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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112173 | Position ensuring system for oblique machining in five-axis machine tool A position ensuring system includes an A-axis calibration system which measures a displacement angle, which is an error between a target value and a measured value of the pivot angle of the spindle head about the A-axis, and corrects the pivot angle about the A-axis... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7941240 | Position ensuring system for oblique machining in five-axis machine tool A position ensuring system includes an A-axis calibration system which measures a displacement angle, which is an error between a target value and a measured value of the pivot angle of the spindle head about the A-axis, and corrects the pivot angle about the A-axis... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7302310 | Machining stock and part offset control One or more embodiments of the presently preferred invention provides a method and a computer-program product for generating a boundary path from a part geometry and a part boundary, where the part boundary is parametrically associated with the part geometry such th... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7212286 | Aligning method, exposure method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A method of selecting alignment marks, to be detected, from a plurality of alignment marks formed on a substrate includes the step of calculating a deviation between a distance of a designed position of an alignment mark from a reference position and a reference val... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7149599 | Apparatus and method for creating tool path When creating other tool path from two tool paths for cutting a work accurately and efficiently, the data on the first tool path is composed of a position vector and a direction vector of a tool for use when the work is cut while moving the tool. The data on the sec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7106517 | Display optical films There is provided an optical film. The optical film comprises a first surface defined by a first surface structure function modulated by a second surface structure function such that the first surface acts to diffuse light incident on the film, wherein the first sur... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6999843 | Numerical control apparatus and CAM system Upon analyzing a processing program (5) in an analyzer (11, 31), a numerical control apparatus extracts information about a contact position between a tool and a workpiece, and based on the information, it calculates a main spindle revolution instructi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6953077 | Method and apparatus for producing mold A method and an apparatus for machining a mold material to produce a mold. By casting based on a cast mold model (15), a mold material (20) is produced in a form having a work margin. Thereafter, a shape of the mold material (20) is measured by ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952627 | Method and apparatus for fabricating light management substrates A method of machining a surface of a workpiece is accomplished by bringing a cutting tool into contact with the surface of the workpiece and for at least one cutting pass, i, causing relative movement between the cutting tool and the surface of the workpiece along a... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6941188 | Method of shaping a foam article A method of making a shaped article from a block of foam is disclosed. The method comprises programming a milling machine with coordinates for a desired surface contour of a prototype foam body. A block of foam is cut using a milling machine to remove one or more po... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6885908 | Method of determining movement sequence, alignment apparatus, method and apparatus of designing optical system, and medium in which program realizing the designing method A determining method of movement sequence and a positioning apparatus of the invention are arranged in such a manner that, in order to measure positions of plural marks as being measurement targets provided on a wafer within a shorter time, a group including executa... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6865442 | Method of producing orthotic device utilizing mill path about perpendicular axis In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of milling an orthotic device by using a computer controlled milling tool. The orthotic device is defined by a orthotic device upper contour. The method begins with providing a workpiece which defi... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6701211 | Computer-aided control method for a machine tool A control command is provided to a control computer, by which a workpiece can be machined by a machine tool over a predetermined total height and a predetermined contiguous region by cutting, in particular by turning with a lathe. The control computer aut... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6676344 | Methods and apparatus for machining workpieces In a method for machining a workpiece, and for identifying a sequence of steps for machining a workpiece, a final shape required for the whole or part of the workpiece (is identified at 34), a three dimensional envelope shape is generated around the requi... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6609044 | Method and apparatus for a cutting system for avoiding pre-cut features An improved laser cutting apparatus is provided that optimizes the amount of time required to perform all of the required cuts in a piece of sheet material. The optimization minimizes the amount of rapid-travel movement of the laser head, and virtually el... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6539277 | Lapping surface patterning system A lapping surface patterning system includes a patterning apparatus which can be removably mounted over the lapping surface of a continuous polishing tool. The patterning apparatus includes a radial arm having a movable cutting tool carriage mounted there... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535788 | Machining apparatus A control device of a machine tool (100) has an input unit (1) for inputting the processing profile data (1a) and the workpiece data (1b) of the material and a profile of the workpiece to be processed. The control device input unit (1) also can receive a ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6447223 | Control for high speed cutting tool A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed for controlling a cutting tool of a high speed cutting machine. The method and system provides an effective tool path for controlling a cutting machine under a constant rate of material removal in a hi... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6246924 | 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... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6128546 | Method and apparatus for a cutting system for avoiding pre-cut features An improved laser cutting apparatus is provided that optimizes the amount of time required to perform all of the required cuts in a piece of sheet material. The optimization minimizes the amount of rapid-travel movement of the laser head, and virtually el... