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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369971 | Method and apparatus for generating three-dimensional shape data The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for generating post-machining three-dimensional shape data for a workpiece on the basis of an NC program. The three-dimensional shape data generating apparatus comprises: a stock blank lattice point generating... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7346424 | Machining configuration drawing apparatus and machining configuration drawing method A machining configuration drawing apparatus includes a drawing unit for drawing a machining configuration and a present machining position, a setting unit for setting a display area in an overall drawing area, a division unit for dividing the overall drawing area in... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319516 | Measurement instrument for inspecting painted bodywork parts, the instrument being provided with an anti-damage device The invention relates to an optical measurement instrument for inspecting the quality of paintwork at the outlet from a line for painting motor vehicle bodywork parts, the instrument including a viewing frame through which the instrument takes optical measurements. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315252 | Assembly machine operator interface with multiple color light indicators An assembly machine display has an image representative of a workpiece to be assembled using the machine. Multi-colored indicator lights mounted behind a display substrate are associated with areas on the workpiece image that require a process to be completed by a m... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7286898 | Lead time reduction for manufacturing of tooling The specification and drawings present a new method and a system for organizing and structuring a process of tool manufacturing with a reduced lead time. The manufacturing of the component tooling can be applied (but not be limited) to: mold tooling, injection mold ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280948 | System and method for integrating geometric models A system and method of integrating geometric models, comprising identifying a product to design or manufacture, generating a product template, initiating the generation of at least one geometry, associating knowledge with the geometry, performing operations on the g... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7257462 | System, method, and computer program product for localized cavity milling design A system, method, and computer program comprising loading a part definition; receiving a user selection of a local area of a part to be cut, the part corresponding to the part definition; creating a cut area max/min box according to the user selection; preparing a t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251542 | Apparatus and method for machining workpieces Disclosed are apparatus and methods for manufacturing complex gears includes the creation of a data set to control a robotic machine tool enabling the tool to machine the contours of the gears accurately after the gear has been cut. Each gear is mounted to an indexa... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245984 | Horizontally structured manufacturing process modeling: exterior linked representational embodiment A method of horizontally structured manufacturing process modeling for large process models comprising: selecting a blank for machining into an actual part; and establishing a coordinate system. The method also includes: creating a master process model in a first fi... | 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 |
| 7237989 | Milling method used for producing structural components A milling method is for producing milled structural components of materials that are difficult to machine by chip-cutting. A milling tool with a tool radius is rotationally driven about an axis of the milling tool to ensure a central rotation thereof, whereby a refe... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7209800 | Process and system for generating or visualizing sets of control data Methods and apparatus are provided for visualizing a control program of a machine tool. The machine tool is provided with operating units. The operating units may comprise machining units, which are provided with tools, and at least one workpiece receiver in accorda... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7184854 | Device and method for generating piston outline machining data and computer-readable recording medium on which machining data generation program is recorded A machining data generator generates NC machining data specifying machining operations for shaping the external shape of a piston. The machining data generator uses a machining data sheet (provided by a spreadsheet software) describing noncircular part shape data on... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7167772 | Machining time calculating apparatus A structure having a parameter storing unit which stores a parameter to be used when a numeric control apparatus drives and controls the numeric control machine tool, a program interpretation unit which reads a part program to generate machining data for each block,... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7149668 | Visualization of workpieces during simulation of milling processes A method is provided for simulating to a workpiece contour by simulating a milling operation, whereby a blank workpiece is modeled by a family of straight lines in three-dimensional space and all straight lines are parallel to the z-axis. A workpiece contour is dete... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7131800 | Circuit board router apparatus and method thereof A circuit board router (10) and method thereof. De-paneling of printed circuit boards (62) off a panel 860) is efficiently increased by a router (40) which is positioned at a location above the panel (60). A fixture positions the p... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7111783 | Automated dimensional inspection An automated dimensional inspection system is provided that modifies sensor planning based on real-time measurement feedback. The dimensional inspection system includes a sensor planner, an error map generator, and a sensor affixed to a movable member. The sensor pl... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110849 | Horizontally-structured CAD/CAM modeling for virtual fixture and tooling processes Disclosed herein is a method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM modeling and manufacturing process for fixtures and tooling comprising: selecting a contact area geometry; generating a tooling model corresponding to the contact area geometry; virtual machining the to... