Patent ID: 7347652

Claim:
A method for milling peripheral grooves in bored workpieces, in which a DIN66025-compliant numerical control unit is programmed to move a spindle carrying a cutter disk to a position within a bore at which a cutting edge of the cutter disk is tangent to a wall of the bore at a desired axial position and then to move the spindle along a prescribed plane path to cut a groove in the wall of the bore, wherein the control unit is programmed to determine said plane path by the following steps: issuing a sequence of instructions for causing straight displacements of the spindle between successive points defined by rectangular coordinates x, y that are calculated by the equations: x ⁡ ( θ ) = ( R - F + ( R + h ) ( 2 ⁢ π ⁢ ⁢ N ) · θ ) · cos ⁢ ⁢ θ y ⁡ ( θ ) = ( R - F + ( R + h ) ( 2 ⁢ π ⁢ ⁢ N ) · θ ) · sin ⁢ ⁢ θ } ⁢ for ⁢ ⁢ θ = θ o , θ o + Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ , θ o + 2 ⁢ ⁢ Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ , θ o + 3 ⁢ ⁢ Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ , where R is the radius of the bore, F is the radius of the cutter disk, h is the depth of the groove, N is approximately the ratio between the depth of the groove (h) and the desired thickness of the chip, θ is the angle around the axis of the bore, θ o is the initial angle, Δθ is a desired angle step; until a pre-final point Q is reached at which said cutting edge is at less than a distance h/N from a bottom of a groove to be defined; issuing ADIS instructions respectively associated to the above straight-displacement instructions for merging each of said straight displacements with the next; causing the spindle to follow a merging path from said pre-final point Q to a final point T lying on a circle having radius R−F+h; causing the spindle to follow a final circular path coaxial to the bore with radius R−F+h and extending for a full circle from said final point T.