The feed axis device of a machine tool is equipped with first and second planetary gear speed reducers, each of which is obtained from an inner element, outer element, and intermediate elements that are disposed between the two, the elements being disposed so as to be mutually rotatable and combined in series so that one of the three elements is a fixed section, one of the two remaining elements is the input section and the other is the output section. The element that is the input section of the first speed reducer and the element that is the input section of the second speed reducer are connected to a single drive source. The element that is the output section of the first speed reducer and the element that is the output section of the second speed reducer are connected. The feed axis device is provided with an actuator.

A thermal displacement compensation system detects a state quantity indicating a state of an operation of a machine, infers a thermal displacement compensation amount of the machine from the detected state quantity, and performs a thermal displacement compensation of the machine based on the inferred thermal displacement compensation amount, of the machine. The thermal displacement compensation system generates a learning model by machine learning that uses a feature quantity and stores the generated learning model in association with a combination of specified conditions of the operation of the machine.

A thermal displacement compensation system detects a state quantity indicating a state of a machine, infers a thermal displacement compensation amount of the machine from the detected state quantity, and performs a thermal displacement compensation of the machine based on the inferred thermal displacement compensation amount of the machine. The thermal displacement compensation system generates a learning model by machine learning that uses a feature quantity, and stores the generated learning model in association with a combination of specified conditions of individual difference of the machine.

A processing machine includes: a tool spindle provided swingably centered on a predetermined axis in parallel with a horizontal direction; an additive manufacturing head that can be attached to and detached from tool spindle, and performs work on the workpiece; a first connection part that is provided for tool spindle and additive manufacturing head, and connects tool spindle and additive manufacturing head to each other; and a second connection part that is provided for tool spindle and additive manufacturing head, is disposed at a position apart from first connection part, and connects tool spindle and additive manufacturing head to each other. First connection part is disposed on one side with respect to a virtual plane that includes a gravity center position of additive manufacturing head and predetermined axis, and second connection part is disposed on the other side with respect to virtual plane.

A motor spindle is provided for a machine tool comprising a spindle housing for stationary mounting on the machine, a spindle assembly, removable from the spindle housing, with a rotor that is supported in an integrated bearing unit so as to be rotatable relative to the spindle housing, and a clamping mechanism for a tool, the clamping mechanism being actuatable via a clamping piston that is movable in an annular cylinder in the spindle housing, wherein the spindle assembly is designed with internal cooling that is suppliable with a cooling fluid via a coolant supply, wherein the coolant supply has a rotary feedthrough with an interface between a stationary component and a rotating component of the coolant supply, and wherein the bearing unit is also removable when the spindle assembly is removed from the spindle housing.

A motor controller includes: a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a rotation speed of a motor on the basis of current information and primary frequency information of the motor; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal when a portion of a rotating body of the motor is in proximity and outputs an OFF signal when a portion of the rotating body of the motor is not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed of the motor on the basis of the ON signal and the OFF signal; and a state determining unit that determines whether a present state is a speed attainment state and whether a present state is a speed zero state on the basis of a rotation speed estimation value estimated by the rotation speed estimating unit and a rotation speed computation value computed by the rotation speed computing unit.

A motor controller includes: a primary frequency control unit that generates a primary frequency command value based on current information of an induction motor and limits the primary frequency command value based on a maximum primary frequency; a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a slip frequency based on the current information of the induction motor and estimates a rotation speed based on the estimated slip frequency estimation value and the primary frequency command value; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal or OFF signal when a portion of a rotating body of the induction motor is in proximity or not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed based on the ON signal and the OFF signal; and a maximum primary frequency computing unit that computes the maximum primary frequency based on the rotation speed computation value.

A sensing and positioning device adapted to be mounted on a spindle of a machine tool including: a fixing element; and at least three sensing elements adapted to be connected operationally to a programmable control unit of a machine tool. The sensing and positioning device is adapted to be used with a machining tool mounted on the spindle. A machine tool including a workpiece table, a machining head, and movement means adapted to move the machining head above the workpiece table. The machine further includes the device described above. An associated machining method is also described.

A working head for a machine tool with non-orthogonal axes, with a support movable along three Cartesian axes, includes a first body mounted to the support to rotate about a first polar axis parallel to one of the Cartesian axes, a second body mounted to the first body to rotate about a second polar axis tilted at a predetermined first angle from the first polar axis, a tool holder electrospindle designed to be coupled to the second body, and an automatic connection system of the electrospindle to the second body. The connection system includes a plurality of pins, which can selectively fit into corresponding seats on the second body or on the electrospindle for centering and locking. Each seat has a collet that is shaped and selectively movable along its axis to exert a radial locking/unlocking action on the pin. A method of locking/unlocking an electrospindle to/from a working head.

The present invention relates to a machine tool 100 for machining a workpiece 12 by means of a tool 22, which comprises a clamping means 11 for clamping the workpiece 12 and a support means 21 for receiving the tool 22, wherein the clamping means 11 is mounted on a spindle head of a clamping means-carrying work spindle 10 and the support means 21 is mounted on a spindle head of a support means-carrying work spindle 20, and the machine tool 100 is designed to position the two work spindles 10, 20 by means of numerically controllable axes in relation to one another in such a way that the workpiece 12, which is clamped in the clamping means 11, can be processed by the tool 22, which is received in the support means 21.