Patent ID: 7334304

Claim:
Machine tool for machining a workpiece by a relative movement between the workpiece and a tool, comprising a machine frame, a carrier disposed on the machine frame and having a first receiving means for the workpiece or the tool, a compound slide system disposed on the machine frame and having a slide element which carries a second receiving means for the tool or the workpiece, respectively, and can be moved by the compound slide system in relation to the first receiving means in a fixed movement zone of a compound slide movement area in the direction of two compound slide movement axes running transversely in relation to one another and comprising a drive device for moving the slide element that is movable in relation to the first receiving means, which drive device acts on the slide element at least two spaced-apart points of application by four drive struts extending parallel to at least two different directions, and with which drive device the at least two points of application can be positioned by means of the four drive struts, said four drive struts being of invariant length, each with a pivot joint and acting on the slide element, each of which drive struts being pivotally connected to a respective guiding slide, which is guided in a linearly movable maimer transversely in relation to the longitudinal direction of the respective drive struts, and a maximum of two of which drive struts running parallel to one another, two drive struts that are parallel to one another forming a pair of drive struts and the guiding slides of said pair of drive struts are rigidly coupled to one another.