Abstract:
A wire electrode guide apparatus for a wire cut electric discharge machine is provided which can always accurately support a wire electrode on a predetermined feed route during the electric discharge machining to thereby improving machining accuracy. The wire electrode guide apparatus (1) is provided with a change-over valve (80) for feeding or cutting off pressurized air to a pneumatic actuator (70) for driving a movable block (40) which three-point-supports the wire electrode (3) between the same and a fixing block. During the automatic wire-connecting, a pressurized air feed port (88) and a change-over port (87) at the change-over valve communicate with each other to feed pressurized air to the actuator so that a piston rod (73) leaves the movable block (40) to release an urging force applied thereto and the wire electrode is made insertable between the fixing block and the movable block. During the electric discharge machining, the change-over port is cut off from the pressurized air feed port and the pressurized air feed to the actuator is cut off, so that the actuator urges the movable block for supporting the wire. A high pressure machining liquid ejected from a nozzle (51) to enter the actuator through gaps between the respective units is discharged to the exterior through a pressure relief port (89), thereby preventing the urging force of actuator to be applied to the movable block from decreasing, thus accurately supporting the wire electrode on the predetermined feed route.
Abstract:
A wire cut electric discharge machine (10) provided with a workpiece support bed formed by a horizontally movable table (20) disposed on a metallic machine bed (14) and a work bed (22) fixed onto said table (20). The table (20) and the work bed (22) are made of electrically conductive ceramics for use as an electrically conductive work support bed kept at a direct ground potential with respect to the metallic machine bed (14).
Abstract:
A mechanism for supplying processing liquids for carrying out the roughing and finishing steps in a wire cut electric discharge process, consisting of two processing liquid supply passage systems, i.e. a roughing liquid supply system (20) and a finishing liquid supply system (60) which are provided in a processing section (14) of a wire cut electric discharge machine (10), the roughing liquid supply system (20) being provided with a first processing liquid vessel (26) having a processing powder filtration unit (30), and a first water treatment control circulation passage having a specific resistance detector (34), a cooler or a heater (42, 44), an ion exchange unit (52) and pumps (40, 58), the finishing liquid supply system (60) being provided with a second processing liquid vessel (66) having a processing liquid filtration unit (70), and a second water treatment control circulation passage having a specific resistance detector (74), an ion exchange unit (92), a cooler or a heater (42, 44) and pumps (40, 98).
Abstract:
An initial hole machining device (40) for a wire-cut electric discharge machine, which is disposed adjacent to a wire guide (28) to improve the efficiency of machining of the wire-cut electric discharge machine and is intended to prevent the interference relative to the peripheral mechanisms inclusive of the wire guide. The machining device is provided with a frame unit (42) which is movably mounted on a vertically moving unit (24) of vertically feeding mechanisms (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) of the electric discharge machine, an initial hole machining unit (50) which is slidably mounted on the frame unit so as to be movable between a position of machining an initial hole and a position of retreat, and springs (56a, 56b) that urge the machining unit toward the position of retreat. Movement of the initial hole machining unit is controlled by supplying or interrupting compressed air to an air cylinder (48) which drives the machining unit toward the position of machining an initial hole against the force of the springs. Therefore, the initial hole machining device is simple in construction and operation, exhibits excellent durability in an environment where a machining liquid is used, and contributes to energy saving.
Abstract:
This invention provides an automatic wire connecting method in a wire cut electric discharge machine by which a wire electrode can be inserted into a machining start hole having an extremely small diameter with a simple structure. An upper wire support part (17) is moved together with a wire, until the tip of the cut wire (1) goes into a machining start hole (7, 7'), towards a workpiece (6) aligned with the wire support portion (17) disposed on the wire supply side of a wire feeding system. Then, while the wire tip is kept inside the hole, the upper wire support portion is moved away from the workpiece and then the wire is transported to a wire take-out side of the wire feeding system to complete connection.
Abstract:
The wire-cut electrical discharge machining apparatus is provided with a wire-cut electrical discharge machining function and a laser machining function. The laser machining is used to effect coarse machining at high speeds. The finishing is effected by the wire-cut electrical discharge machining maintaining high precision. The wire-cut electrical discharge machining apparatus is equipped with a laser oscillator (9) for laser machining, and a column (8) is equipped with laser beam irradiation means (10) which adjoins an upper wire electrode guide (4) and is opposed to a work (3) that is to be irradiated with a laser beam (12). The wire-cut electrical discharge machining apparatus is further provided with a numerical controller which alternatingly switches the wire-cut discharge machining operation and the laser machining operation and moves relative positions of the wire electrode (6) and the work (3) as well as relative positions of the laser beam irradiation means (10) and the work (3) along predetermined loci.
Abstract:
A wire-cut electric spark machine equipped with a current device which has a current contactor (10) to supply electric power to a wire electrode (P). The current device is provided with a pushing means (13) which pushes the wire electrode onto the current contactor at all times, in order to prevent the electrode from being damaged by the electric discharge that takes place when the electrode separates away from the current contactor during the cutting operation by the wire electrode.
Abstract:
A method of removing a cut-away piece, capable of simply and reliably removing the piece cut away from a work through a wire-cut electric discharge machining and a device therefor. Upon completion of the cut-away work of the piece (41), a restraining assembly (63) at the forward end of a piston (62) is disposed in the vicinity of the top surface of the piece under the control of a numerical control machine, thereafter, a working liquid is upwardly sprayed from a lower nozzle (19) toward the bottom surface of the piece, and the piece is held in the work in a state where it is separated from the lower nozzle and not removable upwardly from the work. With the working liquid being sprayed, a work table is moved horizontally, whereby the cut-away piece integrally with the work is separated from the lower nozzle horizontally. The table is stopped in its movement at a position in its moving where a jet stream of the working liquid normally ceases to act on the bottom surface of the piece, the working liquid is sprayed downwardly from an auxiliary nozzle (70) toward the top surface of the piece, so that the piece can forcibly dislodged down from the work.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a processing liquid circulation apparatus which can keep constant effective supply quantities of the processing liquid to a work bed while controlling variably the flow rates of the processing liquid supplied to a discharge machining zone, and which is moreover economical. The supply quantities of water have the processing liquid which is jetted to the discharge machining zone and to the work bed (12) through upper and lower nozzles (15, 16) and a spray (35) communicating with conduits (32b ∩ 32e) branched into two routes from a conduit (32a) connected to a tank (31) are regulated by a flow rate regulation valve (34) so that the two route supply quantities are inversely proportional to each other but their sum can be maintained. In rough machining, the jet quantity of water through the nozzle increases while the jet quantity through the spray decreases and at the time of shift from this rough machining to finish machining where the jet quantity through the nozzle decreases but the jet quantity through the spray increases, the effective supply quantity of water to the work bed from both the nozzle and the spray does not change so that any thermal deformation does not occur substantially, hence deformation of the work (40) and eventually, the change of the relative position between the work and a wire electrode (50), are prevented and the discharge machining can be conducted highly accurately.
Abstract:
In a wire cut electric discharge machine, a wire electrode (24) after completion of the discharge machining is discarded as a used wire (24a). In this case, the spring-up characteristics of the used wire (24a) can be prevented by feeding the used wire (24a) into a wire recovery box (38) while rotating the recovery box (38). Accordingly, the used wire can be recovered efficiently.