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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7774091 | System for designing, previewing and cutting natural stone veneer to deliver ready for installation The present invention relates to a method of designing, previewing a natural stone veneer project in its entirety before a single stone is cut; cutting and finishing the edges of a natural veneer stone to form interconnecting finished natural stone veneer components... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7489984 | System for designing, previewing, and cutting natural stone veneer to deliver ready for installation The present invention relates to a method of designing, previewing a stone veneer project in its entirety before a single stone is cut; cutting and finishing the edges of a stone to form interconnecting natural stone veneer components, each having a perimeter of a p... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487006 | Automatic programming method and automatic programming apparatus Workpiece data involving a product shape and having a smallest diameter for lathe turning around a turning axis is selected from the workpiece database, by comparing dimension data of a workpiece data with dimension data of a product model in a state in which the pr... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7324861 | Numerical control system and method for laser cutting SMT stencil A numerical control system for laser cutting an SMT stencil includes a mechanical control portion (2) and a laser control portion (3). The mechanical control portion includes a first main control system (21), a first host computer isolation inte... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7286966 | Rotation planning apparatus and rotation planning system An apparatus or system is used for planning the rotation of part usage between shafts or plants based at least on schedule information relating to operation and inspection-purpose shutdown, attribute information relating to part life, part maintenance periods, and o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7243000 | Method and apparatus for automatically dividing machining process in automatic programming apparatus An automatic programming apparatus includes a process division control section, which automatically divides a machining process executed to obtain a predetermined product shape from a material shape of a workpiece. The process division control section computes a rem... | 07/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7148652 | Method and apparatus for determining and handling brake failures in open loop variable frequency drive motors A controller for a variable frequency drive monitors electrical power from a variable frequency drive motor while a brake is maintaining a load driven or moved by the motor without requiring additional feedback components of a closed loop configuration. If excess el... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7102317 | Method and apparatus to process an analog encoder signal A method and apparatus to process an analog encoder signal. The apparatus includes an analog encoder pattern generating unit, an analog encoder pattern storage unit, a digital/analog converting unit, a comparing unit, a recent state latch unit, a present state deter... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7080979 | Method and workstation for generating virtual tooth models from three-dimensional tooth data A method is described for taking a three-dimensional virtual model of the dentition and associated anatomical structures of a patient and isolating individual teeth from the rest of the anatomical structure, e.g. gums, to thereby produce individual, virtual three-di... | 07/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7027889 | Automatic programming apparatus for generating a numerical control program for controlling a cutting tool An automatic programming apparatus 1 comprises: storing sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 for storing shape data of a product having a recess and a protrusion formed in the bottom surface inside the recess, workpiece data, tool data, and machining con... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023162 | Automatic gate operator A barrier movement operator is having a position sensor in a telescoping barrier control arm is described. A controller, remote from the arm, senses the barrier position to identify limits of barrier travel and to control rate of travel of the barrier between limits... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016760 | Numerically controlled machine tool and a program transforming method therefor The present invention provides a numerically controlled machine tool and a program transforming method therefor where a NC program is transformed into an optimum program even by a non-expert programmer. Particularly, the present invention provides a method for optim... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7002585 | Graphic display apparatus for robot system 3-D models of various types of objects such as a robot body, and a peripheral equipment, a machine, a part (workpiece), of the robot, are stored in an object library in advance. Dimension line data of an edge line of which dimension can be changed, and constraint co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6968256 | Method for processing manufactured parts A method for processing one or more manufactured parts is provided. The method includes generating a number of tool paths corresponding to a feature to be added to the one or more manufactured parts. Each of the tool paths has an effect on a respective one of the re... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6950720 | Preset controller of compensator in rotary press A preset controller which performs preset control, which allows, in the case of updating and correcting a print operational condition for a print pattern number, another print operation for a different print pattern number to reflect the updated and corrected compen... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6930461 | Device and method for controlling a machine tool A device and a method are provided for controlling a machine tool, at least one arbitrarily organized database having supplementary data being used for workpiece machining. During the execution of a machining program using a processing unit, the database commands ar... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6915178 | Dental prosthesis manufacturing process, dental prosthesis pattern & dental prosthesis made thereby A dental prosthesis is made by first forming a model of a patient's dentition. A three dimensional digital data corresponding to the surfaces of the model is then created. Based on this data, a three dimensional digital data file is then created substantially corres... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909937 | Numerically controlled machine tool and a program transforming method therefor The present invention provides a numerically controlled machine tool and a program transforming method therefor where a NC program is transformed into an optimum program even by a non-expert programmer. Particularly, the present invention provides a method for optim... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6876900 | Unit designing apparatus and method Unit design according to the present invention makes it possible for accumulated results of past design examples to be reflected in forming new designs, thereby preventing repetitive of designs and thereby reducing the time required for development. In the unit desi... