摘要:
In a gas laser blower, the lower end opening of the oil passage (14) extends below the liquid level of the oil reservoir (17), so that the internal chamber (18) of housing and the oil passage (14) are separated by the oil within the oil reservoir. Further, a cylindrical guard (24) is disposed around the lower bearing (6) which supports the shaft so that the oil and oil mist scattered from the bearing are caught by the guard (24) and is returned to the oil reservoir.
摘要:
A laser machining apparatus capable of performing a high-speed and high-precision machining of a workpiece. One end of each of a first-axis and a second-axis expandable arms is supported on a fulcrum. The fulcrum is angularly movably within a predetermined range about the fulcrum in a plane parallel to a machining plane. A machining head is supported at a joint point of the first-axis and second axis expandable arms. Each arm has a ball screw and a cover having an expandable and contractible tube structure, and the machining head has a ball nut threaded to engage with the ball screw. As the ball screw is rotated by a servomotor, the arm extends and contracts to move the machining head. A Z-axis adjusting mechanism is provided between a joint portion of each arm and the machining head and a machining nozzle that is disposed on a tip of the machining head. A three-dimensional parallel drive system or a combination of a serial drive system and a parallel drive system may be used to drive the machining head.
摘要:
In a blower for compulsorily circulating a laser gas for a gas laser apparatus, a shaft (2) of an impeller (1) is fitted with an intermediate member (66) that rotates together therewith, and rings (641, 642) are fitted individually in annular grooves (651, 652) formed on the intermediate member (66). On the other hand, a bearing holder (60) for holding a bearing (5) that supports the shaft (2) is provided with a ring holder (63) having an inner wall kept normally in contact with the respective outer peripheral surfaces of the rings (641, 642). As a result, narrow axial gaps between the rings (641, 642) and the annular grooves (651, 652) prevent gaseous impurities from getting into a gas laser circulation path through a bearing (5).
摘要:
A gas laser device in which a laser medium gas is circulated in an airtight container and a laser beam is generated from the gas excited by an electric discharge, includes a main unit (10) including an air blower and a heat exchanger for circulating and cooling the gas, and a discharging power supply. A laser beam emitter includes a resonator (2). The main unit and the laser beam emitter are separate from each other, with the laser beam emitter being mounted on the tip end of a robot (1). The resonator (2) includes a lateral multimode resonator, and the discharging power supply includes a high-frequency power supply. A gas flow in the resonator (2) is produced by using a compressor having a high compression ratio.
摘要:
A high frequency discharge excited coaxial type CO.sub.2 laser is provided, which has both the advantageous characteristic of high frequency excitation type, namely, small size and high efficiency, and the advantageous characteristic of coaxial type, namely, high quality beam mode. This laser includes a dielectric laser tube and two helical electric conductors of the same pitch, and a high frequency voltage is applied between the conductors by a high frequency power source while the CO.sub.2 laser gas is passed axially in the laser tube.
摘要:
A high-frequency-discharge excited gas laser is provided, which is adapted to excite a laser gas by applying of a high frequency voltage to electrodes. In order to increase the output capacity of the high-frequency-discharge excited gas laser without sacrificing its virtues of small size, high efficiency and good beam mode, the laser, in its one aspect, has its metallic electrode (1) covered with a dielectric layer (2), with the dielectric layer being detached from the electrode. In another aspect, a pair of metallic films are laid positions diametrically opposite to each other on the outer surface of a laser tube formed of a dielectric pipe.
摘要:
This invention enables the full-body (throughout the entire thickness) scribing of a plate made of fragile material such as glass by irradiating the work with the laser beam for heating with or without cooling and thereby generating the tensile thermal stress in the work which exceeds the cleavage toughness of the material, dispensing with the mechanical breaking. In this invention, the absorption of the beam in the work is so controlled that the beam, while being absorbed in it, is either transmitted through it or reaches the adequate thickness of the work and the entire thickness scribing is realized. This absorption control is done by selecting the laser beam wavelength so as to achieve the proper absorption in the absorption spectra of the material either due to the electronic transition or the lattice vibration. The doping of the material, in which the commercially available high power laser beam can be absorbed properly and either of the absorption or emission in the visible light spectral range does not exist, can also be utilized for this absorption control. In this case, the quenching of the fluorescence which may arise after the beam absorption is useful. This invention enables the profile scribing of work or the selective scribing of piled work consisting of plural number of plates.
摘要:
A piercing method using a laser, in which the processing time is made shorter; a thermal runaway is prevented; and dispersion of the processing time is made smaller. According to this method, piercing operation is started with an initial pulse frequency P.sub.0 and an initial pulse duty ratio Q.sub.0, and the pulse frequency and the pulse duty ratio are increased by increments P and Q, respectively, with every passage of a predetermined time T. The pulse frequency and the pulse duty ratio are increased by stages. After this increase is repeated a predetermined number of times, or after the passage of a predetermined time from the start of processing, processing is continued to the end maintaining the increased values. This piercing method enables the processing time to be reduced to 1/3 to 1/5, as compared with the conventional method. In addition, this method prevents a thermal runaway, and reduces the dispersion of the processing time.
摘要:
A laser beam machining method for cutting a workpiece in accordance with a machining program composed of a succession of move commands and laser output commands. An angle of a machining path is calculated on the basis of a move command under execution and a subsequent read out move command (S2, S3). The angle of the machining path is compared with a preset angle (S4), and when the angle of the machining path is more acute than the preset angle, the movement for machining based on the move command under execution is decelerated and stopped (S5). In this case, the laser output command is changed from a cutting condition to a piercing condition, to carry out a piercing operation, and when the piercing operation is completed, the movement for machining is restarted in accordance with the subsequent move command. When the movement for machining is restarted, the laser output command is changed from the piercing condition to the cutting condition in accordance with the movement for machining. Accordingly, a clean-cut acute-angle portion can be obtained by this machining.
摘要:
A turbo blower is used in combination with a gas laser oscillation device for machining, e.g., cutting off, workpieces. The turbo blower comprises a shaft (2) having an impeller (1) on one end thereof, a pair of bearings (5, 6) on which the shaft (2) is supported, and a motor (3, 4) for rotating the shaft. Heat radiating fins (11) are mounted on the shaft (2) for radiating the heat which is generated by a rotor (3) of the motor, thus preventing the heat from being transmitted to the bearings (5, 6). The heat radiating fins are forcibly cooled by a portion of a laser gas for thereby greatly increasing the heat radiation efficiency. The service life of the grease in the bearings and the bearings themselves is increased, thus reducing an expenditure of labor for grease replenishment and bearing replacement. The bearings are also increased in reliability.