Patent ID: 9690283
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G05B

Claim:
1. A machine tool, comprising: a holding device on which a shaft-shaped workpiece is mounted; a tool capable of moving in radial and axial directions of the workpiece with respect to the workpiece; a machining control unit that performs a threading process by repeating a tool pass in which the tool cuts the workpiece in the radial direction, moves in a direction parallel to an axis of the workpiece, and then moves away from the workpiece in the radial direction while the workpiece and the tool are relatively rotated about the axis of the workpiece; a rotation-speed control unit capable of changing a rotation speed on a tool pass basis; and a rotation-speed computing section that computes a relative rotation speed between the workpiece and the tool in every tool pass, wherein the machining control unit is capable of performing the threading process in a plurality of types of cutting modes having different cutting methods of the tool, the machine tool further comprising: a number-of-same-rotation-speed-cutting-passes computing section that determines a cutting mode and sets the number of same rotation speed cutting passes to “1” if the radial infeed mode or flank infeed is set as the cutting mode, while sets the number of same rotation speed cutting passes to “2” if the alternate flank infeed mode is set as the cutting mode.