, 8 located above them. This opens up the possibility of the housing base to be used as transport and positioning devices for the work units, so that the work unit 6, 8 in question can be removed together with the housing base in order to convert the machining center and can be replaced by another unit.
  • two bottom recesses 42, 44 and / or two central recesses 46, 48 are provided on the working units 6, 8, into which the forks of a means of transport, such as e.g. of a forklift can intervene.
  • a means of transport such as e.g. of a forklift
  • the recesses 46, 48 are used, there are advantages with regard to the weight distribution, so that the transport speed can be increased.
  • the illustration according to FIG. 1 also shows that the housing bases 38, 40 and 2 are designed in a uniform grid, ie with the same width, so that the working modules can be exchanged without problems.
  • the modules 6, 8 also have a base height H S which corresponds to the height of the base housing 2 of the press 10.
  • the pinions of the individual modules are at the same axis height H A as those of the press 10. This ensures with simple means that the new work module to be coupled automatically comes to the correct working height, which ensures the alignment of the pinions with the simplest of measures.
  • the housing can be finely leveled by means of adjustable support feet 50.
  • the construction of the machining center according to the invention still allows the possibility of connecting further units, such as feeds 52, 54, to the work modules 6, 8 or to the press 10.
  • Centering devices 56 are preferably provided in the area of the interfaces to the adjacent units, in which Sliding blocks can be used.
  • the detail "IV" according to FIG. 4 reveals that the housing stands of adjacent work modules each have recesses 58 in the area of the meshing gears, which are closed during operation of the machining center by cover plates, not shown, which function as the centering devices 56 can take over.
  • a plurality of quick-clamp locking devices 60 are preferably provided in the area of the interface levels and can be actuated by means of a hand lever 62 which carries a nut 64.
  • the nut 64 is in engagement with a tension bolt 66, which has a locking plate 68 at the end, which is received in a form-fitting manner and with play in an undercut groove 70 of the adjacent work module.
  • the concept of the modular machining center according to the invention thus relocates the central main drive to the point where the highest power capacity is primarily required.
  • this also gives rise to new, previously unusable options for flexible assembly and simple replacement of the work modules, which can also be equipped with a central drive ring that is advantageous with regard to power transmission and the favorable arrangement options for the tools.
  • the identical structure of all housing bases results in an automatic alignment of the reference levels in the various work modules.
  • a special fastening of the counter-cutting plate 74 to the press stand 20 is provided, which will be explained in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 5 to 7.
  • components which correspond to one another are provided with identical reference symbols, the elements of the embodiment according to FIG. 7 being given an apostrophe.
  • the press stand 20 carries a guide part 76 for the press bear 78 on the front side.
  • the guide part is U-shaped and has two legs 80 and 82 pointing downward, to which the counter-cutting plate 74 can be screwed directly.
  • the two legs 80 and 22 end in the cutting plane 72 and the counter-cutting plate 74 closes the two legs to form a closed frame, which results in a favorable flow of force from the cutting plate into the press stand.
  • the counter-cutting plate 74 is screwed directly onto the legs 80, 82 by means of screws 84, 86. If the counter-cutting plate should be reground, no additional precautions need to be taken to maintain the position of the cutting plane 72. This is fixed once and for all by the lower end faces of the legs 80, 82.
  • the design of the guide part 76, 76 ' also allows the use of conventional counter-cutting plates 74', which are supported on a press table 88 'with the aid of sliding blocks 90'. In this case, the screwing between press table and guide part 76 'with the interposition of spacer sleeves 92' and spacers 93 ', which are also to be processed by the same amount in the reworking of the counter-cutting plate 74'.
  • FIG. 2 The two variants of the attachment of the counter-cutting plates 74, 74 'to the press 10 are indicated in FIG. 2 on the basis of a somewhat modified embodiment of the machining center. Otherwise, the modular construction of the machining center essentially corresponds to that according to FIG. 1.
  • the drive force is transmitted from the main drive 4 to the main drive wheel 22 via a traction means 98, the drive of the press eccentric shafts again being effected via identical intermediate gearwheels 100, which are identical toothed coupling gears are in meshing engagement, so that a synchronized drive of the tool assemblies is guaranteed in the various work modules.
  • the meshing engagement of the coupling gears is also preferably in the region of the interface between the base housing 2 and the press stand 20, so that the two components are easily joined together.
  • the concept according to the invention permits the retrofitting of the machining center in such a way that a complete work module 6, 8 on one of the machining center remote location built up and replaced if necessary by means of a roughly working transport device, such as a forklift.
  • the drive force can be transmitted from the press to the work modules via gearwheels which are arranged in the corner regions of the adjacent housing boxes.
  • gearwheels which are arranged in the corner regions of the adjacent housing boxes.
  • coupling gearwheels can also be provided for each interface level.

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  1. Unité d'entraînement d'un centre d'usinage modulaire comportant différents modules de travail, par exemple des outils de cintrage, des introducteurs, des postes de soudage, des unités de montage ou similaires, caractérisée en ce que l'unité d'entraînement est conçue à la manière d'une presse (10) qui comporte l'entraînement principal du centre d'usinage et en ce que l'entraînement des modules de travail (6, 8 ; 6′, 8′) voisins s'effectue par l'intermédiaire de roues dentées (30, 32, 34 ; 94, 96) engrenant entre elles, qui pontent le plan d'interface (ES) entre les modules de travail, l'engagement des dentures des roues dentées engrenant entre elles ayant lieu dans le plan d'interface vertical entre les modules de travail (6, 8 ; 6′, 8′) voisins.
  2. Unité d'entraînement selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les socles (38, 40) des modules (6, 8) voisins de la presse (10) présentent une même dimension modulaire et sont pourvus d'ajours (42 à 48) pour l'engagement d'un chariot à fourche.
  3. Unité d'entraînement selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que la presse (10) comporte, dans son socle (2), l'entraînement principal (4) et dans son carter de presse (20β), un embranchement d'entraînement, des deux côtés.
  4. Unité d'entraînement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que les modules de travail (6, 8) sont équipés de dispositifs de blocage au moyen desquels la position zéro des outils l'un par rapport à l'autre peut être fixée.
  5. Unité d'entraînement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que l'accouplement moteur des modules de travail s'effectue par l'intermédiaire de roues droites (30, 34), à denture de préférence droite, et le dispositif de déverrouillage des modules est orienté parallèlement au plan d'interface (ES).
  6. Unité d'entraînement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que le carter de presse (20) comporte une roue d'entraînement principal (22), montée de préférence au milieu, qui assure l'entraînement de modules de travail (6, 8, 52) voisins, par des roues intermédiaires (30, 32).
  7. Unité d'entraînement selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce que la presse porte, sur un socle de carter (2) logeant l'entraînement principal (4), un montant de presse (20) sur lequel est fixé un élément de guidage (76 ; 76′) en U, ouvert vers le bas, pour la masse de presse (78 ; 78′), une contre-plaque de coupe (74 ; 74′) pouvant être directement vissée ou au choix une table de presse (88′) pouvant être fixée au moyen de douilles d'écartement (92′, 93′), sur les branches (80, 82 ; 80′, 82′), dirigées vers le bas, de l'élément de guidage.
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