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102622 | Production equipment monitoring device A production equipment monitoring device comprises a display panel providing a touch switch function, a touch switch display controller displaying on the display panel a touch switch corresponding to a general segmentary operating process, an operating status displa... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099804 | Automated horizontally structured manufacturing process design modeling Disclosed is a method of horizontally structured automated CAD/CAM manufacturing process, comprising: selecting a blank for machining into an actual part; establishing a coordinate system; creating a master process model comprising: virtual blank corresponding to th... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099738 | CAM system and program, and method for controlling CAM system A Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system enables high efficiency and high quality. The CAM system of this invention includes a unit that uses a computer aided design (CAD) model that is solid model data of a metal mold to be made and a measured work geometric mod... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079908 | Horizontally-structured modeling for analysis A method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM/CAE modeling for analysis comprising: establishing a horizontally structured model of an object in a CAD/CAM/CAE modeling system; creating an analysis model from the horizontally structured model; and performing analysis e... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7062352 | Method for displaying tool locus in NC data and method for analyzing NC data With respect to two or more NC data points among a group of dots together representing a tool locus, a curvature radius of the tool locus is determined. Then, the NC data point and its succession with other points is displayed in a display color determined according... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7062353 | Method and system for reconstructing a surface The invention relates to especially simple, rapid and multidimensional surface reproduction. According to the inventive method for reconstructing a surface of a structure which is described by 3D data points in chronological order, 3D data points are processed using... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7047102 | Method and apparatus for generating data for machining An object of this invention is to generate NC (Numerical Control) data to improve efficiency of machining. This invention comprises the steps of: generating NC data to machine a first portion of an object, wherein the first portion is specified based on a supposed c... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043331 | Method of manufacturing a plurality of wooden products A system and method for machining and cutting pieces from a sheet of material where the system machines or cuts the first side of the sheet material but does not sever the pieces from the sheet, and the entire sheet with the pieces still attached thereto is inverted... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024272 | Virtual design, inspect and grind optimization process A method for virtual machining and inspection of a three-dimensional virtual workpiece representative of an actual workpiece comprising: creating a three-dimensional tool model; defining a tool path through the virtual workpiece; creating a plurality of two-dimensio... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6993461 | Swept volume model A method and apparatus of modeling a swept volume for a computer simulated object by generating a polyhedral representation of the object and representing motion of the object with a set of position matrices. A subset of free neighborhood entities can be determined ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6950719 | Horizontally structured manufacturing process modeling: across file feature operability A method of manipulating manufacturing features in horizontally structured manufacturing process models for large parts, comprising: selecting a manufacturing feature from a plurality of manufacturing features; wherein the horizontally structured manufacturing proce... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6928330 | CAD system, design-support program for CAD system, and design methods A computer-aided-design (CAD) system design-support program and design methods are provided where a generation command to generate a target shape is extracted from existing CAD data. The generation command is displayed so as to make it possible to arbitrarily select... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6904394 | Nurbs based CNC machine process using boolean substraction A method and apparatus is directed to an integration of a computer modeling process in which a Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machine is used for manufacture or rapid prototyping. As a result, conventional processes that require a level of human interface dur... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901310 | Method and system for approximately reproducing the surface of a workpiece A method and system for approximately reproducing the surface of a workpiece should enable the contour of the workpiece to be reconstructed in a particularly simple manner. The invention provides that a starting body, which represents, in whole or in part, the workp... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6895299 | Systems and methods for representing complex n-curves for direct control of tool motion A method for controlling a mechanism through the use of higher-dimensional n-curves is disclosed. An electronically-controlled mechanism is provided. Electronic communication is established between a computer and the electronically-controlled mechanism. A controller... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6885984 | Apparatus and method for aiding programming An apparatus for aiding a machinist in preparing a machining program. A machining simulator simulates a basic machining program. Values of machining variables are obtained during the simulation and stored in a simulation result data memory. A spindle load determiner... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6862560 | Machining simulation method and apparatus A machining simulation method using a plurality of equally sized regular volumes such as cubes to represent the surface of a raw stock object at a relatively low resolution. Each regular volume contains a reference to that portion of the original stock surface falli... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859681 | Multi-material toolpath generation for direct metal deposition A method of modeling multiple material parts for additive manufacturing processes such direct metal deposition operates within the constraints of a single material CAD system. Each material is modeled separately as a single or multiple solid part, under the assumpti... | 02/22/2005 |
