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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7595602 | Apparatus for machine tool feedrate override using limiting parameters corresponding to actual spindle speed An apparatus, machine tool, and method for adaptively controlling a feedrate of a machine tool are provided in which a plurality of maximum spindle power and/or radial load values, each corresponding to a spindle rotational speed, are received, stored and applied. A... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7508152 | Apparatus for machine tool feedrate override using limiting parameters corresponding to actual spindle speed An apparatus, machine tool, and method for adaptively controlling a feedrate of a machine tool are provided in which a plurality of maximum spindle power and/or radial load values, each corresponding to a spindle rotational speed, are received, stored and applied. A... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7501779 | Turret servo control device with overriding and control method thereof Disclosed herein is a turret servo control device with an overriding function and control method thereof. The turret servo control device comprises: a feed information-generating means for generating at least one of feed information of a turret as a control command ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7425811 | Numerical controller When a servomotor (control axis) is coasting and rotating in a servo-off state in which no current is applied to the servomotor, this servo-off state is switched over to a servo-on state in which current is applied to the servomotor, and a position control and a spe... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7368887 | Servo control device and method of adjusting servo system A servo control device that displays, by a two-dimensional image, evaluation of control precision of a servo system, includes: an instruction unit that instructs a position instruction having periodicity; a unit that records a track of position data based on a posit... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361206 | Apparatus and method for water vapor removal in an ion mobility spectrometer The present invention is directed to an apparatus and a method for continuously removing water vapor from a closed loop, re-circulated gas flow in an ion mobility spectrometer using a water permeable membrane, having a first side and a second side opposite the first... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346423 | Method for adaptive feed rate regulation on numerically controlled machine tools In a method for the adaptive feed rate regulation on a numerically controlled machine tool, which is used for the metal-removing processing of workpieces using a tool rotating on a spindle according to the specification of an NC program, the input power of the spind... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340985 | Method and device for vibration control A device and method for vibration control in a machine for cutting, said machine comprising a cutting tool supported by a tool holder. The device comprises a control unit and converting means which are connectible to the control unit and comprise a vibration sensor ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341116 | Drilling efficiency through beneficial management of rock stress levels via controlled oscillations of subterranean cutting elements A device and system for improving efficiency of subterranean cutting elements uses a controlled oscillation super imposed on steady drill bit rotation to maintain a selected rock fracture level. In one aspect, a selected oscillation is applied to the cutting element... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319909 | Position control device, measuring device and machining device In a quadruple loop position control device (1) including: a drive controller (5) having a current control loop that controls motor current (I) and a motor speed control loop that controls a motor speed (Vm); a speed control loop (3) that contro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319910 | Method and device for controlling a movement of a movable machine element of a machine tool or production machine A method and device for controlling a movement of a movable machine element of a machine tool or production machine with at least two drive axles are disclosed. At least one mechanical characteristic frequency is determined for each drive axle of the machine, and th... | 01/15/2008 |
| RE39907 | Tolerance based motion control system The present invention involves a tolerance based motion controller. The controller is capable of processing a group of tolerance constraints. The tolerance constraints specify where and when each tolerance constraint is to be applied, along with the information spec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286890 | Transfer apparatus for target object A processing system includes a transfer chamber, a plurality of chambers connected to the transfer chamber, a transfer apparatus disposed in the transfer chamber, and a control section configured to control the transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus includes a b... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280899 | S-type smooth command generating method and means thereof An S-type smooth command generating method and the means thereof are provided to process the motion commands smoothly, thereby generating continuous velocity commands and position commands. The provided method not only improves the motor's ability of acceleration/de... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274968 | Method of serial communication method between NC device and a plurality of servo amps for servomotors A communication control system and method of communicating between a numerical control device and a plurality of servomotors, includes connecting the numerical control device to a plurality of servoamps of the plurality of servomotors in a loop configuration via bi-... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274165 | Numerical controller A numerical controller capable of mitigating mechanical shock caused by tool compensation while a machine tool is operated according to table data. X- and Z-axis path tables Tx, Tz store X- and Z-axis positions corresponding to reference positions (time or spindle p... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7248012 | Teaching data preparing method for articulated robot Set the first temporary attitude of an end effector for a plurality of work points (step S3). Determine the attitude of an articulated robot at one-end first work point out of a plurality of work points (step S4). Determine the attitude of an articulat... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7174226 | Numerical controller for carrying out learning control A numerical controller having a learning control function executes commands in an NC program, starts performing learning control from a location where the same operation pattern starts occurring, and stops performing learning control at a location where the same ope... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174270 | Rotation angle detecting apparatus and method of detecting rotation angle A rotation angle detecting apparatus having a reference signal-generating device that generated a reference signal; a rotation angle detecting section that generated an output signal in response to the reference signal; a feedback control section that determines a r... