This invention concerns a clamping device for firmly holding a part to be clamped at a clamping recess in which the clamping device is arranged. The clamping device comprises a collet with a first external protrusion for engagement with an internal recess in an inner peripheral area of the part that is to be clamped and with a second external protrusion for engagement with an internal recess in an inner peripheral area of the clamping recess. At least one of the first external protrusion or the second external protrusion comprises a first external taper or a second external taper for pulling the part to be clamped axially into the clamping recess by a radial outward movement of the collet or a section of the collet and an operation stud including an external tapered section for effecting the radial outward movement of the collet. The connection between the operation stud and the collet is self-locked and pre-loaded after a clamping movement of the operation stud in axial direction that locks and pre-loads the external taper of the operation stud and the collet or a part between the collet and the operation stud with each other. The invention includes a method for a part to be clamped in a clamping recess.

An ultrasonic spindle device with automatic tool changer is disclosed. The ultrasonic spindle device includes a housing member having an inner space along a longitudinal direction, a shaft member rotatably disposed in the inner space and having a hollow portion, an ultrasonic oscillation member disposed in the hollow portion and having a through hole, a drawbar member disposed in the hollow portion to move in a front-rear direction, a portion of the drawbar member being inserted into the through hole and passing through the ultrasonic oscillation member, a clamping member connected to a front end of the drawbar member and clamping a tool, a portion of the clamping member being disposed outside the housing member, a rotation means rotating the shaft member, and a cylinder member moving the drawbar member forward or backward along a longitudinal direction of the shaft member.

A tool rest has a base, a tool holder rotatably supported on the base, and rotatably holding a tool, a rotational mechanism rotating the tool holder, a plurality of flexible linear members in which one ends of the plurality of linear members are connected with the tool holder and a winding device connected with the other ends of the plurality of linear members, and winding up the plurality of linear members by rotating when the tool holder is rotated by the rotational mechanism.

The present disclosure provides a gripper module, including a base, an adapter holder, a collet holder, and an actuator. The base is adapted for an adapter to be detachably disposed thereon. The adapter holder is able to engage and to buckle the adapter. The collet holder is able to engage and to buckle a collet which is installed in the adapter. The actuator is connected to the collet holder. The actuator can pull the collet holder and the collet to move, causing pressing and retraction of the collet by the conical surface between the collet and the adapter. Therefore, sizes of collets may apply to the gripper module with the adapter. By sheathing the adapter, replacement and size alternation of the collets are made easier, and precisions of allocations of the collet and the gripped workpiece are improved.

A clamping device includes a first clamping segment which has a first mounting flange and a tubular member extending axially away therefrom. A first bore extends through the first mounting flange and the tubular member. The first mounting flange is configured for attachment to a rotatable spindle of a machine tool. The clamping device includes a draw bar assembly which has an axially extending elongate shaft. The elongate shaft extends through the first bore of the first clamping segment. A biasing unit is mounted on or in the tubular member. A locking member is removably secured to the elongate shaft such that the biasing unit is compressed between the locking member and a portion of the first clamping segment. The biasing member remains compressed when the first clamping segment is separated from the spindle of the machine tool.

A clamping device has a main body with a bore that extends from a back to a front end thereof. The bore has a fastening area proximate the back end, a front-end axial abutment surface and a central axial abutment surface. A centering sleeve is disposed in the bore and extends axially between a centering sleeve first and second axial end. A guide sleeve is disposed in the bore and partially in the centering sleeve. The guide sleeve extends axially between a guide sleeve first and second axial end. A locking member is removably disposed in the fastening area, has a tapered abutment surface and faces the front end. The centering sleeve is axially retained by and between the tapered abutment surface and the central axial abutment surface. The guide sleeve is axially retained by the tapered abutment surface and the central axial abutment surface.

A self-locking clamping system for hollow shaft adapters is proposed.

A clamping device for releasably holding a tool holder shank includes a housing and a drawbar mounted reciprocally inside a bore of the housing and which in a forward end includes an engagement means, which is arranged to engage an engagement formation located at the end of the tool holder shank and in a rear portion is formed with a drawbar aperture. The clamping device further includes a clamping mechanism extending through the drawbar aperture, which is to impart an axial displacement of the drawbar to and fro in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the housing. The clamping mechanism includes a first and a second actuator and an actuator bolt interconnecting the actuators, extending through the drawbar aperture and arranged such that a rotation of the actuator bolt causes the actuators to move synchronously towards or apart from one another, imparting an axial movement of the drawbar.

A method of monitoring a tool clamping device mounted on a machine spindle, the clamping force of which tool clamping device is generated by a spring assembly which exerts a force in the direction of the clamping position on an actuating element actuating the clamping or the release of a tool or tool holder. In the method, the spring force and the displacement of the actuating element are continuously measured during the release and/or clamping of a tool or tool holder and recorded as functions of the time. These recorded functions are used to identify at least one parameter characteristic for the status of the tool clamping device. Based on the spring force and the displacement over time, a spring characteristic curve is plotted in the form of the spring force as a function of displacement, the analysis of which spring characteristic curve provides information about a number of characteristic parameters.

1. A tool turret

2. A tool turret, in particular provided for the use for a machine tool, having a pivotable tool disk (10), which has on its outer circumference a plurality of receptacles (14) for holders (18) provided with working tools, wherein said holders (18) are attached to the tool disk (10) in a changeable manner by means of a fixing device (20) and, each swiveled into a working position, permit the assigned working tool to be driven by means of a drive (22), which for this purpose can be coupled to an output shaft (16) of the respective holder (18) by means of a coupling device (26), is characterized in that the fixing device (20) can be actuated by means of the drive (22) when this drive (22) is uncoupled while stopping the working tool.