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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175743 | Measurement system and interferometer A measurement system that includes an industrial machine and an interferometer can detect when abnormality has occurred in measurement targeted at a reflector attached to a movable body, for example, in a case where the movable body has moved too close to the interf... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8140177 | Numerical controller with interference check function A numerical controller having an interference prevention function whereby calculation for preventing interference is reliably performed. The numerical controller has the function of defining interference regions corresponding to multiple machine structural objects, ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126585 | Collision preventing device incorporated in numerical control apparatus A collision preventing device includes an acceleration/deceleration simulating unit 30 that performs acceleration/deceleration processing based on a moving command generated by a function generation unit 16 according to a method similar to that used by... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7966092 | Numerical controller with program resuming function A numerical controller with a program resuming function of acquiring program-resuming block data with which a machining program is resumed without producing a scratch on a workpiece. It is determined whether there are registered non-cutting commands. Whether all the... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7899574 | Machine-tool controller Machine-tool controller (1) having: a drive control unit (13) controlling, based on moving-body operational commands, feed-mechanism actuation to control moving-body move-to points; a modeling data storage (15) storing moving-body and structural... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7738992 | Numerical control system including machine control system and collision detection system A numerical control system improves safety when asynchronously operating systems are operated as a single control unit. A machine control system outputs a command generated by interpreting a program with a command number assigned thereto, sends it to a collision det... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7392109 | System for integrally generating NC data To complete a CAM operation without requiring manual operations for generating NC data, which enables accurate and rapid machining, through organized integration of each means and increase in the speed to determine conditions. To achieve this, the present invention ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7318767 | Device and method for machine control A data set (D) is provided for machine control of a grinding machine to determine time-efficient, collision-free travel paths. The data set has a collision parameter of “0” or “1” in each separate coordination point (X, Y, Z, A) as well as for each combinati... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319913 | Device and method for extracting unmachined shape A safe and efficient machining process design is realized by extracting the unmachined shape and by three-dimensionally visualizing the unmachined shape without generating a machining track. The present device 1 comprises a displacement unit 2 for disp... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7272463 | Gouge and interference avoidance in surface contouring A method of determining a tool geometry and tool orientation for any prescribed path along a workpiece of a cutting tool is described. A parameter set is provided, where parameters of the parameter set include tool geometry and tool orientation relative to a surface... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7251543 | Interference checking device Interference checking device including: a modeling database that stores data for three-dimensional modeling of tools, workpieces, and machine-tool constituting structures; an interference data memory for storing interference data defining inter-component interferenc... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245983 | Method and apparatus for correcting thermal displacement of machine tool A method corrects thermal displacement of a machine tool having a rotational spindle. The method includes detecting a rotation speed of the spindle. A thermal displacement amount of the spindle in the current cycle of execution of a program is estimated by using an ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239938 | Interference checking for a numerical control device The shapes of machine parts for which the possibility of interference exists are defined as rectangular parallelepipeds and it is judged whether or not there is interference between a first rectangular parallelepiped of a first machine part and a second rectangular ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7194388 | Method for determining a die profile for forming a metal part having a desired shape and associated methods A method for determining a die profile for forming a metal part having a desired shape. The method includes the steps of providing a nominal die profile, determining a springback profile based on the nominal die profile and employing a compensation strategy to deter... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174225 | Method and system for simulating processing of a workpiece with a machine tool An application program that describes processing of a workpiece by the machine tool in form of instruction steps is disclosed. A computer executes the application program and step-by-step determines based on a simulation program machine-dependent control commands fo... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173390 | Method of detecting a malfunction during a displacement of an element by means of a drive system, and device suitable for carrying out such a method A method and a device are provided for detecting the occurrence of a malfunction upon movement of an element by a driving system. While the element is being moved, a difference between a predetermined value and an actual value is determined at regular intervals by m... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7084779 | Power tool The power tool is equipped with a radar for transmitting radio waves towards an area in a vicinity of a rotating tool and for receiving reflected radio waves reflected from a radio wave reflector existing within the area. From the reflected radio waves received by t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7062351 | Clamp avoidance cutter path regeneration A method and system for clamping a part in an automated tool to produce the part includes selecting a part for production on an automated tool driving a cutter. Deriving a clamping scenario defines the positioning of a plurality of clamps to fix the part to the auto... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7043335 | Mapping device A regression mirror reflects light from a light projector in a reflecting direction opposite an incident direction. A light receiver combined with the light projector in a unitary unit receives the reflected light from the regression mirror. A detecting unit includi... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7010759 | Method for real time display of maintenance device location in an internal space A method for real time display of maintenance device location in an internal space includes a real time location display. An inspection window includes the real time location display, an observations spreadsheet, and a distance display. If the maintenance device is ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6975919 | Monitoring system, method for the process-parallel monitoring of collision or overload situations in machine tools In a monitoring system for the process-accompanying monitoring or detection of collision or overstress situations in machine tools (1), comprising a machine control (2) with one or more sensors (4) for detecting measured signals or measured sign... