Electricity: motive power systems – Positional servo systems – Program- or pattern-controlled systems
Patent
1982-03-15
1984-08-07
Dobeck, B.
Electricity: motive power systems
Positional servo systems
Program- or pattern-controlled systems
318 39, 318663, G05B 1924
Patent
active
044646143
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a numerical control unit which adopts what is called an F1-digit feed command system, which is capable of driving a motor at a feed speed designated by a feed speed-designation dial on an NC control panel.
The F1-digit feed command system permits the operator to carry out actual machining while controlling the feed speed for each process by turning a feed speed-designation dial on a control panel installed on the side of an NC cabinet or a machine, and this is one of the feed speed command systems suitable for use when machining dies or the like if the optimum cutting speed is unknown before actual machining is started. In a conventional numerical control unit employing this kind of system, a voltage-controlled variable frequency oscillator is driven by a DC voltage proportional to the amount that a knob of the feed speed-designation dial is turned to generate a signal of a frequency proportional to the amount of the rotational movement of the knob, and the frequency is counted by a main processor section and then the motor is driven at a feed speed proportional to the results of the counting. The prior art unit thus includes an analog oscillation circuit, and hence it has the defects that it has to be adjusted at many places and is complicated in circuit construction because of the necessity for reducing variations in the oscillation frequency.
The present invention offers a solution to such defects of the prior art and has for its object to provide a numerical control unit which achieves the F1-digit feed command system with a simple circuit structure.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIGS. 1 and 2 are explanatory of the arrangement of an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 1 being a plan view of a control panel on which feed speed-designation dials are mounted and
FIG. 2 being a block diagram showing the principal part of an electric circuit section of the F1-digit feed command system.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
For describing the present invention in more detail, an embodiment will hereinafter be described in detail.
FIGS. 1 and 2 are explanatory of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 being a plan view of a control panel on which feed speed-designation dials are mounted and FIG. 2 being a block diagram showing the principal part of an electric circuit section of the F1-digit feed command system.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 indicates a control panel; and F1 to F7 designate feed speed-designation dials, which are respectively provided with graduations indicating feed speeds, for instance, from 5 mm/minute to 1200 mm/minute, and which are adapted for use by setting knobs d1 to d7 to desired graduations.
In FIG. 2, reference characters f1 to f7 identify potentiometers, each of which yields a DC voltage proportional to the amount the knob of one of the feed speed-designation dials F1 to F7 is turned. The potentiometers are each made up of a resistor R supplied, for example, with such a predetermined voltage Vcc as shown and a brush B sliding on the resistor R in gauged relation to the corresponding one of the knobs d1 to d7. Reference character SW denotes a selection switch, which selects the potentiometer output corresponding to the feed speed-designation dial designated, via an interpreted signal cord, in a machining program. Incidentally, such an arrangement has heretofore been well known.
According to the present invention, in the arrangement described above, an AD converter 20 is provided and the output from the selection switch SW is applied to the AD converter 20, by which the DC voltage output from each of the potentiometers f1 to f7 is converted into a digital quantity. The digital quantity is read out by a main processor section CPU which performs data processing for numerical control, and a motor is driven at a feed speed proportional to the digital quantity. In FIG. 2, reference character BUS indicates a main bus; 21 designates axis control circuits; and 22 identifies an F1-digit u
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Dobeck B.
Fanuc Ltd.
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