Patent ID: 7742836
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A control unit comprising: at least one vibration detection arrangement attached to one of a main shaft portion and or a movable body of a machine tool, the movable body relatively moves with respect to the main shaft portion; a position and speed detection arrangement for detecting at least one of the position and the speed of one of the main shaft portion and the movable body; wherein the control unit has a function of recording a date and time information; a storage arrangement for storing a vibration signal detected by the vibration detection arrangement, the at least one of the position information and the speed information detected by the position and speed detection arrangement, operation information of the machine tool, and the date and time information recorded by the control unit; wherein the vibration signal, the at least one of the position information and the speed information and the operation information are stored while being made to correspond to the date and time information; a collision judgment arrangement for judging that a collision occurred by determining whether the vibration signal stored in the storage arrangement exceeds a previously determined threshold value; and an output arrangement for outputting the vibration signal at the time of judging the occurring of the collision, and also outputting the at least one of the position information and the speed information, the operation information, and the date and time information, which are stored in the storage arrangement and correspond to the vibration signal at the time of judging the occurring of the collision; wherein the main shaft portion of the machine tool or the movable body moving relative to the main shaft portion is capable of moving in the triaxial moving directions making a right angle with each other, at least three vibration detection arrangement can respectively detect vibrations in each of the triaxial moving directions, and when the main shaft portion of the machine tool or the movable body relatively moving with respect to the main shaft portion is moved in one or two of the triaxial moving directions, the collision judgment arrangement judges that a collision occurred by determining whether a difference between vibration signals detected by one or two of the vibration detection arrangement in one or two of the moving directions and a vibration signal detected by the remaining vibration detection arrangement in the remaining moving direction exceeds a predetermined threshold value.