A machine tool includes a thermoacoustic apparatus and a fluid supply apparatus, utilizes exhaust heat from a constituent apparatus of the machine tool to cool a heat exchanger included in the thermoacoustic apparatus due to a thermoacoustic effect. Thus, a cooling fluid is cooled which is used to cool a bearing and a machining point.

A machining process includes providing a cutting tool having a rake face and a flank face; bringing the cutting tool into contact with a metal alloy work piece to form a chip by penetrating the cutting tool into the workpiece; and introducing a nanofluid into a vicinity of the penetration to remove heat and, in some instances, customize the finished surface. The nanofluid includes a mixture of a cryo-liquid and nanoparticles having a maximum size of approximately 0.1 nanometers to approximately 100 nanometers.

A processing machine and method for planing an end surface of a finished pipe with a clamping device for the pipe to be processed via a tool holder with a planing tool, whereby the tool holder is driven by a motor and can rotate about an axis of rotation. The tool holder is driven by a motor so that it can rotate about an axis of rotation, whereby the clamping device and the tool holder are driven by a motor and can move toward one another in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the tool holder. The processing machine includes a cooling device that is arranged in such a manner that it cools the pipe to be processed and/or the planing tool with the aid of liquid and/or solid carbon dioxide during the operation of the device.

A rotating cutting tool that is internally cooled by cryogenic fluid has a generally cylindrical outer shape. At least one flute is formed on the cutting tool and a cutting edge is formed on an outer edge of the flute for cutting a workpiece. An internal cold flow delivery path for cryogenic coolant is in proximity to the cutting edge. A coolant cavity is formed in the cutting tool for supplying cryogenic coolant to the internal cold flow delivery path and a return path for cryogenic coolant is downstream from the cold flow delivery path. An exhaust port is coupled to the return path for exhausting cryogenic coolant to atmosphere. The exhaust port is remote from the cutting edge so that the cryogenic coolant is exhausted away from the cutting edge and away from a workpiece so that the cryogenic coolant does not cool and toughen the workpiece.

A spindle and interior cooling circuit module for delivery cryogenic fluids. The spindle has an interior coaxially equipped with a mandrel and a drawbar. The drawbar has an interior coaxially equipped with a small diameter tube. An insulated layer coated between the interior wall of drawbar and the exterior wall of insulated layer. The insulated layer, made of thermal insulation material, lowers the thermal transmission effect between the small diameter tube and the drawbar of a spindle when the cryogenic fluids is delivering.

The present application provides a combined additive manufacturing and machining system. The combined additive manufacturing and machining system may include an outer chamber, an additive manufacturing tool positioned within the outer chamber, a machining tool positioned within the outer chamber, and a cryogenic fluid source in communication with the machining tool.

A toolholder includes a pocket assembly having a nest section and a clamp section. An inverted nest is mounted in the nest section and includes an insert-receiving pocket for accommodating a cutting insert mounted therein. A clamping wedge is mounted in the clamp section in such a way that the cutting insert engages the clamping wedge. The inverted nest includes one or more coolant grooves that cooperate with the cutting insert for directing super critical carbon dioxide to a cutting tool/workpiece interface.

A machining tool is provided having an insert that includes one or more interface surfaces configured to interact with a workpiece. The machining tool also has one or more distribution passages located within the insert. The one or more distribution passages are situated and sized to direct a fluid to the one or more interface surfaces while maintaining the fluid above a pressure at which the fluid exists in a supercritical state.

A method of machining a fibrous sheet for a composite structure is described. The sheet comprises a resin matrix having a glass transition temperature, wherein the method comprises cooling the sheet substantially to maintain the temperature of the matrix below its glass transition temperature during machining.

Disclosed is an improved method for cryogenically cooling machining tools where a feedback-controlled system uses temperature, pressure, flow and/or infrared sensors to regulate flow of a cryogenic coolant and functioning of a cutting tool.