An apparatus reconfigures or configures a wheel associated with a train. The apparatus comprises a tool configured to engage the wheel a compound slide system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axes. The compound slide system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile. The slide system can be moved mechanically and/or pneumatically and/or can use a mechanical profile. The apparatus can have a low profile and a low weight.

A turning device with static bar includes a motor, a driving shaft and a sleeve, which defines a seat for temporarily accommodating at least one portion of the bar being machined. A machining tool is coupled directly or indirectly on the sleeve. A secondary shaft is interposed between the driving shaft and the sleeve and is coupled to the screw of a first assembly constituted by a first recirculating-ball screw and a respective first lead screw integral with the sleeve. The sleeve and first assembly are coaxial and the driving shaft axis is parallel to and separate from the common axis of the sleeve and first assembly.

The device includes an adjustment element coupled to a pusher shaft, which through the secondary shaft.

makes the screw translate and the assembly lead screw rotate, with consequent rotation of the sleeve and a movement in a radial direction of the tool.

A double eccentric positioning apparatus uses two equal offset eccentric bushings to accurately position a tool (such as a drill bushing) in two dimensions. Miniature servo motors and precise gearing control the rotation of each eccentric bushing, which controls the direction of the offset vectors. The offset vectors are used to determine the final position of the drill bushing. The desired rotation angles can be mathematically calculated based on desired position. The inner eccentric bushing is located concentric to the offset of the outer eccentric bushing. This allows any position, within a radius of two times the eccentric offset, to be achieved. The use of worm gearing on the eccentric bushings prevents back-driving of the servo motors, due to the lead angle of the worm gears, and the friction between the worm wheel and worm gear.

A method for holding a spindle of a mobile power tool in order to allow an opening and/or a closing of a tool fitting by turning an operating part of the tool fitting relative to the spindle, where the spindle is rotationally coupled to an electric motor. The method includes detecting a rotation of the spindle and/or of the electric motor in a first direction while a setpoint angular velocity is zero and controlling the electric motor to generate a torque in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction.

The invention relates to a large-stroke tensioning device in a wheel machining process. The large-stroke tensioning device in the wheel machining process comprises a base (1), a servo motor (2), a mounting plate (3), a connecting plate (4), a shaft sleeve (5), an oil cylinder (6), a gland (7), bearings (8), a connecting shaft (9), a chassis (10), positioning pins (11), a flange plate (12), springs (13), sliding pedals (14), an expanding core (15), a protector (16) and the like. The large-stroke tensioning device can meet requirements of clamping and positioning of a wheel, and meanwhile has the characteristics of simple structure, convenience in manufacturing, stable performance and capability of meeting machining requirements on precision.

A drilling machine, in particular a magnetic core drilling machine. The drilling machine having a magnetic base to detachably secure the drilling machine to a surface. A drive motor is arranged in a housing and has a rotor shaft with a rotor shaft longitudinal axis that is connected in a power-transmitting manner via a gear mechanism to a tool spindle with a spindle longitudinal axis. A tool holder is connected to the tool spindle to receive a drilling tool. The spindle longitudinal axis is aligned substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rotor shaft, and the tool spindle is axially adjusted along the longitudinal axis of the spindle relative to the drive motor and the magnetic base.

Disclosed are devices and methods for creating a bore in bone. The devices and methods described involve controlling the drive and measuring the drilling energy of a working tool such that a user can avoid injuries to surrounding structures.

A magnetic drill is provided with an alternate power source. The drill is comprises of: an electric motor for driving a tool; a controller configured to receive an AC input signal and operable to control a drive signal to the electric motor; an electromagnet arranged in a base of the drill housing and operable, in response to a DC voltage, to magnetically couple the base to a surface proximate to the base; an AC/DC converter configured to receive the AC input signal and operates, independent from the controller and in the presence of the AC input signal, to output a DC voltage to the electromagnet; and an alternate power source circuit that monitors the DC voltage output by the converter and, in the absence thereof, provides an alternate DC voltage to the electromagnet.

An example method includes performing a machining operation by providing linear movement of a tool along a feed axis relative to a workpiece while superimposing oscillation of the tool onto the feed axis and providing rotation of the tool relative to the workpiece. During an optimization mode, the machining operation is performed on a first workpiece portion while providing the linear movement at an initial feed velocity, and sequentially superimposing the oscillating at a plurality of different frequencies. An optimal oscillation frequency is determined from the plurality of different frequencies which causes the tool to apply less force to the first workpiece portion at the initial feed velocity than others of the frequencies. During a run mode, the machining operation is performed on a second workpiece portion having a same composition as the first workpiece portion while superimposing the oscillation at the optimal oscillation frequency.

A release unit for a machine tool spindle, in particular motor spindle, for releasing a tool clamp, wherein the release unit comprises at least one adjustment element which can be linearly adjusted along an adjustment path for actuating the tool clamp, which release unit reduces the structural and/or economic complexity. This is achieved according to the invention in that the release unit is constructed as an electric motor which comprises an electromagnetic drive system having a hollow-cylindrical rotor shaft which rotates about a rotation axis, in that the linearly adjustable adjustment element is constructed as a spindle element of a conversion unit for converting the rotation of the electric motor into a linear adjustment and in that the rotor shaft is constructed as a spindle nut of the conversion unit which rotates about the rotation axis.