US 11,927,940 B2
Management method for cutting tool of machine tool
Chao-Chuang Mai, Taichung (TW); Chin-Hui Chen, Taichung (TW); Chi-Hsiang Lin, Changhua County (TW); and Zi-Chiao Lin, Taichung (TW)
Assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/129,800.
Application 18/129,800 is a division of application No. 16/826,905, filed on Mar. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,650,573.
Claims priority of application No. 109103053 (TW), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0236577 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 19/4155 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/4155 (2013.01) [G05B 2219/35229 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45044 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management method for a cutting tool of a machine tool, comprising:
via a user host, importing a graphical data of a workpiece and a cutting tool database into a computer-aided manufacturing program of the user host;
via the user host, executing a machine code generating process to generate a machine code, wherein the machine code comprises an electronic tag of a cutting tool required in a machining process of the workpiece;
via a processor of the machine tool, reading the machine code to determine whether a storing unit of the machine tool stores the electronic tag of the cutting tool required in the machining process;
via the processor of the machine tool, outputting a ready message to an operation interface of the machine tool when the processor of the machine tool determines that the storing unit of the machine tool stores the electronic tag of the cutting tool required in the machining process; and
via the processor of the machine tool, executing a cutting tool searching process to output a current storage location of the cutting tool required in the machining process or a warning message to the operation interface when the processor of the machine tool determines that the storing unit of the machine tool does not store the electronic tag of the cutting tool required in the machining process.