During a decade, there are many researches on microfactory which is the miniature, flexible, and efficient manufacturing system for the micro/meso scale machining device. Moreover many micro machine tool has developed in Japan, U.S., Europe, and Korea...
During a decade, there are many researches on microfactory which is the miniature, flexible, and efficient manufacturing system for the micro/meso scale machining device. Moreover many micro machine tool has developed in Japan, U.S., Europe, and Korea. Already we developed a 3-axis micro milling machine with 300×200×320 ㎜³ machine size for microfactory.
In this study, we introduce the design of a high speed spindle system with air bearings for our micro milling machine. Desired operation speed range of the spindle system is 100,000 ~ 150,000 rpm. In design step, we have consideration for minimum critical speed, compliance, and weight construction of the spindle system. The shaft length, the shaft outer diameter, bearing positions and bearing stiffness were set as the design values. After the final design of spindle model, we carried out dynamic analysis a spindle system for a micro milling machine by using ADROS, which is our own developed S/W for dynamic design analysis of rotor systems. As the result, we designed a spindle system having the critical speed above the operating speed.