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6970912 | Computer system having a plurality of computers each providing a shared storage access processing mechanism for controlling local/remote access to shared storage devices A computer system having a plurality of computers connected to each other by a computer coupling mechanism. Each computer includes a processor, memory, I/O device, disk control mechanism, computer coupling network adapter, disk requirement processing section connect... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970761 | Method for actuating a holding brake Based on the realization that, at the instant a holding brake in the drive of a machine tool is actuated, it may not be necessary to precisely observe the setpoint values, it may be provided to adapt control parameters in the controller of the drive such that, given... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6901356 | Simulation apparatus, simulation method and computer-readable recording medium having simulation program recorded thereon as well as designing supporting apparatus The invention provides a simulation apparatus by which a problem upon designing can be found in the designing stage on the upstream without imposing an unnecessary working time to a designer. The simulation apparatus includes a working means model information storag... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6873880 | Machine for performing machining operations on a workpiece and method of controlling same A machine for performing machining operations on a work-piece is disclosed that includes a carriage with a robotic arm mounted thereon. The arm includes a movable head containing a tool for performing the machining operations on the work-piece. A laser position dete... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6856853 | Simulation device A simulation device is provided with a speed ratio determining portion and a speed determining portion for calculating the maximum feeding speed of an operative part from an interference detecting distance and an interpolation period, and replacing the feeding speed... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6772040 | Centralized control architecture for a plasma arc system The invention features a centralized control architecture for a closely-coupled plasma arc system, in which the “intelligence” of the system is integrated into a single controller. The closely-coupled plasma arc system includes a power source, an automatic proce... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6766258 | Method and apparatus for dynamically enabling trace data collection A method includes identifying a degraded condition associated with the processing of a workpiece. At least one process tool associated with the degraded condition is identified. Trace data collection is enabled for the identified process tool. A system includes a pr... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6754555 | Interference preventing apparatus The present invention provides an interference preventing apparatus which performs an interference checking operation for plural interfering relationships between a movable member and a structural member. The interference preventing apparatus (1) comprises: a... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6701208 | Apparatus and method of proposing bending sequences and bending tools for a metal plate part An apparatus for proposing bending sequences and bending tools for a metal plate part includes system for storing a development plan of the metal plate part; system for detecting a plurality of bending sequence proposals which make it possible to manufact... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6697851 | Method and apparatus for identifying clients using incoming option data A method and apparatus in a distributed data processing system for selecting configuration information for a client in the distributed data processing system. A request is received at a server from the client for configuration information. A subnet for th... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6665580 | Automatic cutting tool management system for a computer numeric controlled machining system A method and apparatus for monitoring the useful life of machine tools. A controller continuously monitors the amount of time a particular tool has been used as well as the materials the tool has been used to machine. A useful lifetime of the tool is esti... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6632053 | Method of directing the movement of a tool as part of a process to remove material from a block of material A method of guiding a tool for machining a work piece of a material block, the material-removing work portion of the tool being guided to move along a first guide path while a further point on the axis of the tool, which is located at a distance from the ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6591148 | Numerical control device A numerical control device for synchronously controlling the movement of a plurality of axes of a machine by repeatedly controlling a cyclic motion. An axis of the machine is designed to stop at a predetermined position upon the occurrence of an emergency... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6567707 | Recording medium of CNC machine tool A recording medium of a CNC machine tool is used for storing a program specifying the operations to be executed by the CNC machine tool. The program comprises a master program and a slave program which can be called by the master program. The master progr... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6473672 | Apparatus and method for automatically realigning an end effector of an automated equipment to prevent a crash The present invention is an apparatus and method for automatically realigning an end effector of an automated equipment after an undesired contact of the end effector to prevent a crash of the end effector. The present invention includes a plurality of co... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6430456 | Efficient process tool utilization in semiconductor manufacturing using an additional process tool state A method, system, and storage medium for increasing the efficiency of integrated circuit (IC) manufacture by improvements in manufacturing equipment usage are provided. Process tools are assigned to one of three operating states: up, down, or conditional.... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6374156 | Robot control system A key input section which permits the execution of output controls is provided on a teach pendant. A control unit of a robot control system ignores all input movement requests to move the robot if a key of the key input section is depressed and if an outp... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6360136 | Method and device for distinguishing and automatically identifying and classifying tools A device and a method for distinguishing and automatically identifying and classifying tools using the device are disclosed. The device has a fixed reading unit attached to a machine tool and a coding system on a rotating tool. The coding system is a seri... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6314336 | Numerically controlled machining apparatus for automatically exchanging tools and workpieces The numerically controlled machining apparatus according to the invention displays data such as a tool reduction allowance, a tool core gap amount, and a tool shape and the like to a tool, which is set with displaying setting condition of a tool is set at... | 11/06/2001 |
