CUTTING TOOL WITH INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP

• Main Authors: CRAIG, KAREN ANNE, NORTH, BERNARD, FARA, TIMOTHY E, MULLER, THOMAS O
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 18.06.2009
• Subjects: BORING; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOTDIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g.ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OFPARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MILLING; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TRANSPORTING; TURNING

A system manages a machine tool operation. The system includes a cutting tool (10), which includes a tool body (15) having a shank (16); an integrated circuit chip (20) securely mounted within the shank (16) of the tool body (15) and capable of being read and written upon; and a read/write device (700) for communicating with the integrated circuit chip (20). The integrated circuit chip (20) is an RFID chip (20). Un système gère le fonctionnement d'une machine-outil. Le système comprend un outil de découpage (10) qui inclut un corps d'outil (15) équipé d'une tige (16) ; une puce de circuit intégré (20) solidement montée à l'intérieur de la tige (16) du corps d'outil (15), en mesure d'être lue et sur laquelle il est possible d'écrire ; et un dispositif de lecture-écriture (700) permettant de communiquer avec la puce de circuit intégré (20). La puce de circuit intégré (20) est une puce RFID (20).