Abstract
This study deals with the development of new hammering tool called "air-chipper". Hammering tool is one of typical deburring tools, and air-chipper is conventionally used to perform the deburring work for cast workpices. Although air-chipper is an effective tool, there are problems of durability and quality since it is driven by compressed air. Excess energy after hammering motion transfers to damper rubber and causes the deterioration of rubber, which leads to the breakage of a chisel holder of air-chipper due to the crash with the stopper. In addition, the difficulty to directiy measure the chisel motion causes uncertainty of deburring quality. Thus, the improvement of air-chipper was intended to solve the above problems by introducing an air damper to the air-chipper. It is possible to diagnose the deburring quality by measuring the inner pressure of air damper room. As a result, air-chipper installed in a deburring robot system reveals an effective performance in combination with the image processing device.
