摘要:
There is disclosed a device for electrical discharge machining of a work in the form of a roll for providing a satinized indented surface by satinizing operation to a predetermined surface roughness, wherein two rows of heads each mounting one or more electrodes are mounted on either sides of the rotary axis of the roll for increasing the number of heads and thereby reducing the working time. One of the rows of heads is movably mounted on a shaft on the side of roll handling operation of the roll for transiently displacing the heads in their entirety to an out-of-the-way position for solving the problem caused by roll handling and by the increase in the number of heads.
摘要:
An EDM machining apparatus is provided with means for automatic shut off upon completion of a machining process, including a voltage variation pattern detector capable of discriminating electrode penetration of the workpiece. Several other machining parameters, such as machining solution flow and pressure, machining depth, and electrode speed and direction may be used is secondary or confirmation detection factors, so as to positively detect the time of electrode penetration, and halt the machining process.
摘要:
A metal tube wall disintegrator is convertible in being able to disintegrate an arcuate or annular portion on the inner wall of the metal tube or to disintegrate merely one longitudinally extending portion on the inner wall of the tube. In the arcuate disintegrating mode, the disintegrator uses an electrode which is rotated at the end of a flexible cable inside the tube at a selected longitudinal position to be able to disintegrate or cut partially or completely through the tube wall. A first drive means rotates the flexible cable and electrode, and a second drive means rotates an outer tubular sheath of the flexible cable. This tubular sheath rotates a guide tip at the forward end of the outer sheath and the guide tip has a radially elongated, eccentric slot through which the electrode shaft extends. This permits a slow rotation of the eccentric slot so that the electrode disintegrator arc moves in an arcuate path around the inner tube wall. In the second mode, control means stops the rotation of the guide tip and a longitudinally elongated electrode is used to disintegrate an area at only one peripheral position in the inner tube wall, this disintegrator area having a longitudinal length greater than the lateral dimension thereof. This permits a tube wall to be disintegrated completely through, or nearly through, at this one peripheral position so that the tube may be relaxed, and hence capable of being withdrawn from a boiler tube sheet in which the tube has been confined. The foregoing abstract is merely a resume of one general application, is not a complete discussion of all principles of operation or applications, and is not to be construed as a limitation on the scope of the claimed subject matter.
摘要:
A multi-strand wire electroerosion machining method and apparatus are disclosed wherein a plurality of wires dispensed from respective wire sources are fed separately into a wire travel path and are assembled via wire guides into a bundle thereof. The bundle of the wires traversing a fluid-flushed cutting zone defined between machining electrode guides constitutes a single traveling electrode for electroerosively machining a workpiece. The wires from the cutting zone are taken up into a collection site while they are held sufficiently taut between the electrode guides. The workpiece is displaced relative to the bundle of traveling wires transversely to the axis thereof to machine a desired contour in the workpiece. Preferably, the wires in the bundle are twisted. Also disclosed is a rotary die for shaping the wires in their travel path to provide the bundle with a predetermined cross-sectional contour spaced from the wall of the workpiece across the machining gap.
摘要:
A circuit for electrical discharge machining including two MOSFETS. The first MOSFET (28) has its power conducting terminals connected between the gap (20,22) and DC power supply (30). Its gate is connected to a source of variable amplitude signals (14). The second MOSFET has its power conducting terminals connected between the gap (20,22) and a voltage DC power supply (40). It has its gate connected to a source of spike signals (18). A multivibrator (10) conjointly operates both sources (14 and 18).
摘要:
A method and apparatus for detecting the point of contact between a workpiece of electrically conductive material in a machine and an electrically conductive element movable relative to and insulated from the workpiece, such as the electrode of an electrical discharge machine, wherein in a time-varying signal, in particular sinusoidal, of predetermined amplitude and frequency is applied to the workpiece, a signal is derived from the conductive element or electrode resulting from the flow of current through the gap between the workpiece and conductive element in response to the applied signal, and the applied and derived signals are compared as to amplitude and phase angle. An indication of the comparison is provided with the result that the combination of an amplitude difference and a phase difference between the applied and derived signals indicates the status of the contact gap, respectively, between the workpiece and conductive element or electrode. The comparison and indication can be performed in an analog manner by means including a cathode ray tube providing a visual display of the amplitude and phase comparisons of the applied and derived signals as Lissajous patterns. The comparison and indication also can be performed in a digital manner by circuit means providing logical states indicating the results of the amplitude and phase comparisons of the signals, which logical states can be utilized to provide visual indications of the same.
摘要:
A control system for elecctronic discharge machine includes an automatic relay control and a current cutoff control of particular interest.The automatic relay control controls the energy level of machining pulses as a step function of machining cycle period by cutting in or out resistors in a power circuit through the machining gap. Higher frequency pulses are held to a lower current level to avoid power transistor overload.The relay control circuit includes multivibrators, energized at progressively higher values of pulse period by the counters, and an output circuit for each multivibrator which controls one of the relays which vary the gap circuit resistance.The relay control circuit also includes a threshold responsive circuit which senses any change in the several relay controlling output signals and acts to interrupt machining pulses briefly to allow time for relay operation.The current cutoff control circuit detects abnormally low voltage across the machining gap and reduces gap discharge energy level. Pulses referred to as "probe pulses" replace the normal master pulses to control gap discharge time duration and time spacing.A logic circuit controls probe pulse duration relative to master pulse duration. It provides for further lowering probe pulse energy by squelching probe pulses periodically if the master pulse period is below a certain time.
摘要:
A power source circuit for use with an electric discharge machine which machines a workpiece by a discharge produced between an electrode and the work. When an arc forms in a working gap defined between the electrode and the work, the OFF period of a switching element inserted in the charging path of a capacitor for storing discharge energy is increased so that current flowing across the working gap is cut off for a longer period of time than in the case of a normal operation, thereby quickly restoring the insulating qualities of the gap following arcing.
摘要:
An electroerosive contouring wire-cutting apparatus using a distilled or deionized water machining medium of a specific resistivity controlled to be in a range between 10.sup.2 and 10.sup.5 ohm-cm, and having abrasive particles of TiC, TiN, B.sub.4 C, BN, SiC, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and/or SiO.sub.2 of for example a particle size in the order of microns for delivery by the medium to the machining gap. A high-frequency vibration of a frequency of 1 kHz to 1 MHz is imparted to the wire electrode traveling through the workpiece in a direction transverse to the wire axis to enhance the combined electroerosive and abrasive actions at the machining gap. The machining medium is delivered by a nozzle, retrieved at a collector, and separated into its liquid and solid components in a separator. After deionizing the liquid and extracting the machining products, the abrasive particles and deionized water are mixed and recirculated through the nozzle.
摘要:
A method of and apparatus for electroerosively machining a desired contour in a workpiece with a wire electrode transported from a supply to a takeup and, in a path therebetween, supported by a pair of wire guide heads to tightly stretch the axially advancing wire electrode across the workpiece. On at least one side of the two opposite surfaces of the workpiece traversed by the wire electrode there is disposed a template blank secured to the workpiece and having a contour shaped to correspond to the desired contour to be machined in the workpiece for holding the axially advancing wire electrode on the surface of the template contour between the wire guide heads across the workpiece. At least one of the wire guide heads is movable and displaced to cause the machining wire electrode to move transversely to the axis thereof along the contour of the template block so that with the transverse movement of the wire electrode, the desired contour is progressively formed in the workpiece by electroerosion.