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7161620 | Moving pedestal for a camera including wheels and sensors for detecting a moving amount thereof A method is provided for picking up an image of an object with a camera mounted via a pan head on a moving pedestal. A reference position on a floor surface on which the moving pedestal moves and a reference angle of the moving pedestal are both set. A moving amount... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159440 | Tool evaluation calibrator and method To calibrate a tool evaluator having a first sensor, where this first sensor is operable to sense a force and transmit a first signal associated with the sensed force, a second sensor is disposed within the tool evaluator. This second sensor is operable to sense the... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155298 | Device and method for generating and/or editing NC programs or NC tables In a device and a method for generating and/or editing NC programs, where in a programming mode, input fields for machining data and selection lists belonging to the input fields and including permissible machining data are displayed on a display unit. In a configur... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7138780 | Process for the control of the position of workpiece and tool with a robot in a production machine The invention relates to a process for the control of the position of workpiece and tool with a robot in a production machine. The objective of the invention is to reduce non-productive secondary processing time during the processing or measuring of a workpiece with... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7129665 | Control apparatus for feed driving system A control apparatus for a machine that can be operated at high precision in a stable control state is provided by driving a movable body with control parameters suited to the mechanical state. A control parameter calculation circuit is provided to obtain control par... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129664 | Robot controller A robot hand is moved at a moving speed in direct movement from a start position to an end position. When the robot hand passes through a setting position on a movement route from the start position to the end position, a setting position passing signal is outputted... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130718 | Pathcorrection for an industrial robot A method for an industrial robot to increase accuracy in movements of the robot. A first path is formed by bringing a tool supported by the robot to adopt a plurality of generated positions. A plurality of observed positions of the tool moving along the first path a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7111535 | Microtome A microtome includes a knife holding device for a cutting element (16) and a specimen holding device (12). Associated with the specimen holding device (12) for a cutting movement is a first drive device (18) and associated with the specim... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7088064 | Method for the orientation of a spindle and numerical control device of a machine tool embodied for the method for the orientation of the spindle A method for the orientation of a spindle of a numerically controlled and rapidly rotating spindle by which the spindle is brought from an initial rotational speed into a predetermined position of rest. The method includes performing a first phase of orientation of ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085620 | Servo controller In response to a learning control start command from an external apparatus, an input switch for inputting a position deviation to learning control means and an output switch for outputting correction data from the learning control means are turned on, respectively, ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084596 | Servomotor driving controller A servomotor driving controller capable of highly accurate machining, which prevents a quadrant projection upon change in the quadrant where machining is made. After the position deviation converges to zero by means of learning control, the velocity command or a dif... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7070368 | Method for setting a machining feed rate and a machine tool using the same A machining feed rate for machining a workpiece portion to be machined by a machining tool based upon a machining program is set by reading a data of the workpiece portion, by sectionalizing the workpiece portion in an area corresponding to a workpiece shape of the ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062334 | Positioning control method, positioning control device, and electronic component mounting apparatus using same There are provided a positioning control method and a positioning control device, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption without repeating two or more acceleration and deceleration operations during travel from an original position to a targ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7049784 | Drive voltage generating apparatus and method for controlling the same A first drive voltage generating section corresponds to a first motor, and a second drive voltage generating section corresponds to a second motor. Each of the first drive voltage generating section and the second drive voltage generating section includes switching ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044038 | Microtome A microtome includes a knife holding device for a cutting element (16) and a specimen holding device (12). Associated with the specimen holding device (12) for a cutting movement is a first drive device (18) and associated with the specim... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036605 | Power tools A detector is disclosed that detects impact sounds, e.g., a hammer striking an anvil or oil pulses from an oil unit. The detector may comprise a receiver that selectively converts sound within a narrow frequency range into electric signals. Preferably, the impact so... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034491 | Numerical controller For outputting an amount of backlash compensation according to the direction of reversal in the reversal motion of the moving axis, three output modes are prepared: (a) a mode in which a preset backlash compensation is outputted all at once, (b) a mode in which back... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030586 | Method for co-ordinating and synchronizing the movement of servo-assisted axes The invention regards a method for co-ordinating and synchronizing the movement of servo-assisted axes in machines and apparatuses which execute various industrial applications. The method in object is applied in the programming of electronic control systems using s... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024269 | Numerical control apparatus Foreground program execution means executes a program, and outputs movement commands to a control object. Meanwhile, background program execution means checks abnormalities by executing the program, without outputting the movement commands, obtained by executing the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016763 | Method for track control A method for continuous-path control includes predefining at least two global tolerances to a numerical control and predefining, to the numerical control, a tool path including support points, a non-continuously differentiable corner of the tool path being situated ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003373 | Method and device for numerical control A method and a device for numerical control of machine tools, robots, production machines and the like, is described, whereby complex and large task can be processed more easily. This is realized by a numerical controller which can generate a marker signal, in parti... | 02/21/2006 |
