US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on Aug. 4 for "Machine tool having tool rest, control unit, tool storage unit, tool changing unit, and tool management unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,693, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Machine tool having tool rest, control unit, tool storage unit, tool changing unit, and tool management unit" was invented by Akihisa Aoyama (Nara, Japan) and Tetsushi Asada (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case of attaching a plurality of tools of the same type to a tool rest, machining work is continued even when a sufficient number of normal tools are not left. A machine tool includes a tool rest including a first holder for an inner-diameter side and a second holder for an outer-diameter side, a machining control unit configured to control the...