A tool body includes a damping apparatus for damping vibrations in a machining tool having, besides the tool body, a member with at least one cutting edge to be secured to the tool body. The damping apparatus is arranged in an internal room of the tool body and includes a damper mass body with an axial bore and a central tube extending through the bore and which is rigidly secured to the damper mass body inside the through bore. A central tube is also at both ends thereof rigidly connected to a tool body fixed part and the central tube is made of a material with a spring property allowing the damper mass body to oscillate in the internal room perpendicularly to the longitudinal extension of the central tube.

A multifunction spindle for a machine tool for machining workpieces has a spindle housing, rotational drive, and tool-holding unit. The tool-holding unit is disposed within the spindle housing and pivots relative to the spindle housing about an axis perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The spindle has two measurement heads connected to a transmission path for measuring position angle and enhances positioning accuracy.

A machine tool having a workpiece spindle, a tool spindle, and at least one movable machine axis configured to execute a machine kinematic to machine the workpiece using the tool.

The machine tool has a structure to be damped, and a device for vibration damping connected to the structure for vibration damping of the structure to be damped, the device having a spring system with at least one spring element and a mass system with at least one mass element. wherein

The structure to be damped has a first eigenmode in a first direction, the structure to be damped has a second eigenmode in a second direction different from the first direction, and the spring system has first and second rigidity in first and second directions of action, respectively, with the first rigidity being greater or less than the second rigidity.

A tool spindle having a spindle shaft rotationally-drivable about a spindle axis, a clamping system for the automatic chucking and unchucking of a tool, wherein the clamping system comprises a movement device enabling at least one movable and/or deformable clamping body of the clamping system to be transferred from a first position into a second position by execution of a movement of a part of the movement device in relation to the spindle shaft, wherein the tool is chucked on the tool spindle in the first position and the tool can be removed from the tool spindle in the second position, wherein it comprises a balancing system, which is integrated into the tool spindle so that it rotates jointly with the rotationally-drivable spindle shaft, which is arranged coaxially in relation to the spindle axis, and which is mounted so it is axially movable.

An elongated tool holder includes a tool anti-vibration component having a mass housing portion and an anti-vibration arrangement. The anti-vibration arrangement includes an enclosed interior holder cavity formed in the mass housing portion. The anti-vibration arrangement also includes a vibration absorbing mass disposed within the holder cavity and elastically suspended therein by at least three non-torus shaped, resilient suspension members contacting an inwardly facing cavity wall surface. A cutting tool is provided with the tool holder.

The invention relates to a dynamically dampened centerless grinding machine tool comprising wheels between which there is arranged a part to be ground, heads for carrying the wheels, at least one translation means for translating one of the heads to cause a movement according to a separation and approach direction of the wheels, detection means for detecting a vibration of at least one of the heads, and at least one damper configured for causing a vibration damping movement.

A balancing device for each rotating piece, the rotating piece defining an axis of rotation, the balancing device including: a fixed portion, a mobile portion defining a central axis. The balancing device constrained to the rotating piece so that the central axis substantially coincides with the rotation axis. The balancing device including at least one eccentric mass, rotatable around the central axis and not balanced with respect to the central axis. The balancing device further including apparatus for movement of the eccentric masses, including a magnetic brake and being able to rotate the eccentric masses, with respect to the rotating piece around the central axis.

A tool spindle for machine tool includes a tool spindle having a front end in which a tool is mounted and installed to be rotatable, and a vibration damping device mounted in a rear end of the tool spindle to damp cutting vibration generated at the front end of the tool spindle, and including a rigid member coupled to the rear end of the tool spindle and a tuned mass member elastically supported by the rigid member.

A vibration damping device for a machine tool spindle is provided. An annular support plate is mounted at a lower portion of a distal end of the spindle, a plurality of support bars is fixed to the support plate in a vertical direction and installed in a longitudinal direction of the spindle adjacent to an outer periphery of the spindle, a pair of weight disks stacked by a plurality of arc-shaped disks made of a tuned mass member is fixed to be in close contact with the outer periphery of the spindle, facing each other, and a damping sheet made of an elastic member is inserted between the outer periphery of the spindle and the weight disks. The vibration damping device of the present invention may maximize a vibration damping effect by installing the vibration damping device at a position closest to the spindle where a vibration occurs. Furthermore, the vibration damping device of the present invention may effectively attenuate a variety of vibration phenomena having various resonant frequencies of a machine tool spindle by constituting the vibration damping device in a plurality of modular types which have different resonant frequency bands, respectively.

This machine tool comprises: a motor; a motor driving unit; an encoder which detects the rotation speed of the rotary shaft of the motor; a vibration sensor which detects a vibration amount; an acquisition unit which acquires the vibration amount detected by the vibration sensor at the time of a specified rotation speed; and a display control unit which associates the specified rotation speed with the vibration amount and causes a display unit to display the associated result.