US PATENT SUBCLASS 483 / 11
.~.~ Including means to monitor and control, i.e., adaptive machining

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483 /   HD   TOOL CHANGING

7  DF  WITH CONTROL MEANS ENERGIZED IN RESPONSE TO ACTIVATOR STIMULATED BY CONDITION SENSOR {2}
10  DF  .~ Responsive to tool {1}
11.~.~ Including means to monitor and control, i.e., adaptive machining

DEFINITION

Classification: 483/11

Including means to monitor and control, i.e., adaptive machining:

(under subclass 10) Apparatus including means to detect a condition of the implement and to regulate the operation for optimum performance in response thereto, e.g., feedback control.

(1) Note. Included herein is a detector responsive to chatter in a cutting tool with means to cause the apparatus

to select a different cutting tool or reduce the cutting rate, etc., so as to minimize the chatter.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

364, Electrical Computers and Data Processing Systems,

474.15, for a control system for adaptive machining.