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6840721 | Process for producing dies In a method for producing embossing plates, in particular steel intaglio printing plates, a plane element is determined from a line drawing, the edge of the plane element defining a desired contour. A tool track is then calculated from the desired contour and a desi... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6788995 | System and method of flexibly sorting and unloading finished parts during part manufacturing process The present invention relates to a system and method therefor of sorting and unloading various pieces cut from sheet blanks which have different dimensions in a sheet metal fabricating environment. To achieve this end, prior to the production run, the various progra... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6782305 | Method of geometric information sharing and parametric consistency maintenance in a collaborative design environment A method for sharing geometric information and maintaining parametric consistency amongst different software applications in a collaborative environment is presented. The method is based on geometric information sharing via neutral files, and incorporates Internet b... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6757581 | Offset apparatus for NC machine tool The present invention relates to an offset apparatus for an NC machine tool, that can achieve high accuracy machining by offsetting the amount of operation of a motion mechanism in accordance with the analysis result of the behavior of the NC machine tool. The offse... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6618641 | Drive controller for machine tool Each time the number of cumulative rotations of a spindle rotating motor 11 reaches the number of cumulative rotations set in a position data table T, a CPU 22 reads out the mobile positions of a work piece and tool at thus reached number of cumulative ro... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6597967 | System and method for planning a tool path along a contoured surface A automated manufacturing system is provided for performing a manufacturing operation along a contoured surface of a workpiece. The automated manufacturing system includes a movable member; a tool disposed on the movable member for performing a manufactur... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597966 | Machine tool driving control apparatus Every time the cumulative number of revolutions of a spindle rotating motor reaches a cumulative number of revolutions set in a data table, a CPU reads out, from a data memory section, moving positions of a workpiece and tool at the reached cumulative num... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591156 | Method and apparatus for providing numerical control information An apparatus and method for generating numerical control information for numerically controlling machine tools. Contents of corrective editing or correction to numerical control information by a processing operator is written and stored in a processing me... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6532394 | Method and apparatus for data manipulation and system control in a selective deposition modeling system A method of manipulating data in a method for forming a three-dimensional object layer by layer from an ink jettable, solidifiable material by providing data corresponding to a plurality of polygons defining the outer surfaces of a plurality of three-demi... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6522941 | Three dimensional linear processing machine and a method of composing and controlling machining program in the three dimensional linear processing machine The chuck 10, for positioning and holding a pipe at any rotational angle position around the axial center, is provided with the three dimensional linear processing machine. When the machining program PRO is composed, a plurality of the shape patterns KPT ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6505092 | NC machining support method and device Machining procedure extracting means extract machining procedures (information about tools, cutting conditions, and the like) based on a machining command of an NC program, and machining procedure outputting means display the machining procedures on a CRT... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6428252 | Method for machining A method adapted to achieve a high rate of material removal when, for example, milling a cavity into a work piece. The method includes providing for a cutter path in which the angular engagement between the cutter and the work piece is maintained below a ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6401004 | Method and device for analyzing NC program for NC machining A device for analyzing NC program is provided with a machining method analyzing means (34) which extracts machining conditions for every machining work element by analyzing an actual NC machining program, and data base creating means (35). The device extr... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400998 | Generation of measurement program in NC machining and machining management based on the measurement program A method and apparatus for NC machining management based on a measurement program, wherein a machining shape at an arbitrary machining stage is determined by an NC program, a geometric element or a geometric model is generated, and a measurement program i... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6377864 | System and method of flexibly sorting and unloading finished parts during part manufacturing process The present invention relates to a system and method therefor of sorting and unloading various pieces cut from sheet blanks which have different dimensions in a sheet metal fabricating environment. To achieve this end, prior to the production run, the var... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6198983 | Table-driven software architecture for a stitching system Native code for a CNC stitching machine is generated by generating a geometry model of a preform; generating tool paths from the geometry model, the tool paths including stitching instructions for making stitches; and generating additional instructions in... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6167325 | CNC data correction method Actual machining positions P1, P2, . . . corresponding to command positions S1, S2, S3 . . . of each block of NC data are obtained by trial machining. Positions that correspond symmetrically to the actual machining positions P1, P2, . . . with respect to ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5993042 | Numerical control apparatus for machining a workpiece A numerical control apparatus allows for the machining of a workpiece based on a three-dimensional work shape which is inputted. The shape of the workpiece is set and the shape of the workpiece and three-dimensional work shape determine the work region to... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5963451 | CAD/CAM system for automatic re-creation of a cutter path A CAD/CAM system arranged so that a re-creation processing for a cutter path is automatically executed by a CAM system when a curved surface is modified by a CAD system. Functions for the cutter path re-creation processing are provided by utilizing a cust... | 10/05/1999 |