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6088627 | Process for the manufacture of mechanical parts A process for machining mechanical parts, including the milling of parts having a complex shape, includes the steps of determining the volume of the part to be machined, defining a corresponding machining grid, plotting the machining grid defined for the ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6047225 | Automatic programming apparatus and method An automatic programming apparatus comprises a machining unit preparing section for preparing plural machining units, a machining unit defining section for selecting a designated machining unit from the prepared machining units and designating the arrange... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6018689 | Active vibration reducing apparatus and method for identifying transfer function in active vibration reducing apparatus Described are a vibration actively reducing apparatus and a method for identifying a transfer function in the vibration actively reducing apparatus. An identification signal which is a quantization of at least one sinusoidal wave is supplied from a contro... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5768136 | Method and apparatus for deciding trace of tool to be moved A method and apparatus is provided for automating an operation to determine a trace of a tool to be moved, which is used for processing a reference surface of a solid such as an electrode or the like in a numerical controlled discharge machine tool. An or... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5351196 | Method and apparatus for solids based machining The present invention relates to processes for the automatic generation of numerical control (NC) tool paths in a CAD/CAM environment. The present invention operates on mechanical parts described as solid models. The process employs well-defined solid mod... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5347461 | Tool travel path creating method A tool travel path creating method for a numerical control device comprises the steps of reading G-code program; determining whether or not any correction command is included in the read G-code program; determining whether or not the interior angle betwee... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5255200 | Numerical control information generating system A numerical control information generating system prevents a tool from interfering with a work when the tool is moved from a tool change position to a cycle start point or from a cycle end point to the tool change position by setting a step start point an... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5241484 | Tracing control method A tracing control system machines a workpiece through tracing by repeating a plurality of tracing passes in a tracing direction which is constant to a pick feed while detecting amounts of displacement of respective axes applied to a stylus. A first abrupt... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5204810 | NC sentence creation system Disclosed is a numerical control (NC) sentence creation system for creating an NC sentence for a two stage drilling operation by which a hole drilled by a first stage drilling operation is further drilled by a second stage drilling operation using a secon... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5193952 | Inner circle cutting control apparatus for numerically controlled machine tool An apparatus for cutting an inner circle in a workpiece with a cutter of a numerically controlled machine tool linearly moves the cutter from the center of an inner circle in the workpiece in a radial distance according to an initially cut radius I, and c... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5175688 | Graphic display method of machining state in numerical control grinding machine On a display device, one or more machining portions in the entire working surface of a workpiece are displayed as image variations in gradiation, hue or tone throughout in a direction normal to the axis of the workpiece, to thus facilitate recognition of ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5144871 | Numerically controlled screw cutting method for fine screw surface finishing A screw cutting method for use with a numerically controlled machining system is improved by enabling finer finishing of the final screw surface. The invention allows the removal of scars formed during rough machining by offsetting the position of the rou... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5112169 | Thread cutting method and apparatus In the thread cutting method according to the present invention, the cutting amount S in each of the thread cutting operations from the second thread cutting operation to the (N-1)th thread cutting operation can be made less than and closest to the allowa... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5095440 | Numerical control apparatus A numerical control apparatus is characterized by a structure in which: a machining program stores the final shape of a work as well as the shape of a material; designates the outermost point (an apex) on the work in a direction opposing a cutting directi... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5044842 | Round screw thread machining method When round screw thread machining is performed with a tool (TL) having a radius smaller than a circular arc radius of a threaded portion (RST), data necessary for deciding (i) tool path patterns of round screw threading cycles (PLi) and (ii) a starting po... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4985841 | Tapping control system Disclosed is a tapping control system capable of performing tapping work with high accuracy and reliability in a manner such that rotation of a tap by means of a digital spindle motor (1) is synchronized with axial drive of the tap by means of a servomoto... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4954022 | Method for machining multiple cuts in a workpiece to a uniform depth There is disclosed a method for machining multiple holes in a workpiece to a uniform depth and at a predetermined angle to the surface of the workpiece. The method is performed by a numerically controlled machine tool which orients the workpiece in space ... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4949270 | Method of creating NC program for pocket machining The method of the invention includes displaying a profile outline (POL) and a graphic cursor (CSR) on a display screen, adopting points, which are obtained on the display screen by successively positioning the graphic cursor and inputting its coordinates ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4851986 | Method of creating NC data for complex curved surfaces A method of creating NC data for a complex curved surface (10) which has a combination of at least two three-dimensional curved surfaces (11, 12). The NC data creation method includes inputting data specifying each of the curved surfaces (11, 12) and data... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4764878 | Surface cutting method The invention relates to a surface cutting method for back-and-forth surface cutting of the interior of an area (AR) bounded by a closed curve. The surface cutting method includes repeating the following steps: a step of obtaining points of intersection Pi | 08/16/1988 |
