US 12,214,406 B2
Upper tool stocker
Masaaki Sato, Kanagawa (JP); Shiro Hayashi, Kanagawa (JP); Shingo Kamada, Kanagawa (JP); Hideto Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); and Yohei Yamaguchi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to AMADA CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/259,226
Filed by Amada Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/028035
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 11, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/017540, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-134151 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2018; application No. 2018-134168 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2018; application No. 2018-140886 (JP), filed on Jul. 27, 2018; application No. 2018-169366 (JP), filed on Sep. 11, 2018; application No. 2019-087437 (JP), filed on May 7, 2019; application No. 2019-092892 (JP), filed on May 16, 2019; application No. 2019-109717 (JP), filed on Jun. 12, 2019; application No. 2019-111277 (JP), filed on Jun. 14, 2019; and application No. 2019-126935 (JP), filed on Jul. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0252582 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. B21D 5/02 (2006.01); B21D 37/04 (2006.01); B21D 37/14 (2006.01); B23Q 3/155 (2006.01)
CPC B21D 5/0254 (2013.01) [B21D 5/02 (2013.01); B21D 5/0209 (2013.01); B21D 5/0236 (2013.01); B21D 37/04 (2013.01); B21D 37/145 (2013.01); Y10T 483/1731 (2015.01); Y10T 483/18 (2015.01)] 8 Claims
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1. An upper tool stocker configured to be stored in a tool storage that is positionable adjacent a press brake, and the upper tool stocker providing for detachably supporting a plurality of upper tools to be installed and removed from the press brake, the upper tool stocker comprising:
a stocker main body having a longitudinal axis that extends in a horizontal first direction, and the stocker main body being provided with an installing groove formed by two beam members and a ceiling member, the installing groove having a longitudinal axis that extends in the horizontal first direction,
wherein a respective attachment portion provided in each respective upper portion of each of the plurality of upper tools is detachably installed in the installing groove,
wherein the stocker main body comprises a plurality of cutouts communicated with the installing groove, the plurality of cutouts comprising a first cutout and a second cutout that are coaxial with one another in the horizontal first direction and that are separated from one another in the horizontal first direction,
wherein the installing groove comprises a plurality of installing groove sections that are coaxial with one another in the horizontal first direction,
wherein each of the plurality of cutouts completely penetrates and extends through the stocker main body in a horizontal second direction, the horizontal second direction extending perpendicular to the horizontal first direction, and wherein in the horizontal first direction each of the plurality of cutouts separates two respective adjacent installing groove sections of the plurality of installing grooves sections, each two respective adjacent installing groove sections being connected by a respective portion of the ceiling member,
wherein each of the plurality of cutouts is a respective opening that provides clearance for removal of corresponding ones of the plurality of upper tools from the installing groove, and
after sliding the corresponding ones of the plurality of upper tools in the horizontal first direction into the corresponding cutout of the plurality of cutouts, the corresponding ones of the plurality of upper tools can be removed from the corresponding cutout by being moved in the horizontal second direction or by being moved downward in a vertical third direction.