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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183492 | Power supply circuit for wire electric discharge machining apparatus A power supply circuit for a wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes an auxiliary power supply (3) for generating an auxiliary discharge by applying a voltage between a workpiece (2) and a wire electrode (1); and a plurality of main... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8129650 | Method and device for stretching and/or separating wires The methods and devices enable a reliable and rapid automatic threading process on spark-erosive wire-cutting machines with closed round guides without complicated entry of parameters. A heat-output control device with an optimized output characteristic curve is sup... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8093526 | Wire electric discharge machine with impedance switching A wire electric discharge machine includes a wire electrode; a machining power supply that supplies a machining current to between the wire electrode and a workpiece. The machine further includes a first power feed contact and a second power feed contact that respec... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8003911 | Wire electrical discharge machining apparatus A machining-energy calculating unit accumulates a discharge current value for each discharge position to calculate a machining energy in a certain time period from the present time to the past time. An energy-distribution changing unit determines the presence or abs... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7973260 | Wire electrical discharge machining A wire electrical discharge machine (WEDM) including a motion platform, a sink, a workbench, a connecting element, a jib, a first head and a second head is provided. The sink is disposed separately above the motion platform, and the workbench is disposed in the sink... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7947917 | Wire-cut electric discharge machine having water level abnormality detection function and water level abnormality alarm generation cause specifying method For specifying a cause of generation of a water level abnormality alarm in a wire-cut electric discharge machine, stopping supply of a machining liquid to a machining tank when the alarm is generated, draining the liquid; measuring an amount of change in the water l... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7943882 | Sealing apparatus having circulating channel for wire cutting machine A sealing apparatus comprises a circulating channel for a wire cutting machine, and the sealing apparatus further includes a channel at the position of a lower arm in the fluid tank for injecting a liquid, and a sealing O-ring installed at the sealing apparatus for ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7928337 | Apparatus for machining a workpiece using wire discharge including an upper and lower power supply unit A wire-discharge machining apparatus controls a short circuit between a wire electrode and a workpiece and wire-breakage, and makes it easy to improve productivity, by performing power supply control to mix an upper-side power supply state in which a high-frequency ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7923656 | Wire collecting mechanism for wire-cut electrical discharge machine A wire collecting mechanism for cutting and collecting a metal wire used in a wire-cut electrical discharge machine includes a first guide roller and a second guide roller movable relative to the first guide roller for clamping the metal wire that passes between the... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7919721 | Method of measuring taper angle in wire electric discharge machining apparatus and measuring tool A method of measuring a taper angle in a wire electric discharge machining apparatus comprises, the steps of: providing a measuring tool (2) having lower and upper edges (27, 23) being spaced by a given height (H); moving a vertical wire electrode (EV)... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7888617 | Controller for wire-cut electrical discharge machine In a reference (n-th) machining pass, the wire travels along a machining route RTn and passes through a reentrant angular corner with wire position WMn, producing a workpiece edge Hn. In the following (n+1)-th machining pass, the wire travels along a machining route... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7868265 | Electrode wire for wire electric discharge machining An electrode wire for wire electric discharge machining includes a binary alloy of copper and zinc. The electrode wire is manufactured by hot-extruding an alloy including copper and zinc at a predetermined ratio and then cold-drawing and annealing the hot-extruded a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7800010 | Wire-cut electric discharge machine having wire tension control function When a wire electrode is arranged along a traveling path by manual operation, a motor M1 for feeding the wire electrode to a workpiece is driven in response to a predetermined torque command from a control section with a switch SW1 on a side a. The wir... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7687738 | Wire for high-speed electrical discharge machining The invention concerns an electrode wire comprising an unalloyed copper core coated with a diffused zinc alloy coating layer, whereof the thickness is more than 10% of the wire diameter. The coating layer is optionally plated with a thin zinc, copper, nickel, silver... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687739 | Seal structure for a wire-cut electric discharge machine A seal structure channels drainage of machining fluid from the periphery of an opening for a lower arm of a wire-cut electric discharge machine. The seal structure restricts flowage to the outside of machining fluid through the opening (slot) in a side of a machinin... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7638726 | Wire electric discharge machining apparatus and wire electric discharge machining method A discharge-generation control unit applies at least a preliminary-discharge voltage pulse and a main-discharge voltage pulse between a wire electrode and a work. A discharge-position determining unit determines a discharge position from results of measurement by a ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7608795 | Device for machining by electroerosion The electrical discharge machining device comprises a first voltage/current source (U1) for discharge initiation connected to the tool electrode (F) and a workpiece electrode (P) forming the poles of a machining gap (G) and a second voltage/current source (U | 10/27/2009 |
