Abstract: Aimed at the problem of five-face body machining center that the transmission chain was excessive long and unfavorable for improving the machining accuracy in the case of standing-to-lying change, a novel project of angle swing head for standing-to-lying change was proposed. In this project, the measure of transmission was dropped, where the angle swing head employed individual set of power supply for cutting power transmission and also for standing-to-lying change, and a simple set of power supply was used either for cutting power transmission or for standing-to-lying change, so that the transmission chain was contracted extremely. A three-dimensional mechanical structure model of the assembly of angle swing head, spindle and its key components was established with software SolidWorks. The software Romax was used to conduct the modelling of the driven system of the angle swing head, and the reliability of the driven system was analyzed under different working conditions. The result showed that under given operation conditions the design of the drive system would be reasonable and the operational reliability would meet the design requirements. To ensure rigidity and stability of the standing-to-lying change spindle of angle swing head, the modality analysis was carried out by using the ABAQUS. The result showed that the spindle would not resonate within the range of rated operating speed.

Key words: five-face body machining center, angle swing head, standing-to-lying change, modality analysis