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Kissing Shield

A kissing shield comprised of a thin, flexible membrane and a frame or holder.

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Inventor: Kunio Tanaka


Address: Tokyo, JP
No. of patents: 25
Last patent issue date: 11/05/1996

NumberTitleIssue Date
5571957Method of estimating service life of cutter
The service life of a cutter is determined with high accuracy by determining a corrective coefficient from a material coefficient determined by a material to be machined by the cutter and a machining condition coefficient determined by machining condition...
11/05/1996
5327057Method of generating robot control axis position data
The present invention relates to a method of generating data indicative of robot control axis position. The method has a step of inputting data specifying the shape of a workpiece (WK) and data (଱, ଲ, γ) specifying the attitude of a tool (TL)...
07/05/1994
4958293Digitizing method
The invention relates to a digitizing method for moving a contactor along a model on the basis of tracer control and digitizing probe position data upon accepting the data. When three points most recently accepted are P1, P2 and P
09/18/1990
4912650Off-line control execution method
A correlation between numbers of input/output ports in a robot controller and F keys (F0-F15) provided on the off-line programming apparatus is preset and stored in a storage area (1c-2). In this state, off-line control is executed based on robot data sto...
03/27/1990
4890234NC data modification method
Preregistered in a memory (103) as conversion tables for storing NC data of a first type into NC data of a second type are a G-code conversion table (GTB) giving the correlation between G codes of the first NC data and G codes of the second NC data, and M...
12/26/1989
4835700Numerical control data creation method
A machining process sequence defined by machining definition steps is displayed on a display screen in the form of a flowchart (FLC). In subsequently performed processing for automatically deciding a machining process sequence, the machining process seque...
05/30/1989
4823275Area cutting method
The present invention relates to an area cutting method for cutting the interior of an area (AR) by moving a tool along a plurality of offset paths successively offset in an inward direction from a closed curve (AR) specifying the area. The area cutting m...
04/18/1989
4823255Method of creating program for drilling holes
A method of creating a hole drilling program reduces the number of times tools are changed. The method includes the steps (a) a step of (a) creating a part program (P1-P3) for every hole of a different shape, each part program comprising records arranged ...
04/18/1989
4823273Area cutting method
The invention relates to an area cutting method in which a tool is moved along a plurality of paths (CP3-CPo, LP5-LP1) successively offset in an inward direction from a closed curve (OFC) specifying an area (AR), or in other words, in which the tool is mo...
04/18/1989
4799143NC data creation method
An NC data creation method in an automatic programming apparatus in which NC data are created for moving a tool, after the tool has completed the machining of a first area (AR1), to a second area (AR2) to perform predetermined machining at the second area...
01/17/1989
4791576Area cutting method
The present invention relates to an area cutting method for cutting the interior of an area (AR) by moving a tool along a plurality of offset paths (CPT1, CPT2, . . . CPTn) successively offset in an inward direction from a closed curve (OLC) specifying th...
12/13/1988
4764878Surface 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
4764877Surface cutting method
The present invention relates to a surface cutting method for cutting a surface within an area (AR) bounded by a predetermined closed curve (CCL) by moving a tool (TL) along a cutting path (PTi) in a predetermined direction (direction of arrow ...
08/16/1988
4754269Graphic display method for displaying a perspective view of an object on a CRT
A graphic display method for transforming three-dimensional coordinate values (x, y, z) of an object to be displayed into coordinate values (X,Y) of a two-dimensional display coordinate system on a CRT display screen (DPS), and displaying a perspective vi...
06/28/1988
4723203Automatic machining process determination method in an automatic programming system
A machining process determination method in automatic programming for automatically creating NC data for a lathe. The method includes storing machining processes in a memory in a machining sequence, reading the previously stored machining processes out of...
02/02/1988
4703441Color display method for NC system having automatic programming function
A color display method for a system having an automatic programming unit (101) equipped with a color display function, and an NC unit (102) which does not possess a color display function, wherein a correlation between a display item and a display color f...
10/27/1987
4692873Machine tool pick feed method
A curved surface machining method for machining a curved surface through unidirectional cutting by automatically creating a pick-feed path that will not cause a tool (TL) to strike a workpiece when a pick-feed is performed, pick-feeding the tool along the...
09/08/1987
4689750Machine tool method for deciding if a workpiece surface is concave or convex
A method of machining performed by back-and-forth cutting, particularly a machining method for automatically creating a pick-feed path that will not cause a tool (TL) to interfere with a workpiece (WK) when a pick-feed is performed, moving the tool along ...
08/25/1987
4669041Blank profile specifying method
A blank profile specifying method in automatic programming for lathes has a step of specifying a finished profile (1), a step of entering a maximum length (Lm) and a maximum diameter (Fm) of a blank profile (2), a step of obtaining t...
05/26/1987
4663705Method for inserting data into a program at a program position which corresponds to a displayed cursor position
An automatic programming method for creating an NC program by inserting miscellaneous data, such as M-function instruction data, feed rate instruction data, G-function instruction data and S-function instruction data, into previously created path data is ...
05/05/1987
4654651Image display method
An image display method in which an image (IMG) to be presented is displayed on a CRT display screen (DFS), which method has steps of entering a horizontal dimension (Lx) and a vertical dimension (Ly) of the image to be presented; ob...
03/31/1987
4644460Cutting direction input method in automatic programming
A cutting direction input method in automatic programming for deciding a path cutting direction, includes the following steps. A path trajectory comprising a number of path blocks (b1 ~b15), is displayed on a display screen (105) by ...
02/17/1987
4635185Machining area specifying method for an automatic programming system
A machining area specifying method for an automatic programming system specifies a partial path to be machined, wherein the path is part of a closed path. The machining area specifying method includes the step of displaying a closed path trajectory form b...
01/06/1987
4633469Method of indicating diagnostic results
A method of indicating the results of diagnosing an apparatus in which a processor (105) performs prescribed processing under the control of a control program, which is stored in a ROM (102), using input information entered from a keyboard (101) having a ...
12/30/1986
4587608Method of automatically creating numerical control data in one of a plurality of data formats
A method of automatically creating numerical control data comprises providing a number of parameters used for specifying a machining pattern and a number of function codes designated by the parameters for creating numerical control data. Storing in a memo...
05/06/1986
 
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