Patent ID: 9561570
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B23Q,G05B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A machine tool, comprising: a spindle device which a tool to machine a workpiece is attached to; a machining chamber cover to cover a machining zone in which machining of the workpiece occurs with use of the tool attached to the spindle device; a tool magazine which is disposed over the machining chamber cover, stores a plurality of tools, and is a rotational disc type magazine; a shutter which is disposed between the tool magazine and the machining chamber cover, and is capable of opening and closing; a tool breakage detecting device to detect whether a tool indexed to a tool detecting position of the tool magazine has breakage or not; and a controller to control operations of the spindle device and the tool breakage detecting device, wherein the controller performs a return step of returning a first tool attached to the spindle device and used in a preceding machining process to the tool magazine; an attachment step of receiving a second tool to be used in a following machining process from the tool magazine and attaching the second tool to the spindle device; and a breakage detecting step of rotatively moving the first tool returned to the tool magazine to the tool detecting position and detecting breakage of the first tool with use of the tool breakage detecting device, after the shutter is closed, wherein the controller judges whether a portion of the workpiece to be machined with the first tool is the same portion as a portion to be machined with the second tool or not, and wherein in a case of the same portion, the controller gives an instruction to perform machining of the workpiece with use of the second tool attached to the spindle device after the controller confirms that the first tool has no breakage in the breakage detecting step.