| 7566843 | Wire inserting method and wire inserting apparatus in wire discharge processing A wire inserting method comprises a pipe inserting step of inserting one pipe (5) into all through-holes (11) under the state where the plurality of through-holes (11) are arranged on the same axis, a wire inserting step carried out after, or in... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7465898 | Wire electric discharge machining method of machining workpiece with different thickness A wire electric discharge machining method of machining the workpiece with different thickness into a required shape with first cut and second cut. The method includes the steps of (a) detecting a position of the wire electrode relative to the workpiece, (b) detecti... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7465899 | Wire electric discharge machine A wire electric discharge machine capable of maintaining machining-fluid temperature in a machining tank uniformly, even when the state of machining changes, for example between rough machining and finish machining. A first temperature sensor for detecting the machi... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7371989 | Wire electric discharge machine A wire electric discharge machine capable of taper machining with an improved accuracy. A reference wire correction amount d set in advance is determined to be a proper value for a wire-diameter correction amount for a speed control plane, and adjustment amounts for... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7351963 | Multiple rod systems produced by wire erosion The invention relates to a method of creating multipole systems carrying RF voltage which can be used as ion guides, mass-selective quadrupole filters or collision cells to fragment ions; and multipole systems manufactured according to this method. The invention pro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340321 | Method and device for milling freeform surfaces In a method and a device for cutting freeform surfaces, a workpiece is cut by a tool or a cutter to produce a desired freeform surface. For the purpose of cutting, the tool is moved along at least one defined tool path or cutting path relative to the workpiece. In a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338717 | Tool and a method for creating the tool A method 10 and a laminated tool 31 which is created by the method 10 and which is formed by the selective coupling or attachment of sectional members, such as members 14, 16. The formed tool 31 includes a finished surface 36 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7299662 | Ultrasonic cleaning system for cleaning a plurality of parallel extending, strand like products, such as example wire, profiles and pipes The invention concerns an arrangement for ultrasound cleaning of several strandlike articles (4) traveling next to each other, such as, e.g., wires, profiles and pipes, by means of a liquid excited by ultrasound in a borehole (3), which is only slightl... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294806 | Method and device for measuring and adjusting the electrode for taper machining on an electrical discharge machine A device and method for measuring and adjusting an electrode used during electrical discharge taper machining, referenced on three axes, Y and Y horizontal and Z vertical, whereas two linear geometric references, bottom and top, which may be intersected by a wire, e... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7282660 | Machining fluid level detection device for wire cut electrical discharge machines A table for placing a workpiece is grounded. An electrode for detecting machining fluid level is attached to an upper guide that guides the wire electrode, with the electrode insulated from the upper guide. A voltage is applied to the electrode, and the voltage betw... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7273994 | Electrical discharge machine for improving the guide alignment base structure An electrical discharge machine for improving the guide alignment base structure consisting of a guide alignment base having vertical threaded holes. Furthermore, the guide alignment base has axial adjustment holes that are respectively aligned with the vertical thr... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262381 | Controller for wire electric discharge machine A controller for a wire cut electric discharge machine which can provide stable finish machining and corner-region machining with high corner-form accuracy. An electric discharge gap detection device detects a voltage between a wire electrode and a workpiece. A mach... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7239783 | Optical fiber, dispersion compensator, and optical transmission system The present invention relates to a compact dispersion compensator and the like. The dispersion compensator comprises a housing and an optical fiber coil. The optical fiber coil has a coiled part constituted by a dispersion-compensating optical fiber wound like a coi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234383 | Chip holder A rotating shaft (23) is inserted through an axial center of a cutter wheel tip for scribing a brittle object. The rotating shaft (23) is integrally provided with the cutter wheel tip. The rotating shaft (23) is inserted into supporting holes ( | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230200 | Wire cutting device, wire transport system, and method for severing of a wire electrode in an EDM machine A wire cutting device for an electrical discharge machining (EDM) machine with a wire draw-off device, which moves a wire electrode along a feed direction into a cutting zone of the EDM machine; and with a deflection unit in order to deflect the wire electrode runni... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7217902 | Wire-cut electric discharge machine A wire-cut electric discharge machine which improves contact between a wire electrode and a conducting member without deforming the wire electrode to suppress production of minute electric discharges and reduce unnecessary loads on the wire electrode and the wire-cu... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216003 | Hi-accuracy three-dimensional topographic modeling apparatus A cutting apparatus includes a hi-accuracy three-dimensional cutting apparatus for topographic modeling that is electronically coupled with a computer. The computer has a central processor that executes instructions, a memory for storing instructions to be executed,... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215518 | Motor power supply line breaking detection method, motor control apparatus and electric power steering mechanism using the same and computer program thereof According to the breaking detection processing, it is determined that (A) iu of AC current (absolute value) supplied to a motor is less than 0.5 amperes or iv thereof is less 0.5 amperes or iw thereof is less than 0.5 amperes, (B) the angular velocity of the motor i... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211762 | Wire electric discharge machine and wire electric discharge machining method A wire electric discharge machine and a wire electric discharge machining method in which a workpiece set posture is compensated for an error. After a workpiece is set and fixed on a workpiece table, an upper guide measures three or more three-dimensional positions ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7166200 | Method and apparatus for an improved upper electrode plate in a plasma processing system The present invention presents an improved upper electrode for a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of an electrode plate coupled to an upper assembly advantageously provides gas injection of a process gas with substantially minimal erosion... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7125477 | Contacts for electrochemical processing Systems and methods for electrochemically processing. A contact element defines a substrate contact surface positionable in contact a substrate during processing. In one embodiment, the contact element comprises a wire element. In another embodiment the contact elem... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119300 | Method and apparatus of asynchronous electric discharge machine for wire cut An apparatus of asynchronous electric discharge machine for wire cut adopted for use in machine industries employs a first electric discharge machine unit and a second electric discharge machine unit to provide electric energy to a cutting wire to generate alternate... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113884 | Positioning apparatus for an electrical discharge machine and a method therefor A positioning apparatus for an electrical discharge machine includes: a power supply 106 for applying a pulse voltage between an electrode 101 and a workpiece 102; a discharge detecting means 1108 for detecting the occurrence of electrica... | 09/26/2006 |
